A final insult

Editorial 11/18/2016

Even in death, the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos or specifically his family and their political allies pulled a fast one over the Filipino people by managing to hold his burial behind closed gates and away from the…

Black Friday 2016

Jason A. Baguia 11/18/2016

Despite public opposition, Ferdinand Marcos, the late president of the Philippines, has been buried at a heroes’ cemetery in the capital in a ceremony shrouded in secrecy” —Al Jazeera English. “This is but the latest deception in…

MAO BA?

Editorial 11/18/2016

MARCOS RELATIVE? Most people were so engrossed with the television coverage of the “surprise” burial of deposed dictator Ferdinand Marcos that few paid attention to reports that Eastern Visayas’ top drug lord Kerwin Espinosa had flown in…

Marcos’ burial at Libingnan ng mga Bayani caught ex-detainees in Cebu by surprise

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 11/18/2016

CEBU CITY–Three prominent martial law detainees in Cebu were taken aback when they learned about the surprise burial of the late President Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani on Friday noon. “I am devastated by…

Militant groups to hold protest over Marcos’ burial in LMB

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/18/2016

Sanlakas and other militant groups in Cebu City are staging a protest against the burial of the late dictator and former president Ferdinand Marcos. Teody Navea, secretary general of Sanlakas-Cebu, says there will be a noise barrage…

Senate resolution vs Marcos burial fails approval

11/15/2016

A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate against the burial of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani has failed to get the approval of the chamber after only eight senators voted…

‘Libingan ng mga Basura is perfect place for Marcos’

Izobelle T. Pulgo, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/14/2016

Tom O to join rally to bury late dictator’s effigy at Inayawan landfill today About 1,000 protesters including Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña, are expected to join today’s burial of the coffin containing an effigy of the…

‘Bury Marcos at the Inayawan Landfill’

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/13/2016

Bury former president Ferdinand Marcos at the Inayawan Sanitary Landfill in Cebu City? It is an outrageous proposal but it succinctly expresses exactly how the anti-Marcos groups feel about the burial of the ousted strongman at the…

Nights in our days

Jason A. Baguia 11/11/2016

On Katipunan Street in Barangay Tisa, Cebu City, close to where the street intersects with F. Llamas and Cabarrubias streets, there is a little marker to a lost missionary. He is Father Rosaleo Romano, a member of…

Aquino: Burial for Marcos a ‘desecration’ of Libingan

11/08/2016

Former President Benigno Aquino III on Sunday night described a burial among heroes for the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos as a “desecration” of the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB). “The pro [burial] seems to be one group.…

“Mas sagrado pa ang cremation”

Lloyd Suarez 10/30/2016

Estrikto ang Simbahang Katoliko nga nagdili sa pagpalubong ug paghipos sa mga minatay nga ipaagi sa cremation o pagsunog sa lawas ngadto sa pagka-abo. Ang rason kay sagrado gyud ang lawas sa tawo. Apan dunay mga exemptions…

SC extends Status Quo Ante on Marcos burial

Morexette Erram 10/18/2016

Students in Cebu gathered at the University of the Philippines – Cebu Oblation Square reiterating their call to the Supreme Court to stop the burial of former president Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani. The…

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