High prices discourage vendors to sell red onions

Leo Udtohan - Correspondent / @leoudtohanINQ 12/28/2022

TAGBILARAN CITY — Tita Teves-Maldora has stopped selling red onions at her stall at the Cogon Public Market here. The high price forced her and some vendors to stop selling red onions for two weeks. “It’s really…

NPA rebels, military troops clash in Bohol

Leo Udtohan - Correspondent / @leoudtohanINQ 12/28/2022

TAGBILARAN CITY — A gunfight ensued between suspected members of the New People’s Army (NPA) and government troopers in Bohol province in San Isidro town on Wednesday, Dec. 28. Soldiers clashed with at least 10 “remnants” of…

Cebu City Council OKs P51.4B 2023 annual budget

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 12/28/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama now has a new working budget for 2023. This was after the Cebu City Council, on Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 28, 2022, approved, with three objections and one abstention,…

Urban patrolling of cops in Lapu-Lapu’s crime prone areas starts

Futch Anthony Inso 12/28/2022

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — The Lapu-Lapu City Police Office (LCPO) has already started the implementation of urban patrolling in the city. This was confirmed by Police Lieutenant Colonel Rolando Barroqueo, chief of the City Mobile Force Company.…

Cebu City asks police to probe mauling involving Michelin-star British chef in restobar

Morexette Marie B. Erram, Wenilyn Sabalo 12/28/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Local officials here want the police to shed light on a mauling in Brgy. Kasambagan last December 23, involving a Michelin-star chef. The mauling surfaced after Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia came to the…

Paying it forward: Cebu officials, groups initiate donation drive to help Misamis Occ. flood victims

Morexette Marie B. Erram 12/28/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines – It’s our turn to help them. This was the message several local officials and non-government groups in Cebu conveyed as they opened donation drives to help flood victims in Misamis Occidental. Cebu 1st…

Lusaran Bulk Water facility now supplies to 4 more mountain barangays

Morexette Marie B. Erram 12/28/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Lusaran Bulk Water facility in Cebu City has started supplying water to four more mountain barangays here. The Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) on Monday, December 26, 2022, opened the stub-out in…

My first prescription

Vincent Racoma - @inquirerdotnet 12/28/2022

The first phase of my clinical rotation in various departments at the Philippine General Hospital was full of doubts, angst, and frustrations. As a product of online medical school in my preclinical years, the feeling of inadequacy…

Tech issues mar first day of SIM card registration

Tyrone Jasper Piad 12/27/2022

MANILA, Philippines – Mobile subscribers are reportedly dealing with technical difficulties during the first day of SIM (subscriber identity module) card registration. “Due to the high volume of registrants, some subscribers may experience difficulty accessing the SIM…

Capitol building case vs DPWH-7 execs over stalled UN Avenue underpass mess

Morexette Marie B. Erram 12/27/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Cebu Provincial Government still intends to pursue legal actions against several officials from the Department of Public Works and Highways in Central Visayas (DPWH-7) over the unfinished U.N. Avenue Depressed Project in…

Pagasa: Fair weather in Metro Cebu starting Thursday

Wenilyn Sabalo 12/27/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Metro Cebu will already be having fair weather starting on Thursday, Dec. 29, and this is expected to continue until Saturday, Dec. 31. This is according to the five-day extended weather forecast issued…

Gale warning in Cebu prevails 2 days after Christmas, several sea trips still suspended

Morexette Marie B. Erram 12/27/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The gale warning, which prohibits several sea vessels from sailing, remains in effect in Cebu and the entire Visayas on Tuesday, December 27, or two days after Christmas, authorities announced. Lt. Junior Grade…

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