Expect delays in passports release

Inquirer 03/29/2014

THE Department of Foreign Affairs yesterday said that the release of passports would take a little longer starting April 1 because of a scheduled technical maintenance of its e-passport system. In an advisory, the DFA said the…

Tiamzon couple, 5 others indicted in Cebu trial court

Inquirer 03/29/2014

The Department of Justice yesterday filed criminal charges against communist leaders Benito and Wilma Tiamzon and the five companions they were arrested with in Cebu last week. In four separate indictments or information filed at 8 a.m.…

Social media to feature fugitives

Inquirer 03/28/2014

MANILA-Soon, the faces of the country’s top four fugitives – Ruben Ecleo Jr., the Reyes brothers, and Jovito Palparan – will be splashed on Facebook and Twitter. Following the proposal of Sen.  Ralph Recto to upload profiles…

Consult Cebuanos on airport project, Poe tells consortium

Inquirer 03/28/2014

Sen. Grace Poe yesterday called on national and local government officials involved in the P17.5-billion Mactan-Cebu International Airport expansion project to protect the country’s interests in the multi-billion-peso deal. This developed as the officials of the Megawide-GMR,…

Bohol reconstruction Structural engineers speak up

Inquirer 03/26/2014

Lack of structural equilibrium brought a lot of houses, churches down A few weeks after the earthquake struck Bohol last October, members of the Association of Structural Engineers of the Philippines (Asep) volunteered to survey and to…

Tiamzon arrest a ‘big blow’ to CPP, Malacañang ready for NPA revenge

Inquirer 03/24/2014

MANILA, Philippines- Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda described Sunday the arrest of the Tiamzon couple, the leaders of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA), as big blow to the leadership of the communist group. CPP-NPA…

Clueless Reds: Captured CCP leaders under surveillance in Cebu for two months

AP, Inquirer, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 03/24/2014

Complacency may have led spouses Benito and Wilma Tiamzon, chairman and secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA), to their arrest by the military. The Tiamzons didn’t realize that they had been under…

Swede arrested for taking pictures of naked girls

Inquirer 03/23/2014

A 60-year-old Swedish tourist was arrested yesterday after he was allegedly caught with two minor girls  inside his house in barangay Dumlog in Talisay City. Kjell Christer Johansson was detained at the Talisay City Police Office pending…

Carabao not ending up in slaughterhouses

Inquirer 03/17/2014

President Carlos P. Garcia, Bohol—Worry not about the country’s beast of burden. Though threatened by the Filipinos’ fondness for “carabeef,” the fate of the carabao is not ending up in slaughterhouses, according to an official of the…

Sen. Serge Osmeña threatens to sue DOTC if it awards Mactan airport to Indian firm

Inquirer 03/16/2014

Sen. Sergio Osmeña III is threatening to sue the Department of Transportation and Communications if it awards the P17.7 billion contract to upgrade the Mactan-Cebu International Airport to the consortium of GMR Infrastructure Ltd. of India and…

Lee captor decries transfer to Central Visayas

Inquirer 03/14/2014

EXACTLY a week after he was hailed for the capture of a fugitive property developer who was in the nation’s ‘Most Wanted’ list, Senior Supt. Conrado Capa found himself again hogging the limelight after Camp Crame announced…

Paris Hilton leads launch of Azure urban resort

Inquirer 03/14/2014

Hollywood socialite and fashion icon Paris Hilton has debuted into the Asian real estate scene with the launch of an urban beach club she had designed in collaboration with the Century Properties Group at the latter’s resort-themed…

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