Senator Christopher Lawrence Bong Go
THE senator said in his speech at the Kadaugan sa Maktan celebration last Tuesday, April 27, in Lapu-Lapu City that Lapu-Lapu was a Tausug from Mindanao who was sent by the Sultanate of Sulu to the Cebu island.
That drew flak on social media, with such comments as outright wrong, fiction and an insult to Cebu and Cebuanos. History s accounts say Lapu-Lapu led the native warriors who killed in the battle the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. Wednesday night, April 28, the senator posted an apology on Facebook.
[1] NO ADMISSION. The apology does not categorically admit the error about the piece of history and in raising it at the celebration, which could embarrass and anger, and did incite bad and ugly reaction from, Cebu and a number of Cebuanos.
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+ April 23, 2021 PADAYON ang imbestigasyon sa kapulisan bahin sa pagpusil patay sa usa ka beautician nga sakop sa lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) alas 2:30 sa hapon, Huwebes, Abril 22 sa Midsayap, North Cotabato.
Giila ang biktima nga si Eric Sarte Sandaga, 41, nagpuyo sa Barangay Bagumba sa nahisgutang lungsod.
Sumala kang North Cotabato Provincial Police Office Director Colonel Henry Villar nga sakay sa iyang motorsiklo si Sandaga didto sa utlanan sa Barangay Baliki sa Midsayap ug Barangay Dungguan sa Aleosan sa nahisgutang probinsiya.
Apan kalit lang duha ka wala mailhing tawo ang mibutho ug namusil kaniya tumong sa ulo ug likod nga bahin sa lawas.
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CEBU Bzzzzz: Komusta ka na, mayor? OK na, Labella says, after 43 days of working from home, hiding not an option. Juan Mercado, SRP debt.
SunStar File March 10, 2021 CEBU City Mayor Edgardo Labella resumed reporting at his City Hall office Tuesday, March 9, cleared by his doctor for that and sent back to his regular duties but still advised to stay away from crowds.
But he could not keep away from his constituents, he told a press-con with City Hall reporters on his first day back to the proverbial salt mines. Hiding from the crowd is not an option, Mayor Labella said.
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CEBU Bzzzzz: Grabe kahugaw ning politika, Councilor Mabatid gripes. Di na nako kaya, listing her grievances. Kusug, aside from Panaghiusa, to be activated for 2022 elections.
CEBU. (From left) Cebu City Councilor Niña Mabatid, former councilor Joey Daluz and Vice Mayor Mike Rama. (SunStar File)
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SHOULD she get out of politics, unsa man cge pa ako ani?
Prisca Niña Mabatid could be just teasing in her Monday, March 8, Facebook post, in a daughter-mother dialogue, with her as daughter pouring out her woes as an elected official. Or she could be serious, as most of the facts fit in and there is no hint of a satire, the hashtag summing up her state of mind thus, #sad truth. She might be using the threat to get what she wants.