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Saturday, July 20, 2019

Pachico A. Seares

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Seares: SC policy on libel hasn’t removed jail term, isn’t limited to journalists

Libel still has to be decriminalized but 11 years ago, the Supreme Court (SC) took one step towards it. The high tribunal did not change the law; only Congress and the President can do that. It merely set what it ...

From 21 hours ago

Seares: Trump ‘has no racist bones’ in his body; Icelanders ‘eat ice’

PRESIDENTS occasionally tell jokes but, more often, they are the butt of jokes.As the highest official of the land, a President has huge advantage over any other speaker who cracks a joke: his audience never fails to laugh. Out of ...

From today

Seares: ‘Be President first’ or ‘pag-mayor una mo’ says same thing: Shut up

THEN Cebu City mayor Mike Rama in December 2016, towards the end of his term and apparently confident of reelection, squelched critics by saying in print and on TV, “Pag-mayor una mo. (Be a mayor first.)”Last July 15, in an ...

From 2 days ago

Seares: Where Malacañang sa Sugbo is most likely to go: not Customs

TWO agencies are competing for the use of Malacañang sa Sugbo in Cebu City: Bureau of Customs (BOC) and National Museum of the Philippines (NMP).Aduana, the building’s name, was built in 1910 at Cebu’s port area, owned by Department of ...

From 5 days ago

Seares: DILG had transition rules, none on removal of Tomas properties

CHARGES have been filed against former Cebu City mayor Tomas Osmeña, three executive assistants, the head of a constructions company and more than 30 laborers for stripping his office bare before he stepped down last June 30.The complaints of the ...

From 6 days ago

Seares: Where PPI can help local papers in surviving market, industry changes

THE Philippine Press Institute (PPI) is billed as “the association of Philippine newspapers” although most of its members are community publications or local newspapers, the media group they used to call the provincial press. A few “national” newspapers also actively ...

From 7 days ago

Seares: Squabble over Lapu-Lapu City Hall office: Paz stands on shaky legs

PAZ Radaza, former Lapu-Lapu City mayor and now congresswoman of the city’s lone district, has bluntly defied the order of Mayor Junard “Ahong” Chan, to vacate the office she occupies at City Hall.The office located on the second floor of ...

From 9 days ago

Seares: Zafra pins hope on votes cast for both Amay and Sherwin Abella

PHILLIP Zafra, tail-end councilor in the 2019 election for members of the Cebu City Council, risks losing his seat if Marie Velle “Amay” Abella moves up and dislodges Zafra from the #8 slot in the south district.Yet Zafra--the Partido Barug ...

From 10 days ago

Seares: Salimbangon doctrine most likely to unseat Zafra, install Abella

HERE’S the situation:A Comelec division has ruled on a petition, filed on Oct. 23, 2018 by BOPK’s Marie Velle “Amay” Abella, that an independent candidate in the 2019 May election, one Sherwin Luie Abella, was a nuisance candidate.What will happen ...

From 11 days ago

Seares: Bato defense on toddler’s death: ‘shit happens’ remark spoiled it

“You don’t want something like this to happen. But shit happens during operations. Shit happens.” -- Sen. Ronald de la Rosa, July 4, 2019The child, Myka Ulpina, was shot in the neck during a police buy-bust operation against Myka’s father, ...

From 12 days ago

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