REGISTERED births and deaths declined 20.6% and 38.6% year on year respectively in the nine months to September, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said on Tuesday. According to preliminary data from the Vital Statistics Report births totaled 783,199 during the period, with the Calabarzon region (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon) accounting for the largest share […]
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Wenceslao: Pope Benedict
We were surfing the television set waiting for midnight so we could properly welcome 2023 when news of the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI became a hot topic online. My immediate reaction was about the timing. How could one pass away just a few hours before the coming of the new year? Cardinal Joseph […]
Senate bill seeks online database on deaths to counter fraud
A SENATOR has filed a bill seeking to establish an online death verification system to halt the fraudulent use of a deceased individual’s identity. “On many occasions, it has been proven in the many investigations conducted by the Senate that the names of the deceased are being used in fraudulent payment claims, election fraud and […]
Genetic twist: Medieval plague may have molded our immunity
OUR Medieval ancestors left us with a biological legacy: Genes that may have helped them survive the Black Death make us more susceptible to certain diseases today. It’s a prime example of the way germs shape us over time, scientists say in a new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. “Our genome today is […]
New Mexico sheriff releases Rust shooting case files, no decision on charges yet
LOS ANGELES — A New Mexico county sheriff on Monday made public case files from his department’s investigation of last year’s shooting death on the set of the film Rust but said a formal decision on criminal charges would depend on analysis of ballistics, DNA, and the phone of actor and producer Alec Baldwin. The […]
Finding real hope in times of trouble
ONE death after another. Michelle Esteria needed to cope with the trauma of losing both her parents, parents-in-law and her uncle and aunt who are very dear to her.“Encountering situations that remind me of my own tragedies makes me cry uncontrollably. I hated the topic of death because it is the most painful reality,” said […]
LCPO: Report death threats to police
THE Lapu-Lapu City Police Office (LCPO) has urged those individuals who received death threats to seek assistance from the Philippine National Police (PNP).LCPO Director Col. Arnel…
Lapu councilors get death threats ‘after scrutinizing City’s budget’
TWO city councilors in Lapu-Lapu City claim to have received death threats after they scrutinized the City’s budget allocation and liquidation reports of the coronavirus diseas…
Mississippi executes man who killed wife, terrorized family
A MAN who pleaded guilty to killing his estranged wife and sexually assaulting her young daughter as her mother lay dying was put to death Wednesday evening, becoming the first inmate executed in Mississippi in nine years. David Neal Cox, 50, abandoned all appeals and filed court papers calling himself “worthy of death” before the […]
Wenceslao: With Noynoy’s death
I REMEMBER the first time Benigno Simeon Aquino III, or simply Noynoy to many, visited Cebu during the campaign period of the 2010 presidential elections. I was doing my editing work in the SunStar Cebu newsroom when my good friend and colleague Januar Yap told me he had gone to the forum at the Sacred […]
Editorial: Mad Max Syndrome
Hubris of the sick kind. The Cebu City Transportation Office (CCTO) posts images of motorcycle-riding groups and individuals on its social media page this week. The agency said concerned citizens have turned in photographs and videos of these incidents, the most glaring of them apparently made it easy for it to identify violations. An image […]
Groups press gov’t to free activists after farmer leader’s death in jail
A SUPPORT group for families and friends of political prisoners in the Philippines again asked the Supreme Court to act on their request for intervention in the cases of jailed activists following the death of a farmer leader due to coronavirus complications. Kapatid Spokesperson Fides Lim, in a statement on Tuesday, said they have asked […]