LADY COP SHOT DEAD

Benjie Talisic, Doris C. Bongcac, Norman Mendoza 10/31/2017

  Just as police forces in Cebu were kept busy with guarding cemeteries crowded with thousands of people paying respects to their dead relatives, a Lapu-Lapu City policewoman who had just gone off duty from her Kalag-kalag…

Policewoman shot dead in Mandaue City

Doris C. Bongcac 10/31/2017

The policewoman who was injured in an early evening attack in Mandaue City already died. Mandaue City Vice Mayor Carlo Fortuna said that PO1 Sassy Mae Sasing who is assigned at the Lapu-Lapu City Public Safety Company…

Argao to ban smoking, burning of garbage, littering inside cemeteries

Doris C. Bongcac 10/29/2017

Burning of garbage, littering and smoking will be prohibited while inside cemeteries in the municipality of Argao, south Cebu during the All Saints and All Souls Day celebration to prevent environmental degradation. But town officials clarified that…

CIT-U student tops Chemical Technician Licensure Exam

Doris C. Bongcac 10/18/2017

A student from the Cebu Institute of Technology-University (CIT-U) topped the October 2017 Chemical Technician Licensure Examination. Diamond Jedd Romarate Paug got an average score of 92.50 percent and led 11 other Cebuanos in this year’s top…

Illegal quarry ‘hurts’ Budlaan

Doris C. Bongcac, USJ-R Intern Rosalie O. Abatayo 10/17/2017

A fallen mango tree and loose soil covered the mountain road in Barangay Budalaan, Cebu City, early on Tuesday, obstructing the flow of traffic in the area. Half of the two-lane road was already passable to motorcycles…

Police: Two ‘stolen’ chalices found at Pahugot shanty

Doris C. Bongcac 10/11/2017

Consolacion police are now looking for the owners of a gold and silver plated chalices believed to have been stolen by brothers Dominic and Ace Virgil Pahugot. Supt. Mina Domingo, chief of the Consolacion Police Station, said…

Firm offers ‘masiao’ ushers legit job

Doris C. Bongcac 10/09/2017

STL IN CEBU CITY A Manila-based company is offering Cebuanos a legitimate alternative to the illegal numbers game “masiao” with the recent opening of its Small Town Lottery (STL) in Cebu City. Engineer Reynaldo Sangalang, chairman and…

Festival to showcase Korean culture

Doris C. Bongcac 09/26/2017

Experience Korean culture, food and products during a four-day festival scheduled from September 28 to 30 at the SM City Mall in Cebu City. Sang Hyun Kim, vice president of the Cebu Korean Association Inc., said the…

Heavy rains cause floods, traffic in parts of Metro Cebu

Doris C. Bongcac 09/25/2017

Traffic was slow moving in Cebu City and parts of Metro Cebu area after Monday’s rains in the morning flooded roads and submerged motorcycles and other smaller vehicles in floodwater. After the flooding subsided, piles of garbage…

LANDSLIDE KILLS 2

Doris C. Bongcac, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 09/22/2017

The rain that fell most of Thursday has already stopped when Jun Rey Oyao, 30, heard a loud and deep creaking sound outside their home in Sitio Lower Ponce, Barangay Capitol Site in Cebu City. Upon opening…

Landslide kills 2 in Capitol Site

Doris C. Bongcac 09/22/2017

  CEBU CITY–At least two persons were killed while several others were evacuated during a landslide that hit Sitio Lower Ponce in Barangay Capitol Site, Cebu City, on Thursday night. Nagiel Bañacia, head of the city’s Disaster…

PDI, CDN win reporter, columnist awards

Doris C. Bongcac, Morexette B. Erram 09/21/2017

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo of the Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI) Visayas Bureau grabbed the Reporter of the Year award for print in this year’s Globe Media Excellence Awards (GMEA). Ruffolo’s story on Cebu-based drug users who opted to…

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