Rasuman has until February to pay up or else: Macauyag
By Jigger Jerusalem SUSPECTED investment scam mastermind Jachob “Coco” Rasuman better make good on his promise to pay his investors by Feb. 28 or else. City prosecutor Fidel Macauyag said if Rasuman...
View ArticleCarmen tops list of villages with most dog bite cases
By Lito Rulona CARMEN topped the list of Cagayan de Oro villages with the highest number of dog bite cases. In 2012, Carmen had 46 dog bite cases, according to a report released by city council’s...
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Emano asks Comelec green light for bodyguards
By Nitz Arancon MAYOR Vicente Emano is the only politician here so far who has asked the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to allow him to have bodyguards. SWEAR IN. Mayor Vicente Emano speaks before...
View ArticleMijares steps up security, fields 800 police officers
By Ben Balce CITY police director Senior Supt. Graciano Mijares over the weekend ordered security measures stepped up in the city. Some 800 police officers were fielded throughout the city to ensure...
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Emano mahjong buddies got juicy projects: sources
By Herbie Gomez and Ben Balce OPPOSITION Councilor Roger Abaday over the weekend dropped a bombshell against the Emano administration even as he accused city hall of awarding some of its juciest...
View ArticleBrightest people on the planet
By Cesar Gorillo WHEN I was a child, I was always fascinated by bright people. It was this fascination that led me to concentrate reading the biographies of great people like Sir Isaac Newton, Winston...
View ArticleOn corporate responsibility
By Churchill Aguilar AT Xavier U, it’s that time of the year when every unit of the university proposes its budget for the next school year. The next few days are crucial for office heads because it...
View ArticleNazareno and Santo Nino
By Fr. Leo Pabayo THE Nazareno procession in Manila is a miracle in itself. With seven to eight million people jostling and pressing one another under the heat of the sun no serious harm has ever been...
View ArticleLettuce
By Netnet Camomot LAST year, someone told me, “’Te, naghatag sila ug lityus.” For a while there, I wondered… Lityus? Then, she showed me the lityus. Uh, it’s lettuce. I was in my 30s, an avid Alanis...
View ArticlePolitics of deception
By Peter Clarete YOU guessed it right. What other kind of politics can a master of deception practice but politics of deception? “Kamong mga kabus kang kinsa ako naluoy, hatagan ko kamo ug luna nga...
View ArticleRufus has to make a stand
By Ben Contreras HOW true is it that Councilor Ian Mark Nacaya has made the first salvo against Rep. Rufus Rodriguez? Nacaya is running for a congressional seat in the 2nd District, pitting himself...
View ArticlePolice go on alert over Iligan bombing
By Nora Sorino, Ben Balce and Nitz Arancon ILIGAN City––Camp Alagar placed raised the alert level in northern Mindanao following an explosion that hurt at least nine people here yesterday morning....
View ArticleManaging popular piety
By Fr. Roy Cimagala WE have to give thanks to God, of the whopping kind, for the tremendous devotion Cebuanos and many others have toward the Sto. Nino, the child Jesus dressed as king for indeed he is...
View ArticleTell me why I can’t question religion
By Rey Zaldy Serna RELIGION has certain ideas at the heart that we call sacred or holy or whatever and therefore, we shouldn’t challenge or say anything negative about these matters. I question that....
View ArticleTalk to Giam’s lawyer’s barber
By Peter Clarete Hahahahaha! Businessman and now anti-despot campaigner James Giam has made my day with his “talk to my lawyer’s barber” advice to city hall regarding the “east-bound” terminal...
View ArticleCity hazards
By Churchill Aguilar I HAVE a thing for street food. I would not mind stopping in Divisoria from time to time just to have my share of them. Yet every time I stop, I could not help but notice how dark...
View ArticleInsights on Davao floods
By Batas Mauricio RAINING and flooding, even at a time when summer or the dry season is supposed to be in place already? Well, it is certainly extraordinary and totally awesome, especially in a place...
View ArticleRoof-a-classroom project launched
By Jess Dureza DAVAO City––A Davao-based group of private sector leaders started last week rehabilitation work called “Roof a Classroom Project (RACP)” in typhoon Pablo-ravaged areas in the provinces...
View ArticleFire leaves 70 people homeless
By Nitz Arancon EIGHT houses were razed to the ground when a fire broke out at Cañete Compound along Yacapin Extension, Barangay 36 here at 3:15 am yesterday. Barangay chair Eddie Laguna said over 70...
View ArticleJohnny is at it again, seeks ‘bomb ban’
By Lito Rulona COUNCILOR Juan Sia is at it again. This time, he wants the Commission on Elections (Comelec) and the police to “ban bombs” the way they have been enforcing the gun ban since the Jan. 13...
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