CEBU CITY – A group of animal welfare advocates has expressed concern over increasing reports of puppies and kittens being used as live feed for pet snakes, crocodiles, and other reptiles. ANIMAL welfare advocates in Cebu have raised concerns over reports that puppies and kittens are being...
CEBU CITY – A new party-list seeking a seat in the midterm elections wooed voters during a series of consultative meetings here on Monday, Feb. 24. THE first three nominees of Aksyon Dapat party-list (from left) Atty. Bobbit Rocco, Hernani Braganza, and Edgar Lagman discuss their platforms during...
CEBU CITY – Actor Baron Geisler was briefly detained for drunken behavior in Mandaue City, Cebu province. GEISLER Police said the 42-year-old Geisler was taken into custody at 3:50 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 22, on Psalm St. in Barangay Canduman. Geisler was released the same day but was fined for...
Cebu Pacific, the country’s leading budget carrier, has become the first airline in Southeast Asia to fully integrate generative artificial intelligence (AI) into its customer support service. In a statement, Cebu Pacific said it is partnering with Canada-based AI customer service company Ada to...
CEBU CITY – A 25-year-old man believed to be mentally unstable ran amok and hacked his father and neighbor dead on Friday afternoon, Feb. 21, in Barangay Luka, Oslob town, Cebu province. Police identified the victims as Marciano Dinaguit, 70, and Summy Armalinto, 75. Investigation said the...
CEBU CITY – The Partido Federal ng Pilipinas (PFP), the ruling party led by President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr., has endorsed a former Customs commissioner for mayor here in the mid-term elections. CEBU City mayoral candidate Yogi Ruiz is endorsed by the Partido Federal ng Pilipinas thru national...
CEBU CITY – Former President Rodrigo R. Duterte is expected to attend an indignation rally on Saturday, Feb. 22, in Mandaue City, Cebu. DUTERTE (PDP-Laban FB) Organizers are expecting thousands to attend the Cebu People’s Indignation Rally to protest the impeachment of Vice President Sara...
CEBU CITY – A public school teacher was arrested in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Poblacion Occidental, Consolacion town, Cebu province. Jedeestel Luvite Pernito, 50, and his two alleged cohorts, Jerom Casipong Nuevo, 23, and Clint Cuyos Gersale, 25, were cornered past midnight on Friday,...
CEBU CITY – Illegal drugs worth more than P7 million were seized in buy-bust operations in the cities of Mandaue and Lapu-Lapu. The Regional Drug Enforcement Group recovered 825 grams of suspected shabu worth P5.6 million from Arman Taneca, 43, in Barangay Mantuyong, Mandaue past midnight on...
Cebu Pacific, the country’s leading budget carrier, is set to launch direct flights between Cebu and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in April. In a statement on Thursday, Feb. 20, Cebu Pacific said flights will begin on April 7 and shall be available thrice a week—every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday....
CEBU CITY – Two men, including a retired US Navy personnel, were killed in a gun attack in Barangay Punta Princesa here on Tuesday night, Feb. 18. Nicardo Nombrado, 59, and former US Navy serviceman George Kyle Lucas, 39, succumbed to bullet wounds. The perpetrator, Kevin Asia, was wounded...
CEBU CITY – A former nurse and his son were arrested in an a buy-bust operation in Barangay Duljo-Fatima here on Tuesday, Feb. 18. Aside from the father and son who were identified only as Thom and Vinz, the Special Drug Enforcement Unit of the Mambaling Police Station also arrested a...
