Nursing student killed after SUV flips over in Balamban road accident

Emmariel Ares and Paul Lauro 03/22/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A nursing student died after the sport utility vehicle she was driving with 10 of her classmates onboard, flipped over while she tried to evade another vehicle in Barangay Gaas, Balamban town in…

P28M worth of marijuana plants uprooted in Balamban

Immae Lachica 02/05/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines— Police had their biggest operation against marijuana plants on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 when they uprooted around 70,000 stalks of these fully grown plants in Barangay Gaas, Balamban, Cebu. A joint operation by the…

P4.12M worth of marijuana plants uprooted in Balamban

Morexette Marie B. Erram 04/05/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Authorities uprooted P4.12 million worth of marijuana stalks from three suspected marijuana plantation sites in a hinterland village in Balamban town, western Cebu. Enforcers from the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Visayas…

P4.6-million worth of marijuana stalks uprooted, burned in Balamban town

Morexette Marie B. Erram 03/02/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Law enforcers in Balamban, a first-class municipality located in western Cebu, will be intensifying their hunt for marijuana farms.  This developed after operatives from Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Visayas (PDEA – 7),…

CSU man shot dead in Toledo

Rene F. Alima 11/16/2015

Two men on a motorcycle shot dead a member of Toledo City’s Civil Security Unit at 7 a.m. yesterday in barangay Poblacion, Toledo City in western Cebu. Leonardo Lomucso, 58, of barangay Gaas, Balamban town, died after…

Relocated Gaas folk recount landslide fears

Carine M. Asutilla 01/23/2014

On seeing the soil cracks near her home in the mountain barangay of Gaas, Balamban town in Cebu last Tuesday, Gina Bastida decided to move her family to her sister’s house. A later inspection of her house…

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