I don’t think that the numbers and the fates of Davao City midterm election candidates will change. The University of Mindanao-Institute of Popular Opinion (UM-IPO), a highly credible institution, has shown a lopsided result that favored the Duterte leadership over that of Nograles. The most that the Nograles camp could say was that while before…
Photo courtesy: carnegieendowment.org Amidst the din that came on the heels of the dubious blankety-blank General Appropristion Budget and the precipitate impeachment of VP Sara Duterte is the looming food crisis that the country faces. Both the economic advisers and agriculture officials have raised the spectre of catastrophic shortage of food particularly rice supply. This…
They wanted her impeached and for many millions reasons they did Wednesday shortly before they adjourned the House session ahead of the May midterm elections. Within minutes Speaker Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez instructed House Secretary General Reginald S. Velasco to transmit to the Senate the impeachment complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte which was signed…
We are four months away from election day but all we hear from candidates are either deafening silence and a festival of radio commentaries that feast on fake issues. Tom Tom Traffic Index used a picture of a traffic mess in Guadalupe Bridge at EDSA to depict Davao City being the most congested city in the Philippines. It undermines…
Before the filing of the Certificates of Candidacy October last year the political climate that pervades in Davao Region was uneventful and I exciting. The Duterte leadership was expected to be unchallenged with the declaration of Past President Rodrigo Duterte that he will run for Mayor. He had been egged by various sectors, including the…
The backbone of the Philippine economy has collapsed. The Department of Agriculture has not come out with doable solutions from the start of the Marcos administration. There was euphoria from the farmers and fishermen when Pres. Bongbong himself took over the helm of the DA but the jubilant atmosphere died down and today the it is one…
The Marcos administration started the year 2025 with the radical reorganization of the National Security Council. I do not know by whose advice the reorganization came from, but the Chief Executive is the focal figure behind the move. Since the declaration, the Executive Order has spawned diverse speculation bordering on talks of martial law in…
When you hear or see the phrase “EAT all you can” in Davao del Norte, it is not an advertisement of a restaurant. The letters E, A, T actually stand for Education, Agriculture and Trabaho. EAT embodies Alan “AlDu” Dujali’s platform. Actually this platform is nothing new for Dujali, except that given the chance and…
If the spirit of Christmas is everywhere, so is the election fever. Just about the person who seemed so unperturbed with his adversaries’ hoopla and hard-selling pitch is former President Rodrigo R. Duterte. PRRD is running for Mayor in Davao City and nary a word can one hear from him about his bid to return…
Was HSBC Global Research ASEAN economist Aris Dacanay among the bright boys the Pres. Bongbong Marcos consulted on how to arrest inflation upticks in the country under his administration? Former Agriculture Secretary Many Pinol had earlier issued a challenge to a public debate to this character after he proudly coming out with his grand assumption…
