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To anyone unfamiliar with Steve Go’s personal history, his death at the hands of a fellow inmate at the Mandaue City Jail may come as both a shock—okay mild surprise considering how violence isn’t foreign to jails—and…
In order to shore up his all out war against illegal drugs—and by extension other crimes like illegal gambling—President Rodrigo Duterte’s order to police to round up istambays or loiterers isn’t as simple as one may expect.…
The next elections are still a good 11 months away but pronouncements by politicians underscore “election” in the phrase “election year” that describes the remaining months to May 2019. Voters therefore cannot be blamed for being doubly…
Surely there is life after public office, and those who were disqualified from it ought to find ways to adapt to that life in humble acceptance of their loss of credibility to lead. But with the way…
Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña’s plan to publicly shame scalawags in the police force will only exacerbate the problem that it is aimed at solving. The Commission on Human Rights already objected to public shaming of the…
Based on the accounts of his parents, Senior Insp. Raymond Hortezuela of the Negros Oriental Provincial Police Office was a model parent who never benefited nor acted as a protector of the illegal drug trade. “If he…
Cebu City Hall’s plans to amend its plastics ban ordinance to emulate that of Mandaue City is a small recognition of Mandaue City Hall’s efforts to substantially reduce its plastics garbage output to a substantial level that…
Despite maintaining a reputation for being “clean”—i.e, no whiff of irregularity or anomalies to his person though his critics have pointed to his tolerance and failure to sanction those officials around him who were accused of questionable…
Barring any sudden announcements, it looks like Cebu City will have to wait until the end of this month to finally learn about the fate of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) that was held hostage by 11th…
The tragic deaths by suicide of designer Kate Spade and gourmand Anthony Bourdain have spurred reflection among observers of popular culture the world over. Resurgent is the message that wealth, fame, and success do not guarantee joy,…
The first thing that was wrong was the characteristic and upgraded lack of restraint on the part of the President. There was absolutely no need for him to turn his visit to South Korea into a circus,…
If public sentiment were to serve as gauge in dealing with jail guard Myron Garcia, who surrendered to the Guadalupe police almost immediately after shooting 19-year-old Edilbert Edlisan who was caught smuggling in cigarettes at the Cebu…
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