Archbishop Fernando Capalla Photo

DAVAO ARCHBISHOP FERNANDO CAPALLA.
Leading the fight against abortion in Davao City

A LARGE STREAMER WITH A MESSAGE FOR
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IN DAVAO CITY 

DOCTORS TO HELL FOR ABORTION

Priest condemns docs promoting abortion
By ROGER M. BALANZA
A Catholic priest in Davao City yesterday assailed doctors promoting abortion, saying they are using their profession against God, who has the sole right over life and death.

Fr. Henry Campeon, parist priest of Holy Family Parish Church in Baliok, Talomo district, said only God can take away [...]

People’s Park top drawer

P5M worth of rare fish in People’s Park ponds
            More than a thousand exotic tropical ornamental fishes swimming at several ponds of the P71 million Davao City People’s Park are now becoming a major attraction of the newly opened public park.
            Romeo Bañez, chairman of the Mindanao Tropical Fish Society (MTFS), said about P500,000 worth [...]

WATCH OUT DRUG PUSHERS!

Anti-drug body in
hi-tech drug mode
By ROGER M. BALANZA
            The Davao City government is going hi-tech in the anti-drug campaign with a computer system that would show the city’s drug profile with a push of a finger.
            Eliseo Braganza, action officer of the Anti-Drug Abuse Council (ADAC), said he is working with the Philippine Drug Enforcement [...]

Anti-aerial spray groups in scare tactics vs. CA judges

After gifting with rotten bananas the Court of Appeals justices who issued an injunction against a Davao City ordinance banning aerial spraying in banana plantations in Davao City, environmentalist groups have resorted to another dirty tactic against the justices.
We hope the justices would be the last persons to go blind due to exposure from [...]

SPECIAL REPORT: CHURCH ON BIRTH CONTROL

Capalla to Davao City Council:
No birth pills for children
By ROGER M. BALANZA
Davao Archbishop Fernando Capalla has supported a Davao City government 3-year program for children development, but has squirmed on a proposal that would provide access for children to contraceptives.
With this, city councilors on Tuesday pedaled back out of a plan to approve the Local [...]

TO PADLOCK STORES SELLING OVERPRICED RICE

Rice traders warned vs.
overpricing, hoarding
Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has threatened closure of stores selling government rice above regulated price as Davao City braces for possible shortage of the commodity.
Duterte also has ordered an inventory of local rice stocks to ensure Dabawenyos would have ample supply with rice production sliding down to pose possible shortage
If worse [...]

Police brutality bared

Cop in hot water
for mauling youth
A 14-year old boy, nabbed for a curfew violation on Monday night, is filing charges against a policeman and members of the barangay police of the Jacinto police outpost of the Sta. Ana Police precinct.
The boy, a resident of Quezon Blvd. whose name is being withheld, suffered bruises and contusions [...]

Corruption at Davao City Council – Update 11

Baluran seeks peace with Boni
Davao City councilor Conrado Baluran wants to smoke the peace pipe with colleague councilor Bonifacio Militar, even as he continues to deny the latter’s accusation he tried to broker approval of questionable legislative proposals.
My respect for him remains, said Baluran, who admits relations by affinity with Militar. He said his late [...]