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 [...]