Palma’s birthday wish: Peace and end to killings

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 03/20/2018

HAPPILY STRANDED IN CEBU Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma has two wishes as he turned 68 on Monday: peace and end to the spate of killings in the country. “Deep in our hearts is a prayer for peace,”…

Stilt houses no longer allowed at fire-ravage Sitio Paradise

Nestle L. Semilla 03/20/2018

FIRE victims whose houses were built on stilts along the shores of Sitio Paradise, Barangay Pajo in Lapu-Lapu City, will have little or no chance of rebuilding their homes. This developed after the city government of Lapu-Lapu…

PCL-Cebu condemns councilor’s murder

Jessa Mae O. Sotto 03/19/2018

THe Philippine Councilors League (PCL) in Cebu Province condemned the unjust and violent killing in one of its members, incumbent San Fernando town Councilor Alexander Alicaway. The PCL endorsed a resolution penned by Cebu 1st District Provincial…

Minglanilla fire displaces 20 families

Nestle L. Semilla 03/19/2018

ABOUT 20 families lost their homes to a fire in Sitio Little Tondo, Barangay Ward 3 in Minglanilla town, southern Cebu yesterday afternoon. Minglanilla Vice Mayor Robert Selma said the families were evacuated to the barangay gym.…

‘Leave my projects alone’

Morexette Marie B. Erram and Reporter Jose Santino S. Bunachita 03/19/2018

Cobonpue says underpass projects still had no feasibility study Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña warned the Regional Development Council (RDC-7) to “leave my projects” alone yesterday, two days after the council refused to endorse the three underpass…

No stranded commuters in Piston rally

Nestle L. Semilla and Correspondent Benjie Talisic 03/19/2018

ABOUT 60 members of the militant transport group Piston held a rally yesterday to denounce anew the government’s mass transport modernization program but commuters weren’t stranded on the streets this time. Cebu City Hall had buses on…

School heads told: Have simple graduation rites

Futch Anthony Inso 03/19/2018

Keep graduation ceremonies simple and not extravagant.” Amaryllis Villarmia, Department of Education in Central Visayas (DepEd-7) information officer, said that this is DepEd-7’s reminder to school heads as the department sets the schedule for the commencement exercises…

NBI-7 agents nab 37 persons for illegal gambling in Lapu

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 03/19/2018

THIRTY-seven persons were arrested on Monday by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation in Central Visayas (NBI-7) for operating an illegal numbers game based on the Philippine Charity’s Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) Swertres game in separate raids…

House approves divorce bill on 3rd and final reading

Inquirer.net 03/19/2018

The House of Representatives on Monday approved on third and final reading a bill which seeks to legalize absolute divorce and dissolution of marriage in the country. Voting 134 for and 57 against, with two abstaining, the…

Senate OKs national ID system on final reading

Inquirer.net 03/19/2018

A BILL that would establish the first national ID system in the country has been approved by the Senate on third and final reading. Voting 17-2, senators voted on Monday to approve Senate Bill No. 1738 known…

NFA and the rice crisis

Editorial 03/19/2018

National Food Authority (NFA) Administrator Jason Aquino’s admission that they sold rice to traders during a recent Senate agriculture committee hearing raised serious doubts on the agency’s leadership and the viability of its existence amid the recurrent…

Wounded for life

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 03/19/2018

While raging flames burned the houses of poor families and claimed the lives of two children in Barangay Pajo, Lapu-lapu City last Friday the two-day conference on Trauma Informed-Care sponsored by the Provincial Women’s Commission came to…

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