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Crossfire

December 18, 2007

By ROGER M. BALANZA
 
No bananas for Xmas
 
The loneliest people in Davao City this Christmas season could be the 200 workers recently laid off by Lapanday Development Corporation (LADECO)—thanks to a city ordinance banning aerial spraying in banana plantations in the city.
 
Foreseeing dire straights ahead, Ladeco imposed the only option available to stem the economic impact [...]

Crossfire: Councilors in their clowning glories

December 13, 2007

Mindanao Insider Daily
By ROGER M. BALANZA
Booboos mark Davao City Council session
In a Christmassy mood, Davao City councilors in the Tuesday session gave the thumbs up to several long pending legislative matters, ending the painful and suspenseful wait of applicants—mostly seeking council approval for housing projects—who had been trooping to council sessions the past weeks, nay [...]

CROSSFIRE: For the record

December 9, 2007

By ROGER M. BALANZA
“I am just concerned and intrigued…on how the barangay officials of Maa reacted or extended assistance to the late…Mariannet Amper.”
“I have not seen any barangay official neither the barangay captain (of Maa) tinker into the problem of this innocent lady, Ms. Amper, and what they have done as far as their office [...]