Davao City as Southern Mindanao food basket

Dad asks City Hall to fast-tract Food Terminal

The Davao City Council has asked City Hall to create a working group to study the establishment of the Davao Food Terminal, as part of agricultural productivity and employment generation program of the city government.
Councilor Leonardo Avila yesterday said the long-stalled proposal might be lost [...]

Davao City not anti-business in banning housing projects atop aquifer

By ROGER M. BALANZA
A Davao City Hall official yesterday said the city government is not being anti-business if it bans housing developments in Dumoy, which is home to the aquifer that provides the city with drinking water.
Mario Luis Jacinto, city planning and development coordinator, said housing developers could take a pick at [...]

Davao City govt to sue motel owner for illegal foreshore reclamation

City Hall readies rap vs. Adarna
By ROGER M. BALANZA

City Hall is readying charges for illegal construction against a motel owner who reclaimed sans government permit part of a 24-hectare city government reservation in coastal barangay Matina Aplaya.
The City Engineers Office is now preparing evidences and documents, said City Legal Officer J. Melchor [...]

Strike-free Davao City luring investors

Ibuyan: Industrial peace key to city’s progress

Industrial peace or the absence of labor strike is one of the major factors luring investors to Davao City, according to city councilor Edgar Ibuyan, chairman of the committee on labor and employment opportunities.
“I am proud to report that since I became chairman of the committee, there has [...]

Davao City councilor rapped for shooting from the hips

Dayanghirang told: Apologize to Davao Light
The Davao Light & Power Co. has refused to comment on accusation by a Davao City councilor that it has been remiss in paying taxes to the city government.
Floor leader Danilo Dayanhirang last week assailed the Aboitiz-owned power firm, the city’s sole power provider, of not paying real [...]

Govt banks to earn P4.7B in DBM unpaid IRA payment mode

Dads oppose P42 million cut in unpaid IRA share

By ROGER M. BALANZA

Davao City councilors yesterday deferred action on a government offer of lump sum payment of unpaid Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) for 2001 and 2004 due the city government, that would have a bank advancing the money pocketing nearly a third of [...]

Davao City mountain resorts in trouble

Sirawan hog farms serious threat to top tourism destination

A study by a team from the University of the Philippines in Mindanao (UPMin) has raised fear hog farms in Sirawan, Toril in Davao City could spoil inland tourism ventures now in place in three neighboring barangays being developed by the city government as the [...]

Indigenous people told to share ancestral lands with business

Lumads, agri-business in joint farm ventures

Davao City councilor Conrado Baluran said tribal communities are being encouraged to enter into joint ventures with large business to spur farm productivity in the city’s hinterlands.
This is part of our campaign to help indigenous people convert their ancestral lands into productive uses, said Baluran, chair of [...]

Davao City’s ‘best water’ is Filinvest selling pitch

Housing developer assures its projects not threat to aquifer

By ROGER M. BALANZA

A high-end housing developer with billions of pesos in projects in Davao City said its selling pitch not only centers on this city’s bullish economy but also on one of its prized possessions: readily available sources of pure water that [...]

Filinvest condominium project in Davao City

Philippine Property Developer, Filinvest Land Incorporated (FLI), is expected to invest about P6 billion next year in Davao City with its residential development projects. Current projects of the company in Davao are the residential villages of Le Jardin, Fuente de Villa Abrille, Villa Mercedita, Orange Grove and Kembali Coast.
In addition to that is the P1.5 [...]