Espinoza: Left with no other choice?
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Espinoza: Set aside politics in the Covid-19 vaccination
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CEBU EXPLAINER: Atty. Oaminal’s Kurakot Gang, Mabatid’s ‘ungo’ of City Hall: unfair, wicked charges if not true
CEBU. (Clockwise) Cebu City Councilor Prisca Nina Mabatid, Atty. Clarence Paul Oaminal, and the Cebu City Hall. (File photos/ Clarence Paul Oaminal s Facebook page)
+ February 24, 2021 FIRST, there was Cebu City Councilor Prisca Nina Mabatid who in a Facebook post of February 6 and later interviews with media accused an unelected and un-appointed person of “dictating” councilors and other officials at City Hall.
Mabatid said an “ungo” or witch was actually running affairs in the city government, deciding on purchases of anti-Covid supplies and hiring and firing of employees. The figurative use of witchery suggested the councilor’s impression that the alleged villain looks like a witch and probably exhibits as much greed on his prey.
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+ January 12, 2021 THE increase, though not extensive, in the new cases of the Covid-19 has compelled the Augustinian priests that run the Basilica Minore del Sto. Niño to discontinue the public novena masses at the Basilica beginning Jan. 12. Online masses, however, will proceed as scheduled and will be broadcasted by media partners and social media sites.
The Catholic church leaders know that prevention is better than cure and complying with the health protocols is a better part of judgment during this pandemic, unlike some politicos whose egos are bigger than their heads.
The feast of the Señor Sto. Niño is celebrated every January, drawing devotees from all over the country and the world. The Sinulog street dance competition under the Sinulog Foundation Inc. (SFI) has become an international attraction that tourists would come in droves to attend the event. I was then a law student and working as a news reporter of this paper when then Ministry of Yo