Residents link cops to drive-by shooting

Apple Ta-as, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 02/10/2014

A 21-year-old man was fatally shot in the chest while three others were wounded in a drive-by shooting in barangay Nangka in Balamban town last Friday night. The fatality was identified as  Ernel Bucag while those wounded…

Clock ticking for Yoly survivors in tent city

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 02/10/2014

The survivors of supertyphoon Yolanda only have more than one month to stay in the tent city at South Road Properties (SRP). “We are reminding them that their stay in the tent city will end next month…

Driver of car Boljoon mishap to settle case with victims’ kin

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 02/09/2014

The 26-year old driver of the car that sideswept six high school students in Boljoon town last Thursday said his sister is talking to the aggrieved families to work out an amicable settlement. Al-Dhinier Sanaani, 26, a…

JV wants to detach NFA from agri dept.

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 02/08/2014

Sen. Jose Victor Ejercito proposed that the National Food Authority (NFA) be the sole entity charged with the  importation of rice; establish  the NFA as  independent  of the Dept. of Agriculture; and to make smuggling an act…

Toll in Boljoon mishap rises to 3

Jhunnex Napallacan, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 02/08/2014

ANOTHER student has died after succumbing to injuries sustained in  a car accident near the Lusapon bridge in Boljoon town in south Cebu. She was among the group of six students involved in the road mishap. Joanne…

‘Moving school opening to Aug. needs act of Congress’

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag, Peter L. Romanillos 02/08/2014

It would take an act of Congress to require  Philippine schools  in all levels to move their opening from June to August. That kind of force is needed to get other schools, public and private, to  follow…

Traders losing business due to port congestion

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 02/05/2014

EXPORTERS CRY OVER ABANDONED CONTAINER Exporters are worried that the congestion of containers in the Cebu International Port (CIP) is affecting the movement of their products. That congestion will result in delay of the shipments, said Fred…

Traders, local officials frustrated over snail pace of recovery aid

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 02/05/2014

Both Cebu’s business community and local officials voiced frustration over the slow pace in the allocation of funds for the rehabilitation of towns hit by supertyphoon Yolanda in northern Cebu three months ago. “We’re on our way…

Hong Kong trader owns call center firm, suspect claims

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 02/04/2014

A Hong Kong-based businessman is supposedly the owner of a call center office that police said y operates as a mail order bride business in Calderon Compound, Duterte Banawa in Cebu City. Chinese national Mei Yee (Ma…

3rd man arrested in alleged plot to kill Asturias vice mayor

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 02/04/2014

A third suspect in an alleged plot to kill Asturias Municipal Vice Mayor Joel Dumdum voiced willingness to testify against his cohorts following his arrest by the  Provincial Intelligence Branch (PIB) last Friday night. “Alvarado is the…

Warship leaves Cebu ahead of schedule

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 02/02/2014

A US warship arrived in Tangke, Talisay City last Friday morning and left later that evening after receiving word that Cebu was placed under signal number 2 due to tropical storm Basyang. Lt. Reynante L. Villela, acting…

Moderate rains in Cebu as tropical depression Basyang enters PH today

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 01/30/2014

Cebu may experience light to moderate rains as tropical depression Basyang is about to enter the Philippine area of responsibility this afternoon. The state weather Pagasa issued the advisory of a tropical depression at 11 a.m. today.…

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