Duterte warns against syndicates over killings
Two killings including a lawyer and a restuarant owner in Davao City prompted Mayor Rodrigo Duterte to issue a warning on criminals and guns-for-hire believed to be hiding in the city.
NEW BARANGAY OFFICIALS SWORN IN
Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte leads the oath taking ceremony Friday of the new barangay officials from the city’s 182 barangays, held at Almendras Gym. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
TACLOBAN OFFICIAL THANKS DUTERTE
A barangay official from Tacloban, Leyte, Jessica Seno Panis (left) cries as she thanks Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte (right) for including her during Friday’s oath taking ceremony of new barangay officials at Almendras Gym. Panis is temporarily residing with relatives in Davao after Typhoon Yolanda ravaged her city and other parts of Eastern Visayas, but said she will return soon to serve her constituents in Barangay 73 PHHC. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
Duterte bats for state of emergency in Yolanda-hit Visayas
“I would suggest that a state of calamity is not enough, there has to be a state of emergency, because there is no local government functioning,” Duterte said.
Duterte rejoins rescue, medical team to Tacloban
Mayor Duterte also shot down suggestions from Tacloban officials to declare martial law in the city following looting and chaos. “We are not dealing with fighting forces, we are dealing with human misery,” he said.