Mandaue officials support Palace’s calls to ditch lavish Christmas parties

Mary Rose Sagarino 11/19/2024

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines – Mandaue City officials expressed support on Malacañang’s request for government agencies to avoid lavish Christmas parties and donate funds instead to recent typhoon victims in Luzon. Mayor Glenn Bercede agreed to be mindful…

3 million expected to join Sinulog Festival 2025

Emmariel Ares 11/19/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines – With around 3 million expected to join the Sinulog Festival in 2025, the city government here wanted a ‘stricter and better-planned’ preparations. Cebu City Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia on Tuesday, November 19 said…

Mandaue: Truck driver spills cement on highway, flees, identified

Mary Rose Sagarino 11/19/2024

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines — The Traffic Enforcement Agency of Mandaue (TEAM) has identified the driver of the mixer truck who escaped after he accidentally spilled the cement the truck was carrying along Highway Seno in  A.S Fortuna…

Israeli strike on Beirut kills 5 as deadly rocket fire hits Israel

Agence France Presse 11/19/2024

BEIRUT, Lebanon – Israel staged a new bombing raid on central Beirut Monday, killing five people according to the health ministry, as firefighters said a rocket launched from Lebanon killed one woman in Israel. The Hamas-run interior…

Cebu City: Body of unidentified woman found near SRP seawall

Emmariel Ares and Paul Lauro 11/19/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The body of a dead woman was found near the seawall at the Cebu South Road Properties on early Tuesday morning, November 19. The lifeless woman was believed to have been washed to…

Naga, Cebu accident: Motorcycle rams dump truck, boy, 17, dead

Emmariel Ares and Paul Lauro 11/19/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Despite not having a driver’s license, a 17-year-old boy from Naga City, southern Cebu took his father’s motorcycle for a ride on Monday evening, November 18.  In an unfortunate turn of events, the…

Typhoon Man-yi leaves 7 dead in Philippines; worsens crisis from back-to-back storms

Associated Press 11/19/2024

Typhoon Man-yi (locally named Pepito) left at least seven people dead in a landslide, destroyed houses and displaced large numbers of villagers before blowing away from the northern Philippines, worsening the crisis wreaked by multiple back-to-back storms,…

Palace to gov’t agencies: Nix grand Christmas parties

Philippine News Agency 11/19/2024

MANILA – Malacañang on Tuesday advised government agencies and offices to avoid holding grand or lavish Christmas parties to show solidarity to those affected by the successive typhoons that ravaged parts of the country in less than a…

‘Mary Grace Piattos’: House lawmakers offer P1M reward for information

Gabriel Pabico Lalu 11/19/2024

MANILA, Philippines — Lawmakers at the House of Representatives have raised a P1-million reward for anyone who can tell the whereabouts of a certain Mary Grace Piattos, whose name appears in acknowledgment receipts made by Vice President…

No more spaghetti wires in Mandaue under new ‘single-pole’ rule

Mary Rose Sagarino 11/19/2024

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines – The Mandaue City Government has started implementing the city’s ordinance Single Pole Ordinance that aims to address public safety and enhance beautification program. The Visayan Electric Company (VECO) started clearing wires along Ouano…

Aftermath of 3 typhoons: P500M in damage, 600,000 displaced

The Inquirer Staff - @inquirerdotnet 11/19/2024

MANILA, Philippines — The three tropical cyclones that hit the country in rapid succession over the past week had damaged almost half a billion pesos worth of infrastructure and agriculture and displaced more than 600,000 people, said…

Master plan to improve water quality, sanitation: City supports it

Niña Mae C. Oliverio 11/19/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City government has expressed its support to the study that would improve the city’s water quality and sanitation. Earlier, the Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) through its general manager, Edgar Donoso,…

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