Thousands of devotees pay homage to Mama Mary of Lindogon at the IEC Pavilion

Dominic D. Yasay 10/07/2016

Twin sisters Gemma and Marissa Limpangug were supposed to take their ailing 82-year-old mother to the Basilica Minore Del Sto. Niño to attend the 11 a.m. Mass. But due to heavy traffic, they decided to attend Mass…

Solon to discuss Metro Cebu’s traffic problem

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 10/07/2016

THE House of Representatives transportation committee headed by Catanduanes Rep. Cesar V. Sarmiento will meet with businessmen, including transport industry stakeholders, today at the Waterfront Airport Hotel and Casino Inc. in Lapu-Lapu City for a public hearing.…

Oct. 21 declared holiday in NegOr

PR 10/06/2016

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Roa Duterte has officially declared October 21, 2016, as a special nonworking day in the province of Negros Oriental through Presidential Proclamation No. 63 that was approved on September 19 through Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea.…

Journalism is not a crime

10/03/2016

(A statement by the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines in defense of Filipino journalists Manny Mogato and Karen Lema subjected to cyberbullying by supporters of President Rodrigo Duterte) In what is becoming a common and…

Uncalled for

10/02/2016

Right after telling off the Americans anew for their questioning of his administration’s war against illegal drugs, President Rodrigo Duterte’s remark alluding to the unlamented, reviled German dictator Adolf Hitler’s extermination of three million Jews is the…

WRONG PETER LIM ON DRUG MATRIX

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 09/30/2016

DOJ SECRETARY AGUIRRE ADMITS The “Peter Lim” alluded to in President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug matrix is dead. Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II on Friday revealed that the Peter “Jaguar” Lim who is listed as one of the…

Peter Lim in Cebu

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 09/28/2016

LAWYER Pedro Lesley Salva yesterday declared that contrary to online posts and reports, his client, Cebuano businessman Peter Lim, never left the country since his meeting with President Rodrigo Duterte last July 15. “What I can say…

Business pins hope on Duterte’s 10-point econ agenda to raise PH’s WEF ranking

Victor Anthony V. Silva 09/28/2016

President Rodrigo Duterte’s 10-point socioeconomic agenda will help the Philippines rebound from its performance in the latest Global Competitiveness Report 2016-2017 released by the World Economic Forum (WEF), business leaders in Cebu said. Melanie Ng, Cebu Chamber…

Watch list or witch hunt?

Editorial 09/28/2016

President Rodrigo Duterte’s apology to Pangasinan Rep. Amado T. Espino Jr. and other officials whom he admitted to have been mistakenly included in the second watch list of suspected drug dealers/coddlers during a visit to a shabu…

CCPC to local gov’t units: Have speedy system to release info

Dominic D. Yasay 09/22/2016

The Cebu Citizens-Press Council (CCPC) yesterday took a step to reinforce the freedom of information order to help Cebu journalists gain easier and faster access to government information and transactions. The CCPC, during its 44th quarterly meeting…

These can be done

Peter Wallace 09/22/2016

Here are some of the things I think we’d all like to see done real soon, like this year. It will need President Duterte’s determination to force bureaucrats to perform and Congress to act with dispatch. If…

Cebu press council calls on LGUs to enforce FOI order

Lesley Cara Delos Santos 09/22/2016

The Cebu City-Press Council (CCPC) passed a resolution during its 44th quarterly meeting urging local government units of Cebu to uphold transparency by implementing the Freedom of Information (FOI) Executive Order No. 02 series 2016 signed by…

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