Voting 10-3, House committee on Public Information on Monday approved the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill, almost a year after a technical working group (TWG) began deliberating on the measure. Despite the strong opposition of the Makabayan bloc, the panel … Continue reading HOUSE COMMITTEE OKAYS FREEDOM OF INFORMATION BILL (FOI)
Bistek gets morbid lesson from Digong Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has offered a morbid advice to Quezon City Mayor Herbert ‘Bistek’ Bautista, who slapped a Chinese national intercepted by police in a buy-bust operation with P15 million worth of … Continue reading “Druglords drowned in Davao Gulf”
BY ROGER M. BALANZA ISLAND GARDEN CITY OF SAMAL Mayor Aniano Antalan and his brother former mayor Roger Antalan has formed a political group in what is seen as a challenge to the leadership of the Floirendos in the Davao … Continue reading Antalans brace for war vs. Floirendos in 2016 IGACOS polls
BY ROGER M. BALANZA While beach resort owners in the Island Garden City of Samal (Igacos) are locked in legal battle with City Hall over its order to dismantle their structures that encroached into foreshore areas, an apparently influential businessman is … Continue reading IGACOS MAYOR ANTALAN blind to rape of mangroves
BY ROGER M. BALANZA Rumors in Davao City are widespread that stray dogs impounded by the City Veterinarian Office (CVO) end up in several directions: killed in a gas chamber of the City Pound, secretly sold to dog-eaters or to a … Continue reading Bello ordinance to save stray dogs from ending up as ‘pulutan’
A ranking police officer fingered by an arrested suspect has come forward to deny any role in the killing of Cebu City businessman Richard King. Police Supt. Leonardo Felonia on Monday night, accompanied by Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, presented himself to … Continue reading TOP COP IN KING MURDER SURRENDERS
BY ROGER M. BALANZA While Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte repeatedly and vehemently denies he is running for president in 2016, he titillates with hints he would establish an “extremist” government once he sits in Malacanang. On Sunday in his … Continue reading Davao City as model city under ‘President Duterte’
Mayor Rodrigo chipped in a P300,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the killer of Richard King, raising the bounty to half-a-million pesos. The family of the Cebu City businessman shot dead in Davao City Thursday evening last week, earlier offered a reward of P200,000. Continue reading DAVAO CITY MAYOR RAISES REWARD IN KING KILLING TO P500,000
A Cebu City businessman was shot dead in Davao City Thursday evening. A lone gunman killed Richard King, 57, owner of Crown Regency Group of Hotels, inside his office at Vital C Building on Sobrecary St. around 6:45 p.m. King … Continue reading Cebu City businessman shot dead IN Davao
BY JOANNA C. BALANZA Davao City-based property developer Kisan Lu Lands, Inc. (KLLI) is spending P3 billion for two new projects in Davao City as full development of its four earlier housing projects nears the homestretch. The P 1 billion … Continue reading KISAN LU POURS P3 BILLION INTO 2 NEW HOUSING PROJECTS
If it takes nine million signatures to convince Mayor Rodrigo Duterte to run for president in 2016, we will gather 9 million signatures, thus said Mar Masanguid, a Davao City village chief heading the Pilipinas for Duterte Movement. The movement … Continue reading DUTERTE FOR PRESIDENT gathers 9 MILLION SIGNATURES
