Sinulog Foundation to hold painting tilt on Dec. 12
LOVERS of visual arts, bring forth your brushes and palettes, and prepare for your imagination to be translated onto a blank canvas as the Sinulog Foundation Inc. will hold an “On-the-Spot-Painting” competition on Dec. 12 at Fort San Pedro near Plaza Indepedencia in Cebu City.
Soldiers’ widows, kids get aid
FOR more than a year, Nimfa Baragenio has been struggling to feed her six children after losing her husband in an ambush allegedly carried out by rebels in Barangay Dawo, Oquindo District, Calbayog City, Western Samar in 2009.
Yesterday morning, Nimfa, along with five other surviving...
Police probe IDMB official for firing gun
A TAXI blocked his way, so he fired a warning shot, thinking it was an ambush.
Chief Insp. George Ylanan, Investigation and Detective Management Branch (IDMB) head, said he should not be under investigation because his training taught him to react the way he did under such circumstances...
Police seize P2M in corals, shells
AT LEAST P2 million worth of assorted rare shells, corals and stuffed baby sharks were confiscated from an alleged shellcraft dealer in Barangay Alegria, Cordova, Cebu past 10 a.m. yesterday.
An inter-agency team caught businessman Hadji Subteri, alias Jalai Daibal Sabtiri, for allegedly...
Bella invokes privacy, opposes USB viewing
THE defense panel in the kidnapping with homicide charge against Bella Ruby Santos and Ian Charles Griffiths questioned the scheduled court viewing of two items taken from Santos’s house on March 4.
Man, 50, kills kin of lover, 19
A MAN, believed to be in his 50s, allegedly shot and killed two relatives of his 19-year-old girlfriend in Sitio Candabong, Barangay Binlod in the southern Cebu town of Argao last Tuesday night.
The police said Arman del Rosario also wounded his girlfriend’s 14-year-old sister.
Bella’s lawyers pick 2 witnesses
TO support their claim that the police tampered with the license plates of her Mitsubishi Pajero, Bella Ruby Santos’s lawyers asked Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 13 Judge Meinrado Paredes to subpoena a barangay captain and a Sun.Star Cebu photographer to take the witness stand.
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Capitol: nothing to do with Briton’s arrest
CAPITOL said it did not request authorities in the United Kingdom (UK) to arrest British national Ian Charles Griffiths.
18-year-old sells marijuana, nabbed
AN 18-YEAR-OLD student will not be able to attend his graduation rites today after he was arrested for alleged selling and possession of marijuana.
Mark Lester Ybañez Fariolen, a fourth year high school student, was arrested inside the campus of San Remigio National High School in a buy-...
Task Force Ellah Joy readies evidence for case
THE Task Force Ellah Joy is winding up all its evidence in preparation for the filing of charges before the end of this month.
Yesterday morning, Pique’s father Renante met with Senior Supt. Patrocinio Comendador Jr., the task force spokesperson, at the Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO...
Mom tries to keep son from jail, fails
A LAST-MINUTE attempt to save him from being jailed failed.
Judge Gilbert Moises yesterday denied the petition for habeas corpus filed by the mother of a 42-year-old man whom police nabbed on suspicion of having participated in the killing of PO1 William Mangubat last March 11.
In...
Oppus ordered pullout of my escorts: Guv
CEBU Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia confirmed that Senior Supt. Louie Oppus ordered for the recall of her security escorts, but Camp Crame instructed the Police Regional Office (PRO) 7 to retain them.
She said Oppus went to her office and told her he will pull them out by March 15, in accordance...
If you’re innocent, stay in Cebu, police asks duo
A TASK Force Ellah Joy official yesterday urged a Cebuana and her British boyfriend to stay in Cebu until the police file charges against suspects in the abduction and murder of a 6-year-old girl.
He hinted that would be one way for Bella Ruby Santos and Ian Charles Griffiths to prove...
Court to rule on chop-chop murders
TEN days from now, the court will hand down its verdict on one of the three suspects in the killing of two women in Talisay City more than two years ago.
Teacher’s death stuns his family, prompts inquiry
A 43-YEAR-OLD professor of the Cebu Normal University (CNU) was found dead in his home on M. Velez St., Barangay Capitol Site, Cebu City.
As she came home from school, his daughter found Dr. John Munalim sitting on a toilet bowl, with a long gash in his neck, past noon yesterday.
Agencies collaborate in Ellah Joy probe
THE police and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) 7 vowed to work together to solve the Ellah Joy Pique case.
The investigation and intelligence units in the regional and provincial police headquarters, NBI, the Bureau of Immigration, PNP Crime Laboratory 7, Criminal Investigation...
DepEd, police plan security in campuses
THE Department of Education (Deped) admitted it “overlooked” the need to ensure the safety of students when they leave the campus.
The abduction and killing of Ellah Joy, 6, from her school in Calajoan, Minglanilla, Cebu last Feb. 8 made the DepEd see the need to implement security...
Defense lawyer withdraws petition for bail as task force looks at other angles
SAYING he is “100 percent sure” that the charges against Norwegian Sven Erik Berger and his Cebuana fiancée will be dismissed, lawyer Salvador Solima withdrew yesterday the petition to fix bail for his clients.
The task force created by the Police Regional Office (PRO) 7, on the other...
Police keep probing kidnap-slay case
CEBU CITY -- Minglanilla's police will keep investigating the abduction and murder of Ellah Joy Pique, a six-year-old town resident who was lured into a vehicle by a Caucasian man and a Filipina companion.
As this developed, hotel managers confirmed Wednesday that Sven Erik Berger and a...
Escapee’s freedom lasts 5 hours
TAKING advantage of the downpour, a 19-year-old inmate escaped from the Cebu City Jail past 4 a.m. yesterday.
More than five hours later, Francisco Libradilla was recaptured after he was found hiding under a bridge near the South Road Properties in Barangay Mambaling.
Yesterday’s...
Use ID systems, tanods to keep students safe
SCHOOLS need the help of parents and local government officials in protecting children, Department of Education (DepEd) 7 Director Recaredo Borgonia said.
“The safety of children is too important to be left to schools alone. It should also be a concern among parents and local officials,”...
Ellah wasn’t raped
AN autopsy on Ellah Joy Pique revealed that the six-year-old girl was not raped but she had bruises around her mouth and near her right jaw.
“Pressure contusions” were found on her body, which medico-legal officer Nestor Sator said indicated that she could have been tightly held by her...
Priest held in Danao shooting
A SCHOOL chaplain was arrested and detained at the Danao City Police Station after allegedly shooting a criminology student by accident yesterday afternoon.
Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO) Director Erson Digal said that Fr. Jonathan Durano Lao, 60, chaplain of the Colegio de San...
Girl’s abduction prompts review of school safety
DEPARTMENT of Education (DepEd) 7 Director Recaredo Borgonia urged grade school teachers to always remind their pupils not to talk to strangers and to go home early, following the death of a grade one pupil in Minglanilla town.
“I am saddened by this happening,” he said in a phone...
Body of boy, 8, found off city port
VANESSA Amay was confident her eight-year-old son Vrile Dave was still alive, until the boy’s body was found floating in the sea off Pier 1 past 7 a.m. yesterday.
“Wa man jud ko ma-kulbai. Nagtuo jud ko nga buhi akong anak (I did not feel any fear.
I was confident that my son was...
