Photo courtesy: CIO Every now and then garbage piles up in Davao City. Side streets smell. Residents and business establishments used to clean environment are complaining. Garbage dump trucks are parked because there’s nowhere to dump. Not long ago the Department of Environment and National Resources, a national agency, refused to allow garbage to be…
I had coffee yesterday with a big businessman from Davao. He doesn’t want his name printed, but he’s been around long enough to see 5 presidents come and go. “Jun,” he said, “the billions they stole from flood control and ghost projects? It’s not in banks. It’s in houses. Brand new houses.” He meant cash….
It is ridiculously funny how the anti-Duterte forces make such a big issue of a flood that occurred in a low-lying area outside of the city poblacion following hours of heavy rain. They feasted on it like it is a far better headline story than the delisting of former DPWH Secretary Manuel Bonoan from scroll…
Photo Courtesy: Inday Sara Duterte facebook page A vlogger named Nico David showed up from nowhere to make a statement “… Sara Duterte isn’t even from Tacloban – so why is she there? “ David who hails from Pampanga considered it unusual for the Vice President to pay personal visit to the wake of the…
The last time I heard of the trial of former President Rodrigo Duterte af the International Criminal Court (ICC) is that the Court is urgently hiring Filipino (Tagalog) and Cebuano (Bisaya) translators and interpreters ahead of the trial of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Might as well. This ushered in memories from the late 1980s…
Not Everything in Davao City is perfect. We pride ourselves to be the most peaceful city in the Philippines and in many aspects always with the circle of three cities in Southeast Asia with positive attributes. Our slogan: “Life is here”. That is as far as peace is concerned. The Duterte brand of leadership that…
Photo courtesy:ACT Partylist Flooding is commonplace in Metro Manila and Luzon and nobody gives it a political undertone. Last week Davao City had its share of unusually heavy and long rainfall some low-laying places were flooded but in a couple of hours the rainwater subsided. Unlike before, the flood water from Davao river did not…
Photo courtesy: Official facebook page of Inday Sara Duterte The crucial YES and NO votes on the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte has created a political fission nationwide and has not spared Davao Region particularly in Davao del Norte. While Davao de Oro and Davao del Sur voted Yes it was expected from Maricar…
Senator Ronald Bato dela Rosa has quietly left the premises of the Senate. Except for the warrant of arrest purportedly issued by the International Court of Justice it looks like he is a free man. I have not heard of anymore summons, none from any court, CIDG and the National Bureau of investigation. However I…
There is nothing to celebrate in hitting a target In Laur, Nueva Ecija which is 600 kilometers away from Tacloban City where the Tomahawk missile was launched. In fact this is fomenting anxiety given the recent armed conflict in the Middle East where modern weapons of mass destruction rained among protagonists. The Philippines is Jurassic…
