Enrollment slightly higher now than last year

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 06/13/2017

MORE than 500 thousand students enrolled for kindergarten to senior high school in Cebu province during the first week of classes for the school year. In Cebu City, enrollees this year was slightly higher, at 177,368, compared…

Trauma bars Marawi kids from enrolling

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 06/13/2017

Nearly 100 students of Marawi City may have escaped the ongoing conflict there, but they are still traumatized by the violence days after they moved to Cebu City. Minang A. Mananggis, coordinator of the Madrasah Education Program…

Duterte visits fallen Cebuano soldier

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 06/13/2017

  TALKING to the soldier’s family in Bisaya, President Rodrigo Duterte was at the wake of fallen 30-year-old Cebuano Corporal Reymund Paracuelles in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City, Sunday night. “The President extended his condolences then shook our…

Celebration ignites calls to stop martial law in PH

Ador Vincent Mayol, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag, Norman Mendoza 06/12/2017

AS the Philippines celebrated its 119th Independence Day yesterday, appeals to end martial law in Mindanao rang across several groups that marched the streets of Metro Cebu to commemorate one of the country’s most historic events. In…

119th PH Independence Day and its present-day relevance

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag, Norman V. Mendoza 06/11/2017

One hundred and nineteen years from the time General Emilio Aguinaldo declared Philippine independence from more than 300 years of Spanish rule on January 12, 1898 in Kawit, Cavite, many Filipinos struggle to remember what Monday’s holiday…

Ex-LTFRB official tells drivers to avoid talking to passengers

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 06/10/2017

AVOID talking to your passengers. This was the advice of former LTFRB board member Ariel Inton Jr. to all public utility vehicle (PUV) drivers including Transport Network Vehicle Services (TNVS) drivers following a complaint from a lady…

Militants to hold Independence Day rally

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 06/10/2017

MILITANT groups are going to hold a rally tomorrow in celebration of Independence Day. The Anakbayan and Bayan will march from A.C. Cortes Avenue in Mandaue City to Mactan-Benito Ebuen Air Base (MBEAB) in Lapu-Lapu City. Niño…

Complaint filed vs Grab driver

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 06/09/2017

FOR ‘GROSS DISCOURTESY’ A Grab driver was accused by his female passenger of harassment after he allegedly “caressed” her hair and kissed her while on board the vehicle on her way to the Cebu South Bus Terminal…

Hontiveros: Martial Law not needed in Mindanao

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 06/09/2017

The Maute terror group can be defeated even without the declaration of martial law. This was the message of Senator Risa Hontiveros during the forum on Civil Liberties at the University of San Carlos yesterday morning of…

Pagasa: Rainy weekend seen for Cebu

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 06/08/2017

CEBU residents should brace for rainy days this weekend due to the presence of the inter-tropical convergence zone (ITCZ), the Mactan office of the state weather bureau Pagasa said yesterday. Pagasa Mactan chief Alfredo Quiblat said both…

Cpl. Reymund Paracuelles: ‘He did not die in vain’

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 06/08/2017

Cebuano soldier killed in the Marawi siege When Reymund Paracuelles was five years old, his father Cesar already knew that he would become a soldier. Reymund, even as a child, had always been fascinated with guns, and…

Upgrade security, hotels told

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Fe Marie Dumabo, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 06/05/2017

Hotels, resorts and other commercial establishments were reminded to beef up their security measures in the wake of last Friday’s assault at the Resorts World Manila in Pasay City that left 38 people dead. “Please upgrade your…

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