AFTER making news last week that her indictment had been affirmed by the Office of the Ombudsman, Grace Jamio, the Public Employment Service Officer of Lapu-Lapu City, filed a Petition for Certiorari before the Supreme Court assailing…
A Lapu-Lapu City government employee is now awaiting trial in court after the Office of Ombudsman has affirmed her indictment for allegedly duping several applicants for overseas employment. Grace Jamio, an officer of the Lapu-Lapu City Public…
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s parliament on Thursday passed a law that would allow a special prosecutor to investigate a corruption scandal threatening the presidency of Park Geun-hye. The opposition-controlled National Assembly also voted for a…
CEBU City South District Rep. Rodrigo Abellanosa said he is ready to answer the graft charges filed against him by the Ombudsman at the Sandiganbayan in relation to his involvement in the city’s scholarship program during his…
The Office of the Ombudsman – Visayas has indicted Albert Payusan Barliso, acting customs examiner of the Bureau of Customs – Collection District 7, on charges of qualified theft and violation of RA 3019 or the Anti-Graft…
No one claims to support the killing of the innocent, but it seems that many are willing to leave the judgment of innocence to the police and the vigilantes. Even worse, many are seeing death itself as…
FORMER congressmen Antonio Cuenco of Cebu City’s second district and Antonio Yapha Jr. of Cebu’s 3rd district were indicted for violation of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act (RA 3019) by the Ombudsman. The Ombudsman found probable…
In formally assuming the country’s presidency today, President Rodrigo Roa Duterte had set both his administration’s tone and goals which may appear modest to the country’s intellectual elite but which have long been sought for and actually…
CEBU CITY–President-elect Rodrigo Duterte has plans to put-up a hotline where the public can directly report to him corrupt practices of government employees and officials. Government employees, who know about their bosses’ involvement in corruption, can also…
It’s not yet even the honeymoon period—that traditional grace period given by the media and, to some extent, the detractors of any incoming president just as he or she assumes the reins of office and yet President-elect…
Whoever hanged that yellow streamer that bears the phrase “Corruption-Free Institution” atop the Capitol building had better back it up with solid facts, lest that claim be disproved in court. Unlike the yellow streamer that was hung…
A FORMER clerk of the Bureau of Customs in Lapu-Lapu City was convicted by the court on charges of malversation of funds for pocketing P1.2 million in government funds two decades ago. Crispiniano Ligan, a former collection…
