No coffins, just Bibles in Tokhang

Nestle L. Semilla 03/11/2017

After using coffins to warn drug dealers on their eventual fate if they don’t surrender, the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) will now try a different track to persuade them to reform. In keeping with the change…

Amnesty International: Killings, death penalty put country in bad light

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 03/07/2017

THE series of killings and the plans to revive the death penalty have put the Philippines in a bad light in the eyes of the international community, according to Amnesty International (AI). “The spotlight is on us.…

Beauty’s paths

Jason A. Baguia 01/27/2017

As of the close of the first month of 2017, more than seven thousand people have died in the Philippine government’s narcotics war, both in police operations and unexplained killings. Do we still care? Blood coats the…

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…

Duterte shaping up to be a dictator, say militants

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 12/10/2016

Sanlakas Cebu holds rally to mark Int’l Human Rights Day Two rally participants wore masks of late president Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda as they marched together with over 200 people from Sto. Rosario Church going…

Palma worried over rising number of drug-related killings

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 12/06/2016

CEBU CITY–Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma has expressed concern over the rising death toll on the administration’s war on prohibited drugs. He said killing suspected criminals is not the right antidote to the country’s problem on illegal drugs…

No conjecture

Editorial 12/05/2016

There has to be even a minimal sense of disbelief after hearing Sen. Vicente “Tito” Sotto III claim that reports of extrajudicial killings are conjectures or theories and that all drug suspects killed in police operations resisted…

NO EJK IN PH?

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 12/01/2016

Amid the rising body count in the Duterte administration’s war on illegal drugs, Senator Vicente “Tito” Sotto III said reports of extrajudicial killings (EJK) in the Philippines were mere conjectures and that all drug suspects who ended…

IT WAS MURDER

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 11/12/2016

Sen. Richard Gordon to recommend the filing of appropriate charges against policemen involved in the killing of Albuera Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr.  Without a doubt, Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr. of Albuera town in Leyte was killed to…

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…

‘LET THE TRUTH COME OUT’

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Carmel Loise Matus, Rene F. Alima 08/23/2016

Church says probers must not wait until kill toll reaches 10K  Life, even if it belongs to bad elements, is equally sacred.” So said the spokesman of the Roman Catholic Church in Cebu as he called on…

USC students protest against drug killings

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 08/18/2016

About 30 Political Science students from the University of San Carlos (USC) staged a protest Thursday morning at their main campus against the extrajudicial killings in the country. Grace Magalzo-Bualat, the department chair for Politicial Science at…

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