American charged for human trafficking, child abuse

Victor Anthony V. Silva 07/02/2015

CRIMINAL complaints were filed against an American national who was caught with a 17-year-old girl in his home in barangay Odloy, Bogo City, northern Cebu. David Ray Carpenter was charged before the Bogo City Prosecutors’ Office last…

American retiree: I plan to marry 17-year-old Bogo girl

Victor Anthony V. Silva 06/30/2015

American pensioner David Ray Carpenter, 68, sat with his hands cuffed and his face covered with a black-and-white scarf. “I did nothing wrong,” he said, three days after being arrested in his home with an underaged girl…

Child labor remains prevalent in Region 7

Melissa Q. Cabahug 06/24/2015

CENTRAL Visayas ranks fifth nationwide with the most number of child labor cases according to a labor official. Remedios Densing, regional focal person for the Child Labor Prevention and Elimination Program (CLPEP), said during the AGIO forum…

Filipina cohort to be charged

Melissa Q. Cabahug 06/15/2015

The Provincial Council for the Welfare of Children will be filing charges against the Filipina cohort of the American national arrested for “molesting minors” in Bogo City, northern Cebu early this month. Cebu Vice Governor Agnes Magpale,…

Three bridges eyed for Argao, Bogo, Medellin

Victor Anthony V. Silva 06/14/2015

Projects funded under ‘Tulay ng Pangulo’ program for calamity-hit areas The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Central Visayas is evaluating three sites in Cebu where new bridges will be put up under the national government’s Tulay…

Magpale: Suroy-Suroy program has separate budget

Melissa Q. Cabahug 06/13/2015

Cebu Vice Gov. Agnes Magpale yesterday defended the Suroy-Suroy Sugbo countryside tours as a cost-effective way of promoting the province as a tourist destination. She said the rural tourism program has  been made permanent in a 2012…

Cebu a ‘trafficking hotspot’

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag, Victor Anthony V. Silva 06/09/2015

DUE to its status as a center for shipping and tourism in Central Visayas and the rest of the southern Philippines, Cebu remains vulnerable to foreign sex predators, an international non-government organization (NGO) said yesterday. Dr. Alwin…

Seno loses anew

Jade S. Violeta 06/09/2015

TOLEDO CITY—Philippine National Games-bound RJ Abarquez dealt another heartache to Bogo City’s pride Jan Godfrey Seno. Weeks after the losing in his hometown in Bogo City, Seno once again dropped an 8-4 decision to Abarquez in the…

Trafficking at the barangay level

06/09/2015

Justice Secretary Leila de Lima’s warning against human trafficking syndicates during the 1st International Dialogue on Human Trafficking curiously comes amid the recent arrest of an American retiree named Harold Glover at his home in barangay Taytayan,…

Retiree faces additional charges

Victor Anthony V. Silva 06/09/2015

The Children’s Legal Bureau (CLB) is considering to file additional charges against the 69-year-old American pensioner who was arrested last week for allegedly molesting underage girls in Bogo City. Lawyer Noemi Truya, CLB spokesperson, said Harold Glover…

Retiree nabbed in Bogo

Victor Anthony V. Silva 06/05/2015

American, 69, arrested for paying minors to have sex;  Teenage victim said she needed money ‘for school supplies’ For five years, 69-year-old Harold Glover has been  renting a house in Bogo city, north Cebu. The American retiree…

Seno to leave age-group meets

Jade S. Violeta 06/04/2015

SAYING there’s no  more challenge left for him in the age group tournaments, Jan Godfrey Seno of the University of San Carlos-BED has decided to instead join higher tournaments such as the men’s open and national open…

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