Ban on private vehicles during peak hours set

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/27/2017

N. BACALSO TRAFFIC Starting next week, private cars will be banned from passing through the intersection of N. Bacalso Ave. and F. Llamas St. during peak hours. Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña wants this implemented as a…

Employers reminded: Observe holiday pay rules

Victor Anthony V. Silva 10/31/2017

THE Department of Labor and Employment in Central Visayas (DOLE-7) reminded employers to observe pay rules on holidays, particularly on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1. DOLE-7 OIC-Regional Director Cyril Ticao, in a statement, said there are certain…

Revamping work hours

Editorial 08/30/2017

While almost everyone knows that the four-day workweek bill being deliberated by Congress was born out of the need to ease traffic congestion in urban areas, the qualifier being that it is optional for employers makes it…

Inspiring heroic stories in Story Hours

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 08/28/2017

  Heroism was the central theme in last Saturday’s Story Hours as 20 children from St. Dominic Savio School of Lapu-Lapu City and Don Calixto C. Yongco Sr. Memorial Elementary School in Mandaue City spent an afternoon…

Staggered hours urged for new law during school days

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 05/22/2017

Cebu City officials are scrambling for ways to implement the new law prohibiting small children from riding motorcycles and at the same time make sure that it does not become a problem for those who use motorcycles…

Laborer, teen shot dead

Intern 04/18/2017

A LABORER was shot dead by one of five motorcycle-riding assailants who took a silver necklace from him in Sitio Camp 5, Barangay Manipis, Talisay City at 8:48 a.m. last Monday. SPO2 Cecilio Miñoza of the Talisay…

2 men, 1 woman killed in 12 hours

Norman V. Mendoza 04/09/2017

THREE people were shot dead in two separate shooting incidents in a span of 12 hours on Sunday in Lapu-Lapu City. At 2:30 a.m. in Barangay Pajac, tricycle driver Saddam Dayongan, 23, and his sister Sonalia Dayongan,…

Security guard is still on duty hours before he graduates, cum laude, at Saint Theresa’s College in Cebu

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 03/25/2017

  It is just hours before he graduates, and with honors at that, but Erwin Valmoria Macua. 38, is still on duty – working the night shift – as a security guard at the Catholic-run St. Theresa’s…

PCG asks ship skippers in Mactan Channel mishap to submit marine protest in 24 hours

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 02/19/2017

The skippers of the two shipping companies involved in a sea mishap along Mactan Channel have been directed by the Philippine Coast Guard Cebu Station (PCG Cebu) to submit their respective marine protest within 24 hours. Commander…

DRUG SUSPECT YIELDS AFTER HOURS OF SEARCH

Fe Marie Dumaboc, Nestle L. Semilla 02/13/2017

  A drug suspect who fled during a buy bust operation on Sunday, surrendered hours later to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Central Visayas, fearing for his life. Rex Sebumit was the subject of the…

TRAGEDY IN DULJO

Nestle L. Semilla 12/02/2016

What was supposed to be the first day of the happiest month of the year turned into a tragedy as close to 3,000 people were left homeless, scrambling to make sense of how they will get through…

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