CEBU CITY – Former Mandaue City Mayor Jonas Cortes has filed an urgent motion to post bail in the graft charges filed against him. Invoking judicial expediency and practicality, Cortes filed the motion before the Mandaue Regional Trial Court Branch 89. Cortes asked the court to grant the instant...
CEBU CITY – Suspected shabu worth P10.2 million were seized from a drug pusher in a buy-bust operation in Mandaue City on Monday night, May 26. The City Intelligence Unit and City Drug Enforcement Unit of the Mandaue City Police Office (MCPO) seized 15 packs of shabu from the 39-year-old male...
CEBU CITY – The losing mayoral candidates from three highly urbanized cities in Metro Cebu are not yet giving up their respective fights. RADAZA (FB) Former Lapu-Lapu Mayor Paz Radaza has filed a petition for disqualification before the Commission on Elections (Comelec) against couple Junard and...
CEBU CITY – The camp of a mayoral candidate in Mandaue City has complained about the presence of watchers possessing IDs bearing the name and ballot number of another candidate. Incumbent Cebu Provincial Board Member Jonkie Ouano complained that the presence of watchers with IDs containing the...
CEBU CITY – Packs of suspected shabu worth P8.6 million were seized in a buy-bust operation in Mandaue City on Friday, April 25. Police said 1.2 kilos of shabu were recovered from Jem-jem, 41, in Barangay Ibabao-Estancia. The operation was conducted by the City Intelligence Unit-City Drug...
CEBU CITY – No one is above the law. Cebu City Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia issued this stern warning after two policemen were arrested for separate offenses here. MAYOR Garcia (center). (Cebu City PIO FB) Garcia said just like civilians, erring law enforcers must also face the consequences...
CEBU CITY – A policeman was arrested for allegedly mauling a 23-year-old man in Barangay Sapangdaku here before dawn on Monday, April 7. LABRA’S mugshot. The suspect, Police Corporal Ivan Gabutan Labra, 31, assigned to Station 3 in Mandaue City, is facing charges for grave threat and physical...
CEBU CITY – Close to 200 houses were razed while over 800 individuals were left homeless in one of the worst fires in Mandaue City on Sunday night, March 23. A FIRE hits Barangay Paknaan, Mandaue City on Sunday night, March 23. (Mandaue DRRMO) The massive fire broke out in a densely...
CEBU CITY – Residents and pedestrians welcomed the opening of a new skywalk in Mandaue City on Wednesday, March 12. MANDAUE City Rep. Emmarie ‘Lolypop’ Ouano-Dizon (right) and Mandaue Vice Mayor Nerissa Soon-Ruiz grace the blessing and turnover ceremony of a newly built skywalk in Mandaue on...
CEBU CITY – Legal obstacles may still continue to hound dismissed Mandaue City Mayor Jonas Cortes even if he wins in the May elections. CORTES (FB) Despite an order by the Office of the Ombudsman perpetually disqualifying him from holding public office, Cortes was still allowed to run as mayor in...
CEBU CITY – The Court of Appeals (CA) has denied the Temporary Restraining Order that dismissed Mandaue City Mayor Jonas Cortes filed to contest his one-year suspension. CORTES (FB) The CA 12th Division said there was no basis to issue a TRO against the order of the Office of the Ombudsman...
Senator Ronald "Bato" Dela Rosa has called for continued support for him and his fellow "Bisaya" candidates in the upcoming 2025 mid-term elections. (Photo from the Office of Senator Ronald Dela Rosa) "Gusto n’yo ba na walang Bisaya doon sa Senado? (Do you want zero Bisaya representation in the...
