With finality

Editorial 09/11/2018

A Supreme Court decision that ruled with finality on the Inayawan landfill closure should serve to spur Cebu City Hall to proceed with plans to build another landfill site rather than find ways to dispose of the…

Untangling those spaghetti wires

Editorial 09/10/2018

A proposed ordinance to set a single post for various utility companies may not solve the perennial problem of spaghetti wires and collapsing posts that pose a safety threat to passersby. But it is a viable albeit…

Managing presumption

Editorial 09/07/2018

In September 2017, 62 members of the Philippine National Police (PNP) in Caloocan City were sacked after some of them were implicated in a robbery and others were held liable for the deaths of teenagers amid the…

Open season

Editorial 09/06/2018

Maybe the Ronda municipal police office really had no one else to guard their precinct on the day that Mayor Mariano Blanco was murdered by unidentified gunmen at his own office last Wednesday dawn, Sept. 5. Then…

CANAL CLEANUP

Editorial 09/06/2018

Photos showing personnel of the Cebu City’s Department of Engineering and Public Works (DEPW) cleaning the street canals and manholes clogged with plastic materials gave some netizens reason to cheer. David John Atherton wrote, “should be done…

Debacles

Editorial 09/05/2018

It’s been a bad week for Cebu-based cops but from these debacles we hope the Police Regional Office (PRO-7) can do more to improve and fine tune their operations against illegal drugs in order to reduce the…

Above all else

Editorial 09/04/2018

Trying to convince President Rodrigo Duterte to leave the war on drugs entirely to the Philippine National Police (PNP) and focus instead on the economy is like asking him to forget about Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV and…

Less food on the table

Editorial 09/03/2018

The story of Vicente Isles, an aging farmer based in Sogod town located 61 kilometers north of Cebu City, is one of many that explains why the country continues to suffer from a food crisis that won’t…

Tingting, tyranny, and resistance

Editorial 09/02/2018

Vicente “Tingting” de la Serna, former governor of Cebu province died of lung cancer past midnight, the first of September. He was 66. To many who stood with him in the parliament of the streets in the…

Clash of the egos

Editorial 08/31/2018

President Rodrigo Duterte waxes comical each time he critiques an opponent for a perceived character flaw. He did this earlier this year when he slammed the activist Sister Patricia Fox for being, according to him, a foul-mouthed…

Cash bounties for rogue cops

Editorial 08/30/2018

Cebu Gov. Hilario Davide III’s suggestion that the P5 million cash bounty offered by President Rodrigo Duterte to anyone who can bring a dead rogue cop be given instead to informants is noted but will anyone listen?…

Rice crisis

Editorial 08/29/2018

While rice prices haven’t lowered in Cebu even with the infusion of rice stocks imported from Vietnam and Thailand by the National Food Authority (NFA) into the local markets, the situation isn’t as critical as in other…

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