Cops linked to killing press Cebu fiscals to back off

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 05/31/2014

For the second time, the five policemen from the regional unit of the PNP Highway Patrol Group (HPG) who were implicated in the ambush-slay of lawyer Noel Archival early this year have asked the Cebu Provincial Prosecutors’…

Checkpoints net 3 armed men

Chito O. Aragon 05/31/2014

FOUR men were arrested in a police checkpoint Thursday night for possessing unlicensed guns and for possessing drug-sniffing paraphernalia in barangay Camputhaw, Cebu City. The checkpoints were set up near Mango Square on Mango Ave. which is…

P19k worth of drugs seized

Chito O. Aragon 05/31/2014

SEVERAL plastic packs suspected to contain shabu worth P19,000 were seized from a 19-year-old man whom police described as a neophyte in the illegal drug trade in barangay Ermita, Cebu City. Kelly Gerebese was arrested by operatives…

City Hall honors VM Osmeña

Doris C. Bongcac 05/30/2014

The remains of former Cebu City vice mayor Renato Osmeña was brought to the social hall of the City Hall legislative building. A necrological service was held in honor of the city’s vice mayor from 1995 to…

Hotelier targets $10 million to fund mobile hospitals

Eileen G. Mangubat 05/30/2014

Cebu hotel owner Manuel Osmeña is counting on a vision of hope for calamity victims through rolling hospitals that can reach people who need them anywhere in the Philippines when a disaster strikes. “I’m a man with…

Right environment, right to life

Editorial 05/30/2014

In his opening speech at an environmental conference in Cebu, retired chief justice Hilario Davide Jr. cited one of the milestones he planted in the country’s body of laws. Let’s try to revisit what Davide meant when…

Corruption of the highest order

Randy David 05/30/2014

The defense of Janet Lim Napoles is that while she may be guilty of facilitating the diversion of public funds, she was not the mastermind. She says that the payment of commissions or kickbacks in government projects…

Zonta, Heritage night, June ahead

V.P. Vamenta 05/30/2014

As this religiously festive month of May comes to a close the day after tomorrow, we look back at so many more events that have happened in these closing days, before we start the opening of classes…

Bantayan resorts build back on no-build zone for coastal families

Peter L. Romanillos 05/30/2014

After typhoon Yolanda, a “no-build” zone  is supposed to keep coastal families from rebuilding their homes 40 meters from the shoreline. But in Sta. Fe town, whose   long shoreline of powdery white sand draws many tourists, several…

CHR-7 asks family of two other babies to testify

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 05/30/2014

THE Commission on Human Rights (CHR) invited a parent of a  third baby whose mouth  was taped to keep a pacifier in place, to cooperate with an investigation of the Cebu Puericulture Center and Maternity House, Inc.…

Court lifts injunction on Toledo City budget

Peter L. Romanillos 05/30/2014

Toledo City Mayor John Henry “Sonny” Osmeña secured a legal victory when the Court of Appeals lifted restrictions on the spending of funds from the city’s 2014 annual budget. The CA reversed a preliminary injunction of a…

No turning the other cheek for green activists

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 05/30/2014

LOCAL environmentalists are unfazed by the listing of the Philippines as the third most dangerous country for environmental advocates. The international group Global Witness said killing and various forms of harassment threaten environmentalists in the Philippines. In…

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