Policing the police

Editorial 08/19/2018

The trouble with President Rodrigo Duterte’s and Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña’s dangling of money in exchange for liquidating rogue cops is that it distances the problem from the wheels of justice. In short, their offers of…

The inner hunger

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 08/18/2018

At breakfast this morning, “Litany,” a poem by Billy Collins, flashed into my mind. Collins begins with these lines by the Belgian poet Jacques Crickillon: You are the bread and the knife, The crystal goblet and the…

Fuel subsidy and fare rate hikes

Editorial 08/16/2018

With the scheduled issuance of cash cards for passenger jeepney operators in Cebu this month under the government’s Pantawid Pasada program — if they haven’t received them yet as of this writing — one has to ask…

Constructive discourse

Editorial 08/15/2018

There is an apparent lack of calibration and coordination when it comes to the administration’s campaign to lobby for public support to federalism based on two recent missteps that had proponents calling for the heads of those…

Hail, Mozart

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 08/11/2018

Feeling like enjoying a bit of Mozart one morning, I played his Ave Verum Corpus, a motet, or short choral piece, the version sung by the Westminster Cathedral Choir. Pope Innocent VI, who lived in the 13th…

Shaping opinion on killings

Editorial 08/07/2018

The 112 unresolved killings in a span of six months in Cebu is quite alarming in itself but the deaths of a young couple and the alleged attempted ambush of a barangay official, all from Cebu City,…

Beyond the land swap deal

Editorial 08/06/2018

With Cebu City Hall and the Capitol officially confirming its land swap deal for lots covered under Provincial Ordinance 93-1, one can only hope that it won’t signal an invitation for other people outside the city to…

Life for all

Editorial 08/05/2018

Pope Francis has changed Catholic teaching to reflect major Christian doctrinal development on the question of the death penalty. Building on the teachings of his predecessors Benedict XVI and Saint John Paul the Great, Pope Francis revised…

Hardheaded cops

Editorial 08/02/2018

A Cebu City cop that stands accused of robbing four people in Mandaue City. Another Cebu City police officer killed by a barangay official’s bodyguard after the cop allegedly tried to ambush said official in Barangay Tejero.…

Little things done right

Editorial 08/01/2018

Amid the spate of killings that occurred in Metro Cebu streets in the past few days — not a few netizens have taken to calling Cebu City as the new ‘killing fields’ in light of the deaths…

The ghost of a wedding in Tintoretto’s art

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 07/28/2018

Among the better known works of the 16th-century Venetian artist Jacopo Tintoretto we should include an oil painting, “The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes,” which now hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York…

Security detail

Editorial 07/26/2018

She has yet to file her candidacy for the post of president of the Association of Barangay Captains/Councils in Cebu City at the time and yet Mabolo Barangay Captain Prisca Niña Mabatid had the good fortune/privilege of…

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