Lapu-Lapu official orders check on city’s jail facility

Nestle L. Semilla, Norman V. Mendoza 03/17/2017

Acting Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Marcial Ycong has ordered a check on Danao City police intelligence reports that illegal drugs were flowing out of the Lapu-Lapu City Jail and sold by drug dealers in the northern city. The…

Osmeña to boot out drug user tanods, loaders

Inna Mejia, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 03/17/2017

CEBU City Mayor Tomas Osmeña has made clear a policy. City-hired workers found positive of illegal drug use will be automatically fired. “We have to set an environment that people realize, if you start to fool around…

Mandaue’s business district rising

Victor Anthony V. Silva 03/17/2017

Property developments at the North Reclamation Area seen to change the city’s landscape in 5 years With the construction boom happening in Cebu, Mandaue City is keeping pace with its neighboring cities with regard to the property…

CPDRC has new ‘bosyo’

Izobelle T. Pulgo 03/17/2017

THE Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) has a new “mayor de mayores” or “bosyo.” Whichever name he’s called, 51-year-old Nestor Catipay is the new CPDRC head of inmates beginning Friday. A native of Aloguinsan town,…

Underage offenders

Editorial 03/17/2017

While the teenage drug couriers who were caught in separate drug raids in the cities of Cebu and Talisay last Sunday are in no danger of being sentenced to death anytime soon, the moves of President Rodrigo…

Healing in our speech

Jason A. Baguia 03/17/2017

The quality of our discourse has taken a nosedive. It has become commonplace to hear the half-joking expression “ipa-Tokhang ka nako ron (or else I will put you through Tokhang)” addressed to someone by whom the speaker…

Company of great men

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 03/17/2017

Home from a 10-day successful solo trip, I was hesitant to go back to the field to interview people about their lives and their experiences and write their stories for the newspaper. Have you ever felt that…

MAO BA?

Editorial 03/17/2017

LOVE POTION After an interview, the reporters and a high-ranking police official were having a chitchat about how peaceful Siquijor is. One reporter shared that she has recently been to Siquijor and joked that she bought a…

Summary executions

Francis B. Ongkingco 03/17/2017

The method of summarizing aims to make a complicated story, a hard lesson or a multi-layered event simpler and more understandable. Summarizing helps us to extract main ideas and integrate concepts to package for sharing with others.…

Vidal: They will work for the common good

Fe Marie Dumaboc 03/17/2017

Cardinal Vidal marks his 61st year as priest, prays for Duterte, gov’t execs Former Cebu Archbishop Ricardo Cardinal Vidal is praying for government officials especially President Rodrigo Duterte to work always for the common good. Vidal said…

Impeach move won’t prosper — Davide, Magpale

Fe Marie Dumaboc, Izobelle T. Pulgo 03/17/2017

THE impeachment complaint filed against President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday does not seem to be ruffling any feathers as more officials point out how it is unlikely to prosper in the light of the fact that a…

Water levels drop as summer begins

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 03/17/2017

BUHISAN DAM As Cebuanos brace themselves for the sweltering heat of summer and with fewer rains recorded these days, Cebu City’s water supply again started to dwindle. The water level in Buhisan Dam — one of the…

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