A single vote is powerful to change the course of the nation, and people should not be blinded by candidates who can only show nothing but popularity. Fame or a familiar name does not equate to credentials.
Ibuyan, Apostol, Ungab, and Abella are familiar names in Davao City local politics yet the first three lost their reelection bids as barangay captains, while Abella failed his comeback for barangay captain, in Monday’s Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections. Yet, another Duterte made it into local politics.
The elderly are among the early birds in the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections on Monday in Davao City, defying their age, health, and heat.
By MART D. SAMBALUD
Davao Today
In a ceremony dubbed as “Panunumpa sa Katungkulan,” Mayor-elect Benigno Andamon and Vice Mayor-elect Daniel Batosalem together with eight other elected municipal officials took oath before Davao del Norte Province Governor Rodolfo del Rosario.
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
Education in this country is an elitist enterprise that caters only to the thin stratum of the upper middle classes who can afford, but subjects the grassroots to a buwad smell of literacy enough for them to be able to write the names of politicians in elections.