PBGEA slams NGO ‘lies’
on CA TRO vs. aerial ban
The banana industry in Davao City begged the local media not to bite misinformation peddled by oppositors to aerial spraying in banana plantations, that has been slapped a 60-day Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) by the Court of Appeals in Cagayan de Oro City.
The Pilipino Banana Growers [...]

City Hall suspends ban on aerial spraying 
            The Davao City government has suspended implementation of an ordinance banning aerial spraying in banana plantations after the Court of Appeals issued a Temporary Restraining Order against the controversial legislation.
            The Ordinance is subject of appeal at the CA by the Pilipino Banana Growers and Exporters Association (PBGEA), [...]

durianburgdavaoN    E    W    S    B    L    O    GNOVEMBER 30, 2007
PESKY MANILA MEDIA
MYVIEWS by ROGER M. BALANZA                                From our perch in Mindanao in Davao City, we could only say there was opportunity lost to kick out GMA in that Trillanes and Lim caper at the Manila Peninsula in Makati.            Thanks to the pesky Manila [...]

P1 million bond needed to fly planes back

Banana farms to
resume aerial spraying
After winning the first round of a protracted legal battle at the Court of Appeals, banana plantations are expected soon to return to aerial spraying of fungicides on export Cavendish bananas.
Once we deposit a bond, we planes will start flying, said Anthony Sasin, spokesman and director of the Pilipino Banana Growers [...]

TOYM awardee too clever for rackeeters

Toto Paglas a near victim
in Davao Norte landscam
By ROGER M. BALANZA
The syndicate peddling for sale a 1,600 estate covered by a fake title had offered the land to former Mayor Ibrahim, “Toto” Paglas of Maguindanao.
[...]

GMA tightens security on Akbar family

MYNEWS by ROGER M. BALANZA
Mindanao congressmen are set to sign a resolution urging Congress to ask the Commission on Elections to conduct a special election for the post left vacant Basilan congressman Wahab Akbar.First-termer Rep. Akbar, of the Liberal Party, died [...]

NBI TO PROBE DAVAO NORTE LAND SCAM

By ROGER M. BALANZA
The National Bureau of Investigation is on the trail of a syndicate holding a fake title on about 1,600 hectares of farmlands in Davao del Norte which the syndicate has been selling to unknowing buyers.
A source at the Tagum City Police, which is joining the NBI investigation, bared the extent of the [...]

PBGEA slams NGOs for contempt on CA ruling

The Pilipino Banana Growers and Exporters Association (PBGEA) lashed at the holding of a rally by NGOs outside its office in Davao City yesterday, saying the contemptous act was meant “to exert pressure on the Court of Appeals.”
A dozen members of the Interface Development Initiatives (IDIS) and the Mamamayang Ayaw sa Aerial Spraying (MAAS) [...]

Slow-footed Davao City dads told to move, move, move!

Davao City vice mayor prods
city councilors into faster action
MYNEWS BY ROGER M. BALANZA
Worried at the slow pace of action on pending legislative matters, Vice Mayor Sara Duterte yesterday gave city councilors a marching order: Move faster.
Duterte presided over yesterday’s session, her first since returning from a honeymoon, to find legislative items calendared before her month-long [...]

Did Durianburgdavao lie?

Dad scores daily
for ‘erroneous report’
Davao City councilor Danilo Dayanghirang yesterday scored the Mindanao Insider Daily for news reports that he said unduly pitted him against Maa Barangay Captain Loreto Laud Jr.
“This is the kind of reporting that attempts to create animosity between government officials,” said Dayanghirang of reports by Insider senior associate editor Roger Balanza, [...]