Trafficking case dismissed

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 07/30/2015

The couple who was accused of hiring and exposing a 17-year-old girl to prostitution in downtown Cebu City four years ago was cleared of  the charges. Ricardo and Myrla Ramos were found not guilty of violating Republic…

INC expels mother, brother of Executive Minister Eduardo Manalo

07/23/2015

The mother and brother of Eduardo Manalo, executive minister of Iglesia ni Cristo, have been expelled from their church for sowing disunity, an official said on Thursday. “Masakit man sa loob ng kapatid na Eduardo Manalo ay…

A home, a village for older folks

Rina Jimenez-David 07/23/2015

Filipinos take great pride in our “family values,” specifically in the way families make room and time for older members who share a home with them. But sometimes, we have to give our cultural assumptions a second…

Vice Mayor Labella persuades man to climb down the billboard

Apple Ta-as 07/18/2015

Loud cheers and applause broke out after an 18-year-old man climbed down a billboard after more than an hour of negotiation along General Maxilom Avenue, Cebu City. A crowd had gathered on the road soon after the…

Archbishop Villegas calls on LGBT community to aspire to become holy, saints

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 07/17/2015

Be holy and aspire to become saints. This was the challenged posed by Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transexual (LGBT) community during a convention on family and life by Catholic leaders in…

Wedding party turned bloody

07/17/2015

ILOILO CITY—A wedding party turned bloody on Thursday night when an irate neighbor went on a shooting rampage, wounding the groom and killing his cousin in Cabatuan town, Iloilo. Suspect, Nori Leyso 53, may have been irritated by the…

Girl dies as fire ate home in Naga City

Apple Ta-as 07/06/2015

AN eight-year-old girl died in a fire that destroyed her family’s house in barangay Uling, Naga City in southern Cebu at 10:45 p.m. last Sunday. Leona Abatayo slept alone at home when the fire broke out. Both…

Forever is a diamond

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 07/05/2015

When I woke up this morning and gazed beyond the balcony, something caught my eye. Across from us, next to the road and an idle lot, on space long ruled by weeds and wild papaya, posts stood,…

Cebu City will be debt-free

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 07/05/2015

Rama: SRP lot sales to wipe out P3-B loan Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama said the city can wipe out its  P3 billion debt using proceeds of the soon-to-be finalized sale of lots in the South Road…

Fil-Am traces roots to Cebu

Apple Ta-as 06/28/2015

Filipino-American James Beni Wilson spent most of his 25 years wondering about his real parents. As an adopted child growing up in Michigan, USA, he was teased by playmates about his brown skin. “I always thought that…

Clergy, lay groups march against same-sex marriage

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 06/27/2015

Under cloudy skies, members of Cebu’s clergy and Cahtolic lay groups  yesterday staged a solidarity walk to oppose  same-sex marriage as a threat threat against the Filipino family. The “Solidarity Walk for the Family” began at Fuente…

Taxi driver chokes, hangs ex-lover

Apple Ta-as, Chito O. Aragon 06/23/2015

A married taxi driver is accused of killing his former lover by choking and hanging her body from a beam of her house to make it appear that she killed herself. Romeo Castro, 52, was arrested after…

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