A bridge to Malacañang

Stephen D. Capillas 08/25/2016

Attended last Thursday, Aug. 18, the quarterly meeting of the Cebu Citizens’ Press Council which happened to have as their guest Presidential Assistant for the Visayas Michael Dino, and there were some interesting inputs he gave to…

Subhuman prison life

Stephen D. Capillas 08/18/2016

Skimmed through with interest last Monday’s column by Gerard Pareja about the so-called “bromance” among inmates of the Cebu City Jail and the Cebu Provincial Detention Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) in light of last Sunday dawn’s raid that…

A tempered Sinulog celebration

Stephen D. Capillas 08/11/2016

I don’t know if it was this year or last year when a female netizen, a Balikbayan I think, posted a complaint on her Facebook page about the traffic congestion caused by one of the Sinulog events,…

POKEMON GO: The fun is in the hunt

Stephen D. Capillas 08/11/2016

I GOT wind of “Pokemon Go” from a tech blog I read oh so many weeks ago and word of the popular Nintendo game that went mobile, courtesy of Niantic, spread in social media sites and TV…

Vigilantes

Stephen D. Capillas 08/04/2016

There was one interesting metaphor that Sen. William Gatchalian used in asking the Philippine National Police (PNP) to stop the vigilante killings that have swept the country last month, and it’s not just because it referred to…

Comfort and welfare

Stephen D. Capillas 07/28/2016

Whenever I take a taxi ride, I’m always reminded of a 1991 film by the late film legend, Fernando Poe Jr., entitled “May Isang Tsuper Ng Taxi.” In one scene, Poe’s taxi driver character had just brought…

Online food provider targets BPO workers

Stephen D. Capillas 07/24/2016

  An online food order and delivery provider Foodpanda is targeting the business process outsourcing sector as it marks its first year in Cebu yesterday. “Among our priority market targets now is the business process outsourcing (BPO)…

Tomas, Mega Cebu and accountability

Stephen D. Capillas 07/21/2016

Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña’s decision to get the city out of the Mega Cebu project may be viewed as parochial by his critics, but to those who know him well enough, it wasn’t unexpected as he…

Will the real Peter Lim please stand up?

Stephen D. Capillas 07/14/2016

The column title gets its inspiration from a 2000 hit song “The Real Slim Shady” by rapper Marshall Mathers aka Eminem which Wikipedia said was a “critique” of the pop songs and the singers and celebrities that…

Startups, SMEs need tax breaks to grow: Aquino

Stephen D. Capillas 07/14/2016

THE government should support rather than make it difficult for startups and small businesses to grow by giving them tax breaks in their first two years of operation, Sen. Paolo Benigno “Bam” Aquino IV said Thursday. During…

The dirty war against illegal drugs

Stephen D. Capillas 07/07/2016

In terms of sheer dramatic impact, President Rodrigo Duterte’s disclosure of five PNP officials who are allegedly protectors of drug lords in last Tuesday’s gathering at the Philippine Air Force reminded me of an August 1992 incident…

Sea dispute and road safety

Stephen D. Capillas 06/30/2016

Supreme Court Justice Antonio Carpio’s very detailed, yet condensed presentation of the West Philippine/South China Sea dispute in last Thursday’s National Press Forum sponsored by the Philippine Press Institute in Manila may be quite taxing, even boring…

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