Absence of firecrackers marks Davao city?s Yuletide season

By MARILOU M. AGUIRRE | Davao Today

The manufacture, sale, distribution, possession and use of firecrackers and other pyrotechnic devices have been prohibited in Davao since 2002 through a city ordinance passed by the Sangguniang Panlungsod. A year before that, Mayor Rodrigo Duterte imposed a total firecracker ban to avoid fire-cracker related injuries and deaths in the city.

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National Union of Journalists Davao City Chapter prepare armbands for broadcaster Ferdie Lintuan's burial tomorrow. Lintuan was murdered on the eve of Christmas Day near his radio station dxGO. He is the 5th journalist killed in the Philippines in 2007. (Photo by Keith Bacongco / AKP Images)

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Gov’t doing everything possible to solve Lintuan slaying — Ermita

Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said today that the government is doing everything possible to solve the killing of Davao radio broadcaster Fernando Lintuan and bring his assassin to justice soonest.…

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Duterte asks police to look into all angles in broadcaster’s death

Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte blasted certain politicians in Davao for insinuating that City Hall could have had a hand in the killing of radio broadcaster Fernando "Ferdie'' Lintuan. In a press statement, Mayor Duterte said insinuations that Lintuan was killed for his attacks on alleged irregularities in the Davao City People's Park is to deprive Lintuan and his family ''real justice''.

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