New Italy quake sows terror

10/31/2016

NORCIA, Italy — Italy’s most powerful earthquake in 36 years struck the country’s mountainous center Sunday, panicking shell-shocked residents for the third time in two months and flattening a world famous 600-year-old basilica. Remarkably, there were no…

Unicef: 300M children breathe heavily toxic air

10/31/2016

WASHINGTON — Some 300 million children live with outdoor air so polluted it can cause serious physical damage, including harming their developing brains, the United Nations said in a study released on Monday. Nearly one child in…

Landing the big fish

Editorial 10/31/2016

The arrests of a police officer and a musician/youth leader in a local Catholic Church in the past few days in Cebu City occurred amid the PNP’s announcement of a recalibration in their antidrug campaign by prioritizing…

2 killed in motorcycle mishap

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 10/31/2016

CEBU CITY– Two men were killed in a motorcycle crash in Consolacion town, northern Cebu past 5 p.m. on Monday, police said. Ruben Genite and his brother-in-law Robert Daza died after they were thrown off the motorcycle…

Garbage talk

Ricky Poca 10/31/2016

Today, Tuesday, is All Saints’ Day, when the Christian world usually pay their respects for their departed loved ones. Here in Cebu, all roads lead to our cemeteries as we pay our respects to our dearly beloved.…

Honoring the dead

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 10/31/2016

I’m following my friend and media colleague Jhunnex Napallacan on the social networking site for local and national news updates which he, as lead anchor of Station dyLA, delivers without delay. His commentary style is folksy and…

Kitchen employee nabbed for drug possession in jail

Lesley Cara Delos Santos 10/31/2016

A kitchen employee was arrested for intercepting drugs inside the Cebu City Jail at 8:30 am Monday. Officials of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) arrested Josephino Oliverio after learning that he intercepted the delivery…

Drunk arrested by police for unruly behavior in church

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 10/31/2016

CEBU CITY–A man believed to be drunk was arrested by police on Monday morning for allegedly causing a commotion in a parish in the mountain village of Sudlon I in Cebu City. Yuri Abella, in his 40s,…

Arranged flowers a hit in Carbon market

Nestle L. Semilla 10/31/2016

Aside from single or a dozen flowers, some vendors in Carbon market also sell arranged flowers. More people are buying arranged flowers in a basket than buying singles or dozens of flowers. Flower vendor Jovan Yungco said…

Cempark secured for All Saints, All Souls Day

Morexette Erram 10/31/2016

Though the volume of vehicles and visitors going in and out of Cebu Memorial Park (Cempark) in Barangay Banilad, Cebu City are still manageable, the police and military already stationed themselves at the entrance and exit points…

Lapses found in Cebu City cemeteries

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/31/2016

Minor deficiencies were noticed by city officials after inspecting some cemeteries in Cebu City on Monday morning. Cebu City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CCDRRMO) operations chief Harold Alcontin said the entrance and exit areas in…

Few visitors in cemetery ahead of All Souls Day

Nestle L. Semilla 10/31/2016

Only a few people flocked to the Calamba Cemetery a day before the annual observance of All Saints Day. Chief Insp. Keith Allen Andaya of the Calamba police precinct said there were no untoward incident. Andaya urged…

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