DSWD bares 2017 thrusts, priorities

PR 11/30/2016

TO promote collaborations with critical stakeholders at all levels, the Department of Social Welfare and Development in Central Visayas (DSWD-7) recently conducted a brief orientation highlighting the 2017 thrusts and priorities of the agency issued by Secretary…

Public shaming

Editorial 11/29/2016

Last Thursday’s congressional interrogation of Ronnie Dayan, while somewhat instructive, is known more for its attempts by lawmakers to ferret out the salacious details of his seven-year affair with Sen. Leila de Lima rather than verifying whether…

Another casualty

Editorial 11/28/2016

Were there any witnesses to the police operation that resulted in the death of Gener Rondina, whose family including his father retired police officer Generoso Rondina, acknowledged was a suspected drug pusher? The family insisted that Rondina…

Mao Ba?

Editorial 11/27/2016

ONLY FROM CEBU Since President Rodrigo Duterte assumed his post, names of suspected drug lords were revealed to the public. Five of them are Cebuanos: Peter Lim, Franz Sabalones, Jeffrey “Jaguar” Diaz, Rowen “Yawa” Secretaria, and Kerwin…

Leloy Claudio: The real deal breaker

Clint Holton Potestas 11/27/2016

LISANDRO Claudio arrived in Cebu two days after the Internet broke with netizens making fun of what was perceived as sexy actress Jessy Mendiola’s grammar slip in response to a reporter who asked her about her boyfriend…

Staying alive

Editorial 11/24/2016

A detained female drug suspect perhaps encapsulated what is one of many reasons why the illegal drug trade continues unabated despite the hammer-and-tongs approach used by the Duterte administration in hopes of permanently shutting it down. Interviewed…

The New York Times ‘apology’

Stephen D. Capillas 11/24/2016

I mentioned last Friday about US President-elect Donald Trump’s claim about the New York Times apologizing to him through “A Letter to the Readers” that the publication issued last Nov. 13. After reading about it on a…

Will they be done?

Peter Wallace 11/24/2016

In June, President Duterte and his chosen Cabinet members met with the business community to discuss the economic plans of the new government (“340 heads are better than one,” Opinion, 6/30/16). It was very successful—or will be,…

DILG TO CEBUANOS: Protect Cebu from ‘ferocious’ illegal drugs

Nestle L. Semilla 11/22/2016

  An official of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) has appealed to Cebuanos to take government’s anti-drug campaign very seriously and to sustain it even beyond the term of the country’s crime-busting President, Rodrigo…

Robredo: Pregnancy rumor an ‘insult to women’

11/21/2016

MANILA — Vice President Leni Robredo said on Monday that the false news being spread on her “pregnancy” would sound funny if it were not an insult to women. “Nakakatawa siya pero at the same time, parang…

SEND MARCOS BACK TO ILOCOS

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag, Morexette Erram, Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/19/2016

The furor over the “surprise” burial of strongman Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani is far from over. Youth, anti-Marcos groups and Martial Law survivors in Cebu yesterday vowed that Friday’s protests were not going…

Triumph of the will

Radel Paredes 11/19/2016

It was in August this year when I last joined a protest rally. Back in college, joining a rally or “mob” (short for mobilization) as we called it, was part of our regular schedule being student activists.…

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