Misocc cops catch leader of Misocc crime ring
THE alleged leader of a notorious robbery and kidnap for ransom group based in Misamis Occidental has finally been caught by the authorities in Cavite, the province’s police director Senior Supt....
View ArticleCity hall readies raps vs firm found mining in Dansolihon
THE City Local Environment and Natural Resources Office (Clenro) is preparing to press charges against a mining company following a raid on Tuesday that resulted in the confiscation of mining...
View ArticleRodriguezes eyeing Rufus’ wife as bet
By NITZ ARANCON Correspondent THE wife of Rep. Rodriguez of the city’s 2nd District is being considered to succeed the congressman who would be constitutionally barred from seeking reelection next...
View ArticleA continuing proxy war in Mindanao
H. Marcos Modeno MALAYBALAY City––It was during Martial Law that the military started using subalterns in the campaign against the communist-led New People’s Army (NPA). In areas that were heavily...
View ArticleLechon brouhaha
Letter to the Editor AS an ordinary citizen of this city, I am appalled at how the owners of a radio station treated their employees who merely partook of the lechon that was sent by the son of the...
View ArticleMake up for the party system’s failure
Manny Valdehuesa A POLITICAL party is democracy’s institutional mechanism for ensuring order in politics, particularly in the competition for elective posts. It is through a party that an aspiring...
View ArticleA father’s love
Churchill Aguillar THE greatest crime a person can commit is to be ungrateful of the sacrifices of his or her parents. I am sure we all have our stories to tell of how we reached where we are. Almost...
View ArticleWhat’s the money for?
Ben Contreras COUNCILOR Roger Abaday begged off at the last minute for a more important appointment. Thus, there was nobody from the side of Mayor Oscar Moreno to comment on what Councilor Prexy Elipe...
View Article3 provinces, 2 cities, 14 towns in Normin bag DILG’s seal
By NITZ ARANCON Correspondent THE interior department yesterday gave the 2014 Seal of Good Local Governance to three provinces, two cities, and 14 towns in Region 10. Receiving the seal from the...
View ArticleSlain tribal school exec to be laid to rest today
By BEN SERRANO Correspondent BUTUAN City––Murdered tribal school director Emerico Samarca would be laid to rest in Barangay Bancasi here today. The school executive was brutally killed along with two...
View ArticleArmed ‘spy’ poses as lumad, caught with pistol
By ALWEN SARILING Correspondent AN armed man believed to be a military intelligence “asset” disrupted the launch of an island-wide network of human rights defenders here at around 4 pm yesterday....
View ArticleRights groups step up drive vs attacks
By ALWEN SARILING Correspondent ENRAGED over the recent lumad killings, human rights advocates from different parts of the island gathered for a three-day conference here with the aim to establish a...
View ArticleIllegal miners destroy as much as 6 hectares in Dansolihon
By KC FERNANDEZ Correspondent THE City Local Environment and Natural Resources Office (Clenro) yesterday said some five to six hectares were destroyed as a result of alleged illegal mining operations...
View ArticleCrazy In Love
When this topic was being planned-out and finalized by our team, we were excited about how this issue will turn out, and I was giddy because, well, finally I’m going to write something less dramatic,...
View ArticleCare for our common home
By Antonio J. Ledesma, S.J Archbishop, Cagayan de Oro . POPE Francis’ recent encyclical, Laudato Si’, enjoins all of us to care for our common home, the earth. More directly, we are also challenged to...
View ArticleMistakes of the legal left
Mariano Carrasco EVERYBODY makes mistakes. It is important to accept and recognize them, and make amends if necessary. I have been associated with the left, or left-of-center kind of politics. In a...
View Article9/11 circa 2015
Netnet Camomot LAST Friday was the 14th anniversary of September 11. We, the Pinoys in Pinas, would not know how it was in Manhattan on that day in 2001 when two planes crashed into the Twin Towers and...
View ArticleKeep ’em guessing
Butch Bagabuyo “What does it matter if a competitor has greater resources? If I control the situation, he cannot use them.”- Sun Tzu “ALDUB pa more,” is the latest phenomenon in the country today, next...
View Article‘Spy’ turns out to be a cop, cries foul
By ALWEN SALIRING Correspondent THE armed man who disrupted a conference of human rights advocates on Masspec Bldg. on Tiano Bros. St. on Friday afternoon turned out to be a police officer, and he has...
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