CEBU CITY – Police seized suspected shabu valued at P68 million from two persons in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Sambag I here Tuesday, June 14. Police identified the suspects as Cornelio Villamin Baron Jr., 39, of Barangay Singco, San Carlos City, Negros Occidental, and Jacqueline Gustilo...
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) Cebu Chapter, in coordination with the Bureau of Fire Protection and Local Government Unit, immediately dispatched its two ambulance units that treated three patients with minor injuries in a fire at a residential area in Sitio Tuburan, Barangay Punta Princesa, Cebu...
CEBU CITY – A man was arrested after he allegedly threatened to spread the nude photos of a woman if she would not pay him or have sex with him. Mark Anthony Daclan, a graduate of Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, was arrested in an entrapment operation conducted by agents of the...
CEBU CITY – Motorcycles below 400 cylinders capacity (CC) will be allowed to pass the Cebu-Cordova Link Expressway (CCLEX) starting July 1. The Cebu-Cordova Link Expressway Corp. (CCLEC) also announced that the registration and installation of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) stickers...
CEBU CITY – Cebu has eased up its policy on the wearing of face masks but two major cities in Metro Cebu are not about to follow suit just yet. For Mayor Michael Rama here, it is not the right time yet for the city to duplicate the move of Cebu, which has made the wearing of face masks in open...
CEBU CITY – Some Covid-19 vaccinations sites here will be closed starting Friday, June 17, as fewer people are showing up to get inoculated. Dr. Jeffrey Ibones, officer-in-charge of the City Health Department, said it has been observed lately that the number of people visiting vaccination sites...
CEBU CITY – At least 14 houses were destroyed in a fire that hit Barangay Tisa here Monday, June 6. The fire started at 6:34 a.m. and was contained about an hour later. According to the Cebu City Fire Department, the fire started at the house owned by one Jasmine Lodonia before it spread to...
CEBU CITY – A criminal complaint for theft has been filed against a policeman accused of stealing cable wires owned by a telecommunications company. Police Staff Sgt. Joel Superales Soliva will also face administrative charges that the Philippine National Police (PNP) will file against him, said...
POLICE crime scene investigators process the remains of a fatality in the Monday night shootout in Lapu-Lapu City. (Photo from Mayor Junard Chan’s Facebook account) CEBU CITY – Lapu-Lapu City remains safe, Mayor Junard “Ahong” Chan assured Wednesday, June 1, following a shootout between the...
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) destroyed 99.9 million worth of dangerous drugs through thermal destruction on Monday, May 30, in Cebu City. Thermal destruction or thermolysis is a method of decomposition or breaking down of chemicals by heat. At 1,000 degrees centigrade, all...
CEBU CITY – New infections are going down but this city will not end the month without new Covid-19 fatalities. The Emergency Operations Center (EOC) reported Monday, May 30, that two elderlies were the latest to succumb to Covid-19. Overall, this city has logged 54,883 Covid-19 cases with 1,704...
CEBU CITY – Almost P100-million worth of confiscated illegal drugs were destroyed here Monday, May 30. The illegal drugs that were destroyed through the thermal facility of the Cosmopolitan Funeral Homes were part of those seized in various anti-illegal drug operations conducted in previous...
