Cebu under siege: Ultimate throwback

Ares P. Gutierrez 02/24/2015

I was really stunned. The newspaper clippings that featured my cartoons brought back lots of memories.” A teary-eyed Tonee Despojo, photo editor of Cebu Daily News, muttered as he viewed digital reproductions of yellowing pages of The…

Gunman silences Boholano radio blocktimer

Apple Ta-as, Ares P. Gutierrez, Jhunnex Napallacan 02/15/2015

A 71-year-old radio blocktimer was killed in Tagbilaran City, Bohol late yesterday morning after a lone assailant shot him in the head as he arrived at the radio station to anchor his weekly commentary program. Maurito Lim…

Cebuano cop dances the Sinulog

Ares P. Gutierrez 01/20/2015

A policeman who hails from Cebu managed to celebrate Sinulog while at the same time fulfilling his duty to help secure the Pope at the Rizal Park in Manila. About an hour or two before the Pope’s…

What the pope eat during an hour-long flight from Tacloban

Ares P. Gutierrez 01/18/2015

What did the Pope eat during his hour-long morning flight to Tacloban? Members of the Pope’s official party, including the so-called Vatican Accredited Media Personalities (Vamps) were served snacks, mostly junk food, during the hour-long special Philippine…

Pope Francis calls on Filipino lawyers to focus on giving ‘justice for all’

Ares P. Gutierrez 12/18/2014

Call me ‘Lolo Kiko’ “Lolo Kiko quieren” They want Lolo Kiko.) Pope Francis said this after he was asked by a group of Filipino lawyers who recently called on him in the Vatican how he wanted the…

Garbo had the last laugh

Ares P. Gutierrez 12/06/2014

Garbo’s name was stamped on Romana’s relief order as chief of the PNP Directorial Staff. SENIOR Supt. Noli Romana’s removal as chief of police of Cebu City reopened an old wound whose sting hounded him throughout his…

Killer ‘Queenie’

Ares P. Gutierrez, Doris C. Bongcac, Edison Delos Angeles, Peter L. Romanillos 11/28/2014

Seven-year-old Jason Baldado was soundly asleep with his mother, Alona,  inside their shanty in barangay Sto. Niño in Malabuyoc town,  southern Cebu when heavy rains brought by tropical  depression Queenie fell before dawn Thursday. Queenie, the 20th…

CEBU PUJs TO STRIKE: Cebu, Mandaue, Lapu-Lapu, Talisay cities to field emergency buses today

Apple Ta-as, Ares P. Gutierrez 09/30/2014

Cebu commuters, load up on patience as you step out of your houses today to go to school or work. Jeepney drivers belonging to the militant group Piston will stay off the street in the morning and…

GMR-Megawide moving into airport for Nov. 1 takeover

Ares P. Gutierrez 09/11/2014

The Mactan-Cebu International Airport will be a beehive of activity today as the Indian-Filipino consortium that won the P17.52-billion rehabilitation and upgrading project will start moving into the passenger terminal in preparation for its full takeover of…

Visayan expats in NZ to hold vigil for Blessie

Ares P. Gutierrez 05/30/2014

The Visayan expatriate community in New Zealand will hold a prayer vigil to show its support to the family of Blesilda “Blessie” Gotingco who was abducted while on her way home from work and brutally killed in…

Serge insists Megawide-GMR not the ‘winning bidder’; wants heads to roll at DOTC

Ares P. Gutierrez 04/07/2014

Sen. Sergio Osmeña III is on the war path. After his grumblings against the Megawide-GMR consortium were ignored by Malacañang, the Cebuano senator is firing on all cylinders. After taking the fight for the contract to modernize…

DOTC STANDS BY DECISION

Aileen Garcia-Yap, Ares P. Gutierrez, Inquirer 04/06/2014

Nothing but the law and country’s interests. The spokesman of  the Department of Transportation and Communications yesterday said  they are standing by their decision to award the P17.5 billion Mactan-Cebu International Airport modernization and expansion project to…

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