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Editorial 03/21/2017

When businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles was brought to then president Benigno Aquino III to signify her surrender, thousands of netizens questioned whose strings she pulled to secure an audience with the highest official of the country. Regardless,…

Duterte mulls postponement of barangay elections anew

Izobelle T. Pulgo, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 03/15/2017

President Rodrigo Duterte wants the barangay elections postponed again. In a speech before the first general assembly of the League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP) at the Manila Hotel on Tuesday, the President said he did…

PRO-7: No priests, no problem

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Inna Mejia 03/15/2017

The Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7) won’t require priests to join their Oplan Tokhang visits or any anti-drug field operations in the region. “I have no problem with that. Anyway, asking priests to accompany us…

Traders unfazed over Rody’s drug claims

Victor Anthony V. Silva 03/11/2017

Local business leaders were unfazed by President Rodrigo Duterte’s pronouncement that Cebu has the highest drug use rate in the country, with one of them saying that it won’t make a difference. Donato Busa, past president of…

Digong’s pronouncement a wake up call for Cebuanos

Inna Mejia, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 03/10/2017

CEBU City Acting Mayor Edgardo Labella says the pronouncement of President Rodrigo Duterte about Cebu having the highest drug rate should serve as a wake up call for Cebuanos to fight the drug menace. “Whether highest or…

Cobonpue assumes new gov’t post

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 03/10/2017

EXPECT a more “casual” Regional Development Council (RDC) in Central Visayas. As newly-appointed chairperson, internationally renowned furniture designer Kenneth Cobonpue, took his post on Friday, Cobonpue said he wanted to do things more “casually” in his first…

Davide hits back at Garcia

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Nestle L. Semilla 03/09/2017

  ON CPDRC RAID ISSUE Por bida, naa na pud si Manang oy,” (Darn, here goes Manang again). The blunt remark came from no other than Cebu Governor Hilario Davide III betraying any attempt at hiding his…

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.…

MAO BA?

Editorial 03/07/2017

MAO BA The city councilors who were rumored to leave their once dominant party for the administration party resorted to joking about it to reporters. At one event, one of these councilors went inside the session hall…

Rights group: PH killings ‘alarming’

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 03/07/2017

CEBU CITY–A global human rights organization has described as “alarming” the spate of drug-related killings in the country that took place since President Rodrigo Duterte assumed his post in July 2016. In its annual report, Amnesty International…

EJKs loosely defined

Editorial 03/05/2017

No one was surprised that President Rodrigo Duterte vowed no end, no letup in his campaign against illegal drugs in a speech he delivered in last Thursday’s groundbreaking of the Cebu-Cordova Expresslink bridge project in Cordova town.…

Duterte to solons : Why exclude rape, plunder

Inquirer.net 03/04/2017

Why were rape and plunder removed from the crimes punishable by death penalty? President Rodrigo Duterte said he was curious why the two heinous crimes were taken out from the list of crimes punishable by death. “I…

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