Online stories of hope

07/11/2015

While social media can be quite the jungle these days with all sorts of exposés on the failings and corruption of people in power, every once in a while there are glimpses of scenes that warm the…

Bullets for profit

07/09/2015

With the filing of candidacies in October, Lapu-Lapu City residents should monitor how Mayor Paz Radaza deals with two barangay chairmen who were arrested along with three barangay councilmen by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on…

Seed

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 06/14/2015

While we sleep the world turns – life’s mechanisms keep pulsing, and growth continues to gain ground. It seems that nothing can stop the overall advance towards fulfillment, ripeness. Jesus compares this to the kingdom of God.…

Trafficking at the barangay level

06/09/2015

Justice Secretary Leila de Lima’s warning against human trafficking syndicates during the 1st International Dialogue on Human Trafficking curiously comes amid the recent arrest of an American retiree named Harold Glover at his home in barangay Taytayan,…

Welfare or profit?

05/30/2015

The findings from a recovered Autonomous Recovery Monitoring Structure (ARMS) device at the Alegria marine sanctuary in barangay Alegria, Cordova town early this week showed signs of marine life recovery in that area and gave good reason…

Help those graduates

05/27/2015

Somewhere between a school’s demand to collect tuition, and City Hall’s refusal to pay, over 1,000 students of the Asian College of Technology  International Educational Foundation (ACTIEF)  are left  twisting in the wind. Each institution is concerned…

Ensuring their survival

Editorial 01/31/2015

Did you notice the Cebu City Council’s recent approval of an ordinance that would allow the forced evacuation of residents in danger zones? It  may have escaped public attention days after the destruction inflicted by typhoon Seniang…

Better prepared

02/03/2014

It should not have taken the  devastating supertyphoon Yolanda to jolt us into greater caution in times of disaster. But the specter of the deadly howler must have made the  evacuation of hazardous areas in Cebu an…

More than just meddling

Editorial 02/01/2014

The ice in Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Paz Radaza’s note was more than noticeable when she remarked about a proposal by Cordova Councilor Angeles Gairanod to Cordova Mayor Adelino Sitoy to require money transfer firms to report suspicious…

Classrooms need repair ASAP

Editorial 01/10/2014

More than two months after it leveled almost everything in its path, supertyphoon Yolanda continues to haunt school children, no thanks to red tape. Last Monday, at least two mayors from northern Cebu scored the Department of…

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