* Up 12.93% collection from last year By Ivy Tejano DAVAO CITY – The Davao City Treasurer’s Office reported total revenue collections of P15.15 billion in 2025, reflecting a 12.93 percent increase compared with the P13.41 billion recorded in 2024. CTO head Atty. Lawrence Bantiding said the higher collection was driven by growth across most…
In Photo: Vice Mayor Sebastian Duterte takes oath as Davao City Mayor * “Rigo” ascends as Vice Mayor Davao City – Acting Mayor Sebastian “Baste” Duterte officially assumed as Mayor of this city. He took his oath and sworn in as the top executive of the city Friday by virtue of the law of succession….
Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago” — Warren Buffett A new year. A new beginning. ‘Tis the time of the year when we are motivated, excited and raring to set our goals and plans for the year that has just started. As we get busy planning for our…
By Ivy Tejano DAVAO CITY – In a latest bulletin from the Hague, the ICC issued a call to the public to submit additional names and information of victims of alleged extra-judicial killings relating to the case of former President Rodrigo Duterte. The move is an apparent indication that there is not enough evidence to…
AP Photo/Basilio Sepe The renewed call to impose the death penalty on corrupt public officials is less a sign of resolve than a measure of how deeply betrayed the Filipino people feel. House Bill No. 11211 did not arise from a functioning justice system—it emerged from the anger of a nation that has watched corruption…
PASAY CITY, Philippines — Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson and legal representatives for former Speaker Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez separately moved to dismiss allegations raised in a Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing on Monday, citing a total lack of documentary evidence and contradictory sworn testimonies. Senator Lacson clarified that the information currently gathered by the committee…
In a country where illness is already a sentence to poverty, the deliberate weakening of PhilHealth is nothing short of state-sponsored cruelty. While ordinary Filipinos line up in overcrowded public hospitals, beg for guarantees, borrow money for dialysis, chemotherapy, or emergency surgery, the government quietly starves the very institution meant to protect them. The numbers…
The first Spanish Goat kid in the Mindanao Small Ruminants Nucleus Farm (MSRNF) in Makilala, North Cotabato which weighed 3.15 kilos at birth has gained 300 grams after just two days. The big brown buck kid, the first of three kids of the Pure Spanish Goats, named “Big Boy,” has become a symbol of the…
Sen. Christopher “Bong” Go’s Team joined the feeding activity held at Tagaloguin-Adona Polymedic & Diagnostic Center, Inc. (TAPDCI) in Ozamiz City, Misamis occidental, underscoring the value of simple and compassionate acts of service that directly benefit ordinary Filipinos. The feeding initiative, which was organized by TAPDCI, led by its Medical Director, Dr. Amy Adona, aimed…
Already each presidential and vice presidential wannabees had surfaced packaging themselves as the saviors of our benighted country. Sen. Risa Hontiveros early on had the endorsement of putschist Antonio Trillanes who peddles her as one who can prevent another Duterte from becoming president. He went all the way in declaring Davao City as the most…
