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 approved the proposed measure. Led by Bayan Muna […]
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 shabu. In the Aug. 8 incident, Bautista rushed […]
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 del Norte tourist island. Mayor Antalan, who is […]
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 developing a resort and rest house in Barangay […]
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 crocodile farm in Maa by corrupt City Pound […]
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 the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to wash […]
