Barug Team Rama councilors stage boycott of regular session

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/03/2017

CEBU CITY COUNCIL How can the opposition express their disgust over an administration move to oust one of their own? For Cebu City councilors affiliated with the opposition Barug Team Rama, the answer came yesterday when all…

More security measures set up for juvenile detention facility

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/03/2017

OPERATION SECOND CHANCE FOLLOWING Monday’s riot inside Operation Second Chance Center (OSCC), a detention facility in Cebu City intended for juvenile delinquents, fish nets and steel matting will be installed to prevent young detainees from communicating with…

Cebu City Hall okays contract with Pasajero Motors

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/03/2017

CEBU City based vehicle company Pasajero Motors Corp. (Pamocor) won another contract with Cebu City Hall, this time to provide heavy equipment for the city’s garbage collection program. Pamocor gave the lowest bid of P700 per hour…

Barug Team Rama councilors boycott council session

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/03/2017

Barug Team Rama councilors did not show up in today’s scheduled regular session of the Cebu City Council. Eight BO-PK councilors and Vice Mayor Edgardo Labella are the only ones present in the session. In a letter…

RIOT IN OPERATION SECOND CHANCE

Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Nestle L. Semilla 10/02/2017

Detainees claim they only want to play basketball; officials say offenders don’t want to be moved to city jail Eleven detainees broke out of their room past 9 a.m. on Monday and started a riot inside a…

Another landslide hits Busay

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/02/2017

Rains yesterday morning continued to cause problems in Sitio Graje, Barangay Busay, Cebu City. This time, a portion of the road that leads to popular tourist sites like Temple of Leah, Mountainview Resort, and Lantaw Restaurant, cracked,…

Landslide anew in Busay due to rains

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/02/2017

Monday morning’s rain eroded the soil and caused yet another landslide in Sitio Graje, Barangay Busay Cebu City. This time, a portion of the road leading to the Temple of Leah, the Lantaw Restaurant, and Mountainview Resort,…

Exec cites challenges of handling settlers in Cebu City’s danger zones

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/01/2017

IN an ideal situation, families living in danger zones should be relocated. But many factors have to be considered including realities that these families have no choice but to take the risk in order to be closer…

Philippines, South Korea celebrate stronger ties

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/01/2017

IT has been a roller coaster ride for the Korean community in Cebu and the rest of the country after travel advisories were issued, terror attacks transpired and martial law was declared in Mindanao in the past…

LTFRB public hearing on fare hike set today

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/01/2017

The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board in Central Visayas (LTFRB-7) is inviting transport groups and passengers to join the public hearing on petitions to increase the minimum fare for public utility jeepneys (PUJs) today. The public…

THREE DIE AS FOOTBRIDGE COLLAPSES

Benjie Talisic, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 09/29/2017

  It was not an unusual rainy morning for residents in Sitio Riverside, Barangay Guadalupe, Cebu City: Water from the nearby creek has started to rise and the current was getting strong. But what made the situation…

Ombudsman clears Rama of malversation raps

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 09/29/2017

  IT was a vindication that came too late but still welcomed by former Cebu City mayor Michael Rama. The Office of the Ombudsman has dismissed a criminal complaint filed against the former mayor over the city’s…

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