Bait and switch

Editorial 07/18/2018

Stringent opposition from the Senate majority bloc on moves to railroad Charter change and a shift from a presidential to a federal form of government are being met with a multi-pronged approach by the administration, with the…

Costly delays

Editorial 07/16/2018

A Philippine Daily Inquirer report about the 153 out of 159 projects worth P46.6 billion that the Department of Transportation (DOTR) failed to implement made mention of the Cebu Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) that was supposed to…

Prayers versus guns

Editorial 07/15/2018

That Catholic bishops of the Philippines have invited their flock to a period of intense prayer, fasting, and almsgiving outside the season of Lent is extraordinary. But these are extraordinary times, when at least 5,000 people have…

No to ‘no-el’

Editorial 07/13/2018

The current Congress is the one where the Lower House: 1. failed to enforce decisions of the Office of Ombudsman like the sacking of Rep. Gwendolyn Garcia, 2. almost immediately terminated credibly-founded impeachment proceedings against President Rodrigo…

Botched operation, public executions

Editorial 07/12/2018

Can three killings that occurred within hours of each other in the same day serve as gauge that Cebu City is “not so safe” anymore? Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña thinks so, after learning about the death…

Costly rides

Editorial 07/11/2018

An order by the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) to transport network service Grab to pay a P10 million fine and provide rebates to its costumers should hopefully, however remote it may be, lead to…

Moratorium

Editorial 07/10/2018

The call by the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) to fellow Catholics to be “peacemakers” and to sow love amid troubled times in the country may just be what the doctor ordered and we hope…

Mayors and their bodyguards

Editorial 07/09/2018

Should mayors consider hiring bodyguards for their own security or should they simply content themselves with the security detail provided by the police and paid for by taxpayers? If you ask Daanbantayan Mayor Vic Loot then he…

To a prophet dying young

Editorial 07/07/2018

    Among the poems in A. E. Housman’s collection, “A Shropshire Lad,” I find myself particularly drawn to “To an Athlete Dying Young.” In that poem, someone addresses a young athlete who has died, recalling how…

Questions on mass transport plans for Cebu

Editorial 07/05/2018

There are questions to be raised in the so-called “basket of solutions” mentioned by the Department of Transportation (DOTR) for Metro Cebu as contained in a press statement by the Office of the Presidential Assistant for the…

Murdered at home

Editorial 07/04/2018

The murder of lawyer Salvador Solima inside his home in Singson Village in Barangay Guadalupe, Cebu City last Monday afternoon is more than just a threat to the legal profession of which there are many owing to…

Pressed for time

Editorial 07/03/2018

Unless organizers secure an alternate route or Cebu City Hall’s top occupant had a last minute change of heart, the likelihood of the annual Ironman competition staging its bike leg somewhere else in Metro Cebu will grow…

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