A ship caught fire in the vicinity shoreline of Lapu Lapu City, Cebu on Friday, April 28. (MV Diamond Highway catches fire off Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu on April 28, 2023. Courtesy of PCG District Central Visayas) The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) identified the ill-fated vessel as MV Diamond...
CEBU CITY – Two 12-year-old Grade 6 students drowned while swimming in a pond in Barangay Basak, Lapu-Lapu City on Thursday afternoon, April 20. ONLOOKERS gather around the pond where two young girls drowned while swimming on Thursday afternoon, April 20, in Barangay Basak, Lapu-Lapu City. (Photo...
CEBU CITY -- Board passers in Lapu-Lapu City received cash incentives from the city government. Lapu-Lapu Mayor Junard Chan on Thursday, April 20, led the distribution of cash rewards to 150 board passers from Lapu-Lapu. Each board passer got P5,000 while a topnotcher received a whopping P100,000....
CEBU CITY – A group of students was rescued after the motor banca they were riding stalled off Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu on Easter Sunday. Eighteen students from the University of Cebu (UC)-Lapu-Lapu/Mandaue Campus contracted the motor banca for island-hopping on Easter Sunday. A GROUP of students is...
CEBU CITY – At least P31-million worth of suspected shabu were seized from two women who were arrested in separate buy-bust operations in the cities of Lapu-Lapu and Mandaue on Black Saturday, April 8. In Lapu-Lapu, Pamila Legaspo, 43, was arrested in Barangay Mactan and more than three kilos of...
CEBU CITY – A boxing judge was arrested after he assaulted an official of the Games and Amusement Board (GAB)-Cebu Field Office on Saturday night, April 2, in Lapu-Lapu City. JIMMY Donton, officer-in-charge of the Games and Amusement Board (GAB)-Cebu Field Office, is bloodied when he reported to a...
CEBU CITY — Police seized suspected shabu from three drug pushers worth over P24 million in buy-bust operations in the province of Cebu on Thursday, March 16. SUSPECTED shabu worth P14.2 million was seized from a 23-year-old woman in Barangay Babag, Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu on Thursday morning, March...
CEBU CITY – Nine persons were injured after the roof of a newly opened food park in Barangay Maribago, Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu collapsed at the height of heavy rain on Sunday night, Feb. 5. NINE persons were injured after the roof of a newly opened food park in Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu collapsed on...
CEBU CITY – Thirty-four houses were razed while four others were damaged in a fire that hit Barangay Basak, Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu before dawn on Saturday, Feb. 4. RESIDENTS of Barangay Basak, Lapu-Lapu City return to check their houses following a fire before dawn on Saturday, Feb. 4. (Photo...
CEBU CITY – Get into sports, not into drugs. COL. Antonietto Cañete (seated, second from right), chief of the Community Affairs and Development Division of the Police Regional Office-Central Visayas, welcomes the football team of Benthel Asia School of Technology in his office where the team...
CEBU CITY -- Several residents in Lapu-Lapu City have sought the help of their mayor after they lost millions to an investment that turned out to be a scam. The person who is allegedly behind the scam is a resident of Barangay Maribago whose wife works at the Lapu-Lapu City Hall. The identity of...
CEBU CITY -- Five-star resorts, white sand beaches and a wide array of food choices and delicacies. These are among the reasons cited by Lapu-Lapu City Lone District Rep. Cindi King-Chan why tourists should visit the city. Lapu-Lapu City Lone District Rep. Cindi King-Chan (seated, 2nd from right)...
