Army to guard Sitio Zapatera; residents took to social media to air out grievances

Morexette Marie B. Erram 04/16/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines – More law enforcers will be deployed in Sitio Zapatera, Barangay Luz in Cebu City where health officers have found out over 50 individuals infected with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Police Brigadier General…

Covid-19 asymptomatic patients in Cebu City now in isolation 

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 04/15/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines—The six patients who were recently tested positive for the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) in two barangays here have been placed in isolation on Tuesday evening, April 14, 2020.  Read: 7 new COVID-19 cases reported…

Sitio Zapatera residents cooperating, following COVID-19 measures

Alven Marie A. Timtim 04/13/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A day after being placed in a lockdown due to the new positive cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), residents in Sitio Zapatera in Barangay Luz in Cebu City have started to become more…

More police, rice aid for locked down Sitio Zapatera

Morexette Marie B. Erram 04/13/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines –Additional police officers, and 160 sacks of rice will be deployed to Sitio Zapatera in Barangay Luz, Cebu City as the lockdown in the area continues. Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella in a press…

9K individuals in Barrio Luz’ sitio placed under lockdown

Morexette Marie B. Erram 04/12/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Sitio Zapatera is the largest sitio (sub-village in English) in Barangay Luz, Cebu City. But its at least 9,000 residents have been placed under lockdown since April 7, 2020, after one of them…

Dialogue leads to solutions to Barangay Luz’s residents water woes

Immae Lachica 02/03/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Water trucks and orderly distribution of water to residents and a search for additional water sources to solve the water problem of Barangay Luz in Cebu City are among the solutions promised by…

Alleged link of use of illegal drugs to Barangay Luz fire probed; man detained, released

Alven Marie A. Timtim - CDN Digital 01/14/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines —Investigators are checking if the alleged use of illegal drugs has any connection to the the start of the fire that razed at least 60 houses and displaced at least 122 families or 337…

Barangay Luz fire victims promised P50K in cash aid

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 01/14/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Barangay Luz families, who lost their homes to the Monday night fire, are set to receive cash assistance of P50, 000 to help in the immediate reconstruction of their burnt homes. Of the…

IN PHOTOS: Barangay Luz Fire: The morning after

Gerard Francisco 01/14/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — As the most beautiful night in Cebu was happening, and Binibining San Fernando Beatrice Gomez was crowned as Binibining Cebu 2020, a barangay was fighting to save what could be salvaged from a…

Former cop to rent Capitol lot for P30 per square meter

Rosalie Abatayo 12/18/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Capitol is set to lease a nearly 2,000-square-meter province-owned lot in Barangay Luz, Cebu City to a former high ranking police officer who previously sued the provincial government over the ownership of…

‘Drug user’ from Barangay Luz shot dead

Alven Marie A. Timtim 07/21/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Manuel Daposala, 46, visited a bakery located along Cabantan Street in Barangay Luz, Cebu City earlier today, July 21, to buy drinking water from an Automatic Tubig Machine. But he was no longer…

Drug suspect wounded in Barangay Luz

Paul Lauro 08/02/2018

A drug suspect was wounded after a buy-bust operation in Barangay Luz, Cebu City at past 9 p.m. on Wednesday (August 1). The suspect was identified as Marlon Mantal Talle, 34 years old and a resident of…

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