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The Cebu City government will be shouldering the graduation fees of public elementary and high school students in the city. The City Council approved the ordinance providing the graduation fees subsidy to public schools last Wednesday. City…
Britta Borromeo-Navarro said she doesn’t want her father to be “one of the others.” Her father Raul Borromeo is among those interred into the Doña Pepang cemetery. They have their own family mausoleum and they want it…
To augment the preparations for the Manila and Tacloban visits of Pope Francis, the Philippine National Police Supervisory Office for Security and Investigation Agencies (PNP-SOSIA) conducted an evaluation of canine units to determine their capability in identifying…
A 60-year-old woman and her two children were arrested inside their house which police said served as a drug den in barangay Catarman, Liloan, Cebu last Saturday afternoon. Operatives of the Provincial Intelligence Branch seized several packs…
A 33- year-old inmate was found dead inside the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) in Kalunasan, Cebu City last Saturday morning. Jerome Abellanosa, who faces murder charges, was found lying on his back and unresponsive…
Cebuana beauty Jamie Herrell was crowned Miss Earth last night at the University of the Philippines Theater. Herrell, who wore a stunning red gown, was the Sinulog Festival Queen in Cebu City last year. She bested other…
Perhaps no other country in the world is as pageant-obsessed as the Philippines. It could be because even before the Spanish colonization we have been a festival people, with beauty contests highlighting a town fiesta. And if…
Graham Greene’s short story, “Special Duties,” tells of a corporate man, William Ferraro, who approached the salvation of his soul in a business-like manner, being one who left nothing to chance and constantly checked on his…
BEACH HOUSE ARREST Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) yesterday arrested a Swiss national in his rented beach house in Sta. Fe, Bantayan island where he allegedly molested young boys. Walter Hauck, 66, was the…
It is what artists in Cebu have long been dreaming of — a place of their own somewhere in the city. They have been asking the local government to provide them with space where they can put…
Disasters know no holiday, but some officials apparently blame the weekend for the slow response to storm-affected areas in southern Cebu. The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) in the provincial capitol compound was also…
The national government is studying the possibility of declaring the duration of the papal visit a holiday. A member of the Papal Visit Central Committee said a declaration would likely be adopted considering that the visit of…
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