CEBU CITY – Police will tighten security in public schools here to avert violence between two warring youth gangs. The Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) said members of “Bloods” and “Crips” were involved in a recent stabbing incident at the Mabolo Night High School. Lt. Col. Wilbert Parilla,...
CEBU CITY – Former Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Roy Cimatu will lead efforts to rehabilitate rivers in this city. FORMER DENR Secretary Roy Cimatu (left) has been tapped to rehabilitate rivers in Cebu City. (Sugbo News FB photo) Cimatu said he is hoping that he will be able to...
CEBU CITY -- The mayor of this city welcomed President Marcos Jr.’s Executive Order (EO) allowing the optional use of face masks in open and well-ventilated areas. Mayor Michael Rama said the President’s EO No. 3 put to rest all debates on the issue of optional use of face masks in open areas....
CEBU CITY – Mayor Michael Rama here will fly to Manila to lure in more investors in a move that he described as “investment-begging.”’ The second round of investment begging was announced by Rama during the traditional Monday flag-raising ceremony on Monday, Sept. 12, at the City Hall...
TACLOBAN CITY – As the world mourns the death of Queen Elizabeth II, a 26-year-old tattoo artist paid tribute to the British monarch by tattooing her image on his client’s left leg. RAMIL Roy Feliciano's Queen Elizabeth II tattoo. Ramil Roy Feliciano from Cebu City took six hours to finish the...
CEBU CITY – The Cebu City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CCDRRMO) said Monday, Sept. 12, that at least 2,000 structures are up for demolition in this city’s massive drive to clear waterways from obstruction. Raquel Arce, CCDRRMO head, said they are just awaiting the go-signal...
CEBU CITY – The mayor of this city welcomed the national government’s recommendation to make the wearing of face mask in open spaces optional. Mayor Michael Rama said “I am glad" with the Inter-Agency Task Force’s (IATF) recommendation especially that the policy is already being practiced...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) sees the need to harmonize the policy of the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID) with that of the local government units (LGIs) amid the controversy brought by the decision of Cebu City...
CEBU CITY – The optional wearing of face masks in open areas here is only temporary, according to an Executive Order (EO) issued by Mayor Michael Rama on Monday, Sept. 5. Rama’s EO No. 6 contained supplementary provisions to EO No. 5 entitled “Declaring the use of face mask within the...
CEBU CITY – Barangay officials here have cited the Land Transportation Office-Central Visayas (LTO 7) for offering free Theoretical Driving Course seminars. LTO 7 Director Victor Caindec. (FB) Barangay Sudlon 1 Captain Dante Tabucal said the seminar spearheaded by LTO 7 Director Victor Caindec is...
CEBU CITY – Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia defended Mayor Michael Rama here from Department of Health (DOH) officer-in-charge Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire who lamented Cebu City’s recent policy that made the wearing of face masks in open spaces non-obligatory. Rama recently issued an...
Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama has denied shelving the implementation of the non-mandatory wearing of face masks in open spaces after supposedly acceding to the request of Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Benjamin "Benhur" Abalos Jr. DILG “Yesterday (Sept. 1), Mayor...
