By Marilou M. Aguirre
Davao Today
TORIL, Davao City — Some candidates in the city’s Third District had a last minute vote-buying spree in Crossing Bayabas last night.
This is according to Boy, a driver and operator of public utility jeepney. Although Boy provided davaotoday.com with his full name, he request anonymity for fear of his safety.
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DAVAO CITY ? Joselito ?Peter? Cayetano, the namesake of opposition senatorial candidate Alan Peter Cayetano, was still a candidate for senator, according to Eva Antipuesto, the assistant superintendent of the Department of Education?s division office here.
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By Cheryll D. Fiel
davaotoday.com
DAVAO CITY — International observers who are in the southern Philippines to monitor today’s elections said Sunday that a clean, peaceful and honest elections in the country remains a pipe dream.
Gill Boehringer, a professor of history and philosophy at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, who is one of the five foreign delegates of the International Observers Mission (IOM) assigned in Southern Mindanao, said he did not have any illusions that the elections will be any better today, that “people would be on their good behavior.”
In Full Swing. The elections in Davao promises more of the same. (davaotoday.com photo by Cheryll D. Fiel)In this special report on the 2007 elections, Davao Today features the problems…
First District: From street crime to lack of water supply, the residents of the first congressional district have problems that they hope their politicians would address. But they?re not holding their breath.
By Marilou M. Aguirre
davaotoday.com
DAVAO CITY ? As a vendor of coconut juice who roams around the city, particularly the First District where he lives, Eusebio Pulgo knows only too well the problems brought about by juvenile delinquency.
A resident of Barangay 23C, more known as Mini-Forest Boulevard, Pulgo, 41, considers these delinquents, who are mostly minors and members of gangs, as a pressing problem that should be addressed by the city.