Reggae Davao
Here’s another video on Davao that was uploaded on YouTube by user rjtorre. It’s sort of a promotional video accompanied by a reggae tune. Makes you wanna visit the place ASAP.
‘Davao movie teaser’
YouTube user gikjabile‘s bouncy “teaser” featuring snapshots of Davao City streets, malls, stores and other landmarks.
His Royal Highness, King Rody of Davao
INDISPENSABLE? Mayor Rodrigo Duterte says he decided to allow his daughter Sara to run for mayor for fear that traditional politicians will mess up the city. (davaotoday.com photo by Carlos H. Conde)
He has said before that he would not build a political dynasty. But recently, Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, according to this report, changed his mind. He said he would ask his daughter Sara to run as his vice mayor in next year’s election to make sure that no traditional politician (read: former ally turned arch rival Benjamin de Guzman) would rule the city after him.
Sounding every bit like a king bequeathing the throne to his child, Duterte reportedly said: “I have been running this city alone for the past many years and whether I like it or not, I will retire. My father has left me a leadership and this I performed with the utmost desire to bring the people of Davao only the best.”
2006: The Economics of Hype
Administration propaganda one-sidedly presents growth, peso appreciation, lower public deficits and foreign investments as if these were development ends in themselves. But the deteriorating social conditions of joblessness, hunger and poverty are the sharpest rebuttal of any government economic hype.
Arroyo Gov’t Risking the Lives of OFWs to Save the Economy
(First of two parts) Deployment of overseas Filipino workers abroad, even in danger zones, has been the response of the government to the ballooning unemployment rate and worsening poverty situation.…