davao city watershed protection ordinance

Delayed funds stalling watershed protection efforts
A landmark Davao City ordinance aiming to protect the watershed areas could not be implemented for lack of funds.
City Hall environmental planners however are hoping funding could be approved as the city government focuses on giving import to the city watershed areas which serve as recharge points for the [...]

Sara backs demolition of Ilang prostitution haven

By ROGER M. BALANZA

Vice Mayor Sara Duterte, acting Mayor, would not stand in the way of the demolition of nine houses declared as squatters sandwiched between two port facilities and impeding a natural waterway in Ilang, Bunawan.
This developed even as the nine families waged a last-minute attempt to stay the demolition [...]

Residents fear landslides, massive floodings in Davao City housing projects

Government agencies question Shrine Hills projects
By ROGER M. BALANZA
Two government agencies yesterday confirmed two high-end housing in Shrine Hills in Matina have not yet secured permits, as residents continue to fear landslides and floodings when developments are started.
The Mines and Geosciences Bureau said it has not granted permit to Crown Commodities of [...]

Davao City Council leadership questioned anew

SP non-lawyer floor leader under fire

Members of the Davao City Council are again questioning the capability of its floor leader, who is being accused of “cornering” legislative items to prop up his performance ratings.
Two former floor leaders of the City Council gave a lecture on legislative management to floor leader Danilo Dayanghirang, after skewering the [...]

Consunji condominium project in Davao City

NEW CONSUNJI PROJECT. Isidro Consunji, center, executive officer of DMC Urban Planner Development Inc. is flanked by, to his right, Davao City councilor Arnolfo Cabling, chair of the council committee on housing, and, to his left, councilor Edgar Ibuyan, who represented Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, during the Friday ground-breaking rites for the company condominium project in [...]

Vice Mayor Sara Duterte plays Kissinger in Davao City Council row

Sara plays cooler head; aborts dad’s ‘word war’
Davao City Vice Mayor Sara Duterte in yesterday’s city council session took the role of the proverbial cooler head, and aborted a potential verbal firework in wake of charges floor leader councilor Danilo Dayanghirang had gone to media to shame some members of the legislative body [...]

STARTING THEM YOUNG

DAVAO CITY COUNCILOR ARNOLFO RICARDO CABLING, an environmentalist by heart, discusses mangrove planting techniques to two young environmentalists during a mangrove-planting program in Bunawan and Ilang where the councilor has poured P1 million in projects on marine resources protection.

CORRUPTION AT DAVAO CITY COUNCIL -Update 7

Militar tags Baluran
as “broker councilor”
By ROGER M. BALANZA
Davao City councilor Bonifacio Militar yesterday unmasked the “broker councilor from the Second District” he earlier said had lobbied for legislation reportedly with a price tag.
Militar, who resigned the floor leadership three weeks ago, tagged councilor Conrado Baluran as the lobbyist who attempted to convince him to [...]

CORRUPTION AT DAVAO CITY COUNCIL -Update 6

Cabling also target
of ouster move
A group of city councilors who engineered the recent leadership change in the Davao City Council were not only after former floor leader councilor Bonifacio Militar’s head.
Councilor Arnolfo Ricardo Cabling, chair of the committee on housing, rural and urban planning, was the first target of the coup that saw Militar [...]

The ‘manoys’ vs. change in duel at Davao City Council floor leadership race

OURVIEWS
by THE PEOPLE OF DAVAO CITY
Will the Young Turks allow the return of the bad boys?
Now it can be told!
Two weeks ago, 14 younger members (they call themselves YOUNG TURKS) of the Davao City Council met in a series of secret sessions to discuss replacing floor leader Bonifacio Militar.
The motivating factor [...]