The Emirates is no haven for Kerwin

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 11/14/2016

Less than a month after he was arrested in Abu Dhabi, Kerwin Espinosa, the alleged biggest drug lord of Eastern Visayas, is expected to arrive in Manila on Thursday to face charges linking him to the illegal…

The Espinosa network

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 11/07/2016

Hours after it was reported that Albuera Mayor Rolando Espinosa was killed in a shootout inside his cell in the Baybay City sub-provincial jail, netizens raised a howl — how could a prisoner fight off 15 policemen…

Honoring the dead

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 10/31/2016

I’m following my friend and media colleague Jhunnex Napallacan on the social networking site for local and national news updates which he, as lead anchor of Station dyLA, delivers without delay. His commentary style is folksy and…

‘The ice is melting’

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 10/24/2016

That’s how Xu Liping, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences quoted by the Chinese daily, Global Times, described in a nutshell President Rodrigo Duterte’s 4-day state visit to China. He could have been pointing…

Communities leading drug rehab programs

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 10/17/2016

His hardline stance on drug addicts and his belief that they’re beyond redemption notwithstanding, it’s good to hear President Rodrigo Duterte changing his tune after a Chinese trader and philanthropist provided funding for the construction of a…

Co-op Month tension and celebration

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 10/10/2016

  October is cooperative month, a celebration kicked off by a parade of local cooperatives last October 1. The show of force was complemented by social services, from tree planting, coastal cleanup to health and wellness programs…

KP should push for more humane approaches to drug rehab

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 10/03/2016

Cabinet Secretary Leoncio Evasco, one of President Rodrigo Duterte’s most trusted men, visited Cebu City last week to grace the launch of Kilusang Pagbabago (KP or Movement for Change) at the Cebu Coliseum. The event drew some…

A different kind of Tokhang

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 09/26/2016

When Fe Barino and the family-owned business Duros Development Corporation donated a 1,000-square-meter lot in Barangay Yati, Liloan for religious and civic programs of the family-run foundation and Love of God charismatic community, little did she know…

Sabotaging co-ops, in vain

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 09/19/2016

If the organizers of last Saturday’s protest rally staged by some barangay residents of Barangay Ibabao-Estancia think the disturbance would spoil the inaugural of the Fonus Cebu Federation of Cooperatives building and funeral care facility, they were…

‘The Punisher’ debuts in the global stage

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 09/05/2016

The deadly bomb blast in Davao City last week that claimed the lives of at least 14 people and maimed scores of others is hardly the backdrop that President Rodrigo Duterte wants when he debuts in the…

Cooperatives in the time of Duterte

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 08/29/2016

At the quarterly meeting of the Regional Cooperative Development Council 7, which coincided with the conferment of Gawad Parangal Awards to two (2) outstanding primary cooperatives, one co-op development office and one outstanding leader in Central Visayas,…

War on drugs not just Digong’s fight alone

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 08/15/2016

We can rant all day about how dirty and bloody the current war on drugs has become, but we cannot deny the fact that only President Rodrigo Duterte has shown utmost resolve and political will to do…

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