Davao City’s export earner

DAVAO BANANAS. A worker harvests fresh bananas in a farm in Davao City, as the city’s major export continues to be a top gainer despite the current economic crisis.

Indigenous people told to share ancestral lands with business

Lumads, agri-business in joint farm ventures

Davao City councilor Conrado Baluran said tribal communities are being encouraged to enter into joint ventures with large business to spur farm productivity in the city’s hinterlands.
This is part of our campaign to help indigenous people convert their ancestral lands into productive uses, said Baluran, chair of [...]

BANKEROHAN BRIDGE: Jim Tan Nuevo

INSPECTOR GENERAL. A toddler on a rattan stroller surveys the nearly-completed P206 million Bankerohan Bridge in Davao City, built to replace a 60-year old bridge that collapsed last year. A key link for traffic south of the city, public works director Jerome de la Rosa said the bridge would be opened first week of June [...]

AFP: ROUTING NPA BY 2010 POSSIBLE

By ROGER M. BALANZA

A military spokesman in Southern Mindanao said defeating the communist insurgency by 2010 is realizable but urged a two-pronged approach one of which requires support of the public and local officials.
Major Medel Aguilar, chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines Civil Relations Group, said President Arroyo’s timetable [...]

Sara backs demolition of Ilang prostitution haven

By ROGER M. BALANZA

Vice Mayor Sara Duterte, acting Mayor, would not stand in the way of the demolition of nine houses declared as squatters sandwiched between two port facilities and impeding a natural waterway in Ilang, Bunawan.
This developed even as the nine families waged a last-minute attempt to stay the demolition [...]

Karapatan slammed for ‘using’ tribal people in propaganda

Tribal leaders in Davao City yesterday scored militant groups using indigenous people to advance causes other than the plight of the lumads.
Datu Ruben Labawan and Datu Martion Dumacan cited the case of several members of the Matigsalog in Compostela Valley who fled to Davao City reportedly to avoid being caught in the [...]

Illegal billboards in Davao City

PRECARIOUS PERCH. Two workmen dismantle piece by piece a steel framework for a billboard along Quirino Ave. in Davao City as the city government cracks down on illegal billboards.

Davao City’s ‘best water’ is Filinvest selling pitch

Housing developer assures its projects not threat to aquifer

By ROGER M. BALANZA

A high-end housing developer with billions of pesos in projects in Davao City said its selling pitch not only centers on this city’s bullish economy but also on one of its prized possessions: readily available sources of pure water that [...]

Mati City legislators back local mining group split with Aussie partners

Dads wants AMCOR to start nickel mining project  
The City Council of Mati City in Davao Oriental has passed a resolution favorably supporting the start of mining operations for the Pujada Nickel Project in Barangay Macambol after the local mining group severed relations with the Australina mining firm Asiaticus Management Corporation (AMCOR).

In their 16th Regular Session last [...]

Filinvest condominium project in Davao City

Philippine Property Developer, Filinvest Land Incorporated (FLI), is expected to invest about P6 billion next year in Davao City with its residential development projects. Current projects of the company in Davao are the residential villages of Le Jardin, Fuente de Villa Abrille, Villa Mercedita, Orange Grove and Kembali Coast.
In addition to that is the P1.5 [...]