Survivor recalls ordeal as ship sank

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 08/16/2016

Three years ago today, Erwin (real name withheld upon request) and his partner were headed to Manila from Butuan City on board the MV St. Thomas Aquinas to process his documents for his US trip. The passenger…

Watch towers, radars in Cebu for vessels plying Mactan Channel

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 08/15/2016

TRAVELING via the Mactan Channel will be a lot safer as the Philippine Coast Guard completes installation of its three radars and control towers next year. “All the vessels coming in and out of the (Mactan) Channel…

DOLE-7 starts with service providers in ‘stop endo drive’

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 08/15/2016

THE Labor Department is warning service providers to stop the illegal practice of labor contractualization or endo, which is the colloquial term for “end of contract.” “We are telling them what is labor contracting and that is…

DOLE orients service providers on ‘endo’

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 08/15/2016

THE regional Department of Labor and Employment conducted an orientation on “endo” or end of contract orientation to service providers Monday morning. “We are telling them what is labor contracting which is prohibited.Being providers they should refrain…

Tuburan lot contested

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 08/15/2016

A resident from Tuburan is seeking the help of the Office of the Ombudsman in the Visayas in her claim of a lot, where the local government of Tuburan town is constructing a barangay hall and covered…

New CG ships to arrive

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 08/15/2016

The Philippine Coast Guard in Central Visayas will have a new ship in 2017, which is one of the 10 44-meter multi-role response vessels purchased by the government from Japan. “These ships will be used for search…

Loot: There’s nothing there

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 08/14/2016

RETIRED Police General Vicente Loot, who is currently the Daanbantayan mayor, said he did not know the Cordova police officer, who had linked him to illegal drugs in an entry in a police blotter before the police…

Militants, civil society groups protest against govt’s Marcos burial plans

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 08/14/2016

AS a 15-year-old student activist in 1969, Wilfredo Naga kept busy joining small pickets and rallies in Fuente Osmeña, Colon and Plaza Independencia in Cebu City to advocate for educational reform. About 47 years later, he was…

Groups protest Marcos burial at Libingan ng Mga Bayani

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 08/14/2016

CEBU CITY—At least 50 people from 19 different organizations converged at the Plaza Independencia in downtown Cebu City on Sunday morning to demonstrate their opposition to the plan to bury the late Dictator Ferdinand Marcos at Libingan…

Quake jolts Biliran, Cebu, Leyte and Masbate

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 08/13/2016

A magnitude 5 earthquake hit Naval in the island-province of Biliran on Saturday night, which was felt in varying intensities in the provinces of Biliran, Cebu, Leyte and Masbate. The tremor was felt at Intensity 5 in…

Day-as fire razes 10 houses, leaves 30 families homeless

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 08/13/2016

An evening fire yesterday razed at least 10 houses including a pension house and a three-story building and left at least 30 families homeless in Barangay Day-as, Cebu City. Day-as Barangay Captain Jerome Puerto said that the…

Montejo is new DENR Usec

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 08/13/2016

ISABELO Montejo, the current regional director of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Central Visayas (DENR-7), has been appointed as the Environment Department’s undersecretary for field operations. Montejo, 63, who has served as the DENR-7…

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