One Cebu, Duterte group seek transfer of five police officers

Carmel Loise Matus 05/05/2016

BOTH the One Cebu party and the Cebu for Duterte movement requested the regional Commission on Elections in Central Visayas (Comelec-7) to transfer five police officers holding key positions that they suspect to be biased. Lawyer Rex…

Tuburan mayor claims murder suspect is allied with rival

Jhunnex Napallacan 05/05/2016

Tuburan Mayor Democrito Diamante claimed that the arrested suspect in the murder of his political supporter was a former barangay chairman who served as the political leader of his opponent, One Cebu mayoral candidate Daphne Lagon. Diamante…

KILLING IN TUBURAN

Apple Ta-as, Jhunnex Napallacan, Victor Anthony V. Silva 05/04/2016

A group of political supporters of Tuburan Mayor Democrito Diamante was ambushed by a group of armed men in a hinterland village of the northwestern Cebu town at noon yesterday, killing one and wounding another, the police…

Avoid routes near Team Rama rallies

Jameela Antoniette I. Mendoza, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 05/04/2016

MOTORISTS are advised to avoid routes near the areas where Team Rama candidates will hold their miting de avance in the Cebu City south district today and in the Cebu City north district tomorrow. Joey Daluz, Team…

Duterte-Cayetano backers aim for world record Sat

Carmel Loise Matus 05/04/2016

Volunteers supporting the presidential and vice presidential tandem of Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano are aiming for a world record as they plan to gather at least 300,000 people during their candidates’…

How Cebu City parties woo voters

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 05/04/2016

AS ELECTIONS draw near, Cebu City candidates employ their own tricks and strategies to woo their constituents to vote for them. Team Rama candidates either sing or dance in front of the crowd during their sorties aside…

When media crosses the border to politics

Izobelle T. Pulgo 05/04/2016

(First of Two Parts) Under every stone lurks a politician, Aristophanes said. Perhaps this is true for all of us. Everyone might not be running for an elective position, but at some point, all of us have…

Discernment

Editorial 05/04/2016

The pastoral letter issued by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) last Sunday should be heeded by Filipino voters regardless of one’s political or religious belief in light of the weighty burden of choosing the…

Lessons from a selective Daang Matuwid

Jobers R. Bersales 05/04/2016

By the time this column appears again next week, we shall have elected a new president to run the country in the next six years. And by the looks of it, despite all the allegations, brickbats and…

Police verify ambush reports in Tuburan

Apple Ta-as 05/04/2016

POLICE are verifying reports that at least one person died and another injured in an ambush in an upland village of Mag-antoy, Tuburan town, Cebu at past noon Wednesday. Senior Insp. Leo Logronio, who just assumed as…

Talisay Council bet nabbed on illegal recruitment raps

Apple Ta-as 05/03/2016

A 51-YEAR-OLD candidate for Talisay City’s Council was arrested on charges of illegal recruitment shortly after a campaign sortie in Sitio Isla Verde, Barangay San Isidro of the City last Monday evening. The suspect identified as Ma.…

From silent to strident

Jude Bacalso 05/03/2016

I SPENT half an hour writing what would have been my first political piece in support of a candidate. After reading and re-reading it, I pressed the delete button tentatively. Erasing a few words, then entire sentences.…

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