Matigsalogs forms council to manage ancestral domain
By ROGER M. BALANZA
The Matigsalog tribe of Marilog District in Davao City has formed a tribal council of elders to manage a 72,000-hectare ancestral domain recently carved out of a title issued to indigenous people of Kitaotao, Bukidnon.
Tribal leader Datu Ernisto Salumay said his tribe [...]
Danny goes wild vs. Dalight, DCWD
By ROGER M. BALANZA
Davao City councilor Danilo Dayanghirang yesterday went ballistic and vowed to go after Davao Light & Power Company for not paying to the city government real property tax for its electric posts.
Dayanghirang, the council floor leader, also scored the Davao City Water District [...]
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 [...]
By ROGER M. BALANZA
It could have been manna from heaven in the form of seemingly inexhaustible free lunch packs in Styrofoam that fell on poor Dabawenyos grappling with stiff cost of rice and other basic commodities.
Or it could have been a result of poor arithmetic. But lay workers who helped [...]
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 [...]
ACOSTA wants King David demolished
By ROGER M. BALANZA
If she had her way, councilor Mabel Acosta wants to demolish pronto a bay walk and a giant concrete replica of a young and naked King David illegally constructed by motel owner Teodorico Adarna on a government-owned foreshore area in Matina Aplaya.
Acosta, the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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