Cebu LGUs on alert

Inna Mejia, Nestle L. Semilla 11/24/2016

Classes in province suspended; landslide areas under watch Cebu province is placed under Code Red: Alert Charlie after it was placed on signal No. 1 by the state weather bureau Pagasa due to the arrival of Tropical…

City Hall workers didn’t violate law, CSC says

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/17/2016

Cebu City Hall employees didn’t violate any law when they held a rally to protest the City Council’s deferment of Supplemental Budget (SB) in October last year, the regional Civil Service Commission (CSC-7) said yesterday. CSC acting…

Busay farmer shot dead

Dominic D. Yasay 11/10/2016

A farmer was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Barangay Busay, Cebu City past 9 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 9. The victim, Allan Aton, 31, was about to slaughter a pig together with his relatives beside a…

Double-checking the drug tests

Editorial 11/03/2016

Should the case of Busay barangay chairman Amilo Lopez be used as a cautionary tale or a justification to stop the random drug tests conducted on local officials or private citizens for that matter? Lopez’s test results…

Forgotten Memories – Part V

Jaime Picornell 10/28/2016

WHEN I was a child, it was a big thing when November 1 and 2 approached. Preparations were made on the days previous. My mother, my grandmother and my aunt Magda went to the flower market in…

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…

Present meds, village chief told

Margarette Managaytay 10/24/2016

The Cebu City barangay official who initially tested positive in a drug test conducted during last Thursday’s barangay assembly was told to present a list of medications that he took for maintenance. “I called him (Busay barangay…

Busay chief: I’ve never been into drugs

Morexette Erram 10/22/2016

Lopez cites hypertension meds for positive drug test results Busay barangay Captain Amilo Lopez yesterday strongly denied using illegal drugs and cited the various kinds of maintenance medication that he use for his hypertension as the reason…

Busay barangay chairman denies drug use

Morexette Erram 10/22/2016

  BUSAY barangay chairman Amilo Lopez questioned why the Cebu City Office for Substance Abuse and Prevention (Cosap) announced non-confirmatory results of the surprise drug test organized by the Association of Barangay Council (ABC) yesterday. Lopez was…

Busay barangay captain surprised at being found positive for illegal drug use

Jhunnex Napallacan 10/21/2016

CEBU CITY—A village chief was surprised when he was tested positive for illegal drug use. Amilo Lopez, chairman of Barangay Busay, was the only one found positive among the 60 village chiefs who undertook the drug tests…

The ‘dying’ bamboo trade

Morexette Erram 10/16/2016

Once a week, before a streak of sunlight touches the asphalt sidewalk of Gorordo Avenue, a mini-bus unloads more than 30 freshly harvested poles of bamboo from Cebu City’s hillside barangays Bacayan, Sirao and Talamban on the…

College in uplands eyed

Nestle L. Semilla 10/15/2016

CEBU City Mayor Tomas Osmeña said he plans to build a college somewhere near the Ayala Heights sometime in the near future. “(The lot is located) somewhere near in Ayala Heights. (In barangays) Busay, Sirao Malubog area.…

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