EU team to investigate EJKs this month, UN to follow

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 11/03/2016

WITH about 4,700 people killed in the government’s anti-drug war since President Rodrigo Duterte took office, the United Nations (UN) and the European Union (EU) have began preparations to come to the Philippines to investigate the spate…

Militant youths call for end to EJK

Dominic D. Yasay 11/03/2016

MILITANT youth groups from across Southeast Asia voiced their condemnation to the extrajudicial killings occurring in the country and called on the Duterte administration to stop it. Commission on Human Rights (CHR) commissioner Chito Gascon attended the…

Timely warning against EJK

Editorial 10/18/2016

The arrest of suspected drug lord Kerwin Espinosa by the joint efforts of the Abu Dhabi police and Interpol was a welcome break for the Duterte administration, which came under fire from the International Criminal Court (ICC)…

94 deaths resulting from police operations probed

Dominic D. Yasay 10/13/2016

Majority of the number of deaths that resulted from the legitimate police operations in Cebu province were caused by armed drug suspects who instinctively fought back policemen. This was revealed by police officers assigned in Cebu during…

DIGONG GETS A PASSING GRADE

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 10/07/2016

FROM ARCHBISHOP PALMA TO GOVERNOR DAVIDE Amid the rising death toll in the war against illegal drugs, Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma gave President Rodrigo Duterte a passing rate based on the latter’s overall performance in his first…

‘The Road to Porndiction’

Francis B. Ongkingco 09/30/2016

(Part 1 of 3) Drugs! Death! Damnation! Our society, now more than before, is experiencing the toll of these words as we become helpless and fearful spectators of the vicious cycle of extrajudicial executions. There is no…

Roxas Resign!

Raymund Fernandez 09/20/2016

Kinutil If Mar Roxas won the presidency, media would certainly have been just as critical of him as they are of the current president. Likely, even more. The claim that media is critical of the sitting president…

Lawyers hope for good results in EJK hearings

Izobelle T. Pulgo 09/16/2016

While Cebu’s legal community continued to express various sentiments regarding the ongoing Senate hearings on extra judicial killings (EJK), emotions were perhaps strongest hours following the verbal clashes, Thursday, of Senators Leila de Lima and Allan Peter…

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