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by Ferdinandh Cabrera with Cecil Morella in Manila Agence France Presse Three security guards were killed Monday when gunmen opened fire at a polling station in a restive region of the southern Philippines, police said, as millions of Filipinos voted in national elections. Elections are a traditionally volatile time in a country with lax gun laws and a violent political culture, but police said this season had been comparatively peaceful. The deadly shooting happened […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration is monitoring a low pressure area off Davao. According to PAGASA, the LPA was so far located 220 kilometers off the city and is embedded along the Intertropical Convergence Zone affecting Mindanao. Caraga, Davao Region and SOCCSKSARGEN will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers as a result. Flash floods or landslides due to moderate to at times heavy rains are possible. Metro Manila and the […]
(Eagle News) – Davao City mayor Sara Duterte withdrew her candidacy for the mayoralty race in Davao City on Tuesday, Nov.9, a few days before the Nov. 15 deadline for substitution of candidacies for the 2022 national and local elections. In a Facebook post, the presidential daughter said she would no longer seek reelection as Davao City mayor, and that she would be substituted by her brother, Vice-Mayor Sebastian “Baste” Duterte who would be […]
Cebu visit, “Sara All 2022” shirt, fuel speculation that presidential daughter might run for a nat’l post in 2022 (Eagle News) — Davao City mayor Sara Duterte flew to Cebu on Friday, Oct. 22, after recovering from COVID-19, on the same day that presidential candidate former Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos was also in the province for a scheduled visit. The presidential daughter posted photos on her official page showing her alighting from a […]
Presidential daughter thanks supporters and calls for honest, orderly elections (Eagle News) — Davao City mayor Sara Duterte filed her certificate of candidacy to run as mayor, seeking a third term in the city. The presidential daughter filed her CoC shortly after 4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 2, after her father President Rodrigo Duterte decided to retire from politics and not run anymore as vice-presidential bet in next year’s elections. The 76-year old Philippine […]
(Eagle News) — Authorities destroyed 15,000 fully-grown marijuana plants worth P3 million in Davao del Sur on Saturday, July 25. According to the Philippine National Police, the plants were found in two clandestine farms in Sitio Siman Da-ag, Barangay Tacub, Kiblawan. The first site was 600 square meters big and housed 5,000 fully-grown marijuana plants of the 15,000 destroyed. The PNP estimated their value at P1,000,000. The second site, on the other hand, had a […]
(Eagle News) — Davao City vice-mayor Sebastian “Baste” Duterte has tested positive for COVID-19, prompting the Duterte family to do their regular “kumustahan” (greetings) via video call. Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte, in her Facebook post, revealed that her brother, Vice-Mayor Baste, the youngest of the Duterte siblings, had tested positive for COVID-19, and wished him well. “Sa ngayon, via video call muna ang family kumustahan nang malaman naming positive sa Covid-19 si Vice […]
(Eagle News) — Over 200,000 Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines arrived in Davao recently, as the national government continues its COVID-19 vaccination drive that aims to bring back the country to near-normalcy following the pandemic. In a statement, the Customs bureau said the 210,000 vaccines arrived at the Davao International Airport on June 10 and 11, and were cleared by the Port of Davao. The vaccines were loaded to the designated refrigerator vans and transported to the […]
“‘You do not deserve it. Anak kita, maawa ako sa iyo,” he tells his daughter (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte said he had talked to his daughter, Davao City mayor Sara Duterte, and advised her not to run for the presidency. The President said he talked to “Inday” Sara – which is how he calls her daughter – and said that he was advising her not to run for the highest post of […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte said that he wants to retire after his term ends in 2022, and has no plans of running for vice-president. In an interview aired Tuesday night, June 7, President Duterte said he is resisting calls by his partymates in PDP-Laban who nominated him to run for vice-president in the 2022 elections. Duterte said he doesn’t want to be accused of wanting to perpetuate himself in power. “Mahirap ‘yon, […]
General Santos under GCQ starting June 5 (Eagle News) — Davao City will be under a stricter modified enhanced community quarantine from June 5 to 30. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said this was after the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases approved the local government’s proposal for the same following an increase in COVID-19 cases. Meanwhile, General Santos City will be under a a general community quarantine starting June 5. The […]
Palace officials send greetings of good health, more years to Chief Executive (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte once again is marking his birthday amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, Sunday, March 28, the Philippine leader turns 76. Last year, he spent his special day inside the Palace, away from his family. This time, Malacanang said that the President would celebrate his birthday in Davao City and that he would return to Manila on Monday […]
