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Defining moments and a lesson from 2024

By Ian Manticajon | 12 days ago

Today is the last day of the year 2024, and before it ends, I’d like to greet our dear The FREEMAN readers a Happy and Blessed New Year 2025! In today’s column, I’d like to reflect on the year that...

Freeman Opinion

Fizzling of ‘Ceboom’: Insights from Hutchcroft and Gera's study (Part 1)

By Ian Manticajon | December 24, 2024 - 12:00am

I have promised my good friend and UP Cebu colleague, Dr. Weena Gera, that I would share a very interesting and insightful study she co-authored with Dr. Paul Hutchcroft, a professor at the Australian National University,...

Freeman Opinion

All fury, no answers

By Ian Manticajon | October 22, 2024 - 12:00am

If I were to write a news story about Vice President Sara Duterte Carpio's press conference last Friday, October 18, it would be titled: “All fury and intrigues, no answers.”

Freeman Opinion

Moral force

By Ian Manticajon | September 24, 2024 - 12:00am

The sudden visit by Vice President Sara Duterte-Carpio to the home of former Vice President Leni Robredo in Naga City, Camarines Sur, during the Peñafrancia Festival, raised the eyebrows of many people, including...

Freeman Opinion

Put money on SIM law enforcement

By Ian Manticajon | June 18, 2024 - 12:00am

Senator Win Gatchalian has criticized the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) for its failure to enforce the provisions of the SIM registration law, which has allowed scammers within various Philippine Offshore...

Freeman Opinion

Stet forum: challenges and lessons for the community press (1)

By Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon | September 26, 2023 - 12:00am

Following last week's Cebu Press Freedom Week celebration, I'd like to spotlight the key insights shared by Rappler's executive editor, Glenda Gloria, at a forum organized by Stet (Women in Cebu Media) on September...

Freeman Opinion

Dual reality for graduates

By Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon | July 18, 2023 - 12:00am

On the afternoon of July 21, Friday, Edsel Suhayon Codoy will lead the Class of 2023 of the University of the Philippines Cebu during its 84th Commencement Exercises.

Freeman Opinion

A plea for Cebu City's center-island trees

By Ian Manticajon | June 20, 2023 - 12:00am

I write this piece not as a distant observer, but as a native son of Cebu City, a person whose childhood memories are deeply intertwined with the tree-lined center island of what was once known as San Jose dela Montaña...

Freeman Opinion

Hope, vigilance, and bivalent vaccines

By Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon | June 6, 2023 - 12:00am

Early last month, local media took an interest in the University of the Philippines Cebu because of its memorandum ordering a temporary shift to online classes for a week due to a notable increase in recorded cases...

Freeman Opinion

More young blood in government

By Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon | May 9, 2017 - 12:00am

Allegations circulated in social media regarding the actual amount awarded to the tipster against the remaining Abu Sayyaf members in Bohol. The tipster, a habal-habal driver, reportedly received only less than half...

Freeman Opinion