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…

DTI urges consumers: Report erring retailers

Victor Anthony V. Silva 09/22/2016

Consumers are encouraged to report to the Department of Trade and Industry in Central Visayas (DTI-7) retailers that sell beyond the set price ceiling of basic commodities in the region. Zaide Bation, DTI Cebu Consumer Welfare division…

Duterte tirades won’t affect PH-EU trade ties

Victor Anthony V. Silva 09/21/2016

President Rodrigo Duterte’s recent tirades against the European Union (EU) will not affect ongoing trade engagement negotiations between the Philippines and the 28-member bloc, a trade official said. Trade Assistant Secretary Anna Ma. Rosario Diaz-Rebeniol said the…

Casualties

09/20/2016

In the 1992 film “Lethal Weapon 3”, LA cops Martin Riggs (a pre-scandal Mel Gibson) and Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) were relaxing at a burger stand when Riggs saw a drug deal going down and headed to…

War of wills

Editorial 09/19/2016

By the time this editorial comes out, President Rodrigo Duterte may have revealed his latest watch list of drug suspects ranging from police officials, politicians, public officials and so on. Depending on who’s on the list, the…

LOOT AGAIN?

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 09/17/2016

Controversial retired police general Vicente Loot, now the mayor of Daanbantayan town in northern Cebu, is back in the limelight after President Rodrigo Duterte named him anew yesterday as among the police officers and elected officials who…

Duterte again links Loot to illegal drugs

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 09/17/2016

Retired General and now Daanbantayan Mayor Vicente Loot was once again named by President Rodrigo Duterte as among the politicians linked to illegal drugs. Loot was mentioned by Duterte in his speech during a visit at 51D…

How to cover the President

09/17/2016

In the wake of President Rodrigo Duterte’s outburst over a foreign correspondent’s question regarding the possibility of US President Barack Obama raising the issue of human rights to his attention, his statement encouraging media not to hold…

WAITING FOR JUSTICE

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 09/16/2016

TWO years have passed and the court trial in relation to the slaying of Cebuano businessman Richard King has yet to start. The King family in Cebu, however, remained optimistic that justice will soon be served, particularly with…

Vigilance, not martial law

Stephen D. Capillas 09/15/2016

On the day that I wrote about a “long, guarded weekend” (Cebu Daily News, page 13, 09/09/16) in the wake of the Davao City bombing, Cebu City residents were greeted with a news story about a female…

Layo ra nga mag-martial law kita

Lloyd Suarez 09/11/2016

Porbida gyud ning ubang mga tawo nga nagsige nala’g panaway kang Presidente Duterte tungod sa iyang deklarasyon nga ubos kita karon sa “State Of National Emergency” human niadtong bombing sa Davao. Unsa may gusto sa uban, mangyugpos…

Diplomacy and the art of the insult

Radel Paredes 09/10/2016

While we Filipinos are now all trying to get used to President Rodrigo Duterte’s habit of swearing in public, a tendency he himself admitted that he could not always control, the international community is, of course, always…

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