CEBU CITY – Actor Baron Geisler was briefly detained for drunken behavior in Mandaue City, Cebu province. GEISLER Police said the 42-year-old Geisler was taken into custody at 3:50 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 22, on Psalm St. in Barangay Canduman. Geisler was released the same day but was fined for...
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 – 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 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 – 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 – Petitions that sought to nullify 278 voters in Mandaue City have been junked. In a Feb. 10 decision, Municipal Trial Court in Cities Judge Francis Ian Birondo junked all the 28 petitions filed by an ally of dismissed Mayor Jonas Cortes. Former Barangay Subangdaku Captain Ernie...
CEBU CITY–Key officials were among the 26 employees of the Mandaue City Hall who were suspended by the Office of the Ombudsman for padlocking a property that has a private claimant. Among those suspended for nine months without pay are the OIC head of the Housing and Urban...
CEBU CITY – A group of residents in Mandaue City, Cebu has appealed to officials to issue a cease-and-desist order against a cement batching plant. A GROUP of residents in Barangay Labogon, Mandaue City are asking the city government to halt the operations of a batching plant in their barangay....
CEBU CITY – For padlocking a disputed property, several officials and personnel of the Mandaue City government are facing graft charges after the Office of the Ombudsman found probable cause to indict them for violating the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act. HAPPY Melendres...
CEBU CITY – Dismissed Mandaue City Mayor Jonas Cortes welcomed the issuance of a Temporary Restraining Order by the Supreme Court that allowed him to seek reelection in May. Cortes denied allegations that a P1-million bribe was involved in the granting of the TRO against the Commission on...
CEBU CITY – The legal debacles of dismissed Mandaue City Mayor Jonas Cortes continue to pile up after he received another unfavorable ruling, this time from the Court of Appeals (CA). CORTES (FB) The CA has denied Cortes’ plea for the issuance of a Temporary Restraining Order and Writ of...
CEBU CITY – As far as the Commission on Elections-Central Visayas (Comelec-7) is concerned, the Certificate of Candidacy (COC) of dismissed Mandaue City Mayor Jonas Cortes is already cancelled. CORTES (FB) Comelec-7 chief Francisco Pobe issued the clarification to rectify a local newspaper report...
