Penera killing update: Doc in military “order of battle”

Victim member of militant groups
By ROGER M. BALANZA
Was Dr. Bong Penera killed for his militant advocacies?
This angle was raised by friends and colleagues of the doctor shot dead Wednesday in Davao City by motorcycle-riding masked gunmen while on his way home to his residence in Cabantian, Buhangin at the outskirts of the city.
This developed as [...]

Penera killing update

Mistaken identity, grudge eyed in ambush
By ROGER M. BALANZA
Police probers are pursuing two angles in the Wednesday killing in Davao City of a government doctor: personal grudge or mistaken identity.
Dr. Rogelio “Bong” Peñera, 45, head of the Regional Epidemiological Surveillance Unit (Resu) of the Department of Health (DOH) Southern Mindanao, was shot dead by motorcycle-riding gunmen [...]

COMELEC: Smartmatic machines 99.99% accurate

By ROGER M. BALANZA
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has assured machines to be used to automate the 2010 elections have near-perfect accuracy.
 Commissioner Rene Sarmiento told a gathering of councilors in Davao City that the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines have a 99.9995 percent accuracy rate.
Sarmiento was among guest speakers at the Philippine Councilor’s League Meeting held on Friday [...]

CITY OF THREE TOWNS

HISTORIA DE DAVAO
By Antonio V. Figueroa  
Wikipedia defines, gerrymandering as “a form of redistribution in which electoral district or constituency boundaries are deliberately modified for electoral advantage.” Congressional districts, for instance, are divided to give a politician, usually an affiliate of a dynasty, the territory where he is assured of victory and usually without opposition [...]

New sports craze eyed as tourist drawer in Comval

Only in Compostela Valley
Water volleyball, anyone?
 
NABUNTURAN, Compostela Valley — If you think Compostela Valley is landlocked, think again. The province actually has three coastal towns starting with Maco, adjacent to Tagum City, then Mabini, and finally Pantukan, at the doorstep to Banay-banay in Davao Oriental.
 
Surprising, it took an almost land-locked valley to pioneer the holding [...]

Death squad attacks government doctor

DAVAO’S SWINE FLU AWARENESS CAMPAIGNER AMBUSHED
By ROGER M. BALANZA  

 

 
A government doctor in the Davao Region in Southern Philippines leading the public awareness campaign on swine flu was shot dead while driving home Wednesday night by masked gunmen aboard a motorcycle.
Dr. Bong Penera, chief epidemiologist of the Department of Health (DOH) in Region 11 was driving [...]

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS 2010: Gibo-Puno team-up getting hot

RONNIE PUNO FOR VICE PRESIDENT BACKED BY ADMIN, OPPOSITION
By ROGER M. BALANZA
Both administration and opposition leaders welcomed Ronnie Puno’s entry in the 2010 political race, with most of them saying that he would be a valuable asset to any presidential bet he would choose to run with.
          In media interviews, Sen. Jinggoy Estrada described Puno [...]

Presidential Election 2010

Vice President RONNIE PUNO
The other half of the Lakas-Kampi-CMD Dream Team
 By ROGER M. BALANZA
The administration party’s search for the Dream Team in the coming 2010 polls may have been partly realized with the announcement last month by Local Government Secretary Ronnie Puno that he will seek the nomination of the Lakas-Kampi-CMD’s vice presidential bet.
          At [...]

BOOK ON COMMUNIST ATROCITIES LAUNCHED IN DAVAO CITY

ANTI-COMMUNISTS. ANAD partrylist Congressman Jun Alcover, center, at launching of an anti-communist book yesterday in Davao City in time with the 20th anniversary of the Rano Massacre in Binaton, Digos City, Davao del Sur where 39 civilians many of them children were killed by New People’s Army rebels for refusing to join the movement. With [...]

Davao media vs. right-to-reply bill

PRESS FREEDOM. Davao broadcaster Dodong Solis of RMN-DXDC takes a stand against the Right-to-Reply bill pending in Congress at last week’s I-Speak media forum at the Davao City Hall. With him are Davao City councilor Peter Lavina, also a member of the local press, and Amy Cabusao, editor of the local daily Mindanao Times. BING [...]