GETTING READY FOR ‘BUTCHOY’

Doris C. Bongcac, Julit C. Jainar, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 07/04/2016

Still coping with the effects of the rain-induced floods that hit Metro Cebu on Friday, Cebuanos were told yesterday to again brace for more heavy rainfall when a tropical storm enters the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR)…

Two areas in Talamban still submerged in flood

Doris C. Bongcac, Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 07/03/2016

Heavy rains that slammed Metro Cebu on Friday night have left at least 250 people still stranded in their homes in Barangay Talamban, Cebu City, two days after several areas were inundated by rising flood waters. On…

BLAME IT ON GARBAGE

Doris C. Bongcac, Jhunnex Napallacan, Nestle L. Semilla 07/02/2016

Over half-a-billion pesos in drainage improvement projects were undertaken by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) in Cebu city and province in the past two years but mere hours of steady rain still flooded and…

Luigi orders ban on plastic following floods

Doris C. Bongcac 07/02/2016

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu–Mandaue City Mayor Luigi Quisumbing has ordered a plastic ban in this industrial city following Friday’s floods that reached to waist-level in some areas. The order came after Quisumbing’s meeting with the city’s crisis committee…

FLOOD STRANDS HUNDREDS

Carmel Loise Matus, Doris C. Bongcac, Jhunnex Napallacan, Julit C. Jainar 07/02/2016

Hundreds of commuters and pedestrians were stranded last night on the streets of Cebu City and nearby Metro Cebu areas after knee-to-chest level floods hit the metropolis following at least three hours of nonstop rain since Friday…

Parking aides report in old Citom uniform

Doris C. Bongcac 07/01/2016

Green no more? No formal order was issued for a change in their uniform, but some field personnel of the Cebu City Traffic Operations (CCTO) reported for work yesterday wearing their old Citom uniform. “There seems to…

Hour-long rain causes floods, affects hundreds of commuters in Cebu City

Doris C. Bongcac 07/01/2016

CEBU CITY—Knee-deep flood left hundreds of commuters stranded on Friday afternoon following heavy rains that lasted for an hour. The Armed Forces Central Command based here deployed their rescue personnel to help a family who was left…

JAGUAR BURIED LIKE A HERO

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Apple Ta-as, Doris C. Bongcac, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 06/27/2016

If one did not know any better, the huge crowd of people who joined yesterday’s funeral march on N. Bacalso Avenue in Cebu City was burying a folk hero, not someone whom the police have tagged as…

Tumulak takes oath ahead of Team Rama allies

Doris C. Bongcac 06/24/2016

Cebu City Councilor-elect Dave Tumulak took his oath of office before Regional Trial Court Branch 7 judge Soliver Peras on Friday morning. Tumulak said he went ahead of his Team Rama allies because of a scheduled business…

3,400 CASUALS TO GET THE AXE

Doris C. Bongcac, Nestle L. Semilla 06/17/2016

Cebu City may be left with a few traffic enforcers or street cleaners starting on July 1 when the service contracts of about 3,413 casual employees of the city government will end. The casual employees were advised…

NEW ALLIANCE

Carmel Loise Matus, Doris C. Bongcac, Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Nestle L. Semilla 06/09/2016

A new alliance, although informal, is shaping in Cebu City between President-elect Rodrigo Duterte and politicians identified with the Liberal Party (LP) and Bando Osmeña-Pundok Kauswagan (BO-PK) not just in their common desire to rid the country…

Fire hits Tabunok urban poor community

Doris C. Bongcac 06/09/2016

LACK of an access road prevented Talisay City firefighters from immediately putting out a fire which hit an urban poor community in the interior portion of Sitio Nonok in Barangay Tabunok, Talisay City at 3 p.m. Thursday.…

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