Rama: A taboo
JOURNALISM gives me the opportunity to travel. This is well and good because I find traveling fun.
So to travel to somewhere that has a gun range and then get to shoot there with friends who love shooting as much as I do, that’s double the fun.
And fun heaped twice over was...
Rama: Pretty in pink
A CALL from an old shooting student brought me to Kamagong Gun Club, Sunday afternoon, for some range time with three guys and a visiting gal who is here with her husband for the Sinulog.
The three gentlemen were all long-time gun owners but they hadn’t had formal training. The lady said...
Rama: How will sports be in 2012?
HOW will sports be in 2012?
Predictions for what 2012 will be like for Cebu, the rest of the country and the world at large swings between rosy to downright dreary.
Capitol sends equipment, cash
ILIGAN City—An engineering task force from the Cebu Provincial Government, using heavy equipment brought here and some provided by contractors, are among the units helping clear the debris in Bayug, one of the worst hit when Sendong flooded 11 barangays.
Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia and...
Storm victims want cleanup to be a priority as retrieval operations continue
GETTING back on track has been slow, particularly in two barangays in Cagayan de Oro City, which were worst hit by Sendong.
While retrieval and recovery operations continue, residents believe cleaning up should be a priority as well, as the debris left by the flood on streets and...
Pro-impeachment lawyers ‘not afraid’ of SC backlash
LAWYERS who signed the manifesto supporting the Corona impeachment are confident that the Supreme Court (SC), with its power to cite in contempt those who defy its “authority, justice and dignity,” will respect their views.
This, even though the High Court is consolidating support for...
Aquino's supporters in Cebu back Corona’s impeachment
THE Cebu-based volunteer group that supported Benigno Simeon Aquino III’s presidential bid is joining his campaign to get Chief Justice Renato Corona impeached.
Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama did not say if he supports Corona’s impeachment, but he said he hoped the proceedings would be done...
Fiscal’s office asked to put to trial 2 tabloids over ‘obscene’ serials
THE Cebu City Anti-Indency Board (Ccaib) asked the Office of the Cebu Provincial Prosecutor last Wednesday to review its resolution, dismissing the obscenity complaints against two local tabloids accused of publishing columns that allegedly contained “sexually suggestive” languages.
Palace orders deputy ombud: Explain
AS DEPUTY Ombudsman-Visayas, Pelagio Apostol is used to sending orders requiring public officials to answer formal charges of malversation, abuse of authority, neglect and misconduct.
He, however, may not be so used to receiving them.
Undersecretary Rolando Geron, acting on...
Book hails lawyer’s landmark case
A NEW book on the Supreme Court, the fifth from the author who earlier looked into how justices get appointed and if this affected the way they voted on issues involving the appointing power, shows how a case filed by a Cebu-based lawyer helped enshrine “the right to know.”
The book...
Group opposing flyovers back Ombud’s anti-graft campaign
THE group opposing the flyover project was among the attendees in yesterday’s Anti-Graft Day celebration of the Office of the Ombudsman-Visayas, giving rise to the question of whether the proposed project will be turned into an anti-graft issue.
Joel Lee of the Movement for Livable...
Group finds issues in ordinance
THE reincarnation of the Provincial Government’s proposed anti-tabloid ordinance, now renamed the Anti-Obscenity Ordinance, triggers discussion among the members of the Cebu Citizens-Press Council (CCPC).
After a review by the Cebu Media Legal Aid (Cemla) and feedback from lawyer Earl...
Lawyer urges City to follow up case on SRP cannon
A LAWYER is urging the Cebu City Government to follow up a 2003 letter-request he made for a client, and find out what happened to an antique cannon that Rep. Tomas Osmeña allegedly ordered brought to his house.
The six-ton cannon, believed to be from the 18th century, was unearthed at...
Man with scarf gets 20 years in jail for murder
WHO wears a purong (headscarf) this day and age?
According to a recent court decision, a man from Carcar wrapped a band of cloth around his head in the manner of the traditional Bisaya headdress, and blasted away at somebody with a shotgun outside a mahjong parlor four years ago.
...
Ex-City consultant arrested
AFTER his arrest, former City Hall consultant Romeo Cordova was freed upon orders of the court late yesterday afternoon. He posted a P10,000 cash bond.
Judge Pamela Baring-Uy issued the release order even as she set the schedule for the hearings the usurpation of public functions charge...
Pacquiao ‘will bid for Cebu lot’
CEBU CITY -- In boxing terms, it will be a title fight.
Representative Manny Pacquiao is “100 percent” joining the public auction that Court Sheriff Eugene Fuentes has scheduled to sell a titled portion of the South Reclamation Properties (SRP) this month, said local boxing promoter and...
Dark times ahead for Waterfront
THE Visayan Electric Co. (Veco) intends to cut the power of the Waterfront Cebu City Hotel unless it pays for the electricity it allegedly pilfered.
Ethel Natera, Veco’s corporate communication chief, said the only thing stopping them from doing so is the temporary restraining order...
Power firm accuses Cebu luxury hotel of theft
CEBU CITY (Updated) -- The Visayan Electric Co. (Veco) filed Monday a criminal complaint that accuses a Cebu City-based hotel of pilfering over 27 million kilowatt-hours of electricity, worth at least P168 million, between April 2007 and February 2011.
Through Ricardo Lacson Jr.,...
COA auditor takes the stand
WHILE the Court of Appeals (CA) has affirmed the administrative guilt of all public officials accused in the lamppost case, the Sandiganbayan, the country’s anti-graft criminal court, continues to hold its trials.
Justices of the fourth division held one in Cebu City yesterday,...
Fiscal finds basis to charge cop
THE Office of the Cebu City Prosecutor yesterday found basis to charge five men for stealing a multicab and, with the help of a policeman, trying to sell it to a police official.
But PO2 Arvin Hernandez of the Regional Intelligence Division (RID) 7, the man who allegedly facilitated the...
Rama faces graft raps
MEMBERS of the Cebu City Council spent four weeks and eight budget hearings looking at numbers instead of coming up with an anti-graft complaint against Mayor Michael Rama.
Yesterday, Rep. Tomas Osmeña (Cebu City, south district) filed the letter-complaint asking the Office of the...
Former mayor says he can’t be tied to lampposts rap due to doctrine
CEBU Provincial Board (PB) Member Thadeo Ouano and his lawyer yesterday accused Assistant Ombudsman Virginia Palanca-Santiago of misinterpreting the Aguinaldo Doctrine.
Atty. Victor Maambong, Ouano’s counsel, said the joint resolution of the ombudsman last May 11, 2011 is a final document...
Court decision revives talks on Aguinaldo rule
THE decision that excludes Provincial Board (PB) member Thadeo Ouano and Lapu-Lapu Rep. Arturo Radaza from among those to be dismissed from service for the lamppost controversy is reviving criticism against the Aguinaldo Doctrine.
The doctrine views re-election as public condonation of...
Ruling raises issue involving former mayor
THE Court of Appeals (CA) has upheld an ombudsman decision on the lamppost case, which finds Thadeo Ouano administratively liable and directs that his service record be made to reflect that he was once dismissed from service.
The penalty of dismissal from service from an administrative...
Case highlights need to help courts further
WHILE Judge James Stewart Himalaloan used the monthly allowance he gets from the City as a reason to inhibit himself from the Rallos case, leaving City Hall’s motion for reconsideration pending, a consultant to the mayor believes the Rallos controversy would have been avoided had the City’s...
