Pressed for time

Editorial 07/03/2018

Unless organizers secure an alternate route or Cebu City Hall’s top occupant had a last minute change of heart, the likelihood of the annual Ironman competition staging its bike leg somewhere else in Metro Cebu will grow…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Poor promises

Editorial 06/18/2018

The next elections are still a good 11 months away but pronouncements by politicians underscore “election” in the phrase “election year” that describes the remaining months to May 2019. Voters therefore cannot be blamed for being doubly…

Scrutiny of the honorables

Editorial 06/17/2018

Surely there is life after public office, and those who were disqualified from it ought to find ways to adapt to that life in humble acceptance of their loss of credibility to lead. But with the way…

Shame on shaming

Editorial 06/15/2018

Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña’s plan to publicly shame scalawags in the police force will only exacerbate the problem that it is aimed at solving. The Commission on Human Rights already objected to public shaming of the…

Davide’s choice

Editorial 06/12/2018

Despite maintaining a reputation for being “clean”—i.e, no whiff of irregularity or anomalies to his person though his critics have pointed to his tolerance and failure to sanction those officials around him who were accused of questionable…

Rupinta’s passing

Editorial 11/26/2017

Even as we commend the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas for arresting one of the suspects in the killing of Felicisimo Rupinta, chairman of Cebu City’s Barangay Ermita, we offer our sincere condolences to his family,…

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