Devotees flock to ‘Devotee City’

Morexette Erram 01/13/2017

On it’s 21st year, this year’s “Devotee City” is now open. The place, which is right beside the old Compania Maritima building near City Hall, is actually a row of forty 20-footer container vans lined up as…

Devotee City opens

Morexette Erram 01/12/2017

Cebu City Hall officially opened the Devotee City for this year’s Sinulog Festival at 11:15 am Thursday, setting new arrangements to occupants. About 40 20-footer container vans donated by cargo firm 2G0 stood at the Devotee City…

Davide asks police, other agencies to reconcile anti-drug campaign data

Izobelle T. Pulgo 01/06/2017

Cebu Governor Hilario Davide III has called for communication and coordination among anti-drug agencies and law enforcers before any declaration is made to avoid releasing reports that will turn out to be inconsistent. This came after Chief…

BLOODY, SAD CHRISTMAS

Izobelle T. Pulgo, Nestle L. Semilla 12/26/2016

They were heartbreaking tragedies, two senseless shooting incidents that occurred just as the world over was about to celebrate Christmas. They claimed the life of a father and left the son fighting on for dear life, but…

Province inaugurates development center for women, children

Izobelle T. Pulgo 12/23/2016

THE Cebu Provincial government has inaugurated the new Cebu Provincial Women and Children Development Center in Sitio Sudlon, Barangay Lahug, Cebu City yesterday morning. Standing on a 1,000- square meter lot behind the Cebu Provincial Police Office…

Holiday message to cops: ‘Shape up or ship out’

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Nestle L. Semilla 12/19/2016

WITH some police precincts still falling below expectations in the Duterte administration’s campaign against illegal drugs, Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO) director Senior Supt. Eric Noble warned station chiefs to “shape up” during the holidays. According to…

Mother wants holiday visit for Barok

Izobelle T. Pulgo 12/19/2016

TO see her child in time for Christmas — this is Emma Alvaro’s plea to the management of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) as her son, alleged high-profile drug trader Alvaro “Barok” Alvaro, continues…

Provincial police precincts told to intensify war on drugs

Nestle L. Semilla 12/19/2016

The Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO) challenged police precincts in the province to intensify their campaign against illegal drugs. In a press conference Monday afternoon, Senior Supt. Eric Noble, provincial police chief, said there are still 10…

Oplan: Big-time Tokhang

Nestle L. Semilla, Rene F. Alima 12/16/2016

Government’s antidrug war basically took a more literal twist on Friday when a strong force of about a hundred uniformed armed police and military operatives knocked on the doors of Barangay Tangke, Talisay — a village notorious…

Camotes Island now ‘free of drugs’

Nestle L. Semilla 12/16/2016

THE whole of Camotes Island is now drug free. That’s according to Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO) director Senior Supt. Eric Noble who said that the four towns of Camotes were the first municipalities to be declared…

Two ‘underperforming’ Cebu municipal police station chiefs relieved

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 12/15/2016

Two more municipal police chiefs in the province of Cebu were relieved from their posts and replaced by two police officers who happened to be married to each other. Senior Supt. Eric Noble, director of the Cebu…

16 Cebu barangays say they are drug-free — CPPO chief

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 12/12/2016

About five months since the administration launched its relentless campaign against illegal drugs, 16 out of 1,066 barangays in the province of Cebu have declared themselves as “drug-free.” These villages are all located in three municipalities on…

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