Surprises to mark congress race in Davao City

Will Cabling do an Ungab?
Will Mayor Rodrigo Duterte name a new face to run for Congress in 2010 in the Second District as he did in 2007 when he picked out former city councilor Isidro Ungab from nowhere to make him Congressman of the Third District?
Or to put in bluntly, is city councilor Arnolfo Ricardo [...]

Vice Mayor affirms trust on Cabling

Sara turns down plan to
break up housing body
By ROGER M. BALANZA
 
            Vice Mayor Sara Duterte has shot down a proposal to break up the Davao City Council committee on housing, rural and urban development into three committees, in an apparent expression of confidence on councilor Arnolfo Ricardo Cabling who heads the committee.

MAYOR [...]

A triumph for the homeless

P100M for urban poor housing in Davao City P3 billion loan
By ROGER M. BALANZA
Davao City’s homeless urban poor would not be left out in the coming P3 billion bank loan of the city government, with P100 million of the loan earmarked for socialized housing programs.
The Davao City Council last week gave authority to [...]

Cabling watershed code goes into full steam

Barangay captains in key role
in watershed protection
By ROGER M. BALANZA
 Barangay captains would be playing central role in watershed protection and would undergo a seminar supervised by the Watershed Management Council (WMC).

 This developed as the city government preps up for full implementation of the Watershed Protection, Conservation and
Management Ordinance in a bid to enhance [...]

End comes for Akyat Barko girls in Davao City

By ROGER M. BALANZA
Owners of 13 houses declared as squatting on public land offered only token opposition as government demolition crews descended Friday on what remains of the squatters colony to demolish the houses in Ilang, Bunawan in Davao City.
The clearing operations in Sto. Nino village also known as Sikatoy completes a socialized housing [...]

Cabling Code pours more revenues to Davao City coffers

P25M eyed in watershed environment tax
By ROGER M. BALANZA
The Davao City government has found a goldmine in the Watershed Protection, Conservation and Management Ordinance which could raise annual revenue of P25 million under the Environment Tax provided by the landmark measure.
But the Davao City Chamber of Commerce and Industry said it would ask City [...]

NPA commander Ka Parago denies Cabling in ‘hitlist’

Davao City sex colony nearing end

Tefasco squatters defying City Hall

While most of the 150 squatter families in a risk area in Ilang, Bunawan have voluntarily dismantled their houses, nine of them are holding out defying an order of demolition set this week issued by City Hall.
The recalcitrant squatters—said to be operators of sex dens, videoke houses, boarding houses and currency [...]

Vanishing sex squatter colony in Davao City

VOLUNTARY DEMOLITION. Bamboo stilts and coconut trunks buried in water serve as reminder to what was once a foreshore squatter colony in Ilang, Bunawan ordered to move out by City Hall. Despite the risk from floods from a creek and tidal waves, nine of the 150 houseowners are holding out to defy the order and [...]

Davao water district endorses bottling firm in aquifer

The Davao City Water District (DCWD) has eaten its own warning about the city aquifer facing threat by over-extraction and has given permit to a bottling company to dig a well to draw water from the underground reservoir.
After saying it is going into tapping surface water to ease pressure on the aquifer, DCWD has [...]