CEBU CITY – Former President Rodrigo R. Duterte is expected to attend an indignation rally on Saturday, Feb. 22, in Mandaue City, Cebu. DUTERTE (PDP-Laban FB) Organizers are expecting thousands to attend the Cebu People’s Indignation Rally to protest the impeachment of Vice President Sara...
CEBU CITY – A public school teacher was arrested in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Poblacion Occidental, Consolacion town, Cebu province. Jedeestel Luvite Pernito, 50, and his two alleged cohorts, Jerom Casipong Nuevo, 23, and Clint Cuyos Gersale, 25, were cornered past midnight on Friday,...
CEBU CITY – Illegal drugs worth more than P7 million were seized in buy-bust operations in the cities of Mandaue and Lapu-Lapu. The Regional Drug Enforcement Group recovered 825 grams of suspected shabu worth P5.6 million from Arman Taneca, 43, in Barangay Mantuyong, Mandaue past midnight on...
Cebu Pacific, the country’s leading budget carrier, is set to launch direct flights between Cebu and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in April. In a statement on Thursday, Feb. 20, Cebu Pacific said flights will begin on April 7 and shall be available thrice a week—every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday....
CEBU CITY – Two men, including a retired US Navy personnel, were killed in a gun attack in Barangay Punta Princesa here on Tuesday night, Feb. 18. Nicardo Nombrado, 59, and former US Navy serviceman George Kyle Lucas, 39, succumbed to bullet wounds. The perpetrator, Kevin Asia, was wounded...
CEBU CITY – A former nurse and his son were arrested in an a buy-bust operation in Barangay Duljo-Fatima here on Tuesday, Feb. 18. Aside from the father and son who were identified only as Thom and Vinz, the Special Drug Enforcement Unit of the Mambaling Police Station also arrested a...
CEBU CITY – A 26-year-old man was arrested for his alleged involvement in last year’s broad daylight killing of a barangay captain and his wife in Asturias town, Cebu province. ROBERT Ubalde was arrested as a suspect in the killing of a barangay captain and his wife in Asturias town, Cebu last...
CEBU CITY – Dismissed Mandaue City Mayor Jonas Cortes clarified that he remains loyal to One Cebu, an influential political party headed by Cebu Gov. Gwen Garcia. FORMER President Rodrigo Duterte endorses the reelection bid of dismissed Mandaue City Mayor Jonas Cortes. (FB) Cortes issued the...
CEBU CITY – Two female siblings were rescued from online human trafficking allegedly orchestrated by their 33-year-old mother in Olango Island, Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu province. POLICE arrest a mother for trafficking her two daughters online in Lapu-Lapu City. (Contributed photo) Their mother...
CEBU CITY – A 29-year-old woman died and her two companions were injured when the motorcycle they were riding collided with a truck in Barangay Catarman, Liloan town, northern Cebu at dawn on Monday, Feb. 17. Police identified the fatality as Christine Abarollo Tindoy, a resident of Barangay...
CEBU CITY – An owner of a security agency was found guilty of estafa after failing to remit the Social Security System (SSS) contributions of one of her former workers. The Municipal Trial Court in Cities (MTCC) Branch 1 in Mandaue City, Cebu found Arne Sarsalejo, owner of Sarsalejo Security...
CEBU CITY – More police outposts, fewer chances of crimes from happening. POLICE man an outpost in a busy area in Cebu City. (Contributed photo) Police Col. Enrico Figueroa, chief of the Cebu City Police Office, said this as more police outposts have been established primarily in crime-prone...