DAVAO CITY – The 21st Davao City Council approved on Tuesday, Oct. 21, an ordinance under suspended rules authorizing acting Davao City Mayor Sebastian Duterte to utilize a portion of the city’s Quick Response Fund as financial aid to areas in Cebu recently struck by a magnitude-6.9 earthquake....
CEBU CITY – A female judge died in a vehicular accident in Barangay Cabiangon, Pinamungajan town, Cebu province on Wednesday morning, Oct. 22. Municipal Trial Court in Cities (MTCC) Judge Carmela Rosario Pasquin, 41, was declared dead when she was brought to a hospital. Police said the judge was...
CEBU CITY – He is out of public office but legal issues continued to hound him. Former Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama has been found guilty by the Office of the Ombudsman of oppression or grave abuse of authority for what the anti-graft court described as “cruel and excessive” reassignment of...
BACOLOD CITY – The Police Regional Office-Negros Island Region (PRO-NIR) extended assistance to people affected by the Sept. 30 earthquake in northern Cebu province, particularly Bogo City. A 10-man team led by Police Capt. Everly Canto, chief of the Community Affairs Section, turned over relief...
CEBU CITY – Less than a month after it was badly damaged by a massive magnitude-6.9 earthquake, the Bogo City Provincial Hospital is now capable again of handling emergencies and surgeries. ZLREJ Construction has completed and turned over the repaired Emergency Room (ER) and Operating Room (OR)...
CEBU CITY – Three persons, including a mother and her son, were wounded in separate gun attacks in Cebu province. In Barangay Giloctog, Barili, 59-year-old Anecita Ewayan and her 29-year-old son Michael Ryan were attacked by a still-unidentified assailant in their home early Saturday morning,...
In times of calamity, every second matters—and for three Bachelor of Science in Information Technology (BSIT) students from the University of Cebu–Main, technology can make the difference between being seen or being stranded. When a major earthquake struck Cebu recently, Vince Clave Igot, Ralph...
CEBU CITY – A motorcycle driver died while his backrider was injured when they fell off a cliff in Barangay Cambinocot here past noon Saturday, Oct. 18. Alberto Lapesigue, 57, was declared dead when he was brought to the Cebu City Medical Center. Floyd Perez Jr., Lapesigue’s neighbor in...
CEBU CITY – Suspected marijuana kush and liquid marijuana were seized from a 26-year-old man in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Hipodromo here. Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Central Visayas (PDEA-7) and operatives of the Cebu City Police Station 4 cornered the suspect,...
President Marcos inspected the newly built “Bayanihan Village” in San Remigio, Cebu—a modular housing project completed within a week to provide immediate shelter for families displaced by the magnitude 6.9 earthquake that struck the province on Sept. 30. During his visit on Oct. 10, Marcos...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake hit Bogo City, Cebu on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 18, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) reported. In its Earthquake Information No. 1, Phivolcs said the quake occurred at 12:59 p.m., with a depth of 10 kilometers. According to the agency,...
CEBU CITY – At least 300 personnel from the Police Regional Office-Central Visayas (PRO-7) were recognized for their roles in the emergency response operations in the earthquake-stricken northern Cebu province. They were among those deployed for rescue, retrieval, and recovery operations...
