Justified or not?

Editorial 06/07/2018

If public sentiment were to serve as gauge in dealing with jail guard Myron Garcia, who surrendered to the Guadalupe police almost immediately after shooting 19-year-old Edilbert Edlisan who was caught smuggling in cigarettes at the Cebu…

125 teachers still to claim Comelec cash cards

Jessa Mae O. Sotto 05/24/2018

AT LEAST 125 teachers in Cebu are yet to claim their allowances for the services they rendered during the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections last May 14. Commission on Elections (Comelec) Cebu Provincial Election Supervisor Lionel Marco…

Comelec urges teachers who rendered election duties to claim their cash card

Rosalie O. Abatayo 05/22/2018

AT least 2,000 of the 40,000 teachers in Central Visayas who served during the recent Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections have not yet claimed their cash cards from their respective Commission on Elections (Comelec) offices. Comelec-7…

Apologize for false claim, Mandaue execs tell PRO-7

Norman V. Mendoza 03/14/2018

Mandaue City Hall’s Association of Barangay Captains (ABC) demanded an apology from the Police Regional Office (PRO-7) for claiming that Mandaue City has the most number of inactive Barangay Anti-illegal Drugs Abuse Council (BADAC). “It hurts to…

Weekend road deaths: Motorcycle accidents in Carcar, Toledo claim three lives

Rene F. Alima 03/11/2018

Three motorcycle riders were killed in three separate road accidents in southern and western Cebu over the weekend. The first accident killed Rodrigo Misa, 39, of Barangay Perelos, Carcar City in southern Cebu when the motorcycle he…

Demonstrators claim no real change came

Benjie B. Talisic 02/24/2018

32 YEARS AFTER EDSA BROKEN promises, hundreds of killings, corruption, and a tax reform package believed to be “anti-poor”. If indeed anything has changed, it is that today’s Duterte administration is almost as bad, if not worse,…

Human rights in the Age of Pop Culture

Raymund Fernandez 01/09/2018

Since 1967, we have come into the age of Popular Culture. This claim comes from the quaint perspective of a painter. 1967 was when Pop artist Andy Warhol caused the making of the painting “Brillo Box.” This…

Unfounded claim

Editorial 10/09/2017

The Duterte administration’s defense of the PNP’s assertion of not “one,” but zero recorded extrajudicial killing (EJK) ever since President Rodrigo Duterte assumed office in July last year was typical “palusot (alibi)” since it found the perfect…

MAO BA?

MAO BA? 10/02/2017

BATO’S CLAIM Netizens were skeptical about Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Ronald dela Rosa’s claim that a lot of countries around the world are copying the Philippine campaign against illegal drugs. Dwayne Mc CoCanz said, “It is…

Majority of Filipinos do not believe PNP’s ‘nanlaban’ claim

Inquirer.net 09/27/2017

Police were quick to tell that suspects were killed during anti-illegal drug operations because they resisted arrest or fought back with authorities. But in the latest survey conducted by the Social Weather Stations (SWS), majority of Filipinos…

CHR-7 acting chief says he will look into lawyer’s claim of cops coaching witnesses

Nestle L. Semilla 06/18/2017

  The Commission on Human Rights in Central Visayas will conduct an investigation on claims of the legal defense team of Provincial Board Member Niño Boniel of alleged police coaching of two witnesses to implicate their client.…

PNP downplays ISIS claim to Quiapo blast

Inquirer, Inquirer.net 04/30/2017

THE Philippine National Police (PNP) this morning downplayed the claim of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) that it was behind the blast in Manila that left 14 people injured while the 30th Association of…

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