A 100-year-old World War II veteran was among 10 Cebuano veterans commended during the 73rd anniversary of the Talisay Landing in Talisay City yesterday. Guillermo Antoni Alegado, who hails from Pinamungajan town, Cebu, was with his wife…
Last week, my friend, ship captain Ronald Librando who is enjoying his vacation, visited me in my office and invited me for a recreational target shooting or firing. While we were in the firing range, I met…
Bato’s warning FORT DEL PILAR, Baguio City — Dir. Gen. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), on Saturday warned critics of President Rodrigo Duterte they should be ready to face war if…
Today is Valentine’s Day, and what an irony that it coincides with the Catholic feast of Ash Wednesday, which ushers in the Lenten season. Commentators make much of the irony that today is also, in the Catholic…
It is a bright warm morning today as the Tropical Storm Vinta leaves Cebu while I write this piece. The plants in the garden are still dripping from last night’s rain, and the puddles in the street…
PNP BACK ON WAR ON DRUGS Promising it is going to be a “less bloody” war on drugs, ranking officers of the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7) welcomed Malacañang’s decision to put the police back…
Tomorrow, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, is also the 76th anniversary of the start of World War II in the Pacific. It started with the Japanese bombing of the US Seventh Fleet anchored in Hawaii in…
The P900 million originally intended for the 2018 budget of Project Double Barrel, the anti-drug campaign of the Philippine National Police (PNP), has been realigned by the Senate for housing of military troops and police officers, Sen.…
After five agonizing months, the war is finally over in Marawi City and its residents can return safely to what was left of their homes. But it wasn’t easy and it came at a cost for the…
Reigning PBF bantamweight champion Jahleel “Iron Chin” Payao of Omega Boxing Gym successfully retained his title Friday night in what the promising fighter described as the toughest test in his young career. The 24-year-old Payao beat…
THE regional Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) continues to work with the police in the government’s war on drugs. “We will help them, para hindi lalaganap itong drug problem (so that the drug problem will not spread),”…
With President Rodrigo Duterte divesting the Philippine National Police (PNP) of its responsibility to wage his administration’s anti-drug war, the road is clear for the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) to conduct a better campaign that won’t…
