CHED-7 to students from HEIs: Get vaccinated

Mae Fhel Gom-os 10/02/2021

  MANDAUE CITY, Cebu — Students from higher education institutions (HEIs) that would be approved to conduct limited face-to-face classes are encouraged to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Maximo Aljibe, director of the Commission on Higher Education in Central Visayas…

Parents, teachers in Barili: Limited face-to-face still a concern

Mae Fhel Gom-os 09/11/2021

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu — An officer of a Parents-Teachers Association (PTA) Federation in the town of Barili in southwestern Cebu has expressed the group’s concern on the risks of students should limited face-to-face classes will be approved.…

Alcoy reopens beaches to non-residents

Mae Fhel Gom-os 09/10/2021

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu — Starting Saturday, September 11, 2021, non-residents in the town of Alcoy in southern Cebu will now be allowed to swim and enjoy and bathe in all its beaches. Alcoy town Mayor Michael Angelo…

EOC: Patients with no COVID-like symptoms can go out BICs after 10-day isolation

Mae Fhel Gom-os 08/30/2021

  MANDAUE CITY, Cebu — The deputy chief implementor of the Cebu City Emergency Operations Center (EOC) said patients could go out of the isolation facility should individuals no longer manifest COVID-like symptoms in the last three…

EOC to investigate claims of ‘intimidation’ by contact tracers

Mae Fhel Gom-os 08/30/2021

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu – Cebu City Councilor Joel Garganera, the chief implementor of the Cebu City’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC), said they are willing to investigate the claims of a licensed nurse that contact tracers allegedly used intimidating tactics…

Labella: COVID-19 pandemic demands new form of sacrifice and heroism

Mae Fhel Gom-os 08/30/2021

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu – While remembering the heroism of the forebearers who helped shape the nation to what it is today, Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella emphasized the demand for a new form of sacrifice in this…

Heroes do the extraordinary, stand up for what is right

Mae Fhel Gom-os 08/30/2021

  MANDAUE CITY, Cebu – “We have to make [the] extraordinary by advocating [for] the truth, advocating goodness, [and] by always standing [up for] what is right.” This was the jest of the message that Dante Arcilla…

Family of slain lawyer launches fund raising drive for wounded family driver

Mae Fhel Gom-os 08/28/2021

  MANDAUE CITY, Cebu — The family of the slain lawyer Rex Jesus Mario Fernandez has been raising funds for their driver who was reportedly under critical condition after sustaining a gunshot wound in his spine during…

Condominium denounces insinuations linking Fernandez’s death to unresolved issues with them

Mae Fhel Gom-os 08/28/2021

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu — The Bamboo Bay Condominium Corporation (BBCC) has denounced any insinuations linking the death of lawyer Rex Jesus Mario Fernandez to unresolved issues the latter had with the condominium management. Fernandez recently staged a…

Tudela chief exec: Close contacts refuse to admit experiencing COVID-19 symptoms

Mae Fhel Gom-os 08/28/2021

  MANDAUE CITY, Cebu — The mayor of Tudela town in Camotes Island said there are individuals believed to be experiencing COVID-19 symptoms in a sitio who allegedly refused to admit to health personnel their condition. These…

PDEA-PNP ‘misencounter’ won’t happen in Cebu – PDEA-7 chief

Pegeen Maisie M. Sararaña 02/26/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The misencounter between the agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and personnel of the Philippine National Police (PNP) on Wednesday in Quezon City will not happen in Cebu and Central Visayas.…

8 more Argao detainees COVID-19 positive; cases now 17

Pegeen Maisie M. Sararaña 02/26/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Eight more detainees at the Argao Police Station got infected with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) bringing the number of infected persons at the station today at 17. Police Major Jeremie Sheila Gurtiza,…

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