Lollipop to run for mayor

Melissa Q. Cabahug 09/12/2015

Mandaue City Councilor Emmarie “Lollipop” Ouano-Dizon will run for city mayor amid reports that Mayor Jonas Cortes will endorse 6th  District Rep. Luigi Quisumbing. Dizon was the guest speaker in the leadership and good governance forum at…

Illegal Stalls demolished

Melissa Q. Cabahug 09/12/2015

At least 49 stalls of ambulant vendors selling fish, fruits and vegetables in the old Mandaue City public market were demolished  Thursday afternoon. Musoline Suliva, city market administrator, said the demolition of the illegal structures has been…

Mandaue buys drone

Melissa Q. Cabahug, Norman V. Mendoza 09/11/2015

P200K Quadcopter to help in rescue operations, ease traffic The Mandaue City government has acquired a new drone or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to help monitor traffic and road situations in the city  and help in rescue…

Taxi operators ordered to vacate Mandaue lot

Melissa Q. Cabahug 09/11/2015

TWO taxi operators were ordered to vacate a 2,204-square meter lot they have been leasing for years in barangay Subangdaku, Mandaue City. Sheriff Cesar Seno Jr. of the Municipal Trial Court in Cities (MTCC) Branch 1 served…

Mandaue truck ban to be lifted tomorrow

Melissa Q. Cabahug 09/08/2015

The truck ban in Mandaue City is set to be lifted tomorrow as Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings move to Mactan. Glenn Antigua, acting chief of the Traffic Enforcement Agency of Mandaue (TEAM), said the regular truck…

Capitol: 93-1 lot dispute is not solved overnight

Mary Claire U. Catado, Melissa Q. Cabahug 09/07/2015

Resolving the plight of settlers occupying lots owned by the province under Provincial Ordinance 93-1 is not done overnight, Provincial legal officer Orvi Ortega said. “With all due respect to Vice President Jejomar Binay’s comments, we can…

Capitol seals lot donation to Napolcom

Melissa Q. Cabahug 09/07/2015

The Cebu provincial government sealed its donation of a 1,000-square-meter lot in Sudlon, barangay Lahug, Cebu City to the National Police Commission (Napolcom) last Friday. Cebu Gov. Hilario Davide III and Napolcom vice chairman and executive officer…

Davide clarifies statement on Gullas

Melissa Q. Cabahug 09/07/2015

REP. Gerald Anthony “Samsam” Gullas Jr. of Cebu’s 1st district cannot be appointed as Liberal Party (LP) coordinator of the district because he’s not an LP member in the first place. Cebu Gov. Hilario Davide III said…

How a Mandaue police official bonds with street children: jogging sessions, prayer, free supper

Melissa Q. Cabahug 09/06/2015

Tatay Baste tries to be street kids’ dad This police officer has a soft spot for street children. He is their playmate, protector, coach, and a paternal figure. Street children in Mandaue city call him “Tatay Baste.”…

15 Cebu towns, cities lack waste management plan

Melissa Q. Cabahug 09/05/2015

A total of  38 out of  Cebu province’s 53 towns and cities  have submitted a 10-year solid waste management plan. The modest compliance comes over a decade after the approval of the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act…

25 tons of blasted fish seized in Tuburan

Melissa Q. Cabahug 09/05/2015

Blasted fish weighing 25 tons was seized in two  operations in Tuburan town, midnorth  Cebu early morning yesterday. Seven persons were apprehended and turned over to  the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (PENRO) until a decision…

Probe into lawyer’s killing ‘progressing’

Melissa Q. Cabahug 09/05/2015

THREE weeks after lawyer Amelie Ocañada-Alegre was gunned down,  no arrest has been made but Mandaue police said they will solve the case “soon.” “Hopefully, the Alegre case will be solved soon. There is progress in the…

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