Magic bullet, hapless victim

Editorial 08/14/2018

Conspiracy theorists call it the “single bullet” or “magic bullet” theory because it served as one of many foundations for the Warren Commission’s report on the assassination of US president John F. Kennedy. This theory advanced by…

Political maneuvering

Editorial 08/13/2018

Seemingly lost in the din caused by the series of killings that hit Cebu City and other parts of Metro Cebu is the political maneuvering at the Cebu City Council for the revival of the Kawit Island…

Extraordinarily fishy

Editorial 08/12/2018

We condole with the family, friends, and colleagues of SPO1 Roderick Balili, who died Friday night after — according to Central Visayas police — accidentally shooting himself twice in the chest. We likewise extend our condolences to…

Once again: Stop the killings

Editorial 08/10/2018

While Cebu City Police Director Royina Garma insists that public perception of strife and discord in her area of jurisdiction is nothing but the fruit of malicious mind conditioning, her opinion is counterfactual. “I appeal to people,…

Escalation of violence

Editorial 08/09/2018

When a deputy official of operations of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) is killed inside his vehicle in the middle of traffic in one of the busiest streets in Cebu City, can lower ranked agents feel…

Earning community trust

Editorial 08/08/2018

Senior Supt. Royina Garma, Cebu City police chief, should not dismiss outright the public’s concern about killings that remain unresolved either due to lack of witnesses, reluctance to probe even deeper or whatever reason they could think…

Shaping opinion on killings

Editorial 08/07/2018

The 112 unresolved killings in a span of six months in Cebu is quite alarming in itself but the deaths of a young couple and the alleged attempted ambush of a barangay official, all from Cebu City,…

Beyond the land swap deal

Editorial 08/06/2018

With Cebu City Hall and the Capitol officially confirming its land swap deal for lots covered under Provincial Ordinance 93-1, one can only hope that it won’t signal an invitation for other people outside the city to…

Life for all

Editorial 08/05/2018

Pope Francis has changed Catholic teaching to reflect major Christian doctrinal development on the question of the death penalty. Building on the teachings of his predecessors Benedict XVI and Saint John Paul the Great, Pope Francis revised…

Vigilantism on steroids

Editorial 08/03/2018

In his response to President Rodrigo Duterte’s State of the Nation Address, the sociologist Prof. Emeritus Randy David criticized anew the government’s anti-drug campaign. “The number of people being killed in the streets in broad daylight has…

Hardheaded cops

Editorial 08/02/2018

A Cebu City cop that stands accused of robbing four people in Mandaue City. Another Cebu City police officer killed by a barangay official’s bodyguard after the cop allegedly tried to ambush said official in Barangay Tejero.…

Little things done right

Editorial 08/01/2018

Amid the spate of killings that occurred in Metro Cebu streets in the past few days — not a few netizens have taken to calling Cebu City as the new ‘killing fields’ in light of the deaths…

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