‘What will we leave behind?’
A MIX of Cebuano, Chinese and Spanish culture and heritage was met with enthusiasts taking long strolls or flitting on horse-drawn carriages from one museum to another.
The annual Gabii sa Kabilin (Night of Heritage) began with a mass, which also served as an introduction to the Cebuano-...
DILG names 75 LGUs in region, 26 in Cebu, good housekeepers
LOCAL Government Secretary Jesse Robredo said he will issue a circular that will disallow local government units from using 70 percent of their calamity fund if they do not have the Seal of Disaster Preparedness.
Robredo made the announcement yesterday during a forum attended by mayors...
SRP preferred as site for mass
THE archdiocesan committee tasked to prepare the venue for the thanksgiving activities for the canonization of Blessed Pedro Calungsod prefers to hold the mass at the South Road Properties (SRP).
Fr. Raul Gallego, chairperson of the committee on venue, said the group considered a list of...
Fever downs 59 residents in Tuburan
FIFTY-NINE Tuburan residents, mostly children, have developed fever and rashes, said Tuburan Mayor Democrito Diamante.
Provincial and regional medical officers have been to the town to assess the situation.
Hardest hit by the measles-like symptoms is Barangay Lusong, located 15...
Boy drowns in flashflood; other kids survive incident
BEFORE Daryl Yuson was found dead in Cotcot River in Liloan, Cebu yesterday morning, his friend Kent Durano saw the 11-year-old boy raise his hands, try to jump out of the muddy water and shout for help last Thursday afternoon.
“Tabanga ko ninyo! Tabanga ko (Help me)!” Durano remembered...
Quiboloy, Duterte support Gwen
INFLUENTIAL religious leader Pastor Apollo Quiboloy will support Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia’s Senate bid in 2013.
Garcia paid Quiboloy a visit last Thursday in Davao City, where she was invited as the guest of honor of the first Liga ng mga Barangays in Region 12 at Marco Polo Plaza Hotel...
City Hall program transferred away from BOPK streamers
“ELECTION na!”
This was the declaration of Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama yesterday after he was asked on the transfer of venue of the medical and dental program of the Cebu City Government in Barangay Cogon Pardo.
Rama transferred the “City Hall at Your Doorstep” program from the...
Woman jailed for ‘throwing’ her baby away
A WOMAN was arrested on suspicion she threw her dead baby girl inside a plastic bag in a vacant lot in Barangay Catarman, Liloan, Cebu last Tuesday night.
Yolanda (real name withheld as requested by the police) was caught by a barangay councilor and a staffer of the Liloan Muncipal...
Renew license or else, owners of guns warned
IF YOU have an expired firearm license and don’t plan on renewing it soon, take heed. You might be part of the police watch list.
Police Regional Office (PRO) 7 Director Marcelo Garbo said they are serious in implementing the gun control policy with the rise in the number of loose...
Life after the inferno
SHE just finished putting her two little children to sleep when Shirley Nudalo heard shouts outside. When she looked out the window, she saw flames devouring her neighbors’ houses and coconut trees.
Alarmed, she told Angelica, her eldest child, to bring the sleeping toddlers and her two...
Spat with media leads to transfer of policewoman
THE head of the Minglanilla Police Station’s Women and Child’s Protection Desk was relieved after she had a falling out with police beat reporters, who tried to obtain information regarding a rape case.
Police Regional Office (PRO) 7 Director Marcelo Garbo said Maria Theresa Guitierez was...
Ombudsman suspends town’s traffic official
THE anti-graft office has suspended for a month without pay a traffic official from San Remegio town, Cebu for his refusal to renew the franchise application of a tricycle driver in 2010.
Alfred Yann Oguis, graft investigation and prosecution officer, found Cornelio Saberon, officer-in-...
GSIS to fund college studies of 200 children of members
LOW-salaried government workers need not worry about sending their children to college as the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) will offer scholarships to low-income members.
The GSIS, though, will offer only 200 college scholarships for this school year.
The GSIS began...
Order allowing drug suspect’s release ‘disadvantageous’
CEBU CITY -- The new Department of Justice (DOJ) circular allowing the release of a drug suspect before the prosecutor’s dismissal of his or her case is reviewed can be “disadvantageous” to the campaign against illegal drugs.
Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO) Director Patrocinio...
Mayor to give arms to seniors, charge to City Hall’s budget
CEBU City Mayor Michael Rama has ordered the issuance of firearms to senior citizens who are involved in enforcing laws and maintaining the peace and order in the city.
Rama issued an executive order (EO) that establishes guidelines on the issuance of City Government service firearms, and...
Piety pays off in Bantayan
THE faithful of Bantayan town regularly pause to pray the Angelus during the day at the strike of the church bell.
They also make it a point to visit the church every day whether to pray or just light a candle, said Msgr. Alfredo Romanillos Jr., parish priest of Saints Peter and Paul...
PDP-Laban to officially admit governor to the party today
GOV. Gwen Garcia will take her oath today in Manila as an official member of the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban), making her a party mate of Vice President Jejomar Binay.
This will pave the way for her inclusion in Binay’s senatorial slate under the United...
Victim, 14, recounts Sunday shooting
THE 14-year-old boy who was shot by a playmate last Sunday in Barangay Pasil, Cebu City can talk, but his body is half-paralyzed.
Nico (real name withheld because he is a minor) told visiting media members he can’t forgive Marion, 11, for what happened.
Aid pours in for Paknaan victims
THE Mandaue City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council recommended yesterday that the City Council declare a state calamity in a fire-stricken sitio in Barangay Paknaan to hasten the release of financial assistance to the victims.
Once the City Government approves the recommendation...
Man, 45, accuses 6 policemen of illegal detention, threats
A 45-YEAR-OLD man from the town of Dumanjug, Cebu accused six policemen of illegal detention and grave threats.
Riel “Dondon” Gomez, 45, also accused them of failing to provide him with documents he needed in the filing of a case.
Five of the policemen were from the Dumanjug Police...
Warden was not fit for job: Margot
BECAUSE “she is not fit for the job,” the warden of the Cebu City Operation Second Chance (CCOSC) in Barangay Kalunasan was replaced just two months after she assumed the post.
City Councilor Margarita Osmeña, co-chairperson of the Cebu City Task Force on Street Children, said yesterday...
Puffer fish kills 11-year-old boy
CEBU CITY –- Considered one of the world’s deadliest fish, the puffer fish -- locally known as butete -- claimed the life of an 11-year-old boy in the coastal village of Bagatayam, Sogod in northern Cebu Thursday dawn.
The boy’s three siblings are also under observation at a district...
Justice department eases rule on detention
CEBU CITY -- The Department of Justice (DOJ) has eased its rules on allowing suspects in drug cases to be “immediately released from detention,” pending the Justice secretary’s final review of the dismissal of charges by a prosecutor.
Pursuant to Department Circular 12, the respondent of...
Man, 80, trapped in burning house
LIVING alone and suffering from blurred vision, 80-year-old Bernabe Lobingco didn’t stand a chance to survive.
He died trapped when a blaze erupted in his house in the remote barangay of Compostila, Alegria, Cebu last Tuesday night.
Over 200 families homeless after Paknaan blaze
ABOUT 205 families in a sprawling shanty community lost their homes when a fire swept Sitio Kalderohan, Barangay Paknaan in Mandaue City yesterday.
It was 8:16 a.m. when firefighters began rushing to the fire scene.
