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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
‘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) […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]