With finality

Editorial 09/11/2018

A Supreme Court decision that ruled with finality on the Inayawan landfill closure should serve to spur Cebu City Hall to proceed with plans to build another landfill site rather than find ways to dispose of the…

Untangling those spaghetti wires

Editorial 09/10/2018

A proposed ordinance to set a single post for various utility companies may not solve the perennial problem of spaghetti wires and collapsing posts that pose a safety threat to passersby. But it is a viable albeit…

Open season

Editorial 09/06/2018

Maybe the Ronda municipal police office really had no one else to guard their precinct on the day that Mayor Mariano Blanco was murdered by unidentified gunmen at his own office last Wednesday dawn, Sept. 5. Then…

CANAL CLEANUP

Editorial 09/06/2018

Photos showing personnel of the Cebu City’s Department of Engineering and Public Works (DEPW) cleaning the street canals and manholes clogged with plastic materials gave some netizens reason to cheer. David John Atherton wrote, “should be done…

Debacles

Editorial 09/05/2018

It’s been a bad week for Cebu-based cops but from these debacles we hope the Police Regional Office (PRO-7) can do more to improve and fine tune their operations against illegal drugs in order to reduce the…

Tingting, tyranny, and resistance

Editorial 09/02/2018

Vicente “Tingting” de la Serna, former governor of Cebu province died of lung cancer past midnight, the first of September. He was 66. To many who stood with him in the parliament of the streets in the…

The fruit of time

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 09/01/2018

I find a bowl of fruit on a stand by the door, which brims with lanzones, guyabano, atis, apples, mangoes and oranges. I toy with the idea of gobbling up as much of them as my capacity…

Cash bounties for rogue cops

Editorial 08/30/2018

Cebu Gov. Hilario Davide III’s suggestion that the P5 million cash bounty offered by President Rodrigo Duterte to anyone who can bring a dead rogue cop be given instead to informants is noted but will anyone listen?…

Rice crisis

Editorial 08/29/2018

While rice prices haven’t lowered in Cebu even with the infusion of rice stocks imported from Vietnam and Thailand by the National Food Authority (NFA) into the local markets, the situation isn’t as critical as in other…

More than just a breath of passing air

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 08/25/2018

While surfing the Web, I came across this little poem by the 19th-century English writer, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, entitled “The Power of Words:” ‘Tis a strange mystery, the power of words! Life is in them, and death.…

Indictment

Editorial 08/23/2018

An internal investigation into Cebu police’s ranks in the wake of President Rodrigo Duterte’s claim that Cebu’s law enforcement agencies were filled with scalawags who are drug addicts is a knee jerk reaction that sadly won’t go…

Rody and Joma

Editorial 08/22/2018

The verbal spat between President Rodrigo Duterte and Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria Sison over their respective health status is reflective not only on their physical condition but also on the legacies they…

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