SUSPENDED

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Fe Marie Dumaboc, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 01/19/2017

The Office of the Ombudsman in the Visayas has ordered a six-month preventive suspension of all the village officials of Barangay Ermita in Cebu City pending an investigation on their alleged failure to cooperate in a drug…

Consolacion village chief dies in road mishap

Rene F. Alima 12/21/2016

Tayud barangay captain Felipe Lauron, 56, was supposed to be brought to the nearest hospital to get immediate medical attention after complaining of having difficulty in breathing, instead he arrived at the hospital dead. Lauron died after the ambulance…

Village chief’s drug tests ‘invalid’

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/27/2016

CEBU City Hall won’t honor the results of a drug test which Busay barangay captain Amilo Lopez took in a private hospital that found him negative of illegal drugs use. Dr. Alice Utlang, chief of the Cebu…

Punta Princesa village chief passes away

Nestle L. Semilla 08/22/2016

PUNTA Princesa barangay chairman Jose Navarro died at 1 a.m. Monday, Punta Princesa public information officer Mike Vequiso said. The 73-year-old Navarro had served Punta Princesa for the past 50 years as a barangay official. His remains…

Tomas confirms termination of cash aid to village officials

Nestle L. Semilla 07/18/2016

CEBU City Mayor Tomas Osmeña confirmed the termination of the financial assistance given to barangay officials in the city. In Monday morning’s press conference, Osmeña said he’s removing the cash aid effective immediately. Every month, barangay chairpersons…

Margot won’t withdraw charges against village chiefs

Nestle L. Semilla 06/27/2016

Acting Cebu City Mayor Margot Osmeña told reporters in a press conference on Monday that she won’t withdraw the case filed against the seven barangay chairpersons of Cebu City even if they already returned the city-issued vehicles.…

Village chief denies non-cooperation with police

Carmel Loise Matus 06/07/2016

Village chiefs in Talisay City may fear for their lives, but they are certainly not protectors of drug lords and have cooperated fully with the police in the campaign against illegal drugs. “Wa ta mahadlok. Misamot hinuon…

Man killed after going on rampage

Apple Ta-as 03/21/2016

IT was the end of the road for a 40-year-old man accused of stabbing to death a barangay chairman and then taking two kids hostage in barangay Hagnaya, San Remigio town in northern Cebu Monday. The suspect…

Lapu-Lapu barangay captain shot, wounded

Jhunnex Napallacan, Norman V. Mendoza 02/06/2016

A village chief in Lapu-Lapu City was shot and wounded early tonight by still unknown assailants, police said. Basak Barangay Captain Isabelito Darnayla was headed for the village center driving his pick up when he was waylaid…

Cops catch village chief in pot session

Rene Alima 11/28/2015

Pinamungajan police were surprised when one of the persons they caught using shabu in barangay Tutay last Thursday was the village chairman. Tutay barangay captain Rhabee Norteza, 46, was among three persons caught having a pot session…

Ex-barangay chair charged for failing to return firearm

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 08/07/2015

THE former barangay chairman of  Anopog in Pinamungajan town, midwest Cebu is facing trial for allegedly failing to return a government-owned firearm. The Ombudsman-Visayas said it found sufficient basis to indict Elmerito Panlaan on charges of malversation…

Politics, land dispute considered motives in village chief ambush

Apple Ta-as, Jhunnex Napallacan 05/05/2015

The family of slain Agus barangay captain Jovencio Lauron said politics was  behind the ambush Sunday morning in Clarin town, Bohol. Lauron’s family confirmed that he had received  death threats before his  murder. P03 Roderick Maglangit, investigator…

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