Binay spends time in Cebu, skips Senate probe

Doris C. Bongcac, Norman V. Mendoza 11/19/2014

  Vice President Jejomar Binay is in Cebu again, this time till Thursday for various activities that include mingling with crowds and visiting north Cebu towns to meet local officials and survivors of typhoon Yolanda. In a…

Cruising on noise-free, electric bikes

Doris C. Bongcac 11/16/2014

Electric-powered bikes now ply Cebu City streets and their numbers are  growing. CD-R King, a popular budget retailer,  has rolled out  hybrid  bikes made in Taiwan. They are marketed as  “California eco-bikes”to identify with  the American state’s…

Yolanda survivors who settled in Metro Cebu, donors gather for reunion

Doris C. Bongcac 11/14/2014

Tinago recalls role in Yolanda Evacuees, who left Eastern Visayas provinces to escape the horrifying aftermath of supertyphoon Yolanda (Haiyan), gathered at the gym of barangay Tinago yesterday afternoon to commemorate their arrival in the city. Some…

‘Explain delay in shelter aid’

Doris C. Bongcac, Peter L. Romanillos 11/13/2014

Daanbantayan Mayor Augusto Corro and mayors of northern Cebu towns will ask Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas to explain the non-release of  Emergency Shelter Assistance (ESA) to typhoon Yolanda survivors  when he  visits their areas…

Mishaps, diggings cause congestion in Mandaue

Doris C. Bongcac 11/12/2014

Hundreds of people were late for work and classes due to heavy traffic congestion that affected parts of Mandaue City from 7 a.m. to noon yesterday. Edwin Ermac, head of the Traffic Enforcement Agency of Mandaue (TEAM),…

No more 2-hour hikes for Lusaran students

Doris C. Bongcac 11/11/2014

Reynald Racoma, 12, goes to school by hiking for about two hours everyday. But starting Monday, Racoma and 18 other students of Lusaran National High School in an upland barangay in Cebu City will be pushing pedals…

Barangay Tinago sets reunion for volunteers, donors on Nov. 13

Doris C. Bongcac 11/09/2014

Storm refuge in Cebu A playhouse will be set up again in barangay Tinago’s sports complex on Nov. 13 just like the one used for young evacuees of typhoon Yolanda a year ago. Tinago barangay captain Joel…

Binay skips senate probe, barnstorms Cebu

Doris C. Bongcac, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/07/2014

Binay: I’m ready to face Trillanes Rather than attend yesterday’s Senate Blue Ribbon committee hearing, Vice President Jejomar Binay flew to Cebu for a two-day visit. Immediately upon arrival, Binay went straight to a radio station in…

Binay flies to Cebu as Blue Ribbon panel reconvenes

Doris C. Bongcac 11/06/2014

Vice-President Jejomar Binay will be flying to Cebu today just as the Senate Blue Ribbon sub-committee investigating the alleged anomalous transactions in putting up a government parking building when he was mayor of Makati City continues with…

Trees fall for athletic field; Running priest calls it morbid

Doris C. Bongcac, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/05/2014

The sound of screaming chainsaws pervaded the air in barangay Poblacion City of Naga yesterday, as workers start clearing a 3.2-hectare lot for an athletic field project. As of 3 p.m. workers from the City Environment and…

Five-year-old boy missing after being caught by strong water current

Bjorn Abraham Tabanera, Doris C. Bongcac 11/03/2014

A five-year-old boy went missing after being washed away at the Pandan river in Tinaan, Naga, Monday morning. Christian Dave Alferez was headed to kindergarten class when he left his slippers while crossing the river. The kid…

Cebu City passes ‘half-rice’ law

Doris C. Bongcac, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/03/2014

A “half-rice” serving in restaurants in Cebu City will soon  be a required item in the menu. To discourage food waste, the Cebu City Council  approved on final reading last week an ordinance  requiring food establishments to…

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