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Publio J. Briones III

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Briones: Dying for your choice

WAS everything worth it, I wonder?The lives upended. The lives lost. And for what?For hundreds of thousands or even millions of pesos that was their ticket out of poverty? Or was it greed or vanity that drove them to enter ...

From 472 days ago

Briones: An exercise in futility

I have to give it to Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña.The guy has chutzpah.He seems confident enough to win next month’s mayoral election against Vice Mayor Edgardo Labella, yet he refuses to rest on his laurels.But although he has fired ...

From 479 days ago

Briones: ‘You’re it!’

I looked up the phrase “bring it on” on the internet.According to macmillandictionary.com, it’s an informal mainly British phrase “used for saying you are confident and excited about facing a challenge or contest.”“If they want to take the complaint to ...

From 493 days ago

Briones: ‘Fake news’

ONE thing is certain. The police are not clear about who really killed Christine Lee Silawan.The 16-year-old girl’s mutilated half-naked body was found in Sitio Mahayahay, Barangay Bankal, Lapu-Lapu City last Monday, March 11. Yet, the person who might be ...

From 507 days ago

Briones: My aversion to guns

I don’t have a gun. I don’t want to own one, either.There was a time, more than a decade ago, when journalists were offered the chance to have one. Or something like that.I don’t exactly remember the details, it was ...

From 528 days ago

Briones: Crackdown on traffic violators

I HAVEN’T written about illegal parking in a while so I think now is about time to revisit the issue.The matter is one of my pet peeves since I am fond of walking. In fact, I don’t drive or flag ...

From 549 days ago

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