Fire hits warehouse in city pier area

Doris C. Bongcac 01/02/2016

A fire razed a warehouse at Pier 1 in Cebu City Saturday afternoon. Firefighters received the alarm at 1:07 pm and went to the fire scene at Arellano St. in barangay San Roque in Cebu City. Smoke…

Lahug fire leaves 300 homeless

Doris C. Bongcac, Julit C. Jainar 12/27/2015

Almost 300 individuals were left homeless by a fire which hit a thickly populated area in sitio Avocado in barangay Lahug, Cebu City last night. While no one was reported injured during the hour-long fire, acting Cebu…

Post-Christmas fire hits Lahug

Doris C. Bongcac, Julit C. Jainar 12/26/2015

A late afternoon fire broke in a thickly populated area in sitio Avocado, barangay Lahug in Cebu City today. The fire which lasted for more than an hour and damaged a still undetermined number of structures was…

Tree of Hope brightens Fuente Osmeña

Doris C. Bongcac, Nestle L. Semilla 12/02/2015

Switch-on of  125-foot tree, the tallest in Cebu, opens Pasko sa Sugbo About 25,000 blinking lights brightened Fuente Osmeña circle last night with the lighting of the M Lhuillier Tree of Hope. Over a hundred people who…

Save dogs from lethal injection, group asks public

Doris C. Bongcac 11/01/2015

UNLESS some sympathetic stranger takes them in, Piper, Amber and Eman know their  days are over. The three mixed-breed dogs are scheduled for euthanasia by lethal injection in Mandaue City today, Nov. 1. A group of volunteers…

GUNNED DOWN

Aileen Garcia-Yap, Apple Ta-as, Doris C. Bongcac 10/22/2015

Heated words in a birthday celebration yesterday ended in gunshots that wounded Cebu Chinese Consul Song Ronghua and killed two members of his staff. Police are looking into a possible grudge attack behind the shooting, which took…

Three wounded in Cebu City resto shooting

Apple Ta-as, Doris C. Bongcac 10/21/2015

At least three persons were wounded in a noontime shooting incident which happened in one of the function rooms of the Lighthouse Restaurant along General Maxilom Avenue in Cebu City. Nine persons were having lunch at 1:32…

Investor to run as Cordova mayor to protect reclamation

Doris C. Bongcac 10/20/2015

It’s a three-ring fight for the mayorship of Cordova town. Aside from the father-son bids of Adelino and Arleigh Sitoy, the 23-year-old vice president of Malayan Integrated Industries Corp. (MIIC) has joined the contest to ensure that…

Malayan exec joins Cordova mayoral race

Doris C. Bongcac 10/19/2015

The vice-president of Malayan Integrated Industries Corporation (MIIC) has joined the mayoral race in Cordova town to especially make sure that their stalled reclamation project is implemented. That’s if he wins in next year’s election. Paul Villaber,…

Former allies ‘face off’ over radio

Doris C. Bongcac 10/16/2015

Sparks flew when former allies Tomas Osmeña and Cebu CIty Mayor Michael Rama engaged in an impromptu discussion over radio yesterday about how to run the Cebu city government. They tangled over  the South Road Properties (SRP),…

Pagasa: ‘Lando’ won’t hit Cebu

Doris C. Bongcac, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag, Nestle L. Semilla 10/16/2015

Cebu won’t be affected by tropical storm “Lando” (international name Koppu), the Mactan office of the state weather bureau Pagasa said yesterday. Alfredo Quiblat, Pagasa Mactan chief, said Cebu will experience cloudy to sunny weather in the…

Four hurt in landslide in Kalunasan

Doris C. Bongcac 10/15/2015

Four persons were injured when a tree fell down on their shanties due to a landslide in sitio Dapdap, barangay Kalunasan in Cebu City at past 4 p.m. Thursday. Kimberly Espinili, 22, was brought to the Vicente…

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