The good Catholic

Raymund Fernandez 01/31/2017

Surely, we have come to a time when we have to define for ourselves — and once again — what it means to be a good Catholic. The president has called the Philippine Catholic bishops corrupt sons…

Will CBCP history repeat itself?

01/31/2017

Five months ago, I intended to write “The Church is doing its part” to combat the escalating extrajudicial killings. I kept a list of Church statements and initiatives including an early item on a wear-black Mass at…

Davide backs campaign vs illegal drugs, but says no to extrajudicial killings

01/25/2017

GOVERNOR Davide III is asking the Department of the Interior and Local Government in Central Visayas (DILG-7) to furnish him a copy of the list of the names of narco-politicians in Cebu. Davide said he wanted to…

Outgunned, outnumbered

Editorial 01/25/2017

His family and friends may believe and proclaim his innocence, but there’s no turning back the clock for Niño Rodel Taboada who died at the hands of agents of the regional Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in…

Calls for justice for slain call center agent go viral

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 01/21/2017

CALLS for justice continued to flood social media as news of the slay of the 21-year-old Niño Rodel Taboada inside an alleged “drug den” in Cebu City spread. “Everyone knows how good you are. My brother was…

AMBUSHED

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Dominic D. Yasay, Norman V. Mendoza 01/10/2017

Mandaue City’s first drug surrenderer killed in broad daylight Barely two weeks after he told reporters in an interview in his cell that he continued to fear for his life because he was on the police hit…

Words in 2016

Gerard Pareja 01/09/2017

Ania ang mga pulong nga mibutho ug mipatigbabaw sa ubang mga pulong sa miaging tuig 2016. 1. Tokhang. Ang shortcut sa mga pulong nga “toktok” ug “hangyo” nga gi-translate sa CNN isip, “knock and plead” para pagpa-surrender…

The rising body count

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 12/29/2016

(A special CDN series on the Philippine National Police and the war on illegal drugs in Central Visayas) Forty-one-year-old Julian Ramos, a carpenter from Barangay Mabolo, Cebu City, admitted to using shabu (meth amphetamine hydrochloride) since he…

Is there peace and order?

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 12/27/2016

PART 2 Chief Supt. Noli Taliño, the director of the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7), maintained that drug suspects killed by policemen had placed the lives of the operatives in danger. “You know that those…

Is there peace and order?

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 12/27/2016

(A special CDN series on the Philippine National Police and the war on illegal drugs in Central Visayas) For eight years, Liza Saballa has been working in Hong Kong as an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) to provide…

MAO BA?

Editorial 12/23/2016

P25-M VIEW A private company officer nearly choked when he was told about the price of a condominium unit on Mactan Island he had just viewed. The 21-square meter unit costs P25 million. The agent told him…

Alarmed over drug-related killings, James Taylor cancels Manila concert

Apple Ta-as 12/21/2016

GRAMMY award-winning singer James Taylor is making a stand against the Philippines’ war on drugs, announcing the cancellation of his February 2017 concert in Manila. On his Facebook post, James said that though his work is not…

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