In photos: A day after the Ermita fire

Benjie Talisic, Tonee Despojo 02/06/2019

  Cebu City, Philippines – Some of the victims of the fire in Barangay Ermita have taken shelter at the unfinished second unit building of the Carbon Public Market in Sitio Bato, located just meters from the…

Why firefighters took two hours to put out Ermita fire

and Morexette Marie B. Erram, Benjie Talisic, Paul Lauro 02/05/2019

 CEBU CITY, Philippines — Narrow roads, and lack of water made it difficult for firefighters to put out the fire that engulfed three sitios in Barangay Ermita, Tuesday afternoon. Fire Senior Superintendent Gilbert Dolot, director of the…

Police eye inside job angle in Liloan pawnshop robbery

Benjie Talisic 02/05/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Police are investigating if the pawnshop robbery in Liloan town on Monday, February 4 was an inside job. Senior Police Office (SPO1) Jonas Catubig of the Liloan Police Station told Cebu Daily News…

Feliciano, Enriquez told to turn over firearms with expired licenses

Rosalie O. Abatayo 02/04/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu Police Provincial Office (CPPO) Director, Senior Superintendent Manuel Abrugena, has asked San Fernando town mayoral candidate Ruben Feliciano and a certain Neil Enriquez to turn over their firearms with expired licenses. Feliciano…

Pardo barangay chief appeals for donations for Tabokanal fire victims

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 02/04/2019

CEBU CITY, Phiippines — Hygiene products and sleeping materials are needed by the 800 individuals displaced by the fire on Sunday, February 3 that destroyed 98 houses in Sitio Tabokanal in Barangay Pardo. Pardo Barangay Captain Manolita…

Police have identified prime suspect in Mayor Reluya’s ambush

Rosalie O. Abatayo 02/03/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The police have already identified a prime suspect in the ambush against San Fernando Mayor Lakambini Reluya and her group on January 22 in Talisay City where the mayor’s husband, Panadtaran Barangay Captain…

Family dissatisfied with probe on Fiscal Castro’s killing: No lead in two weeks

Morexette Marie B. Erram 02/02/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The family of former assistant Cebu City prosecutor Mary Ann Castro expressed dissatisfaction with the progress of the case after investigators told them that they still had no lead, and had not narrowed…

Three dead in Balamban, Argao buy-bust shootouts; cops seize P14.6M suspected shabu

Benjie B. Talisic 01/31/2019

  CEBU CITY, Philippines — It was a bloody Wednesday in Cebu as police continue their drive against illegal drugs hauling P14.6 million of suspected shabu and killing three drug suspects in shootouts in two separate anti-illegal…

Representative Cayetano to keep ‘open mind’ on proposed law on habal-habal

Rosalie O. Abatayo 01/30/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The proponents of the proposed law regulating habal-habal (motorcycle-for-hire) may have found another ally in Congress. Representative Pilar Juliana “Pia” Cayetano (Taguig City, second district), in an interview with reporters in Cebu City…

Former waiter, delivery van driver nabbed with P172K of suspected shabu in Duljo drug bust

Benjie B. Talisic 01/27/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A former on call waiter and a former delivery van driver were arrested on Saturday after they were caught with P172,000 worth of suspected shabu during an anti-illegal drug operation in Barangay Duljo-Fatima…

P3.1M shabu seized in Basak San Nicolas anti-illegal drug operation

Benjie B. Talisic 01/27/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — An estimated P3.1 million worth of suspected shabu was confiscated in an anti-illegal drug operation in Barangay Basak San Nicolas in Cebu City on the evening of Saturday, January 26. Chief Inspector Francis…

Conditions for return to CSBT set for drivers, 8 others banned from terminal for failing drug test

Morexette Marie B. Erram 01/26/2019

  CEBU CITY, Philippines — They can only enter the Cebu South Bus Terminal after two or three months if they will bring a drug test result showing that they are drug free. Jonathan Tumulak, CSBT manager,…

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