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Police officials in Cebu are willing to allow civilians to carry firearms and help authorities fight terrorists and criminals as long as there is an order from higher-ups allowing it. Chief Supt. Noli Taliño, director of the…
I spent my weekend on the island towns of Camotes, the place where my maternal grandparents came from, but the trip was not meant for vacation or some sort of a reunion. I was brought back to…
Half of adult Filipinos surveyed agree that a heinous criminal having a chance for reformation is a valid argument against the reimposition of death penalty. In the Social Weather Stations (SWS) first-quarter survey first published in BusinessWorld,…
Boholano Joseliito Melloria, the slain Abu Sayyaf Group member, was not only familiar with the town of Clarin but also studied in high school there. Moreover, he was a “kind and respectful person” that it came as…
Leave it to Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle to make eloquent discourses on spiritual and temporal issues, and last Saturday’s speech at the Luneta rally was no exception. He coined the church’s opposition to the war…
Did Annalou Llaguno squeal on her alleged ex-lovers’ drug operations? This question was raised yesterday as police started to uncover that because she violated omerta, the Sicilian term for the code of silence among criminal elements when…
House Speaker Pantaleon “Bebot” Alvarez on Monday said it’s about time the country would not rely on foreign aid from the country’s closest allies. Alvarez made this statement in a press conference when sought for his reaction…
I woke up to a sudden blast of light beamed on my face. A gloved hand then tapped my arm as the man standing before me said: “Wake up. This is a raid.” His flashlight scanning…
Church and human rights leaders in Cebu balked at the possibility that the Rodrigo Duterte administration will herald an era of extra-judicial killings of criminals amid repeated pronouncements from the incoming president about his readiness to kill…
Early in 2006, Virginia was losing sleep over fears that her son Michael would be the next to fall in what appeared to be a spate of vigilante-style executions of petty criminals in Cebu City. Tomas Osmeña,…
Crosshatching President-elect Rodrigo Duterte’s attack on the Commission on Human Rights’ purported bias for criminals brings back the old debate on whether or not these “bad elements” have human rights like everyone else and thus deserve protection…
Police distributed flyers and posted stickers warning students about the new modus operandi of criminals, especially aboard jeepneys. Among the new criminal tactics are putting bubble gum on a victim’s hair, dropping some coins (laglag barya) and…
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