No ‘dirty money’ in ‘Crocodile Park’

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COA clears Mayor Rodrigo Duterte on graft charge
Commission on Audit regional director Alfredo Reyes said fine-combing of documents on the P71 million People’s Park of the Davao City government showed no graft or corruption.
Reyes faced media to give the park a clean bill of health on Monday armed only with his mouth and no [...]

Robinsons, FilInvest housing projects in Davao City in limbo

No more housing projects
in Davao City aquifer area
By ROGER M. BALANZA
In a fatal blow to the housing industry, the Davao City Council has sealed the doom for high-end housing subdivision projects in Talomo district, which is home to the aquifer where the city gets its drinking water.
Ironically, councilor Victorio Advincula yesterday proposed the ban [...]

Davao Death Squad returns

Anti-hoodlum cops
fielded vs. killing sprees
After a murderous spree that killed nine people in stabbing and shooting incidents in two weeks, the Davao City Police is reinforcing its Anti-Hoodlum Unit with several dozen policemen to pin down the killers if not arrest the extra-judicial killings.
This developed as two men took turns on Monday night in stabbing [...]

Of stinking comfort rooms and beggars

Councilor slams
‘dirty overpasses’
After making a loud noise over stinking comfort rooms at the Davao International Airport, a Davao City councilor has turned her nose to “unkempt and dirty” pedestrian overpasses.
About 15 overpasses span main thoroughfares and highways here, which either built from local funds or from the national government.
In the downtown area, most of the [...]

NPA establishing new mass base in Davao

Rebel recruitment
in Davao City bared
New People’s Army rebels are conducting massive recruitment in an upland barangay in Toril District in Davao City a few kilometers away from an outpost of the military Task Force Davao and a base set up by the 66th Army Infantry Brigade.
Villagers of Catigan confirmed before local newsmen the recruitment by [...]

Karapatan, military trade barbs

Davao Oriental evacuees back in their farms
By ROGER M. BALANZA
Davao Oriental Governor Corazon Malanyaon said evacuees from four towns evading crossfire from military and rebel clashes have returned home.
But the military and human rights groups here continue to trade barbs over the evacuation.
The military said the villagers from distant barangays in the towns of [...]

Rebel liquidations to rise in 2008

AFP warns: Watch out for Sparrows
By ROGER M. BALANZA
The military has warned communist rebels are expected to intensify assassinations of police and military personnel and civilians, in wake of last year’s alarming number of liquidations carried out by New People’s Army hit men.
In Davao City, a rebel liquidation squad, known as Sparrow Unit, [...]