Due process urged, not vigilante-style killings

Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Nestle L. Semilla 07/27/2016

Acting Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella admitted he is also alarmed by the spate of killings of drug suspects, saying it is possible that certain elements would take advantage of the current situation. “There could be others…

Taliño: ‘No to vigilantes’

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 07/25/2016

Are vigilantes starting to operate in Cebu? Chief Supt. Noli Taliño, director of the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7), on Monday said he received a text message from a group who volunteered to help the…

Private group offers help to “kill” those involved in drugs – Taliño

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 07/25/2016

CEBU CITY– Are vigilantes starting to operate in Cebu? Chief Supt. Noli Taliño, director of the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7), on Monday said he received a text message from a group who volunteered to…

2 drug suspects killed in northern Cebu

Rene F. Alima 07/23/2016

A suspected drug pusher was shot by riding-in-tandem motorcyclists around 11 p.m. last Friday in Juan Luna Street, Barangay Poblacion, Danao City, northern Cebu. Bonie Gonzales Ponce, 35, single, died after sustaining gunshot wounds in the head…

Cebu: unsafe for criminals

Jhunnex Napallacan 06/24/2016

Early in 2006, Virginia was losing sleep over fears that her son Michael would be the next to fall in what appeared to be a spate of vigilante-style executions of petty criminals in Cebu City. Tomas Osmeña,…

Price tag on criminal suspects

Editorial 06/10/2016

Is there a price tag for a human life? If one were a drug lord or any other lowlife criminal scum as President-elect Rodrigo Duterte is fond of saying, apparently yes. In his visit to Cebu last Wednesday…

Hangman State?

Jason A. Baguia 05/20/2016

Peccatorial elitism feeds the intransigent, periodically resurgent support for restoring capital punishment in predominantly Christian Philippines. We stratify sinners, conveniently counting ourselves among the better offenders who may repeatedly excuse ourselves. The gallows for everyone else! Never…

Dumpit to post bail

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 05/13/2016

The Court of Appeals has allowed SPO1 Adonis Dumpit to post bail pending resolution of his appeal. Dumpit, a decorated Cebu City policeman and a known close aide of then mayor Tomas Osmeña, was earlier convicted of homicide…

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