The city should post in prominent premises the following notices 1. Maintain Environmental Hygiene Smoking, including electronic cigarettes is prohibited in No Smoking areas. Offenders are liable to maximum fine of P1,500 Keep all areas clean and do not litter. Offenders are liable to a fine...
Davao is the most visited Mindanao City. The 3 main attractions are A. Sightseeing (Eden, Samal, Coastal Road), B. Shopping. Davao is the ukay center in Mindanao with big stores in Sta. Ana, San Pedro, Claveria Streets. We have the biggest number of big Malls:...
The 2020 COVID epidemic forced the world to go into electronic banking and commercial transactions to avoid human contamination. Technology, sensing that there is serious money in servicing all the business needs of all the people in all the nations expanded, improved and created new...
On July 27, 1946, a Davao group signed the articles of incorporation of Mindanao Colleges (MC), the first non-sectarian college (meaning no religious connection) in Mindanao. It was led by Guillermo E. Torres, a UP graduate who was no. 8 in the 1934 CPA exam...
From 1969 to 2010 we were Asia’s no. 1 and only saging exporter. There was no 2, 3, 4, etc. Davao City boomed. About 80,000 plus hectares were saging. Two laborers per hectare times 80,000 hectares equals 160,000 Laborers. Add the office staff, the packing...
The world’s 3 biggest banana producers are U.S firms: 1.United Brand (Fruit), 2. Standard Fruit, 3. Del Monte. In the 60s, they saw the markets being saturated, 1. African “saging” to Europe, 2. Central America (Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, etc.) to U.S. The biggest virgin...
Presidential elections will be on May 2028. Today some survey companies are already posturing to the Political Parties who have 2028 Presidential candidates. Imaginative talk between political party national chairman and survey firm chief. Q. How much will the survey cost? Answer: Money is not important for...
The 1958 novel The Ugly American written by William Lederer and Eugene Burdick was a 1958-59 bestseller. It was a wake up call to U.S. to improve its relationship with the new Asian nations. Inserted in a series of chapters/side stories were flaws of U.S./Asian...
Two Greek words, “Demos”, the people, “Kratein”, to rule. Democracy means the people rule, not the King, Queen, Emperor, and etc. Today, democracy has become an art of disagreement confusion between the party in power and the opposition/minority with the rest of the citizens (about...
There are about 150 nations, about 20 are pure or semi dictatorships. All claim to be democracies since all have elections. When World War II ended in 1945, European nations (U.K., France, Holland, etc.) owned 4/5 of the world (Africa, Middle East, Southeast Asia). The...