Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, this city’s longtime chief executive who is known for his tough brand of law enforcement, on Thursday night asked voters to make sure reelectionist Sen. Francis Escudero tops the senatorial race.
Vote for his candidates or “die”. It was a veiled threat but made in jest by mayoralty bet Rodrigo Duterte when he campaigned here Thursday night in the presence of President Benigno Aquino III’s youngest sister, Kris.
The communist New People’s Army (NPA) has called on the people in the second district here to dislodge the over 20-year-old rule of the Garcia political clan, saying it only resulted in the exploitation of the people, especially during the election time.
Communist rebels on Thursday freed the soldier and the policeman they took into custody in Laak, Compostela Valley, over a month ago, a military official said.
Saying the Supreme Court had already defined the meaning of a political dynasty, a civil society group asked the Commission on Elections (Comelec), on Tuesday, to disqualify six prominent local candidates—including Davao City Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte—for being “clear and obvious” political dynasts.
“Don’t blame poor Filipinos for what’s wrong with the weather,” Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said as he lashed at critics who blamed illegal logging for the worst flooding that inundated some areas in Davao in water for the whole week.
The car theft suspect, who faces a bounty of up to P5 million for his capture, dead or alive, is now on the run and able to elude authorities because of police protection, according to the city official who offered the reward for the suspect’s head.
Why does a Police Officer 1 (PO1), the lowest rank in the police hierarchy, have to be a college graduate when all he should do is patrol the streets?
In 2009, then Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte found himself in the middle of a Commission on Human Rights inquiry into a spate of vigilante-style killings in his turf that had claimed over 800 victims since 1998.
Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte likens to losing one’s manhood the criticism that putting a P5-million reward on the head of suspected car thief leader Ryan Yu, aka “Baktin” (piglet), amounts to a human rights violation.
The vice mayor of a southern Philippine city has offered a $121,000 reward for the decapitated head of the alleged leader of a gang of car thieves.
An enraged Rodrigo Duterte, the tough-talking vice mayor of the city, minced no words in announcing a bounty for the capture, dead or alive, of Ryan Yu, suspected leader of a car theft ring operating in Mindanao.
Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has promised a reward of P2 million pesos to anyone who captures alive the alleged leader of a local car theft syndicate, P4 million if he is captured dead, and a bonus of P1 million if the man’s head is presented to him in ice.
