CEBU CITY – Mayor Michael Rama explained Monday, August 8, why he was not seen in the past few days especially when floods inundated this city. RAMA (FB photo) Rama said he had to isolate himself after he tested positive for Covid-19. “Your mayor was infected with Covid,” Rama said. Some...
CEBU CITY – Police arrested Friday, August 5, four South Koreans allegedly involved in illegal Philippine Offshore Gaming Operations (POGO) in a raid in Barangay Lahug here. The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) Lapu-Lapu City Field Unit identified the suspects as Kang Tae-wong,...
A ‘VICTIM’ of a mass casualty incident is put on a stretcher during a mass casualty management exercise at the Cebu City Sports Center (CCSC) Friday, August 5. (DOH-Region 7 FB) CEBU CITY – A simulation exercise tested the readiness of emergency responders here Friday, August 5. The...
CEBU CITY – Planning to join a networking company? Understand how it works. JUSTHON Ang (center), along with his brother Jethro and Jrron, takes centerstage during the first year anniversary of Uprise at the Pacific Grand Ballroom of Cebu City Waterfront Hotel last July 30. (Calvin D. Cordova) A...
CEBU CITY – A livelihood program exclusive to backyard hog raisers will be implemented in Dumanjug town in southern Cebu wherein farmers will be given free swine and technical support to boost the town’s swine production. Dumanjug Mayor Gungun Gica said the town has partnered with a hog feeds...
CEBU CITY -- A 19-year-old man accused of selling lewd photos and sex videos on social media was arrested in an entrapment operation here on Friday, July 29. Romilo Romero was handcuffed while transacting with an agent of the National Bureau of Investigation Central Visayas (NBI 7), who posed as...
CEBU City Mayor Michael Rama with President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. (FB photo) CEBU CITY – Mayor Michael Rama here and officials of the Megawide Construction Corp. (MCC) signed Sunday, July 31, the Supplemental Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) for the redevelopment of the century-old Carbon Market....
LA Paz, Abra Mayor JB Bernos looks at a business establishment in the provincial capital Bangued that tilted to its side in the magnitude-7 earthquake. (Mayor JB Bernos FB) CEBU CITY – This city has formed a five-man rescue team ready to be deployed anytime to quake-hit Abra. Gerry Carillo, head...
CEBU CITY – Government anti-narcotics agents raided and dismantled a suspected drug den in Barangay Carreta here Wednesday, July 27. The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Central Visayas (PDEA 7) arrested the joint’s alleged maintainers – Jimboy Peñas, 25, and Elñino Rosal, 20. Three other...
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) filed separate tax evasion charges against two Cebu City businessmen for alleged refusal to settle tax debts totalling to more than P65 million. Bureau of Internal Revenue It was the first Run-After-Tax-Evaders (RATE) case submitted to the Department of Justice...
CEBU CITY – Three persons were arrested in a series of raids Tuesday, July 26 targeting individuals engaged in the illegal selling of petroleum products in Metro Cebu. Personnel of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and the Department of Energy-Central Visayas seized at least P1-million...
Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) 7 arrested 15 drug personalities on Wednesday, July 28, and dismantled two drug dens in two separate operations in Cebu City. At around 5:45 a.m., the PDEA 7 Regional Special Enforcement Team (RSET) conducted a buy-bust in Sitio Lower Yati,...
