Labangon fire destroys ten houses, damages five

Benjie Talisic, Doris C. Bongcac 04/10/2017

A mid-afternoon fire destroyed ten houses and damaged five more in Sitio Shangrila 2 in Barangay Labangon, Cebu City on Monday. SFO4 Jovito Abelgas said the fire was reported to have started at the residence of a…

C. Padilla, Cebu City fire destroys house, damages another

Benjie Talisic 04/05/2017

  A fire of still undetermined origin destroyed a house and damaged another in C. Padilla Street, Barangay Duljo-Fatima, Cebu City on Wednesday evening. The Cebu City Fire department received the fire alarm at 8:27 p.m. and…

Speaker Alvarez, roiling in the deep

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 04/03/2017

Less than a year after assuming the top position in the House of Representatives, Davao del Norte first district Congressman and PDP Laban Secretary General Pantaleon “Bebot” Alvarez finds himself in a firestorm of his own making.…

Masking the stink

Editorial 04/02/2017

Call it coincidence but President Rodrigo Duterte’s latest broadsides against the media, specifically the Philippine Daily Inquirer and ABS-CBN, came at a time when two lawmakers supposedly allied with him got mired in a very public squabble…

House bill allowing Duterte to appoint barangay execs needs more scrutiny — Cebu leaders

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Inquirer.net, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag, Norman V. Mendoza 03/27/2017

A bill seeking to postpone the barangay elections to 2020 and to allow President Rodrigo Duterte to appoint all the country’s village officials must be met with careful scrutiny, even as it is expected to breeze through…

Red Durano appointed chairman of House Committee on Education

Doris C. Bongcac 03/24/2017

CEBU 5th District Rep. Ramon “Red” Durano VI has been named as the new chairperson of the Committee on Basic Education and Culture of the House of Representatives. He replaced Rep. Evelina Escudero (1st District, Sorsogon) who…

White House boosts security after bomb threat arrest

03/20/2017

WASHINGTON — The US Secret Service bolstered security at the White House after a man was arrested after making threats at one its checkpoints, an official said. CNN reported that the man made a threat claiming he…

Kultokulto and the Blue House

Gerard Pareja 03/12/2017

Kon ang America dunay White House, ang Korea duna usay Blue House. Apan daw dimalas ang kolor nga blue para sa gobyerno sa South Korea (SK). Kay kasagaran sa makapuyo niani nga presidente kon di mapalagpot sa…

By the numbers

Editorial 03/09/2017

They may have the numbers, but even with the passage of the death penalty bill on third and final reading by the Lower House, the Senate version may serve to further dilute or augment the existing bill…

KONG IT STILL KING

Jeff Ruffolo 03/09/2017

THE KING is in the House! That’s right, true believers, the biggest,baddest alpha male is in charge and standing tall at 100 ft., taking on all opponents, human (and not) in “Kong: Skull Island.” This film version…

A House Divided

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Jheysel Tangaro, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 02/25/2017

The commemoration of the 1986 Edsa People Power Revolution that used to showcase the unity among Filipinos became a window into the widening fissure among groups on the opposite sides of the political spectrum. A group of…

Ermita to house soldiers for anti-crime, drug drive

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Norman V. Mendoza 02/23/2017

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…

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