Fiber internet service provider Converge ICT Solutions Inc. is building a P1 billion Cebu data center to meet demand surge in Visayas and Mindanao. "We just bought a property in Mandaue where the site will be built,” Converge CEO and Co-Founder Dennis Anthony Uy Tuesday, (June 15) announced,...
MONTEJO (center). (FB photo) CEBU CITY – Police Brig. Gen. Ronnie Montejo, chief of the Police Regional Office-Central Visayas (PRO 7), warned suspected drug personalities that they face the fate of three men who were killed in a gunfight during a buy-bust operation in Barangay Taptap here...
GARCIA. (FB photo) CEBU CITY – Travelers from Negros Oriental, Negros Occidental, and Bohol will have to present a negative COVID-19 test when entering Cebu. Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia issued Executive Order No. 22 on Independence Day ordering that travelers arriving in Cebu must show a...
President Duterte has directed Cebu province to abide by the national government's testing and quarantine protocols for arriving passengers in the country. President Rodrigo Duterte (File photo/Malacañang) The President has issued the directive after the province reportedly insisted on enforcing...
Vice President Leni Robredo on Sunday, June 13, told the Davao city government to look at how Cebu City successfully controlled the surge of COVID-19 infections through private partnerships and the active presence of the medical community. Vice President Leni Robredo (Geric Cruz/Bloomberg) Davao...
By ANTONIO G. PAPA, Ph.D. Spouses Wellington and Elisa Chan Lim own and operate Wellisa Farms on Bantayan Island, Cebu province. The farms have an animal stock of about 15,000 hogs and 400,000 layer hens. The successful agribusiness firm utilizes modern farm equipment and facilities, and applying...
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Regional Office VII’s first-ever Smart Food Value Chain Facility and Manufacturing Village is expected to extend its food microbiology laboratory services to Cebu’s western towns and cities by middle of June. DOST Secretary Fortunato “Boy” T....
Philippine Red Cross (PRC) Chairman Senator Richard J. Gordon on Thursday, June 10, is urging the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) to “reconsider the current protocols” which require a 14-day mandatory quarantine period. Philippine Red Cross / MANILA BULLETIN Gordon...
Globe is embarking on a landmark partnership with the Department of Education (DepEd) - Division of Cebu Province with the construction of 26 new cell sites in 26 DepEd locations to support the government’s online learning initiatives. Globe is investing P338 million for the building of the new...
All international flights bound for Cebu will continue to be diverted to the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) until June 12, 2021, Malacañang announced Tuesday. The Mactan-Cebu International Airport Terminal 2. (Photo by Juan Carlo de Vela/ MANILA BULLETIN) Executive Secretary Salvador...
Cebu Pacific airlines (CEB) carried another batch of one million doses of Sinovac Biotech Ltd.-manufactured vaccines from Beijing to Manila on Sunday, June 6. (Ariel Fernandez / MANILA BULLETIN) (Ariel Fernandez / MANILA BULLETIN) The vaccines were safely flown in temperature-controlled containers...
Secretary Alfonso Cusi doesn't believe that he has been remiss in his job as Department of Energy (DOE) chief as a result of him tending to his tasks related to politics. DOE Secretary Alfonso Cusi (Ariel Fernandez / File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) Cusi also wears the hat of vice chairman of ruling...
