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+ May 05, 2021 Bar and some restaurant owners in Cebu City must be keeping their fingers crossed after Mayor Edgardo Labella bared plans to lift the liquor ban.
Wait. I should clarify.
Here in the city, lovers of the drink, me included, are free to purchase any type of liquor from the neighborhood sari-sari store, the convenience store or the grocery. In fact, there’s no limit as to how much you can buy as long as you take it home with you and consume it there.
Drinking outdoors, and that includes the sidewalk, is strictly prohibited for the moment, although I have seen this violated many times. Perhaps they think the restriction no longer applies since authorities just let them be. Never mind if their boisterous conversations sometimes bother children who are trying to study.
SunStar It was the timing that rankled many.
Sen. Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go could have shared Abrahan Ibarani-Idjirani’s study on Philippine history that Lapulapu was not a Mactan chief but a Tausug warrior sent to Cebu to monitor the presence of foreigners on any other occasion and it might have invited intellectual discourse, not public condemnation of historical revisionism.
But Go chose to drop the bombshell during the quincentennial celebration of when Lapulapu reportedly killed Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan at the Battle of Mactan on the site where it reportedly happened in the city named after the chieftain.
Tactless? Perhaps.
SunStar April 24, 2021 I THOUGHT the problem the Cebu City Government faced when it started the vaccine rollout for senior citizens on Monday, April 19, 2021, was that there weren’t enough takers.
That may have been true in the beginning.
If I remember correctly, less than 800 showed up at the two vaccination sites at the University of Cebu Banilad campus and the Robinsons Galleria on the first day.
Cebu City is home to over 80,000 senior citizens, but only close to 15,000 registered to be vaccinated. That’s less than 20 percent who signed up to receive the first dose of the two-dose vaccine.
To convince them to change their minds, I even wrote about a friend’s suggestion, which is withhold their cash assistance if they refuse to be inoculated.
SunStar April 21, 2021 No good will come to anyone who gets involved in criminal activities, whether directly or indirectly.
It’s a sweeping statement, I know. And I do apologize for getting on my moral high horse yet again, but I can’t help it after reading about the fate of the woman who complained against members of the Sawang Calero Police Station.
I won’t name her in deference to her two children and her husband, who, according to news reports, she was texting on the night she was shot dead in Barangay Basak Pardo, Cebu City on Monday, April 19, 2021, by two men riding in tandem.
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+ April 05, 2021 There’s a running joke with a friend who happens to be a doctor regarding the coronavirus pandemic situation in the whole of Cebu.
Although we don’t mean it to be a laugh in your face “har-har” kind of thing, considering the topic is far from funny but it does lighten the mood when we get together and it makes our other friends less anxious about the ongoing health crisis. Or so I think and hope.
I mean, what do I know? I’m not in the medical field. But I do read. And all the pertinent data are available at your fingertips.