Tougher action on errant motorists

Editorial 08/28/2018

Should the impounding of motorcycles and other vehicles owned by motorists engaged in counterflowing be stopped amid a case filed by the regional Land Transportation Office (LTO-7) against Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña? Probably the biggest argument…

The Kawit Island deal

Editorial 08/27/2018

With the signing of the Kawit Island joint venture deal between the Cebu City government and Universal Hotels and Resorts Inc. (UHRI), there is little chance that the opposition bloc can stop the project other than a…

Courting irrelevance

Editorial 08/26/2018

Dissenting from the High Court majority that voted to oust the 24th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (SC), Maria Lourdes P.A. Sereno, earlier this year, Associate Justice Benjamin Caguioa blasted the tribunal for having committed seppuku…

A house divided

Editorial 08/24/2018

J.K. Rowling, through the character Prof. Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore in her book “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” said, “we are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”…

Indictment

Editorial 08/23/2018

An internal investigation into Cebu police’s ranks in the wake of President Rodrigo Duterte’s claim that Cebu’s law enforcement agencies were filled with scalawags who are drug addicts is a knee jerk reaction that sadly won’t go…

Rody and Joma

Editorial 08/22/2018

The verbal spat between President Rodrigo Duterte and Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria Sison over their respective health status is reflective not only on their physical condition but also on the legacies they…

Slacker cops

Editorial 08/21/2018

It’s a small, even trivial matter given how Cebu residents are preoccupied with the spate of killings that resulted in the deaths of some law enforcers. But an order issued by Senior Supt. Royina Garma, Cebu City…

Landfill concerns

Editorial 08/20/2018

While the opposition bloc in the Cebu City Council may be focusing their collective energies on stalling, if not stopping the implementation of the Kawit Island joint venture deal, another project worth mentioning is the landfill facility…

Policing the police

Editorial 08/19/2018

The trouble with President Rodrigo Duterte’s and Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña’s dangling of money in exchange for liquidating rogue cops is that it distances the problem from the wheels of justice. In short, their offers of…

Flawed war and the rich

Editorial 08/17/2018

What should not be forgotten in the manhunt for businessman Peter Lim, who stands accused of being a drug lord is how his current state of hiding summarizes much of what is wrong in the government’s fight…

Fuel subsidy and fare rate hikes

Editorial 08/16/2018

With the scheduled issuance of cash cards for passenger jeepney operators in Cebu this month under the government’s Pantawid Pasada program — if they haven’t received them yet as of this writing — one has to ask…

Constructive discourse

Editorial 08/15/2018

There is an apparent lack of calibration and coordination when it comes to the administration’s campaign to lobby for public support to federalism based on two recent missteps that had proponents calling for the heads of those…

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