SLIGHT DIFFERENCE IN MEANING. Governor Gwen Garcia chided the use of both "apprehend" and "arrest" in the threat of Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Año to...
Those who have been traveling to the north of Cebu and back to Cebu City must have noticed an enormous building undergoing construction behind or beside the Liloan’s Municipal Hall with the huge...
HOLDOVER COUNCILORS. Councilors Franklyn Ong and Jessica Resch, representing barangay and youth sectors, are staying in the Cebu City Council after the elections and beyond June 30.Ong hasn't lost...
The May 9, 2022 general elections are over and, as the victors would say, “let’s move on.” But the unsavory practice of some tradpols (traditional politicians), particularly in the local level,...
I have been listening to all the gripes about vote buying and cheating during and in the lead-up to the last elections. One common thread runs through them — the implicit wish for change to no vote...
WELL-PLANNED, SAYS MABATID. Upon losing to former congresswoman Rachel "Cutie" del Mar in Cebu City's north district, Councilor Niña Mabatid alleged "hidden plans" were made...
If all 67 million Filipinos registered for the general elections headed to the voting centers and cast their votes Monday, May 9, it would mean over 61 percent of the 109,035,343 population (2020...
I write this while I am preparing to go to my polling precinct to vote. Frankly, I dread having to endure another six years of uncertainty. I say the US is more fortunate because it finally ended the...
Tomorrow is the day of reckoning.Filipinos will troop to their polling precincts to cast their votes for national and local officials. I just hope that when it is all over, people will go back to...