More convictions, not executions

Editorial 01/15/2017

A recent Pulse Asia survey which showed that eight out of 10 Filipinos approved of the Duterte administration’s campaign against criminality may either silence critics, question the survey results or determine why the bloody war against crime…

A safe Sinulog

Editorial 01/13/2017

In the run-up to tomorrow’s Sinulog Grand Parade and Dance presentation, some personal sacrifices have to be made to ensure public safety, and these are quite small when ranged against the scope and scale of the event…

Alarmist

Editorial 01/11/2017

It’s probably a testament to social media’s reach and influence that one solitary Facebook post by someone who was supposedly into the Cebu City government’s security preparations for the Sinulog that warned city residents and their visitors…

Personal accounting

Editorial 01/09/2017

To be sure, Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña’s crackdown on institutions he suspects have skipped on paying taxes to the city isn’t a new thing especially to those familiar with his decades-long rule. There is that tax…

Resolving the SSS pension hike

Editorial 01/09/2017

A P1,000 increase in pension for retirees of the Social Security System (SSS) is supposed to be released this month, yet there has been no official word so far that President Rodrigo Duterte signed into law a…

Unintended victims

Editorial 01/07/2017

Sen. Panfilo Lacson’s proposal to the Duterte administration to pay damages to the unintended victims of the war on illegal drugs should give another perspective as well as a timely gut check on law enforcers cracking down…

Economic outlook

Editorial 01/05/2017

The three-part series on Cebu’s business outlook for this year, with a glimpse into the next few years, looks good at least on paper since, as everyone knows by now, anything can happen between what is set…

Looking the other way

Editorial 01/04/2017

It’s no small irony to learn that Jomara Konstruckt Corp., the private hauler contracted by the Cebu City government to handle the city’s mounting garbage, is dumping the city’s refuse to the private landfill site in Barangay…

Push to federalism

Editorial 01/03/2017

Just before 2016 ended, House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez rang anew the Duterte administration’s quest to federalize the national government, but he stopped short of outlining the whole picture and instead appealed for public support on the initiative.…

A streamlined, safer Sinulog

Editorial 01/02/2017

The first week of the first month of the New Year happens to be Sinulog Week 1 for Cebu City in particular but its fame around the country and the rest of the world had associated the…

A safer communal New Year’s celebration

Editorial 12/30/2016

As the clock winds down to New Year’s Day at midnight, we hope the local governments of Cebu will follow the directive of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) to monitor and crack down…

Extra caution

Editorial 12/29/2016

An incident in Paranaque City in Luzon should serve as a warning to all those contracting the services of Uber drivers as well as those tapping private transport services in Metro Cebu. An ABS-CBN report stated that…

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