Sotto’s credibility

Editorial 07/02/2018

As far as calming down Filipinos alarmed over the nationwide crackdown of tambays (loafers or loiterers) as a prelude to martial law is concerned, newly minted Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III is not the most qualified…

Presiding over disunity

Editorial 07/01/2018

As the third year of President Rodrigo Duterte’s term begins, it has become clear that the positive change he promised for the Philippines has fallen hostage to his unwillingness to alter key aspects of his leadership. Political…

The art of the catacombs

Editorial 06/30/2018

In Rome, on a ceiling in the Catacomb of Marcellinus and Peter, one finds a fresco that depicts the healing of a woman who had suffered from a protracted hemorrhage, an incident which we read about in…

Flawed drive

Editorial 06/29/2018

Soon after Sen. Richard Gordon noted that at least 7,000 people had been arrested in line with President Rodrigo Duterte’s instructions for police to round up loiterers, the President denied saying that he ordered their arrest. He…

Not nearly enough

Editorial 06/28/2018

We hope that the Lapu-Lapu City government does succeed in clearing out all structures found encroaching within the three-meter or 20 meter easement zone in its coastal areas as it sets its targets next on business establishments.…

Drug kills

Editorial 06/27/2018

The death of SPO1 Adonis Dumpit in an anti-drug operation by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) came coincidentally enough amid reports that Cebu ranked third in drug kills in the country with 383 deaths. The findings…

Unpresidential blasphemy

Editorial 06/26/2018

President Rodrigo Duterte’s speech in which he called the God of the Judeo-Christian creation narrative “stupid” was delivered during the National Information and Communications Technology Summit, June 22 in Davao City. How public philosophizing or theologizing connects…

Children as suspected drug users

Editorial 06/25/2018

While nearly anything is possible in this world, we have to ask the reading public if they had ever heard or learned of any confirmed case of 10-year-old children using drugs, let alone a Grade 4 student…

Grace of retirement, palabra de honor

Editorial 06/24/2018

In a nation where politicians seek to hold on to power though discredited, pretend they will not run though their electioneering materials are ubiquitous, or aspire to remain in office till death, Cebu Acting Gov. Agnes Magpale’s…

All about John

Editorial 06/23/2018

Perhaps Verrocchio’s “The Baptism of Christ” gives us a depiction of John the Baptist that most closely resembles the description of him in the Gospels. Matthew writes that John wore clothing of camel’s hair and ate locusts…

Court movements

Editorial 06/22/2018

Acting Supreme Court (SC) Chief Justice Antonio Carpio’s refusal to accept a nomination to be the new Chief Justice is commendable and exemplary. The High Court had sealed the fate of the 24th Chief Justice, Maria Lourdes…

Road discipline

Editorial 06/21/2018

If anything, the Cebu City Traffic Operations Office pointed out the obvious when it said that the traffic congestion is caused in no small part by unruly drivers and ongoing road projects that seem to occur at…

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