CEBU CITY – A real estate company has threatened to take legal action against officials of Badian town, southern Cebu for allegedly failing to stop the construction of beach houses in one of the town’s coastal barangays. Redwood Heritage Landholdings Inc. urged Badian Mayor Carmencita Lumain and...
CEBU CITY – One day after a brawl involving some Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) players broke out in Carmen town, northern Cebu, another melee also erupted following a basketball game in the municipality of Moalboal, southern Cebu. A BRAWL erupted between players of the University of Cebu...
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 – A former barangay councilor was gunned down by motorcycle-riding assailants in Barangay Baliwagan, Balamban town, Cebu early Saturday morning, April 22. Alfonso Jun Boot Jr. died on the spot due to bullet wounds. The victim’s wife told police that her husband left their house past 5...
CEBU CITY – The officer-in-charge of the Tabuelan Police Station in northern Cebu is willing to appear before the Senate to clear his name after he was linked to the camp of suspended Negros Oriental Rep. Arnolfo Teves. Police Col. Allen June Germodo denied that he was close to Teves who was...
CEBU CITY – Authorities in Talisay City, southern Cebu are still investigating the death of two siblings, who fell into a hole intended for a septic tank on Sunday, April 9. TALISAY City Mayor Samsam Gullas inspects the open hole where two siblings fell and drowned on Sunday, April 9. (Photo...
CEBU CITY – Two siblings died after they fell into a septic tank in Barangay San Roque, Talisay City, southern Cebu on Easter Sunday. Police identified the fatalities as Mark Emman Llamedo, 6, and Nathaniel Llamedo, 7. Police Corporal Clifford Lerio, investigator-on-case, said that the...
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 – The observance of Holy Week in the province of Cebu was generally peaceful, the Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO) said on Monday, April 10. Col. Rommel Ochave, CPPO chief, said measures taken like increasing police visibility in churches contributed to the peaceful observance of the...
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 – Police seized suspected shabu worth P7.4 million from an ex-convict in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Bulacao, Talisay City, Cebu on Black Saturday. AN ex-convict, Patrick Abing Igoy (left), yielded a kilo of suspected shabu worth P7.4 million in a buy-bust operation in Talisay...
CEBU CITY – The management of the Capitol-run north and south bus terminals expressed readiness for the influx of passengers for the observance of Holy Week and the upcoming long weekend. CEBU Gov. Gwen Garcia inspects one of mini-buses at the Cebu South Bus Terminal when she visited the facility...
