Cebu City Council OKs P51.4B 2023 annual budget

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 12/28/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama now has a new working budget for 2023. This was after the Cebu City Council, on Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 28, 2022, approved, with three objections and one abstention,…

Urban patrolling of cops in Lapu-Lapu’s crime prone areas starts

Futch Anthony Inso 12/28/2022

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — The Lapu-Lapu City Police Office (LCPO) has already started the implementation of urban patrolling in the city. This was confirmed by Police Lieutenant Colonel Rolando Barroqueo, chief of the City Mobile Force Company.…

Cebu City asks police to probe mauling involving Michelin-star British chef in restobar

Morexette Marie B. Erram, Wenilyn Sabalo 12/28/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Local officials here want the police to shed light on a mauling in Brgy. Kasambagan last December 23, involving a Michelin-star chef. The mauling surfaced after Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia came to the…

Paying it forward: Cebu officials, groups initiate donation drive to help Misamis Occ. flood victims

Morexette Marie B. Erram 12/28/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines – It’s our turn to help them. This was the message several local officials and non-government groups in Cebu conveyed as they opened donation drives to help flood victims in Misamis Occidental. Cebu 1st…

Death toll from Christmas weekend rains, floods climbs to 25

Jean Mangaluz 12/28/2022

MANILA, Philippines — The death toll from shear line-induced rains and floods last weekend climbed rose from 13 to 25, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) announced on Wednesday. Twenty  six individuals remain missing, nine…

Lusaran Bulk Water facility now supplies to 4 more mountain barangays

Morexette Marie B. Erram 12/28/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Lusaran Bulk Water facility in Cebu City has started supplying water to four more mountain barangays here. The Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) on Monday, December 26, 2022, opened the stub-out in…

War against illegal drugs: ‘Big announcement’ soon from DILG, PNP

Pegeen Maisie Sararana 12/27/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A ‘big announcement’ is expected early next year as authorities, including the DILG and PNP, step up their war against illegal drugs. This was what Atty. Benjamin Abalos Jr., secretary of the Department…

Capitol building case vs DPWH-7 execs over stalled UN Avenue underpass mess

Morexette Marie B. Erram 12/27/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Cebu Provincial Government still intends to pursue legal actions against several officials from the Department of Public Works and Highways in Central Visayas (DPWH-7) over the unfinished U.N. Avenue Depressed Project in…

Looc brgy chief to 2,000 Paradise fire victims: Leave school, wait for city’s temporary housing

Mary Rose Sagarino 12/26/2022

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines — The over 2,000 victims of the Sitio Paradise fire have started to leave the Ceasar Cabahug Elementary School where they were temporarily staying for nearly a month or since Nov. 27. Looc Barangay…

Bad weather in Cebu: At least 99 remain stranded in Danao port

Morexette Marie B. Erram 12/26/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — At least 99 passengers remain stranded in the Port of Danao City on Monday, Dec. 26 as rough seas due to inclement weather prevented ships from sailing. The Danao City government on Monday…

CCPO chief: Deployment of 100 cops, other security measures will still be implemented this holiday season

Pegeen Maisie M. Sararaña 12/25/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The at least 100 personnel deployed to secure Cebu City and other security measures will continue to be implemented this holiday season. Police Colonel Ireneo Dalogdog, chief of the Cebu City Police Office…

Murder, frustrated murder raps readied against 5 men linked to Parian shooting

Pegeen Maisie M. Sararaña 12/25/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Charges of murder, frustrated murder, and alarm and scandal will be filed on Tuesday, Dec. 27, against five arrested individuals, including two alleged shooters, involved in a gunfight in Barangay Parian last Dec.…

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