CEBU CITY – A go-to place for heritage enthusiasts is set to open to the public anew. Sporting a livelier, more vibrant exterior, Casa Gorordo Museum on E. Aboitiz St. here will reopen on Oct. 15. THE facade of Casa Gorordo in Cebu City. (Photo via Calvin D. Cordova) The house museum offers a...
CEBU CITY — Old habits die hard for this known robber. Jerlan Cañete Sabanal, a resident of Barangay Ermita here where he is known as “Boy Langaw,” was arrested again less than a month after he was released from jail. Sabanal was nabbed at dawn on Tuesday, Oct. 11, after police caught him...
CEBU CITY – Col. Ireneo Dalogdog, newly installed Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) chief, vowed to instill more discipline in the 1,200-strong CCPO in support of Mayor Michael Rama’s “Oplan: Disiplina.” COL. Ireneo Dalogdog (left), new Cebu City police chief, in a meeting with Cebu City...
CEBU CITY -- Police here welcomed the signing into law of a measure seeking the registration of Subscriber Identity Module or sim card. Col. Ireneo Dalogdog, chief of the Cebu City Police Office, said the SIM Registration Act or Republic Act 11934, will somehow unburden the police. “We are very...
ONE FOR THE ROAD James Deakin The world is spinning faster than any other time in human history. Not literally, of course, but in terms of information, expectations, and in many ways, the dehumanization through digital applications, there’s little doubt that we are living in an exponential era...
CEBU CITY – This city will deploy personnel called ‘’River Rangers’’ to ensure cleanliness in major rivers and other waterways here. THE PROBE office cleans up a clogged waterway in Cebu City. (PROBE Team Cebu City FB) The creation of the River Rangers is part of this city’s massive...
CEBU CITY – The Bureau of Customs (BOC)-Cebu Subport of Mactan seized undeclared hazardous chemicals valued at P1.5 million from a vessel docked in this city on Sept. 30. The BOC-Port of Cebu said on Friday, Oct. 8, that they received “derogatory information” from the Customs Intelligence and...
CEBU CITY – Police arrested a 30-year-old man and seized suspected shabu valued at more than P5 million in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Carreta here on Wednesday, Oct. 5. The suspect, Elton John dela Torre, was arrested by the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO)-Drug Enforcement Unit (DEU) inside...
BAGUIO CITY – Mayor Benjamin Magalong here said on Wednesday, Oct. 5, that regular flights between here and Cebu City might start after the reopening of the Loakan Airport by December. Magalong discussed the airport reopening with Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Jaime Bautista and...
CEBU CITY—The new chief of the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) formally assumed his post on Monday, Oct. 3. BRIG. Gen. Roque Eduardo Vega (center) presides over the turnover ceremony that installed Col. Ireneo Dalogdog (right) as the new chief of the Cebu City Police Office, replacing Col. Ernestu...
CEBU CITY – The 1,200-strong Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) has a new chief. Col. Ireneo Dalogdog on Saturday, Oct. 1, officially assumed the post, replacing Col. Ernestu Salvador Tagle, who moved to the Police Regional Office-Central Visayas. Tagle was named CCPO chief in Jan. 10 this year....
CEBU CITY – A city councilor has sought an investigation on the death of her 91-year-old aunt whom she said died “for the flimsiest and most outrageous of reasons.” CEBU City Councilor Mary Anne de los Santos (seated). (FB) Councilor Mary Ann de los Santos said her aunt Milagros died after...
