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SunStar + March 01, 2021 We are asking Visayan Electric Company (Veco) to pursue creative means in reducing the cost of power in Metro Cebu, especially now that the country is starting to recover from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. The data from the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) show that Veco is currently 28th highest in average residential rate in the country. Moreover, I believe Veco can still do more. For Veco, being the 28th highest among over 100 distribution util...

Tell it to SunStar: Troubling raid on Philippine indigenous school

SunStar + February 15, 2021 WE ISSUE this Joint Statement to clarify the surrounding facts relative to the presence of policemen at the Talamban Campus of University of San Carlos this morning, Feb. 15, that to us is a serious concern. To recall, the Societas Verbi Divini (SVD) Philippines Southern Province supported the Archdiocese of Cebu-Commission on Social Advocacies (Cosa) project of a bakwit school program with Save Our Schools (SOS) Network. For this, the SVD hosted last Ma...

#Tell_it_to_SunStar: Are we on the second wave?

Political firestorm erupts after Brecksville councilwoman, planning commissioner sign letter supporting Trump’s election fraud claims Bob Sandrick, cleveland.com BRECKSVILLE, Ohio — A Brecksville councilwoman and a member of the city’s Planning Commission believe that former President Donald Trump’s claim of massive voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election is true — and their expression of that belief has fueled a political firestorm in the city. Kim Veras and Dom...

SunStar + January 24, 2021 IF THE number of new Covid-19 cases will continue to rise, Cebu City has no choice but to reopen Barangay Isolation Centers (BIC). These BICs refer to three schools namely: Zapatera Elementary School, Mabolo Elementary School and Mambaling Elementary School. None of these schools, however, meet the required international standard for isolation centers. If hospitals, which regularly undergo disinfection, are equipped with medical staff and maintain health ...

SunStar + January 24, 2021 THERE seems to be a bit of disconnect between what we’re afraid of in this pandemic and what is really happening on the ground. I am confused as to the real protocols. I was in a coffeeshop in IT Park last week, and I needed to park in a lot behind a restobar at the far end of the area. I had to walk past these restobars and I noticed that they are almost full. Alcohol was served and people just crowded around tables and even sharing glasses. A few mete...

SunStar + January 21, 2021 THE pronouncement made by Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque that the worst is over in our fight against Covid-19 without mentioning the scientific basis for saying it smacks of an empty boast. In declaring that the worst is over for the country, Roque was quoted as saying: "I think we have seen the worst and I think the entire government machinery agrees with this." With the almost 500,000 recorded Covid-19 cases to date, I do not know wherefrom the hono...

Tell it to SunStar: 'Protect academic freedom'

Tell it to SunStar: Minors at large