Haven for inmates, aged, children in distress in Davao City’s summer capital

Nanay Soling’s dream of rehab haven
taking shape in Marilog
By ROGER M. BALANZA
                    
            Soledad “Nanay Soling” Duterte’s social development center projects in Marilog get another boost with the indigenous people carving out about 60 hectares of ancestral domain for use by the Social Rehabilitation and Development Center-Bagong Buhay Bagong Pag-asa Project (SRDP-BBBP).
 
The Davao [...]

PEOPLE TO GMA: Not empty promises but FOOD!FOOD!FOOD!FOOD!FOOD!FOOD!FOOD!FOOD!FOOD!FOOD!FOOD!FOOD!FOOD!FOOD!FOOD!FOOD!FOOD!FOOD!FOOD!FOOD!FOOD!FOOD!FOOOOOOOOOODDD!!!!!!!!!!

DAVAO CITY PROGRESSIVE GROUPS TAKE TO THE STREETS IN MARCHES AND RALLIES YESTERDAY AS PRESIDENT ARROYO DELIVERED HER STATE-OF-THE-NATION ADDRESS IN MANILA PROMISING BETTER EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES, FOOD FOR ALL AND OTHER REHASHED PROMISES THAT FELL IN DEAF EARS OF THE PEOPLE TIRED WITH THE WAY THE ECONOMY AND CORRUPTION IN GOVERNMENT TAKE A DANGEROUS LEAP TO NATIONAL DESTRUCTION. [...]

CABLING IS TOP DAVAO CITY COUNCIL PERFORMER

Cabling committee busiest in SP mid-year report
By ROGER M. BALANZA
The Committee on Housing, Rural and Urban Development emerged as the busiest committee in a mid-year performance report released yesterday by the Davao City Council.
The report affirmed anew the consistency of the committee headed by councilor Arnolfo Ricardo Cabling in leading standing committees in the number [...]

P3-billion Ayala Center to be OK’d by Davao City Council today

Davao City councilors are expected today to give the go-signal for the Ayala Center of Davao to start work on a P3-billion megamall and business park complex in Bajada, with floor leader Danilo Dayanghirang assuring its approval.
Ayala Holding in tandem with the Anflocor of the Floirendos is building the city’s biggest investment on a 9-hectare [...]

Pinol: al-Qaeda, Jemaah Islamiyah to rule Bangsamoro homeland

By ROGER M. BALANZA
 
            The Bangsamoro homeland proposed in a pact between the Philippine government and the secessionist group Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has the al-Qaeda and the Jemaah Islamiyah lurking in its shadows.
            North Cotabato Vice Governor Manuel Pinol said the terrorist groups would eventually have control of the Bangsamoro Juridical Entity (BJE) [...]

Mining firm offers hope to Davao Oriental indigenous people

 
SOCIAL FUND. Tribal leader Gualberto Cagunan, back-grounded by his Mandaya tribe of Tagbinonga of Mati, Davao Oriental, proudly shows off a replica of P500,000 check representing social fund development donation by Dabawenyo Minerals Corporation (DMC) headed by president Said Sayre (second to his right). The same amount was also given to the Mandaya tribe of [...]

AFP: Capture of Davao City is communist rebels’ goal

By ROGER M. BALANZA
 
            Massive rebel activities in the Davao Region are leading to one target: the capture of Davao City, according to a high official of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
            Lt. Col. Pedro Sumayo made this disclosure last week at the Assembly for Peace, Unity and Good Governance held in Nabunturan, [...]

Filinvest abandons bid for housing clearance from Davao City government

By ROGER M. BALANZA

            Filinvest Land is gunning for a third attempt to have a housing project approved in Dumoy, Toril, as an association of housing developers here lamented slow pace of approval by the Davao City Council of housing permit applications.
             But latest reports say city councilors are bent to deny the application that [...]

DAVAO CITY APPROVES P3BILLION AYALA MEGAMALL PROJECT

The Davao City Council is set to give tomorrow the thumbs up for the P3 billion Ayala Center Davao business park and mall project, the biggest single investment in decades in this premier city of Southern Mindanao.
A joint project of Ayala Land, Inc. and Anflocor Investment and Development Company, Inc. and [...]

Hedcor, DWCD battle over Tamugan River continues

Davao City councilors to take look-see of hydropower site
By ROGER M. BALANZA

The Davao City Council would conduct an ocular inspection on Wednesday of the site in Tamugan, Marilog district where Hedcor plans to build mini-hydro power dams.
The inspection by three council committees comes as Hedcor seeks an endorsement from the city [...]