Archive for the 'Local Issues' Category
I hate it when reporters for the sake of submitting something, don’t dig deeper. It may be that they are pressed for time, the editor wants their piece ASAP without consideration of completion, or that the reporter just wants a simple story without diving into real investigative reporting.
I’m only mentioning this, because I found [...]
July 15th, 2008 | Posted in Local Issues | No Comments
This essay was reportedly written by a Korean (English) student who was more grieved for our country than we are.
Please read with a grain of salt, ponder on his/her words, and maybe, just maybe we can collectively repent and decide to start working to uplift our country.
As you know, we have plenty of Koreans currently [...]
May 14th, 2008 | Posted in Local Issues, Religion, Social Concerns | 3 Comments
This hasn’t been an easy past two weeks for the person at the center of Cebu’s most recent video scandal. In which a video of a medical operation, an extraction of a foreign object (body spray can) from the rectum of a patient, was circulated all over the internet. A video which shows [...]
April 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Local Issues | 2 Comments
The priest who became a governor, Ed Panlilio is now battling the forces of status quo. Change is hard to exact in a culture so ingrained in putting self before country.
If Governor Ed Panlilio of Pampanga thought that the campaign was grueling, no doubt he is finding out that governing is the actual fight [...]
February 20th, 2008 | Posted in Local Issues | No Comments
CEBU Archbishop Ricardo Cardinal Vidal has confirmed meeting with the President but denied that they talked about the impending verdict on former president Joseph Estrada’s plunder trial. He, however, admitted to advising President Arroyo to “allow the court to do its work and give us the right decision.â€
Vidal said that he does not know [...]
July 8th, 2007 | Posted in Local Issues, National News | No Comments
Edit:
I took down the video because it was inaccurate. The Islamic god Allah is not similar to the Judeo-Christian God. The differences between Jehovah Jireh/Jesus’ Abba and Allah are stark. You need not look further that the texts themselves to know.
While I certainly do not approve of the religion itself, I have compassion for [...]
July 3rd, 2007 | Posted in Culture, Local Issues, Politics, Religion, Social Concerns | 6 Comments
Today, Comelec, including Chairman Abalos will be going on their field trip to Maguindanao. Trying to make it look to us as if they are doing something about the Maguindanao Election that has been wrought with anomalies, reports of poll fraud, and a result that is almost as believable as a justified jihad.
As I’ve [...]
June 18th, 2007 | Posted in Local Issues | No Comments
A big congratulations to Bogo City, as residents celebrated the proclamation of their conversion into a city. The newest city of Cebu. I’ve been there many times, and as a Cebuano, I proudly raise my glass and toast to a bright future ahead of the people of Bogo City.
The proclamation came at around [...]
June 17th, 2007 | Posted in Local Issues | 29 Comments
The tormentor of my nightmares, and there have been quite a few as of late, Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña has finally yielded his stubborn and arrogant move with regards to the junking of Lahug projects including the construction of a 20 classroom building. As you may know, I have not yielded nor saved [...]
June 13th, 2007 | Posted in Local Issues | No Comments
I don’t do writing projects, but this is going to be an exception. The fact that the truth is being kept from the Filipino public once again, is too much to bear. And the fact that someone trying to do the right thing was shot dead is something not to take lightly.
Musa Dimasidsing, [...]
June 12th, 2007 | Posted in Local Issues, National News, Social Concerns | 54 Comments
Comelec district supervisor, Musa Dimasidsing, the whistleblower who came out and exposed the wholesale cheating in Maguindanao, as well as confirmed the numerous allegations by other teachers who witnessed the cheating, was gunned down last Saturday night at an Islamic School by unidentified men.
The Facts
[Dimasidsing] exposed alleged electoral fraud in Pagalungan, Maguindanao. Chief Supt. [...]
June 11th, 2007 | Posted in Local Issues | 3 Comments
In what can only be called as a city filled with “Yes Men”, it seems that the Ass Kissing has extended to the Barangay Captains as well as Congressmen Raul del Mar and Antonio Cuenco. They have all expressed their support for the decision of Mayor Tomas Osmeña to junk the construction of a [...]
June 10th, 2007 | Posted in Local Issues | 1 Comment
As you may know, if you have been following, my writing, Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña has been the target of my anger as of late. Being a Cebu City native myself, to see it being controlled by a partisan, politically-motivated, and arrogant Mayor in Tomas, is almost too much for me to handle.
You [...]
June 9th, 2007 | Posted in Local Issues | 3 Comments
Yet another slap in the face to residents as well as schoolchildren of Lahug. Mayor Tomas Osmeña now wants De los Santos and the rest of the citizens to beg for the school building. In a recent press conference he told the media that he will give back the funding for the construction [...]
June 5th, 2007 | Posted in Local Issues | 4 Comments
I am continuing my call to Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña to stop playing politics and start serving the people of Cebu City. In my previous post, Tomas Osmeña On A Rampage in Cebu, I informed the readers of how Mayor Tomas Osmeña has let his anger dictate his actions of stopping the construction [...]
June 4th, 2007 | Posted in Local Issues | 5 Comments
Calbayog, I’ve been there many times. It’s a lovely city to go around in, but the latest news coming out of the city is that of shock, horror, and death.
According to the Inquirer,
A 39-year-old jobless man, believed to be mentally imbalanced, went into a rampage in an interior village in Calbayog City in [...]
June 3rd, 2007 | Posted in Local Issues | No Comments