Davao City: Death squad vs. death squad?

 
(The joker behind the blog http://watchingsara2010.wordpress.com has this entry about the deadly Davao Death Squad and its potential rivals that could further spread blood on the streets of Davao City with the 2010 elections nearing. Heaven forbids, but the joker’s prediction appears timely over suspicion the killing of a City Hall employee recently could be [...]

IDIS, MAAS TWITTED FOR BAD SHOW AT SUPREME COURT

The good and the bad bananas
By ROGER M. BALANZA
Two events that hardly caught the attention of the public as the country grappled with the damage of super typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng had bananas at the center.
 
First. Pseudo environmentalist groups battling aerial spraying at the Supreme Court used banana to illustrate the alleged damage of the [...]

RONNIE PUNO ADVICE TO FAULTFINDERS: PUT UP OR SHUT UP

PERISCOPE
Working LGU officials shielded vs. whiners
Interior and Local Government Secretary Ronnie Puno took the cudgels for  embattled local government officials working quietly in the disaster areas when he rightly pointed out in a Camp Crame meeting that couch potato critics and professional faultfinders—if they have nothing better to do—should stop carping and whining.

RONNIE: No [...]

ONDOY, PEPENG AFTERMATH: Puno wants action

LGUs urged to Identify Social Housing Sites for Calamity Victims
In an effort to help thousands of families displaced by the recent typhoons that hit the country, Secretary Ronnie V. Puno of the Department of the Interior and Local Government ( DILG ) has called on all town and city mayors to identify lands for socialized housing [...]

ARTICA SPORTS DOME: From ‘Monument of Corruption’ to ‘Monument of Redemption’

MOTHBALLED P300 PROJECT RISES FROM THE DEAD
By ROGER M. BALANZA
Will the Artica Sports Center—the unfinished P300 million city government project mothballed Mayor Rodrigo Duterte for being a ‘monument of corruption’—rise from the dead?
Former Davao City mayor Benjamin de Guzman—under whose administration the edifice at the outskirt barangay of Langub—hopes so, if he wins the race [...]

Ronnie Puno: Civility in Politics

COMMENTARY
There’s a piece of good news coming out of the nation’s political scene.
When everyone appears to be harping on negativity and filthy tactics just to push ahead of the pack and get the eye of the public, there’s one vice presidential aspirant that’s bucking the trend and showing his preference for politeness in politics. [...]

Latest Davao City killing captured in video

But Davao Death Squad gunmen remains faceless
By ROGER M. BALANZA
If nobody wants to stand up in this city to point a finger at Davao Death Squad gunmen, let surveillance cameras do the work.

LOOKING FOR THE DAVAO DEATH SQUAD. Sr. Supt. Ramon Apolinario, director of the Davao City Police Office, updates reporters on the investigation into [...]

NOYNOY-MAR TANDEM EQUALS DON QUIXOTE AND SANCHO PANCHA

By ROGER M. BALANZA
 It was no surprise that Sen. Noynoy Aquino picked Sen. Mar Roxas  as his running mate after the heavens told him to take a crack at the presidency in 2010 as standard bearer of the Liberal Party.
It was a given that Mar would be second fiddle to Noynoy. After all Mar [...]

NOYNOY & MAR RAPPED FOR PLAYING HERO IN ONDOY TRAGEDY

Why not donate their own money?
It is sad how politicians—including those who are aspiring to be president or vice president of this benighted country—can use people’s misery to soap up their image.
 
Particularly, we are pissed off by Senators Noynoy Aquino and Mar Roxas, the Liberal Party candidates, asking the public to chip in donations for [...]

Plan to seek foreign loans for rehab slammed

DAVAO CITY—Progressive youth group Kabataan party-list expressed outrage over Gloria Arroyo’s proposal to secure $1 billion worth of foreign grants and concessional loans to fund the government’s rehabilitation efforts for flood victims saying that “this would be more disadvantageous and perilous for the millions of Filipino poor.”
 
“The last thing we need in these critical times [...]