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Photo courtesy: Councilor Danny Dayanghirang facebook page By Ivy Tejano DAVAO CITY – A city councilor urged Gaisano Mall of Davao to withdraw its newly implemented parking fee policy, warning that it places an unfair burden on customers and could influence other malls to adopt similar measures. Councilor Danilo Dayanghirang, chair of the Committee on…
The anti- Duterte propagandists some of them pretending to be political analysts are in full throttle to divert the issues surfounding the ghost and substandard flood control projects and the hundreds of billions of pesos paid to at least 15 contractors. They made a big issue of ₱51-billion infrastructure budget for Davao City’s District 1…
At the rate Department of Public Works Secretary Vince Dizon is going, it is not farfetched that his probe into the ghosts and substandard flood control projects has already started in Visayas and Mindanao. Sources who begged not to be identified, disclosed that there are indications that information gathering activities are already ongoing prior to…
The newly appointted DPWH Sec. Vince Dizon is facing a gargantuan task of thoroughly overhauling the graft and corruption – ridden department. It would be easier to simply excise the agency and transfer its functions including its budget to other departments or devolved to the local government units. But it is easier said than done….
Screen grab from: AP Every monsoon that batters our land does more than unleash rain—it exposes the rot in governance. Floodwaters rise not because nature is cruel, but because billions supposedly spent on flood-control projects were stolen through ghost contracts, fake contractors, and sham infrastructure. Lives, homes, livelihoods, and small businesses are washed away while…
In the deeply divided Philippine Politics where groups are identified by their political loyalties as Dilawans (now Pinklawans), DDS or Loyalists, it is almost unthinkable for a prominent personality to be able to move on from his association with a previous administration and occupy a sensitive role in the next. But Vivencio “Vince” Dizon, the…
The anguish of ordinary Filipinos left to watch their only possessions sink in floodwaters became a central point of Senator Christopher “Bong” Go’s intervention during the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing on Monday, September 1. To drive the point home, the senator cited a viral video that captured public attention online. The footage showed a…
Jaro Archdiocesan Social Action Center (JASAC) Director Monsignor Meliton Oso criticized the September 1 Senate hearing on alleged flood control anomalies saying “why contractors grilled while lawmakers walk free?” “Why only target contractors? The proponents of these projects—the congressmen and senators—must also be investigated,” Oso said, stressing that no multimillion-peso project could proceed without legislative…
In Photo: Anabell Gibaga, a 50-year-old entrepreneur and proud QSL client of CARD SME Bank from Zamboanga City, exemplifies how determination, passion, and partnership can turn dreams into reality. Alongside her husband, she proves that anything is possible when you commit your heart, mind, and soul to your goals. In Talon-Talon, Zamboanga City, a community known…
