LIST: Holidays in April 2025

Morexette Marie B. Erram 03/27/2025

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Summer is here, and at least five Holidays await Filipinos planning to make the time for spiritual development or looking forward to hit the beach this April. The first regular Holiday this month…

More joined in Earth Hour 2025 from Metro Cebu

Morexette Marie B. Erram 03/26/2025

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The number of participants from Metro Cebu joining the global lights-off movement Earth Hour in 2025 has increased. Data from the Visayan Electric Company (Veco) recorded a load drop of 1.91 megawatt (MW)…

Operations unaffected after fire hits Dev’t Bank branch in Cebu City

Morexette Marie B. Erram 03/25/2025

CEBU CITY, Philippines — State-run banking institution Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) assured clients that operations remained functioning after a fire hit one of its branches here last Sunday, March 23. The DBP-Cebu recently issued a…

Pagasa-Mactan: Summer 2025 may begin this week

Morexette Marie B. Erram 03/18/2025

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The hot dry season of 2025, colloquially known as summer, may start this week, the state weather bureau has announced. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration in Mactan (Pagasa-Mactan) on Tuesday,…

Solar power plant breaks ground in Daanbantayan

Morexette Marie B. Erram 03/17/2025

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Civil works have officially begun for the 150-megawatt solar power plant in Daanbantayan, northern Cebu, a project aimed at addressing power demand and costs in the region. The Cebu Provincial Government led the…

TIMELINE: Former President Rodrigo Duterte’s ICC arrest

Inquirer.net, Morexette Marie B. Erram 03/12/2025

CEBU CITY, Philippines — At the age of 79, then President Rodrigo Duterte would become the first former Asian leader to be tried before the International Criminal Court (ICC). Mr. Duterte traveled to The Hague in the…

Probe of marching foreigners in Minglanilla subdivision: BI steps in

Morexette Marie B. Erram 03/11/2025

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Bureau of Immigration (BI) will join in the investigation over a group of retired American military officers who reportedly staged a religious march inside a gated subdivision. Minglanilla Mayor Rajiv Enad announced…

HPG-7 to file cases vs ‘snail man’ vlogger

Morexette Marie B. Erram 03/10/2025

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A Cebu-based vlogger may face consequences for cosplaying and acting as a snail in the middle of the highway in Consolacion town in northern Cebu, videos of which went on social media. The…

Cebu City hunts down blast fishers on reef under rehabilitation

Morexette Marie B. Erram 03/10/2025

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City government is currently hunting down the perpetrators behind the blast fishing that occurred in a reef undergoing rehabilitation. The incident occurred on Saturday, March 8, the city’s Bantay Dagat reported.…

Cebu City records 4 fires in 1 day

Morexette Marie B. Erram 03/03/2025

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City has already recorded at least four fire incidents since March, also considered as the country’s Fire Prevention Month, began. And all four occurred within a span of 24 hours. The first…

Over 100 houses burned down in 2-hour fire in Mambaling, Cebu City

Morexette Marie B. Erram 03/02/2025

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Close to 500 individuals lost their homes in a huge fire in Brgy. Mambaling, Cebu City during the second day of Fire Prevention Month on Sunday, March 2. The fire, that hit a…

Senior citizens partylist backs unified Senior Citizens ID

Futch Anthony Inso, Morexette Marie Erram 02/25/2025

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The representative of a senior citizens partylist welcomes the proposal to have a unified ID for elderlies if it meant stopping fake ones from spreading. Congresswoman Mila Magsaysay of the United Senior Citizens…

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