CEBU CITY – Twenty-six children and two adults were hospitalized for suspected food poisoning in a dormitory here on Friday afternoon, June 23. Dr. Ester Concha, chief of the city Department of Social Welfare and Services (DSWS), said the victims fell ill after eating rice and fish for lunch....
CEBU CITY – A 33-year-old mechanic was arrested for spreading the videos of his intimate moments with his supposed ex-girlfriend. JR Villagracia, a native of Guihulngan, Negros Oriental but has been living in Barangay Parian, Cebu City, was arrested in an entrapment operation conducted by...
CEBU CITY – One of the biggest schools here has prohibited its students from bringing "lato-lato" (cracklings) within the campus. LATO-LATO (Juan Carlo de Vela) Nathanael Flores, principal of Abellana National School, issued a memorandum dated June 20 directing teachers “to inform all students...
CEBU CITY – The new chief of the Land Transportation Office-Central Visayas (LTO-7) assumed his post on Tuesday, June 20. OUTGOING LTO-7 Director Victor Caindec with incoming LTO-7 chief Glen Galario. (FB) Glen Galario replaced Victor Emmanuel Caindec, who served as LTO-7 regional director for...
CEBU CITY -- Amid the rumblings at the Metro Cebu Water District (MCWD), one of its Board of Directors confirmed that there was a proposal to privatize the water agency. MCWD Board Member Jodelyn May Seno said in a statement released to the media that a meeting between some MCWD officials and...
Investors in the Cebu economic zones have poured in a total of P275.315 billion, churned out $5.9 billion in annual average exports and provided 232,076 direct employment to Cebuanos to date, Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) Director General Tereso O. Panga reported. “Our Cebu locators’...
CEBU CITY — Three persons, including two brothers, were arrested in a buy-bust operation in a suspected drug den here on Friday afternoon, June 16. THREE persons were arrested during a buy-bust operation in a suspected drug den in Barangay Punta Princesa, Cebu City on Friday afternoon, June 16....
CEBU CITY – Don’t drive when you are drunk. A PRIVATE vehicle collides with a motorcycle on Escario St., Cebu City on Tuesday, June 13. Police reported that the number of vehicular accidents in Cebu City has increased from January to May this year. (Contributed photo) Police here issued this...
CEBU CITY – The Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) has seized more illegal drugs in the first five months of the year compared to the same period last year behind an intensified anti-criminality campaign. Police Col. Ireneo Dalogdog, chief of CCPO, said that from January to May this year, some 23.45...
CEBU CITY – The Office of the Presidential Assistant for the Visayas (OPAV) marked Independence Day with a feeding activity in Barangay Carreta here as it gears up for a bigger outreach program next month in Region 6 (Western Visayas). UNDERSECRETARY Terence Calatrava of the Office of the...
CEBU CITY – With the continuing threat of cyber attacks, the country needs to have more cybersecurity professionals. The country’s lack of cybersecurity professionals has to be addressed as electronic information security has become a national threat, a senior economic growth specialist of the...
CEBU CITY – Poland’s first visa application center outside Manila opened here on Thursday, June 1. TOMASZ Danel (center), vice consul of the Poland Embassy in Manila, leads the opening of the Polish visa application center in Cebu City on Thursday, June 1. (Calvin D. Cordova) Tomasz Danel, Vice...
