FIREFIGHTERS engaged in illegal activities like drugs will face sanctions and dismissal from service if proven guilty of the charges. Senior Fire Supt. Samuel Tadeo, regional director of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), said this in…
At least half of the more than 3,000 tons of garbage deposits at the Inayawan Sanitary Landfill transfer station were already taken from the area and disposed to a private landfill facility in Barangay Pulpogan in…
THE newly installed police chief of Toledo City promised to continue the works of his predecessor, Supt. Samuel Mina Jr., especially on the war against illegal drugs. Supt. Anthony Bagarinao assumed as new Toledo City Police…
The Commission on Human Rights in Central Visayas will conduct an investigation on claims of the legal defense team of Provincial Board Member Niño Boniel of alleged police coaching of two witnesses to implicate their client.…
A BARANGAY captain and a barangay councilman of a northern town were arrested on Thursday after police confiscated unlicensed firearms inside their houses. Rene Olivar, barangay captain of Lamintac Norte of Medellin town, and barangay councilman Rex…
THE Department of Tourism has said nearly 1.8 million foreign travelers flocked to the Philippines in the first quarter of this year, with the agency optimistic that more would come following the government’s massive investments in infrastructure,…
22 Cebu City employees cleared of drug use in yesterday’s screening DESPITE the change in leadership in the Cebu City Office for Substance Abuse Prevention (Cosap), the spate of surprise drug testings for City Hall and…
There are about 1,200 Islamic State (IS) group operatives in the Philippines, including foreigners of whom 40 are from Indonesia, the Indonesian defense minister told an international security forum Sunday. Speaking in Singapore amid a bloody standoff…
The initial phase of the railway aimed at connecting key cities on Mindanao island will be up for President Rodrigo Duterte’s go-ahead later this month after the National Economic and Development Authority’s Investment Coordination Committee-Cabinet Committee (Neda…
Cebu Governor Hilario Davide III has ordered the suspension of the chief of the Minglanilla District Hospital because of their failure to aid a hit-and-run victim, who died before reaching the hospital on Wednesday dawn. Davide…
THE Cebu City Council is asking the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology Director Serafin Barreto to provide more jail officers and support staff to the Cebu City Jail so that they can better secure the inmates…
FIVE municipalities in Cebu have new police chiefs effective yesterday following a reshuffling implemented by the Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO). The new police chiefs of Sibonga, Bantayan, Consolacion, Santander and Pinamungajan assumed office yesterday. In Sibonga…
