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Tough-talking Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has carried one stern message all throughout his mayoral tenure to criminals and syndicates: get out of the city or get killed.

Superintendent Rodelio Poliquit, acting Davao City Traffic Management Center chief receives instructions from Mayor Rody Duterte to conduct traffic patrol at night where more speed limit violations were reported. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)

City officials are bullish for more investments to pour in because prospective investors are satisfied with the city’s safety regulations.

Visible traffic enforcers implement the controversial 30 kilometers per hour speed limit imposed by Mayor Rodrigo Duterte in Davao City downtown area. (Medel Hernani,Davao Today)

A huge billboard in front of San Pedro Cathedral warns motorists on speed limits allowed within the city as set by Executive Order 39. City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte issued the order last October due to concerns from the public on speeding public utility drivers and private motorists engaging in drag race at night. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)

By TYRONE A. VELEZ Davao Today Davao City – Fed up with cases of over-speeding drivers of  ‘uso-uso’ jeepneys (passenger…

At the end of the float parade, Davao City Mayor Rody Duterte addressed the audience thankful that the Kadayawan Festival is ending on a peaceful note, after several days of jitters and uncertainties.

On Sunday’s Pamulak sa Kadayawan Floral Parade, Davao City Mayor Rody Duterte pitched a call to the government to make serious strides in its peace talks with the communist group and Moro separatists.

In spotlighting the celebratory pitch and color of the Kadayawan Festival, let us give honor and deference to the unifying common tongue of all Lumads of Mindanao — the Cebuano language as the Island’s lengua franca. And so, allow me to use this as medium in this special write-up about the legendary Datu Mangulayon, the greatest of all Lumads in this part of the Philippine Islands.