CEBU CITY – Cebuanos are in for huge treat as one of the biggest footraces in the country will be held in the Queen City of the South. Slated July 12, the Singlife Cebu International Marathon (SCIM) was officially launched on Tuesday, May 26, at the City Wing Atrium of SM Seaside City Cebu....
The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Tuesday, May 26, ordered a manhunt against the suspects behind the abduction of a car dealer in Cebu City. PNP Chief, Police General Jose Melencio C. Nartatez Jr. directed intensified follow-up operations after a closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage...
CEBU CITY – For three packs of shabu and P5,000 cash, three teenagers agreed to gun down a woman in Barangay Calamba here. This was the admission of the assailants who were arrested less than 24 hours after the gun attack happened past 5 p.m. on Thursday, May 21. Two of the culprits...
CEBU CITY – Two brothers and their cousin were arrested in a drug den raid in Barangay Quiot here on Monday night, May 18. Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Central Visayas (PDEA-7) arrested Adrian, 25, his 21-year-old brother Marvin, and Ryan, 21. PDEA-7 Regional Director Joel...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development 's (DSWD) Pag-abot Program has provided initial intervention to the elderly man in Cebu City who recently went viral after being arrested for playing his harmonica on the streets to buy food for his hungry grandchild. The DSWD Field...
More than a decade after the World Bank approved financing for the Cebu Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Project, the flagship urban transport initiative remains far from achieving its original objectives, with only a short section of the corridor substantially completed before the loan expires in...
CEBU CITY – A 38-year-old man and his nephew were arrested for allegedly shooting and wounding a fish vendor in Barangay Labangon here. Francis and Ricky, 21, were apprehended less than 24 hours after shooting Lina, 50, aboard a motorcycle on Tres de Abril at dawn Friday, May 15. Police Col....
CEBU CITY – Two men were arrested for robbing a warehouse and killing its caretaker in Barangay Guadalupe here on Wednesday morning, May 13. Police said robbery with homicide cases were filed against Jayson, a 30-year-old resident of Barangay Guadalupe, Cebu City, and 37-year-old Rocky, a...
CEBU CITY – Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation- Central Visayas (NBI-7) arrested a man accused of trafficking women for prostitution. Jollie Jainar Fundador, alias Joel, was arrested in an entrapment operation in Barangay Camputhaw, Cebu City on Monday, May 11. NBI-7 said the suspect...
CEBU CITY – Timor-Leste Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão toured this city a day after the 48th Association of Southeast Asian Nations Leaders’ Summit concluded. Gusmão was welcomed by Mayor Nestor Archival, Vice Mayor Tomas Osmena, and other officials when he visited the Cebu City Hall on...
CEBU CITY – Seven alleged pickpockets preying on unsuspecting partygoers were arrested inside a pension house in Barangay Kalubihan here. The suspects – a woman and six Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) members – were cornered several hours after a customer of a night...
CEBU CITY – More than P1-million worth of suspected shabu was seized from a drug pusher in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Babag here on Tuesday night, May 5. Joel Plaza, regional director of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Central Visayas (PDEA-7), identified the suspect as Darwin, 29....
