EMPLOYEES of Barangay Ermita in Cebu City won’t be able to receive their salaries due to the failure of their officials to submit liquidation reports to the Commission on Audit (COA). Francisco “Bimbo” Fernandez, executive assistant to…
ALL 80 barangays in Cebu City have submitted the lists of drug personalities in their respective areas to the regional Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA-7) yesterday, one day after its March 15 deadline. About five of these…
Three months into the year and employees of Barangay Ermita still have not gotten their salaries for 2017. According to Ermita Barangay Secretary Erwin Peñafort, he has already submitted three weeks ago the vouchers for the salaries…
THE Office of the Ombudsman – Visayas (OMBV) denied a motion for reconsideration (MR) filed by Ermita barangay captain Felicisimo “Imok” Rupinta and seven village councilors currently under preventive suspension for six months upon orders of the…
A former tanod of Barangay Ermita was shot dead while having breakfast at Sitio Kastila Unit 1 Carbon, Barangay Ermita in Cebu City PO3 Winston Ybañez, Homicide Investigator of Cebu City Police Office, identified the victim as…
BARANGAY chiefs in Cebu City have until March 15 to submit the list of drug personalities in their respective areas to the regional Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA-7). So far, only 14 of the 80 barangays in…
Despite the recent arrest of three soldiers who were caught in a drug den last Saturday, Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña said they will still push through with plans of deploying soldiers in Barangay Ermita. “Why should…
They were supposed to help the government eradicate illegal drugs. But three members of the Philippine Army in Cebu were caught allegedly in possession of illegal drug paraphernalia inside a makeshift room believed to be used as…
Soldiers will be deployed to Barangay Ermita to help fight criminality and illegal drugs in tandem with the police. From now on, personnel from the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) will be helping monitor the crime…
ON THE day that Ermita Barangay Captain Felicisimo Rupinta and the seven other barangay officials were contesting their suspension in the Court of Appeals and failing to stop it because of documentary discrepancies, Cebu City’s market…
Last week’s verbal clash between Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña and Presidential Assistant for the Visayas Michael Dino has brought to the fore the uncertain status of the city’s political opposition. While the mayor filed charges of…
After a string of successful operations in the drug-prone barangays of Ermita and Carreta, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the region (PDEA-7) is now training its sights on another drug-prone village in Cebu City — Calamba,…
