100 families in Brgy Pamutan to receive Bags of Hope, Quincentennial crosses

Morexette Marie Erram 04/18/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines – At least 100 indigent families from the mountain barangay of Pamutan in Cebu City will be receiving food packs and commemorative crosses for the quincentenary celebrations of Christianity’s arrival in the Philippines on…

Cebu holds reenactment of First Baptism with face shields and masks

Morexette Marie Erram 04/14/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Years of preparations and rehearsals have finally come to fruition on Wednesday, April 14, as Cebu culminated the 500 Years of Christianity in the Philippines (500 YOC). Dozens witnessed the reenactment of the…

No more than 10 bishops to attend baptism reenactment in Cebu 

Morexette Marie Erram 04/12/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines—No more than 10 bishops, including the Papal Nuncio to the Philippines, will be attending the ceremonial reenactment of the first baptism in Cebu this Wednesday, April 14, 2021, church officials announced.  Organizers of the…

Active cases in Cebu City down to 912

Morexette Marie Erram 04/12/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Cebu City continues to experience a downtrend in new COVID-19 cases. As of April 11, the latest bulletin from the Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7) show that the city’s active cases…

DOH-7 to LGUs: Give unused AZ vaccines to seniors if…

Morexette Marie Erram 04/11/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7) told local governments here to administer unused AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines to senior citizens after they have completed administering the first dose of the vaccine to…

Cebu frontliners to receive cash incentives, meds

Morexette Marie Erram 04/07/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines—Each of the 50 medical frontliners from Cebu who will be deployed to the National Capital Region (NCR) is expected to receive cash incentives up to P70, 000 for their assignment. Read: Cebu to send…

CHR-7 investigates ‘secret jail’ in Sawang Calero Police Station

Morexette Marie Erram 04/06/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines—The Commission on Human Rights in Central Visayas (CHR-7) has started investigating reports of an alleged “secret jail” inside the Sawang Calero Police Station.  Investigators from CHR-7 visited the Sawang Calero Police Station on Tuesday,…

7,200 doses of Sinovac vaccines arrive in Region 7

Morexette Marie Erram 03/30/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Central Visayas on Tuesday, March 30, 2021, received another shipment of COVID-19 vaccines. Twelve boxes of CoronaVac containing a total of 7,200 doses arrived at the Mactan Cebu International Airport (MCIA) at 7:40…

Labella apologizes for heavy traffic caused by unveiling of new traffic light system

Morexette Marie Erram 03/29/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella on March 29, 2021 apologized to those who were affected by the heavy traffic caused by the unveiling of a brand new traffic light system in the middle…

EOC: COVID-19 situation in Cebu City ‘improving’

Morexette Marie Erram 03/29/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Officials in Cebu City are anticipating the number of new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases to continually decline. This after the city’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC) observed that the daily new cases of…

State of calamity mulled in Sitio Kawayan

Morexette Marie Erram 03/17/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Barangay officials of Sambag 2 here are mulling to declare a state of calamity in Sitio Kawayan, where a fire displaced hundreds of individuals. Barangay Sambag 2 Councilor Keith Noel Wenceslao on Wednesday,…

600 VSMMC workers to get Sinovac this March 4

Morexette Marie Erram 03/02/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines – At least 600 healthcare workers at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) are expected to receive Sinovac’s coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines this Thursday, March 4. Cebu on Tuesday, March 2, received…

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