5 tips for reducing electricity costs during summer

Nikki Medalla, USJ-R Intern 04/02/2024

As temperatures soar during the summer months, so does our reliance on air conditioning and other electrical appliances to keep cool.  Unfortunately, this increased usage often results in higher electricity bills.  However, with a few simple adjustments…

Capitol says Trans-axial Highway now costs 120B

Gerard Vincent Francisco, USJ-R Intern 09/27/2018

Due to the traffic congestion in Cebu, Vice Governor Agnes Magpale is now planning to pursue the implementation of the Cebu Trans-axial Development Project (CTDP). During the Kapihan sa PIA Forum at the Parklane Hotel on Wednesday,…

RESCUER’S TALE: To be of service to others in the best way he knows how

Correspondent and Zena V. Magto, Rosalie O. Abatayo, USJ-R Intern 09/24/2018

DANNY Lendio has been away from his family and home in Bendoy, Negros Oriental since Friday afternoon. Lendio, a maintenance worker of the first engineering district of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) in Negros…

Helping kids to deal with trauma: Social workers organize activities for children evacuees

USJ-R Intern, Zena V. Magto 09/24/2018

In a corner of the Enan Chiong Activity Center (ENAC) in the City of Naga, some of the 525 children-evacuees of the landslide that hit Sitio Sindulan, Barangay Tinaan in Naga City, gather, play games, and even…

Price Monitoring Council to step up drive vs manipulators

Gerard Vincent Francisco, USJ-R Intern 09/19/2018

FIVE government agencies will compose the core of the Cebu Provincial Price Coordinating Council (CPPCC) whose main task is to ensure that unscrupulous traders will not exploit the current high inflation rate to jack up the prices…

Business leader to gov’t: Focus on competitiveness

Gerard Vincent Francisco, USJ-R Intern 09/19/2018

CEBU businessmen are encouraging the government to focus on the country’s competitiveness as Congress continues to deliberate on the second package of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) law. Antonio Chiu, Cebu Chamber of Commerce…

Police arrest fake dentist in Cebu City

USJ-R Intern 09/14/2018

A former dental assistant who misrepresented herself as a dentist was caught in an entrapment by the Crime Investigation and Detection Group in Central Visayas (CIDG-7) at Barangay Basak Pardo, Cebu City on Thursday (September 13). The…

CPO company’s expansion to open 600 jobs in Cebu

USJ-R Intern, Zena Magto 09/12/2018

THE expansion of a clinical process outsourcing company (CPO), Shearwater Health, at the Cebu I.T. Park will open at least 600 jobs for nurses and clinicians. Anshum Sinha, Shearwater Health chief operating officer, said during the opening…

Guardo wants to eradicate wooden posts, dangling wires

USJ-R Intern 09/05/2018

THE unsightly “spaghetti wires” and the hazardous wooden utility posts will soon be a thing of the past. That is, if an ordinance regulating the installation of utility posts and wires will get the nod of the…

Dads defer action on P5M donation

USJ-R Intern 09/05/2018

SKATE PARK PROJECT The Cebu City Council deferred for another week the decision to authorize Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña to accept the P5 million donation of Maria Victoria “Minnie” Osmeña for the construction of the Cebu…

CCPO probes Tangke arson allegations

USJ-R Intern 09/05/2018

THE Cebu Provincial Police Office (CCPO) is looking into reports allegedly linking members of the Regional Mobile Force Battalion (RMFB) to an alleged arson attempt on Sept. 3 in Barangay Tangke in Talisay City. Supt. Janette Rafter,…

Mandaue LGU settles dues to acquire CICC

USJ-R Intern 09/04/2018

The Mandaue City government has paid the full amount of P300 million to formally acquire the Cebu International Convention Center (CICC). Provincial treasurer Roy Salubre said the proceeds of the sale will go to the general fund.…

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