The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) filed separate tax evasion charges against two Cebu City businessmen for alleged refusal to settle tax debts totalling to more than P65 million. Bureau of Internal Revenue It was the first Run-After-Tax-Evaders (RATE) case submitted to the Department of Justice...
CEBU CITY – Three persons were arrested in a series of raids Tuesday, July 26 targeting individuals engaged in the illegal selling of petroleum products in Metro Cebu. Personnel of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and the Department of Energy-Central Visayas seized at least P1-million...
Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) 7 arrested 15 drug personalities on Wednesday, July 28, and dismantled two drug dens in two separate operations in Cebu City. At around 5:45 a.m., the PDEA 7 Regional Special Enforcement Team (RSET) conducted a buy-bust in Sitio Lower Yati,...
ONE of the old houses damaged by the earthquake in Vigan City, Ilocos Sur. (Vigan City Cultural Affairs and Tourism Office) CEBU CITY – Lapu-Lapu City and Cebu City will send aid to the quake-hit Ilocos region. Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama said they will check their calamity fund and will conduct...
CEBU CITY – Police arrested 12 persons and seized suspected shabu valued at P68,000 in a drug den raid in Barangay Tisa here Wednesday, July 27. The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Central Visayas (PDEA 7) arrested Arnel Pacaña, a 49-year-old aircon technician and the alleged maintainer of...
CEBU CITY – Thousands of residents in the fourth and fifth districts of Cebu received free eyeglasses and wheelchairs during a two-day charity drive over the weekend. A NUN is one of the beneficiaries of the free eye checkup of Semi Di Speranza which held a humanitarian mission over the weekend...
A FIRE hit a residential area in Sitio Kalubihan, Barangay Guadalupe, Cebu City Sunday, July 24. (CCFO FB) CEBU CITY – This city recorded 114 fire incidents with damage to property reaching P441 million from January to June this year. The Cebu City Fire Office (CCFO) advised the public to be...
RAMA (FB photo) CEBU CITY – The mayor of this city, Michael Rama, has been elected president of the League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP). Ninety-five member city mayors signed a petition endorsing Rama and 55 others to comprise the new elective board members and appointive officers of the...
CEBU CITY – Satellite registration centers here are still swarmed with registrants amid the snowballing calls to suspend the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections in December. Lawyer Marchel Sarno, election officer of the Commission on Elections (Comelec)-Cebu City North District, said...
CEBU CITY – An elderly woman who had just been released from jail was arrested in a buy-bust operation inside a drug den here Wednesday, July 20. Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Central Visayas (PDEA Region 7) arrested the suspect, Violeta Morales, 61, in a drug den she allegedly...
CEBU CITY – The Cebu City Fire Office (CCFO) conducted a simulation exercise to test the skills of an emergency response team in an upscale mall at IT Park in Barangay Lahug here Thursday, July 21. The ERT had to contend with a fire that broke out in the mall resulting into a commotion. The ERT...
CEBU CITY – A 26-year-old woman was arrested after she was allegedly caught selling falsified tax identification (TIN) cards in Barangay Bulacao here Tuesday, July 12. Lordelyn Caballero was cornered in an entrapment operation conducted by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation-Central...
