CEBU CITY, Philippines- The Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7) has included four cities and three towns in Cebu in its Election Watchlist Areas (Ewas) to ensure the conduct of a clean and honest May 2019…
President Rodrigo Duterte’s attacks on the Catholic Church reached a new low when he accused Caloocan Bishop Pablo Virgilio David of stealing and insinuated that the prelate may be on drugs. No less than professors of the…
What is the true state of Filipino children? In the educational system, K to 12 promised that those who would finish senior would be employable. We still need to see empirical evidence of that. Many employers in…
We need in the national legislature senators and congressmen who would defend press freedom. Lest the public forget, their participation in our democratic experiment is enabled by an unfettered mass media. Unfortunately, the press in the Philippines…
Soon the Advent season will arrive and after this, the season of Christmas. Small to big time traders are trying to cash in and have started to raise prices of goods and services. It is incumbent upon…
Especially for metropolitan areas like Cebu, solving traffic woes should be central to the platforms of governance of candidates for election in May 2019. As we learned earlier this year, the country loses P3.5 billion daily to…
When voters evaluate politicos for possible election in May 2019, they should including among their criteria for voting the strength of candidates’ platforms for peace and order, particularly with regard to ensuring that only men and women…
Who will win in the local, senatorial, congressional, party list, and autonomous Mindanao elections in May 2019? The answer, to a large extent, depends on how intelligently voters will deal with the reading matter with which they…
MANDAUE City Mayor Gabriel Luis “Luigi” Quisumbing officially forged an allegiance with the regional party Hugpong Ng Pagbabago (HNP) on Monday. Quisumbing and Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte – Carpio, HNP chairperson, signed an alliance agreement witnessed…
Regardless on which side of the political fence one sits in, the renewed call for the amendment of Republic Act No. 7941 or the Partylist System Act along with a proposed bill penalizing nuisance candidates should receive…
Public discourse in the national and eventually local campaign season may go wide off track if it continues to focus on the persons who are running for public office. The basics ought to be easy. Platforms should…
The Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7) is conducting a profiling of candidates to determine whether or not they have private armed groups. Chief Supt. Debold Sinas, director of PRO-7, said they received a directive from…
