CEBU CITY – This city is enforcing strict regulations on firecrackers sale. POLICE Col. Antonietto Cañete (left), chief of the Cebu City Police Office, leads the inspection of firecracker stalls on South Road Properties in Cebu City on Friday, Dec. 27. (Contributed photo) Police Col. Antonietto...
CEBU CITY – Labor groups here have opposed the proposed zero subsidy for PhilHealth. LABOR groups oppose the proposed zero subsidy for PhilHealth during rally in front of the State health insurer’s office in Cebu City on Thursday, Dec. 26. (MyTVCebu) About 150 members of Partido Manggagawa and...
CEBU CITY – A six-year-old girl was killed in a vehicular accident in Barangay Langtad, Naga City, southern Cebu on Christmas Day. The girl’s parents were critically injured in the accident on the national highway at past 2 a.m. Police identified the fatality as Caroline Delute. Injured...
CEBU CITY – Four men were arrested as suspects in the recent gang-rape of a 15-year-old girl in Oslob town, southern Cebu. The four suspects were aged between 18- and 20-years-old. Two of the suspects are siblings, police said. A POLICE tape secures the entrance of a house where a 15-year-old...
CEBU CITY – Banking on the increasing desire for green transportation options in the country, a global automotive brand recently introduced new eco-friendly and technologically advanced vehicles in this city. Eres Automotive on Dec. 18 opened the Omoda and Jaecoo Philippines car dealership here....
VisMin developer Cebu Landmasters Inc. is planning to raise up to P5 billion from the planned issuance of Sustainability-Linked Bonds which will be the second tranche of its three-year Shelf Registration program amounting to P15 billion. Philippine Rating Services Corporation (PhilRatings) said it...
CEBU CITY - A 29-year-old drug pusher tagged as a high-value individual was arrested in a buy-bust operation in Mandaue City on Friday night, Dec. 20. Police recovered 4.5 kilos of suspected shabu with an estimated value of P30.6 million from Kent Kirk Calonge Ponsica, who was arrested on M....
CEBU CITY – A lawyer expressed confidence that the third impeachment complaint filed against Vice President Sara Duterte will prosper. VICE President Sara Duterte (FB) Cebu-based lawyer Armando Virgil Ligutan said they invoked grounds for impeachment in the complaint. “The impeachment complaint...
CEBU CITY – Two kilos of shabu worth P13.6 million were seized from a 46-year-old man in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Pulpogan, Consolacion town, northern Cebu on Thursday afternoon, Dec. 19. A KG9 9mm pistol with five bullets was also seized from the possession of Jame Lacang, a native...
CEBU CITY – Mystery surrounds the death of a 15-year-old girl in Oslob town, southern Cebu province who reported to the police that she was gang-raped before she died the next day. Police Major Jude Librando Cebrero, chief of the Olob Police Station, said they are still investigating the death of...
A decade after approving its loan for the Cebu bus rapid transit (BRT) project, the World Bank lamented sluggish implementation and warned it may remain unfinished when the financing ends two years from now. In a Dec. 19 implementation status and results report, the Washington-based...
CEBU CITY -- After decades of waiting, residents of Barangays Lusaran and Pulangbato here now enjoy safe, potable, and affordable water after the Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) officially commissioned expansion projects in these two areas. These projects were prioritized by the MCWD Board...
