THE DURIAN BEAT: Duterte and the race to peace in Mindanao
BY ROGER M. BALANZA President Rodrigo Duterte is racing against time to meet a deadline for the approval of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL). Congress itself is working overtime in […]
Category Archives: OPINION
FAST BACKWARD: A BRIEF HISTORY OF DAVAO PAPERS
BY TONY FIGUEROA Studying the genesis of Davao newspapers is an interesting field that has yet to be explored and researched extensively. Especially for students taking Mass Communication and Journalism […]
JUN LEDESMA: Spare the banana industry
LETTERS FROM DAVAO By Jun Ledesma The personal feud between erstwhile confreres Bebot Alvarez and Tonyboy Floirendo has reached an ultimate point of irreconcilability. Both are incumbent congressman representing the […]
DENGVAXIAPHOBIA
MOST DESPISED, MOST HATED BY ROGER M. BALANZA Dengvaxia is the most hated and despised word today in the dictionary of the Pinoys. ALVAREZ, DENGVAXIAPHOBIA AND TERRORISTS The anti-drug vaccine, […]
HONTIVEROS – A MAUTE-ABU SAYYAF SENATOR
GETTING HOT: INDAY SARA VS. RISA WORD WAR It’s a comfort that Davao City Mayor Inday Sara Duterte-Carpio only took to social media in her verbal scrimmage with Senator Risa […]
LIKE MAUTE AND ABU SAYYAF TERRORIST
House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez will “tear apart” any directive issued by the Supreme Court ordering Congress to convene in a joint session to discuss President Rodrigo Duterte’s declaration of Martial […]
A snake in the grass
Being “immoral” is only one of the many “sins” of Speaker Pantaleon “Bebot” Alvarez. He is accused of breaking up the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino (PDP), the party that helped propel […]
Mind conditioning and cheating in the election
Candidates for the national positions are scrambling to convince voters that they are the best choice through various surveys. All kinds of surveys are now also coming out with […]
THE MARCOS MOMENTUM
With a fairly secure lead in the voter preference surveys going into the final week of campaigning, Bongbong Marcos continues his political momentum. It is generally believed Marcos has won […]
DUTERTE TO WIN WITH 5 MILLION VOTE MARGIN VS POE
All the voter preference survey show that Rodrigo Duterte enjoys a comfortable lead over all the other presidential candidates. The most recent Pulse Asia survey gives the Davao mayor a […]
WAR CHESTS
FIRST PERSON By Alex Magno Administration candidates have the unspoken advantage of access to government resources, including personnel and vehicles to support their rallies and disseminate their paraphernalia. Social media […]
LENI ROBREDO SHOULD BE IN JAIL
The Comelec had been mum on the Robredo case for years more so at the time she was mentioned as Aquino’s pick for vice president. Did Aquino tell […]
KNOWING DUTERTE: Every centavo well-spent
BY JUN EVASCO Many still do not know the character and personality of presidential candidate and Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte. Behind his strong and sometimes intransigent persona seen in […]
Why I will vote for Binay to be next President of the Philippines
BY JOSE G. ARAULLO I am looking for someone who has traditionally exhibited determination and perseverance. These qualities are important in a leader. Of the four presidential candidates–Vice-President Jejomar Binay, […]
ABAYA: ROXAS COOKED UP ANOMALOUS MRT-3 DEAL WHILE DOTC SECRETARY
‘TUWID NA DAAN’ GETS A BEATING Liberal Party standard bearer Mar Roxas was Secretary of the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC), when the allegedly anomalous Metro Rail Transit-3 (MRT-3) […]
DROP IN AQUINO RATING TO FURTHER PULL DOWN ROXAS
Roxas ‘breaks away’ from Aquino The dip in the performance rating of President Benigno Aquino was expected to further pull down the pre-poll survey rating of Mar Roxas, standard bearer […]
KILLING THE BINAY PRESIDENCY
The presidential candidacy of Vice President Jejomar Binay has come to be a bastion of democracy in the Philippines. That’s why it has early on become the target for destruction […]
THE HYPOCRISY OF MAR ROXAS
Davao City is my second home. While I was born and raised in North Cotabato, this is the city where I first went to college as a scholar and working […]
HOW WILL GOD HANDLE PRESIDENT DUTERTE & THE DAVAO DEATH SQUAD?
Will God see mass murder of criminals and corrupt government officials by the Davao Death Squad (DDS) if Mayor Rodrigo Duterte become the President? GOD WOULD BE FIRST TO SUFFER […]
DUTERTE: I AM THE GODFATHER OF THE DDS
The acronym DDS is morbid, means the Davao Death Squad, the dreaded shadowy gunmen almost always blamed when a criminal is gunned down. Dabawenyos trumpet their city as one of […]
