Blaming the motorists

Editorial 11/20/2016

In criticizing a proposed bill in Congress that would give the transport secretary vast powers in dealing with the country’s traffic crisis, the militant group Piston called for the restriction in the use of private cars which…

A final insult

Editorial 11/18/2016

Even in death, the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos or specifically his family and their political allies pulled a fast one over the Filipino people by managing to hold his burial behind closed gates and away from the…

A stupid proposition

Editorial 11/17/2016

The Cebu City police’s order to its personnel to arrest five drug suspects a day isn’t news when considering President Rodrigo Duterte’s standing order for the police to be relentless in its war on drugs to the…

Illegal settlers

Editorial 11/16/2016

Much as it won’t sit well with urban poor rights groups, Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña’s decision to dismantle the houses and to bar settlers from occupying the Osmeña Shrine has some valid points. First, and it…

Climate change opponents

11/15/2016

November is said to be the Environmental Awareness Month, and it is no small coincidence that it was also three years ago on this month — Nov. 8 to be exact — when Super Typhoon Yolanda gave…

Free medicines

Editorial 11/14/2016

On the surface, the plan to hire 600 job order workers to distribute medicines to Cebu City beneficiaries under the Osmeña administration’s Long Life Medical Assistance program looks to be redundant as argued by the Team Rama…

Keeping Kerwin safe

Editorial 11/13/2016

With President Rodrigo Duterte publicly assuring the protection of suspected drug lord Kerwin Espinosa, we hope that everyone assigned to securing the late mayor’s son will make sure he stays alive at least long enough for him…

Cleared

Editorial 11/11/2016

The dismissal of the trafficking charges filed against an American couple who supposedly ran an orphanage without the proper documents may be an eye-opener in terms of how the authorities deal with foreigners who come into contact…

Rumormongering

Editorial 11/10/2016

While freedom of speech is a guaranteed right in every country that prides itself as a democracy, the old expression “One’s freedom ends when he or she infringes on another person’s rights” rings true in the case…

Critical choice

Editorial 11/08/2016

By the time this piece sees print, the US would have voted into office either Democrat standard-bearer Hillary Rodham Clinton or Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, and the election of one or the other would have major…

Assuring tourists

Editorial 11/07/2016

The recent US advisory warning American citizens not to travel to southern Cebu, coupled with the US government’s recent cancellation of its firearms sales to the Philippines, may have been the result of the fallout in US-PH…

Statement killing

11/06/2016

Whatever one says about the recent killing of Albuera Mayor Rolando Espinosa, the fact is that it effectively serves as a warning to every jailed drug lord, dealer and runner that they aren’t safe even behind the…

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