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Seares: Labeling ‘pork’: Term doesn’t include legitimate spending for local projects

SINCE the Supreme Court struck down on Nov. 19, 2013, the entire Priority Development Assistance Fund or PDAF for that year and declared “pork” as illegal, the word has assumed a meaning that is as bad and foul as can ...

From today

Seares: RTC ruling on Naga landslide didn’t resolve issue of cause and liability

DID the more than 8,000 victims lose in their lawsuit for damages against Cemex Holding Philippines, Inc. and its allied firms, along with government agencies, over the 2018 Naga City, Cebu landslide?Were those sued by the landslide victims found by ...

From 2 days ago

Seares: John Gokongwei, a Cebuano, learned his values on life and business in Cebu

“Always look back to where you came from.”-- John Gokongwei Jr.John Robinson L. Gokongwei Jr. lived for 21 years in Cebu, starting as a one-year-old brought here by his parents from Fujian, south China where he was born. He spent ...

From 4 days ago

Seares: Lapulapu monument, museum: was the ‘hero’ a Muslim foreigner?

ERICH Wannemacher, a German expatriate who has been residing in Lapu-Lapu City for more than two decades, last Nov. 6, 2019, talked with Edward Mendez, Lapu-Lapu City tourism chief, about the relocation of the statue of Lapulapu from its present ...

From 4 days ago

Seares: Here’s probably why Leni Robredo took the job despite dire warnings

A trap, a honey-trap but still a trap. And she would be “the scapegoat” when President Rodrigo Duterte’s candidate would face the 2022 election.That has been the repeated warning.Liberal Party. Other opposition groups. Critics of various stripes and voices. They ...

From 8 days ago

Seares: Attack on Carcar food products: Chicharon in 2010; lechon in 2019

NINE years ago, Carcar City was thrown into an uproar after then Cebu Provincial Board Member Arleigh Jay Sitoy filed an ordinance that would require each pack of “chicharon” or pork skin cracklings being sold in towns and component cities ...

From 9 days ago

Seares: Sonny Osmeña is not un-killable. But he’s tough for a rumor to kill

LAST Aug. 21, 1971, when bombs exploded during a Liberal Party meeting at Plaza Miranda in Quiapo, Manila, John “Sonny” Osmeña was among the persons who were wounded, along with his fellow candidates for senator Jovito Salonga, Eddie Ilarde, Ramon ...

From 11 days ago

Seares: Brod Soc and Joavan: Ruling against pa recalls Talisay sadness, anger over son

WHEN less than a decade ago, serial delinquent Joavan Fernandez virtually went wild in Talisay City and his father Socrates “Soc” Fernandez was city mayor, the talk was how the mayor could allow his son to violate the law that ...

From 11 days ago

Seares: Sinas-media dispute: police not legally bound to provide work space for reporters

BEFORE he took over last Oct. 16 as police chief of the National Capital Region, Brig. Gen. Debold Sinas was Central Visayas regional police director.And his first major controversy in Metro Manila involves not drug traffickers, against whom he waged ...

From 14 days ago

Seares: Mike Rama is not cutting clean, still tied to Labella governance

“I remain an ally of the Labella administration. It is not my nature to sever a good relationship. Never my cup of tea to sever a relationship. That all depends on the people who are not comfortable with me. That’s ...

From 16 days ago

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