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Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama has encouraged the heads of departments and offices at the City Hall to undertake programs to boost the city’s revenues to fund their budget proposals for the implementation of projects that will benefit the people. ....
Bzzzzz: Rama names VM office overseer as acting city administrator. Ardosa is 2nd woman named to the post. Casas quits, thanked 'for his service.' Other coterminous officials advised not to report. ....
SunStar SunStar File February 26, 2021 JOSE “Dodong” Gullas, a champion of Cebuano arts and music, educator and journalist, died in a hospital in Cebu City at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. He was 87. His death was first reported by The Freeman on its Facebook page. In his January 2019 The Freeman column, lawyer Josephus Jimenez paid tribute to Gullas: “Sir Dodong is one very low-key, unassuming leader who talks less and achieves more, who runs UV, leads The Freeman, promotes arts and music, especially Cebuano music, and also remains an unassuming pillar of lay faithful’s support to the Catholic Church.” Jose Gullas was the chairman of the board of trustees of The Freeman and executive vice president of the University of the Visayas at the time of his death. ....
SunStar CEBU Seares: Don’t ‘shoot dead’ persons even in a news headline. Was press silent over Governor Gwen acquittal? + re-igniting nation’s debate over police impunity Washington Post. December 21 Philippine Star, December 22 To ignore headlining rules A COMMON mistake of headline writers, apparently even in this digital age, is to use “shoot dead” instead of “shoot to death.” Thus confusing the reader that the Tarlac policeman shot a dead woman and her son last Sunday, December 20. The above examples of news headlines illustrate the peril of using one and not the other. The first, in Washington Post’s online edition, may be misread by a busy reader with the “dead” describing “mother and son” instead of the verb “shoots.” ....