Exec says law required to postpone brgy polls

Inna Mejia, Izobelle T. Pulgo 03/16/2017

Talks about possible postponement of the barangay elections scheduled in October this year will have no bearing in the Commission on Elections (Comelec) until a law will be enacted declaring its postponement. Lawyer Lionel Castillano, Comelec Cebu…

Implementing the Magna Carta of Women

Sofia Aliño Logarta 03/08/2017

Going through the last two issues of Linkages (LAW Center, Inc. publication), I realized that the operations of Legal Alternatives of Women Center, Inc. have actually been the implementation of the Magna Carta of Women. First of…

Rule of men corrupted by law?

03/04/2017

As was the protocol in La Salle, the high school principal called into his office every member of the graduating class for counseling. When I told him I was planning to take up law, he advised me…

Death penalty approved on second reading

03/01/2017

Just as the country started its celebration of Lent, the House of Representatives on Ash Wednesday approved on second reading the bill seeking to restore the death penalty. This after the House majority on Wednesday’s session approved…

Eve of summer

Raymund Fernandez 02/21/2017

We hardly remember Eve. She has been relegated to oblivion for having sinned, for partaking of the forbidden fruit, the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, the fruit of the tree of life; for having…

Due process of law

Ricky Poca 02/20/2017

These past few days were quite busy for BDO’s Magallanes branch, which secured a 30-day restraining order from the court to stop the closure order issued by City Hall for violations cited by Cebu City Mayor Tomas…

63 cops under investigation

Nestle L. Semilla 02/17/2017

After the Regional Internal Affairs Service (RIAS) of the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO- 7) filed graft charges against 10 policemen, another 63 policemen in the region are facing investigation for alleged grave misconduct and…

Political will in Mandaue

Jobers R. Bersales 02/15/2017

Let me digress from the series of articles on the towns of Cebu in the late Spanish period to congratulate Mayor Luigi Quisumbing for his zeal in strictly enforcing traffic laws and ordinances in Mandaue City. In…

‘KOREAN MAFIA’

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 02/10/2017

President’s speech leads to two surrenders; most Koreans law abiding — Consul Lee Yong-Sang OFFICIALS of the Korean Consulate in Cebu are appealing to Cebuanos not to “overreact” to the recent pronouncement of President Rodrigo Duterte about…

Visayanian staffers alumni, UV Law Class ’63 to hold annual Sinulog gathering

PR 01/09/2017

THE members of the Visayanian Staffers Alumni Association Inc. (VSAAI) and University of the Visayas (UV) Law Class ’63 will jointly hold their annual Sinulog gathering from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Jan. 13 at the…

Unintended victims

Editorial 01/07/2017

Sen. Panfilo Lacson’s proposal to the Duterte administration to pay damages to the unintended victims of the war on illegal drugs should give another perspective as well as a timely gut check on law enforcers cracking down…

Mandaue fire leaves 450 families homeless on first day of 2017

Edison Delos Angeles 01/01/2017

CEBU CITY—It was a heartbreaking New Year for at least 450 families who were left homeless after fire hit two densely populated villages in Mandaue City, Cebu past midnight on Sunday. Lighted firecrackers might have triggered the…

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