The University of Southern Philippines Foundation has been charged for dumping garbage in a vacant private lot in Compostela town, northern Cebu. Compostela police filed a complaint for violation of Republic Act No. 9003 (Ecological Solid Waste…
THE Gapo-Magdadaro clan of Lilo-an town in northern Cebu recently held its first family reunion at the Green Lagoon in Compostela. In attendance were the children and grandchildren of couples Narcisa and Anastacio Gapo and Luisa and…
POLICE arrested three persons who tried to sell fake gold bars and a golden Buddha to a Japanese national for P4.4 million. The entrapment operation was set up in a resort in Compostela town, north Cebu where…
MORE than P50,000 worth of equipment was stolen from the stockroom of Compostela town in northern Cebu. The theft was discovered by municipal worker Timoteo Calo, who found the stockroom door forcibly opened last Friday afternoon. The…
A 44-YEAR-OLD high school teacher was killed while driving to school with his 16-year-old son in barangay Pitogo, Consolacion town, northern Cebu. Felimon Nepumuceno, a teacher at the Compostela National High School, succumbed to gunshot wounds in…
Condominium projects no longer in the pipeline Aboitiz Land, Inc. has set aside P3.7 billion for various projects this year in line with its thrust to become a major national player in property development. Andoni Aboitiz, Aboitiz…
With Australian inmate Hilton Munro gone, the future looks more bleak for the Ilonggo taxi driver who was arrested with him. Gilbert Andrada, 42, said their case of human trafficking and child abuse was dragging due to…
Before taking his own life, Munro wrote another inmate: ‘Help me pass quietly’ The night before, he stayed up late scribbling on a sheet of paper. A fellow inmate across his cell said he noticed the…
The Australian tourist who was arrested in a Cebu resort in 2013 for child sex offenses was found dead in his jail cell at 7:15 am. Hilton Munro, 46, was found hanging from one of the metal…
The Metro Cebu Water District (MCWD) finished connecting the pipelines that would supply 18,000 cubic meters of water sourced from the Carmen bulk water supply to its consumers in northern and southern Cebu yesterday. An eight-hour water…
A 50-year-old man was killed after a rock fell on him, pinning him down in a quarry in barangay Basak, Compostela town, northern Cebu. Police identified the fatality as Emmanuel Pareja Parcon, whose right leg was severed…
The Cebu Provincial Board (PB) yesterday passed a resolution calling on all municipal governments to install security cameras in their buildings to deter crime. The step followed last week’s record series of burglaries of treasury offices…
