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EDITORIAL - Accusing fingers do not solve floods

September 5, 2014 - 12:00am

First they blamed plastic bags and indiscriminate throwing of garbage for the perennial floods that seem to bug Cebu City...

Freeman Opinion

Floods, esteros and relocation

By Cherry Piquero Ballescas | June 22, 2013 - 12:00am

With one typhoon moving out of the country and more to expect, stronger killer storms we are warned, we ask ourselves the same question we have asked ourselves over and over again: what to do to effectively prepare...

Freeman Opinion

EDITORIAL - Good work, bad work

March 7, 2013 - 12:00am

If you go around Cebu City these days, you will notice a lot of work going on involving the cleaning, clearing and declogging of canals, culverts and esteros. If the ongoing works have something to do about the upcoming...

Freeman Opinion

Clearing of informal settlers along esteros pushed

By Mike Frialde | September 17, 2012 - 2:42pm

The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) is pressing for a simultaneous eviction of informal settlers who have erected shanties along the esteros or waterways of Metro Manila to pave the way for a smooth...

Where do we go from here?

By Boo Chanco | August 13, 2012 - 12:00am

Another flood, another test for Filipino resiliency and soon enough the headlines fade from memory and we go back to our old ways.

Business

EDITORYAL - Ang sapa, kanal ug esteros

By Wen Celen | May 10, 2011 - 12:00am

Pagkataas na og lanat sa panahon, apan ang kadaghanan sa mga namuyo ning siyudad ilabi na ang anaa sa daplin sa kasapaan, kanal ug esteros mao ra gihapon og tua magpuyo sa kalasangan sa panahon pa...

Banat Opinyon

Esteros: Scapegoats

By The Ear | October 22, 2010 - 12:00am

ESTEROS. Everytime it rains hard and the streets in the downtown areas are flooded, the people, including the media, immediately blame the “clogged esteros.”

Freeman Opinion

Government gives priority to Pasig River rehab

By Faizza Farinna Tanggol | August 15, 2010 - 12:00am

The esteros (canals) of Metro Manila got fresh support from the administration as Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)...

Headlines

Attention city government: Clean esteros before the rainy season arrives

By The Ear | June 2, 2010 - 12:00am

They say an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. This adage can also be applicable to the way the city government should act with regards to the cleaning of our esteros.

Freeman Opinion

Comfort and tribulation always go together

By Tingting Cojuangco | October 11, 2009 - 12:00am

Remember the play Jesus Christ, Superstar, when Jesus requests His Father to spare Him from His forthcoming “tribulations”? It’s a word we hardly use in everyday conversation.

Sunday Lifestyle