MAO BA?

Editorial 01/16/2018

NO MORE FIREWORKS Netizens weren’t too happy with Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña’s decision to prohibit the fireworks display for the Sinulog Grand finale. Karla Rayla Soler wrote, “Way ayu ba! Nasubraan najud. Ok ra ko sa…

Party drugs

Editorial 01/15/2018

Last week’s arrest of two Cebuano businessmen alleged to be supplying the party drug Ecstasy to the Cebu party crowd may help justify Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña’s order to impose a liquor ban along the Sinulog…

Decline of servanthood

Editorial 01/14/2018

When a powerful group pursue their plans without a modicum of respect for anyone affected, they display not fine politics that mark the civilized but a primal brutality that defines the mob. We still hope there are…

Faith that works

Editorial 01/12/2018

Critics often chime the Christian faith of Filipinos for being divorced from reality. Clerics are not in denial. In a recent Christmas gathering with journalists, Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma counted as a blessing the popular religiosity of…

True intentions

Editorial 01/11/2018

In pushing for Charter change and federalism, House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez and his allies in Congress have betrayed their true intentions to the public which is to remain in power beyond their terms next year. Alvarez started…

Kidnap stunt

Editorial 01/10/2018

What to do with the female college student who cried “wolf” or in this case cried “kidnap (me)” and caused alarm not only among family and friends but also netizens who got wind of her situation and…

Reassessment

Editorial 01/09/2018

Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña’s announcement to impose a literal ceiling on the height of buildings or structures in the city in the wake of last Friday’s fire that mostly consumed the Metro Ayala store building may…

Mao ba?

Editorial 01/09/2018

A STUDENT’S HOAX Netizens were aghast and outraged after learning that the 21-year-old student who was reported to be kidnapped last Monday admitted that it was a hoax meant to cover up her loss of school money.…

No escaping TRAIN

Editorial 01/08/2018

No matter where you live in Cebu, Central Visayas or any other part of the country, one cannot escape the Tax Reform Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN), the full effects of which will be felt after Jan. 15…

Trial by fire

Editorial 01/07/2018

Like all bad news, the story of the fire that struck the Gaisano-administered Metro store at Cebu City’s Ayala Center was not totally grim. In the first place, as the store management told the public, workers and…

Train wreck looming?

Editorial 01/05/2018

While one of the goals of President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration in enacting a tax reform law is inclusive prosperity (as shown in the name of the law “Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion” or Train), we have…

Term extension

Editorial 01/04/2018

If the postponement of last year’s barangay elections reminded us of anything, it’s that the Duterte administration can now move to entrench itself in power. Such is the looming scenario foisted on the Filipino people by Congress…

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