CEBU CITY – About 100 stalls were razed in a fire that hit the Danao City public market in northern Cebu Thursday, June 2. The Danao Fire Station reported that P52-million worth of property was damaged as the damaged structures comprised 80 percent of the market’s total stalls. The fire started...
CEBU CITY – A criminal complaint for theft has been filed against a policeman accused of stealing cable wires owned by a telecommunications company. Police Staff Sgt. Joel Superales Soliva will also face administrative charges that the Philippine National Police (PNP) will file against him, said...
Cebu Pacific (CEB) ramped up its international network beginning this month by adding more flights to Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh, Nagoya, Seoul, Osaka, and Singapore, as COVID restrictions for travelers continued to ease. 86478 Starting June 1, flights from Manila to Bangkok will...
CEBU CITY – Four persons were arrested for illegally selling diesel fuel in Barangay Camanucan, Compostela, Cebu last Wednesday, June 1. Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI)-Mandaue City District Office raided a compound in the area where eight barrels of diesel fuel worth...
CEBU CITY – Cebu has eased the travel restrictions for vaccinated travelers. Travelers, both foreigners and Filipinos, who have been fully vaccinated and administered with one booster shot, is no longer required to present RT-PCR tests when entering the province. For fully vaccinated travelers...
POLICE crime scene investigators process the remains of a fatality in the Monday night shootout in Lapu-Lapu City. (Photo from Mayor Junard Chan’s Facebook account) CEBU CITY – Lapu-Lapu City remains safe, Mayor Junard “Ahong” Chan assured Wednesday, June 1, following a shootout between the...
Liloan town, Cebu Mayor Christina Frasco will be the Department of Tourism (DOT) secretary of the incoming administration of President-elect Bongbong Marcos. Incoming DOT Secretary Christina Frasco (BBM Media Office) This was announced by Press Secretary-designate Trixie Cruz-Angeles during a press...
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) destroyed 99.9 million worth of dangerous drugs through thermal destruction on Monday, May 30, in Cebu City. Thermal destruction or thermolysis is a method of decomposition or breaking down of chemicals by heat. At 1,000 degrees centigrade, all...
CEBU CITY – New infections are going down but this city will not end the month without new Covid-19 fatalities. The Emergency Operations Center (EOC) reported Monday, May 30, that two elderlies were the latest to succumb to Covid-19. Overall, this city has logged 54,883 Covid-19 cases with 1,704...
CEBU CITY – Almost P100-million worth of confiscated illegal drugs were destroyed here Monday, May 30. The illegal drugs that were destroyed through the thermal facility of the Cosmopolitan Funeral Homes were part of those seized in various anti-illegal drug operations conducted in previous...
CEBU CITY -- This city was rocked by bomb threats on a day a passenger bus in Koronadal City and a bus terminal in Tacurong were bombed on Thursday. The Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) on Thursday afternoon received four bomb threats which were later found out to be a hoax. Lt. Col. Maria Theresa...
CEBU CITY – Two years after he was released from jail, a 32-year-old man found himself behind bars again for the same offense. Melvin Salazar was arrested in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Bangkal, Lapu-Lapu City past 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 25. Operatives of the Drug Enforcement Unit (DEU)...
