Garcia voices full support for Marcos, silent on VP Sara’s fallout

Nestle L. Semilla 06/30/2024

CEBU CITY —Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia has pledged full support for President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. following the split between the President and Vice President Sara Duterte, whom she and her party backed in 2022. Garcia made this…

2 more ‘sleeping cops’ in Cebu City relieved

Nestle L. Semilla 05/16/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Two policemen assigned to the Mobile Patrol Unit in this city are facing an investigation for allegedly sleeping while on duty last week. The two police officers, whose identities were withheld while the…

Cebu City’s Merlion reminder to Singapore-like aspirations

Nestle L. Semilla 02/21/2023

CEBU CITY—How to inspire Cebuanos to support the city’s aspirations to become like Singapore? Build the city-state’s most famous mascot—the Merlion. That is exactly what a restaurateur in Cebu City did. A merlion, a mythical creature with…

Plans to release narco-list draw varied reactions

Jessa Mae O. Sotto, Morexette Marie B. Erram, Nestle L. Semilla 12/29/2018

Cebuano government officials are divided over plans by Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Año to release the government’s so-called narco-list or list of politicians allegedly involved in the illegal drugs trade, before the May 2019 elections.…

CV police prepare for New Year

Benjie B. Talisic, Nestle L. Semilla 12/29/2018

THE Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7) is on heightened alert status, in preparation for the New Year celebration. Police Regional Director, Chief Supt. Debold Sinas said that the police in the province of Cebu, Bohol,…

Friends and family call for justice for slain cop

Nestle L. Semilla 12/26/2018

AS the remains of slain police officer, Senior Insp. Porferio Gabuya Jr. will stay at the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7) starting Wednesday (Dec. 26) until Dec. 29, the day he would be buried, the…

Three lifesavers

Nestle L. Semilla 12/26/2018

They may not be directly employed by Cebu Daily News, but for employees of the newspaper, these three men are more than just their colleagues. They are lifesavers. Through the years, Reynaldo Tiro, Marcelino Tormis, and Jovinal…

Passengers troop to bus terminals

Jessa Mae O. Sotto, Nestle L. Semilla 12/22/2018

Barely three days left before Christmas day, passengers started to flock to the different bus terminals on Saturday. Nemesio Lumapac, one of the terminal supervisors, said they are expecting around 10,000 passengers daily going home to their…

Task Group formed to solve cop murder

Nestle L. Semilla 12/22/2018

DESPITE the denial of the New People’s Army (NPA) investigators are still looking into the possibility that they were responsible for the murder of Senior Insp. Porferio Gabuya Jr., deputy chief for operations of the Guihulngan City…

POLICE MURDERED IN GUIHULNGAN

Nestle L. Semilla 12/19/2018

“This is war,” vowed Chief Supt. Debold Sinas, chief of the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7), as he blamed the killing on communist insurgents. Seventeen months after the chief of police and five other policemen…

More talks with Palma – Sinas

Nestle L. Semilla 12/18/2018

SPIRITUAL guidance and collaborations on projects between the church and the police are among the plans of the top official of the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas in the coming year. Chief Supt. Debold Sinas, PRO-7…

4 drug suspects killed in Talisay

Benjie B. Talisic, Nestle L. Semilla 12/18/2018

The Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO) claimed that the four suspected drug personalities killed in separate police operations in Talisay City were all remnants of two big-time drug lords in Cebu. Senior Supt. Manuel Abrugena, the director…

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