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…

Poe: What has gov’t done to stop killings?

12/21/2016

There may be no state-sponsored killings in the country, but what is the government doing to stop the killings? Sen. Grace Poe raised this question when she explained on Tuesday why she did not sign a joint…

Oblation Run pushes through outside of UP Cebu campus despite setback

Morexette Erram 12/15/2016

For the first time in the history of the University of the Philippines Cebu (UP Cebu), this year’s Oblation Run was staged along Gorordo Avenue after UP Cebu Chancellor Liza Corro disapproved the holding of the annual event…

The Cinema 1 Originals’ ‘No Seguir’ and EJK

12/13/2016

The millennials were treated to an alternative way of understanding the issue of extrajudicial killing (EJK) in a medium that they like most, namely film. In a short forum held at the University of San Jose-Recoletos (USJR)…

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