Labella to PROBE, market authority: Intensify cleanup drive in markets, streets

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 08/12/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — “Intensify the cleanup operations of the city’s public markets and clear the streets of vendors.” This is Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella’s latest marching orders to the Public, Restoration, Order, Beautification and Enhancement…

Cebu City cops arm themselves with brooms as they go on a 2-hour cleanup drive

07/27/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Starting 3 p.m. today, July 27, police officers in Cebu City will arm themselves with brooms and dustpans as they will patrol the city’s streets, looking and ridding them of trash literally for…

PROBE team clears up Plaridel Street

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 07/23/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines—The Cebu City Public Restoration, Order, Beautification, and Enhancement (PROBE) team conducted a clearing and clean-up drive along Plaridel Street here on Tuesday morning, July 23, 2019.  The area, which includes the sidewalks leading to…

Couple’s pre-nuptial photoshoot in Colon, Carbon gets netizens attention

Immae Lachica 05/09/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines— A pre-nuptial photoshoot is getting the attention of netizens as it highlights the oldest street in the Philippines — Colon Street.  James Un and Aida Verga Villanueva, who are both educators, wanted to highlight…

18-year-old female ‘drug courier’ nabbed with P578K shabu in Carbon market bust

Benjie B. Talisic 04/13/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — An 18-year-old woman was caught with half a million pesos worth of suspected shabu during an anti-illegal drugs operation in the Carbon Public Market in Barangay Ermita in Cebu City on April 13,…

Online payment system targets market stall owners, others

Irene R. Sino Cruz 01/23/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Imagine paying your barbecue meal or your taxi fare without using cash.  This scenario will soon be possible with cashless payments to be available in some barbecue stalls, transport services and other businesses…

Palma’s Christmas reminder: Do not forget the poor

Delta Letigio 12/14/2018

CEBU CITY, Philippines -Do not forget the poor. This was the message of Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma as Christmas draws near. He urged the people to celebrate Christmas, not only in the context of parties and shoppings,…

Fire destroys Unit III of Carbon Market

Benjie B. Talisic, Delta Dyrecka Letigio 11/29/2018

OVER P1 million in properties including the Market Authority Office were razed by fire that lasted almost five hours at the Carbon Market Unit III in Barangay Ermita Cebu City, Thursday afternoon. According to Bureau of Fire…

Lack of counter-affidavits could delay case vs Carbon cops

Jessa Mae O. Sotto, Rosalie O. Abatayo 09/06/2018

  INVESTIGATORS from the National Bureau of Investigation should have taken the sworn statements of the three policemen now facing charges for the death of four-year-old Bladen Skyler Abatayo, says the Commission on Human Rights (CHR-7). CHR…

Lack of counter-affidavits could delay case vs Carbon cops

Rosalie O. Abatayo 09/05/2018

INVESTIGATORS from the National Bureau of Investigation should have taken the sworn statements of the three policemen now facing charges for the death of four-year-old Bladen Skyler Abatayo, says the Commission on Human Rights (CHR-7). CHR Regional…

Probe vs 4 Carbon cops to continue despite negative paraffin test result

Morexette Marie Erram and Fe Marie Dumaboc 07/14/2018

THE four operatives of the Carbon Police Station in Cebu City who were involved in the anti-drugs operation that resulted to the death of 4-year-old Bladen Skyler Abatayo tested negative for gunpowder residue. But Chief Supt. Debold…

Carbon Market, small downtown shops offer cheap school supplies

Nestle L. Semilla and John Michael Aroa 06/02/2018

JENNY Mae Hermoso is a mother of two grade schoolers from Liloan town in northern Cebu. To get to Cebu City, she needs to endure more than an hour of travel amidst damning traffic. But she doesn’t…

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