Davao City Council coup set on Monday

MILITAR OUT;  CABLING IN
Davao City Council councilor Bonifacio Militar would be making his “graceful exit” as floor leader, in wake of clamor for a leadership change in the local legislative chamber.
Reliable sources said the young generation in the council which dubbed themselves as [...]

Terror threat in Davao City

Rody asks dads for
TFDavao subsidy
 
            With bombings threats rearing its ugly head anew, Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has requested the Davao City Council for funds for Task Force Davao.
            Police and military here have been on alert after the recent bombing in Gen. Santos City.
            “I need warm bodies (in view of the terrorist threat),” [...]

Sex-video loving colonel under fire

Mayor Uy lashes at ‘Col. Porn’
By ROGER M. BALANZA
 
Bastos!
Tagum City Mayor Rey Uy dished out this one-word expletive at a military official viewing porn on his laptop in the middle of a conference on peace and security held Thursday last week in the city.
Of all places, he had to do it there, said Uy, speaking [...]

NO TO US TROOPS!

Davao Muslims assail Balikatan
 
Muslims in Davao City yesterday held a rally to protest the proposed holding of the Balikatan in Central Mindanao or the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
            We don’t want our area become like Julu, said Mike Nakan, who heads 8 Muslim groups opposing the joint US-Philippines military exercise.
            Militant groups [...]

MILF wary of new ancestral domain draft proposal

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Peace Panel received the news on new government draft proposal on ancestral domain with caution, saying general pronouncements are prone to many interpretations. Jun Mantawil, chairperson of the MILF Peace Panel Secretariat, spoke to Luwaran, after three months of absence, that after dealing with the government in negotiations for [...]

MILF more united than embattled GMA administration

A ranking member of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has asked the Arroyo administration “who is more divided as a nation the Moros or Filipinos” in the wake of the lurking change of government through constitutional or extra-constitutional means as a consequence to the expose’ of  NBN-ZTE star witness Rodolfo Noel Lozada Jr. Implicating [...]

MILF slams GMA on 2010 timetable vs. rebellion

A member of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Central Committee has bitterly criticized President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for her recent speech at the local Peace and Security Assembly in Mindanao where she reiterated her 2010 “timeline to end armed rebellion” in the region without specifically stating the current GRP-MILF Peace Process as the main component. [...]