Corruption at Sta. Cruz council – 4

Mayor vows to curb corruption

Sta. Cruz municipal mayor Joel Ray Lopez assured that investors would not suffer the fate of quarry operation applicants rumored as having been milked by the Sta. Cruz municipal council for approval of a permit.
I can assure investors this will never happen again, said Lopez in reports [...]

MAYOR RODRIGO DUTERTE AND BUSINESSMEN

UP AND AWAY. Mayor Rodrigo Duterte’s friendly relation with a responsive business community is one of the key factors credited with pushing Davao City as a premier city in Southern Mindanao. Here he meets with members of the Davao City Business Chamber of Commerce at a local hotel, in one of the regular consultations with [...]

Duterte name to insure Sara victory in 2010

Duterte legacy to factor in
Inday Sara 2010 mayoral bid
 
 
          Dabawenyos do not easily forget good deeds, and this in-born trait  would deeply matter when they go to the polls in 2010 to elect a new mayor.
          Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and his more than 20 years of serving Dabawenyos will factor much when Vice Mayor [...]

Corruption at Davao City Council

Dayanghirang: Cabling is clean
 
          After saying that the Davao City Council committee on housing was at the center of corruption issues in the 17 years that he has been in the council, floor leader Danilo Dayanghirang this week cleared its current chairman of anomalies.
          Councilor Arnolfo Ricardo Cabling is clean, said Dayanghirang in wake of [...]

Davao City power firm in search of alternative power sources

Dalight to tap biogas
in Sirawan hogfarms
 
          Davao Light & Power Company has explored possibility of buying excess electricity churned out from bio-digesters of hog farms in Sirawan in Toril.
          Hog and poultry farms in Toril have constructed giant bio-digesters as part of cost-saving measures and environmental protection programs but are producing electricity more than [...]

Councilor Edgar Ibuyan is gay group official

Dad bares link to gay group
By ROGER M. BALANZA
 
          City councilor Edgar Ibuyan yesterday bared he is connected to the gay group Iwag Dabaw, but this should not spin off to wild imaginations he belongs to the world of the Third Sex.
          Ibuyan, macho in build and everything, candidly admitted he is an official [...]

JCI launches WATCH project vs. corruption

Davao City joins Jaycee
in anti-corruption drive
 
Amid massive corruption at the upper echelons of the government, the Philippine Jaycee thinks the answer to stumping graft should start at the bottom of the bureaucracy.
To start off the anti-graft campaign in government, JCI Senate Philippines has launched Project WATCH that aims to promote in public servants the [...]

CHR to sue cops for detainee’s death

 
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) says police brutality was behind the death by mauling of an inmate inside a cell of a police precinct and is filing charges against policemen involved.
CHR region eleven director Alberto Sipaco also dismissed claims by the Talomo Police precinct that Ludovico Marcelo may have died from manhandling by nine [...]

Davao City up in arms vs. Hecor-Aboitiz hydro-dam project

DCWD: Sea water to seep into Dumoy aquifer if Hedcor project allowed
By ROGER M. BALANZA
In the next few years, the Davao City Water District would be pumping out sea water from the Dumoy aquifer, if the water firm would not be able to find an alternative source for the city’s water need.
The Dumoy [...]

UY VS. OLANO IN TAGUM CITY 2010 MAYORAL RACE

Mayor Uy: I can’t choose my enemies
By ROGER M. BALANZA

Tagum City Mayor Rey Uy is willing to battle it out with Congressman Arrel Olano in the fight for the top post in Davao del Norte’s capital city in 2010.
I cannot choose my opponents, said Uy in reaction to reports Olano, [...]