Cebu City rounds up 62 mendicants ahead of APEC

Nestle L. Semilla 08/16/2015

AT least 62 street dwellers were brought to the San Roque Gym for processing as part of the Cebu City government’s campaign to “rescue” mendicants kicking off  Anti-Mendicancy Month. One of those who were rounded up was…

Inmates find time to graduate

Victor Anthony V. Silva 08/16/2015

Dressed in a white toga and cap,  inmate  Larry Biazon smiled and held his chin up as he walked down the quadrangle of the provincial jail yesterday. The 42-year-old Biazon was  part of the first batch of…

71-year-old awardee says farming keeps him going

08/16/2015

“MuraA gyud ko og hilantan og di ko kauma (I feel like I’m  sick if I don’t get to farm),” said Ernesto Alivio, one of the 10 Outstanding Farmers cited by the Cebu provincial government in its…

Want to sponsor zoo animals?

08/16/2015

The Cebu City Zoo is inviting  private companies to adopt or sponsor a zoo  animal in order to help cover  the cost for their care. Cebu City Zoo Manager Giovanni Romarate said the program covers the care…

Noy Honesto café boosts Cebu police co-op

Apple Ta-as 08/16/2015

Police officials are buoyed by the success of the Noy Honesto Coffee Shop in the headquarters and hope it will evolve as a successful cooperative. “I am very optimistic that this will grow in the next few…

Yahoo’s LiveText: Video call without the audio

08/16/2015

Yahoo rolled out last Thursday a new application that combines video calling not with audio, but with text messaging. In the newly launched LiveText, users can share text in the middle of a video and see each…

Raps filed against two former mayors

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 08/16/2015

An official of Daanbantayan town, north Cebu on Friday filed two graft complaints against former mayor Ma. Luisa Loot and her son,  Cebu Provincial Board Member Sun Shimura, for allegedly favoring a relative’s food concessionaire and manipulating…

Wafer sticks down 5; boy dies

Rene Alima 08/16/2015

A two-year-old boy died last Thursday, a suspected case of  food poisoning, linked to biscuits that he ate. His four siblings, a neighbor’s son and a 60-year-old neighbor who had also eaten the wafer stick biscuits threw …

Teacher shot in Barili

Apple Ta-as, Rene Alima 08/16/2015

A public high school teacher is in serious condition after he was shot by a motorcycle-riding gunman in Barili, south Cebu. The teacher was on his way home at around 8 p.m. Friday in barangay Minolos. Amiel…

MOTIVE FOR MURDER?

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 08/16/2015

Close friend of slain lawyer says Amelie Alegre struggled with death threats, land dispute, and a broken marriage Is a  marriage on the rocks and the potential loss of property enough motive for murder? An associate and…

‘Lawyering is a risky job’

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 08/16/2015

IBP to set up aid fund after Lawyer Hidelito Pascual, president of the IBP Cebu City Chapter, condemned last Thursday’s ambush  in Mandaue city and noted that several lawyers in  Cebu have been killed in the past…

Cebu ship on fire in Ormoc

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 08/16/2015

A Cebu-based vessel caught fire in Ormoc city port, destroying several vehicles and cargo on board at 4:30 a.m. yesterday. All 544 passengers of the MV Wonderful Stars safely got off the roll-on-roll-off vessel, said Jose Emery…

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