Leftist Attempts to Break Into Davao Politics
People’s Issues. Jeppie Ramada discusses issues with Davao residents in a recent campaign visit. (davaotoday.com photo by Marilou Aguirre)
Jeppie Ramada intends to join Angela Librado-Trinidad, a fellow Bayan Muna activist, in the halls of the City Council. And he would never abandon, he promises, the struggles of the people ? ordinary residents, peasants, the urban poor, among others ? his group represents.
Duterte, TU Dangle Fallen Bridge to Davao Voters
By Germelina Lacorte
davaotoday.com
DAVAO CITY — Mayor Rodrigo Duterte tried to hard-sell the Team Unity ticket by dangling the fallen bridge in Bankerohan to win votes for the administration bets.
“You’ve failed me in the last election. I hope now, you’re not going to fail me,” Duterte told the crowd gathered under the flyover of Agdao on Tuesday night. Opposition bets won overwhelmingly in this part of the city in the 2004 elections.
“If you vote for the Team Unity, we can have that bridge repaired,” he said, referring to the Generoso Bridge I near the Bankerohan Market. The bridge was recently damaged and Duterte promised to fasttrack its repair in time for Christmas. The damage rendered the bridge impassable to motorists; the repair also displaced 500 families who have been living under it for years.
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2007 Philippine Elections: What?s at Stake (5)
In this fifth and last installment of Davao Today’s series of Q&As on next week’s elections, Bobby Tuazon, a political analyst at the Center for People Empowerment in Government (CenPEG), points out the deterioration of the Philippine political system and why this election is not going to change that.
Iraq Journalists and Media Issue New Appeal for Release of BBC Journalist Held in Gaza
Journalists? leaders and media chiefs meeting in Iraq today issued a new appeal for the release of kidnapped BBC journalist who has been missing for eight weeks in Palestine.
The Iraqi journalism community was meeting in Irbil in the north of the country to put together a national safety and security strategy to combat the threats to media and reporters in a conflict that has already claimed the lives of more than 200 media staff since the United States invasion in 2003.
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