CEBU CITY – Four fires broke out here a day after the Bureau of Fire Protection-Central Visayas (BFP-7) began the observance of Fire Prevention Month. A FIREFIGHTER douses flames in a simulation exercise during the start of Fire Prevention Month in Cebu City on Saturday, March 1. (MyTVCebu) The...
CEBU CITY – Fifty houses were destroyed in a fire in Barangay Lahug here on Thursday night, Feb. 27. FIFTY houses were destroyed by a fire in Barangay Lahug, Cebu City on Thursday night, Feb. 28. (Calvin D. Cordova) Firefighters from the cities of Mandaue, Lapu-Lapu, and Talisay responded to the...
CEBU CITY – Dismissed Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama continues to insist he is still the city’s chief executive. RAMA Considering himself as the rightful mayor, Rama refused to return a Cebu City Hall-owned vehicle despite repeated demands from the city government. In a letter addressed to the...
DAVAO CITY – Vice President Sara Z. Duterte called on fellow Filipinos to unite to pursue genuine progress as the country approaches the upcoming 2025 elections. DUTERTE (FB) Duterte accompanied former Cebu City Mayor Michael “Mike” Rama and his team on Thursday, Feb. 27, to check on the...
CEBU CITY – A new Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) building is rising. CEBU City Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia (sixth from right) leads the groundbreaking of the new Cebu City Police Office building. (Contributed photo) Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia and CCPO director Police Col. Enrico Figueroa on...
CEBU CITY – A group of animal welfare advocates has expressed concern over increasing reports of puppies and kittens being used as live feed for pet snakes, crocodiles, and other reptiles. ANIMAL welfare advocates in Cebu have raised concerns over reports that puppies and kittens are being...
CEBU CITY – A new party-list seeking a seat in the midterm elections wooed voters during a series of consultative meetings here on Monday, Feb. 24. THE first three nominees of Aksyon Dapat party-list (from left) Atty. Bobbit Rocco, Hernani Braganza, and Edgar Lagman discuss their platforms during...
CEBU CITY – The Partido Federal ng Pilipinas (PFP), the ruling party led by President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr., has endorsed a former Customs commissioner for mayor here in the mid-term elections. CEBU City mayoral candidate Yogi Ruiz is endorsed by the Partido Federal ng Pilipinas thru national...
CEBU CITY – Illegal drugs worth more than P7 million were seized in buy-bust operations in the cities of Mandaue and Lapu-Lapu. The Regional Drug Enforcement Group recovered 825 grams of suspected shabu worth P5.6 million from Arman Taneca, 43, in Barangay Mantuyong, Mandaue past midnight on...
CEBU CITY – Two men, including a retired US Navy personnel, were killed in a gun attack in Barangay Punta Princesa here on Tuesday night, Feb. 18. Nicardo Nombrado, 59, and former US Navy serviceman George Kyle Lucas, 39, succumbed to bullet wounds. The perpetrator, Kevin Asia, was wounded...
CEBU CITY – A former nurse and his son were arrested in an a buy-bust operation in Barangay Duljo-Fatima here on Tuesday, Feb. 18. Aside from the father and son who were identified only as Thom and Vinz, the Special Drug Enforcement Unit of the Mambaling Police Station also arrested a...
CEBU CITY – More police outposts, fewer chances of crimes from happening. POLICE man an outpost in a busy area in Cebu City. (Contributed photo) Police Col. Enrico Figueroa, chief of the Cebu City Police Office, said this as more police outposts have been established primarily in crime-prone...
