Escalation

07/29/2016

President Rodrigo Duterte’s vocal assurance of his administration’s commitment to follow the law in the war against illegal drugs may or may have been the go signal for the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to intensify their…

Margot: Settlers have only today to move out

06/09/2016

The 400 settlers who moved into the 4.2-hectare Osmeña Shrine in Barangay Kalunasan have until today to clear out lest their houses be dismantled by City Hall’s Prevention, Restoration, Order, Beautification and Enhancement (Probe) team. “They have…

Confiscated crackers

Apple Ta-as 01/05/2016

The regional police confiscated at least P500,000 worth of illegal firecrackers during the holidays last month. The bulk came from Lapu-Lapu City where local police confiscated more than P100,000 worth of firecrackers including piccolo and whistle bombs,…

‘DON’T KILL BUSINESS’

Marc Eric Cosep 11/13/2015

LPG refillers lobby to have cans tested as ‘safe’ It’s cheap, handy and everywhere. While the refilling of LPG in butane canisters is banned as a fire hazard,  the widespread use and sale of these portable cooking…

Consumer safety

Editorial 11/13/2015

If even one of her employees died,  Amor Pelenia’s butane canister-refilling operations would have been immediately shut down by the Cebu City government. A circular of the Department of Energy bans the refilling of LPG in single-use…

BFAR 7, Coast Guard to work together to combat corruption

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/04/2015

THE Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) in Central Visayas and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR-7) assured  they would  prevent corruption with higher fines and penalties under  Republic Act 10654 or the Act to Prevent, Deter…

Public school teachers to undergo drug test

Melissa Q. Cabahug 06/16/2015

Teachers are supposed to be role models and therefore must not be involved in illegal drugs. Following the arrest of an OIC principal of Santicon Elementary School in Badian town in a drug raid a few weeks…

Cordova fined P50K for illegal reclamation

Melissa Q. Cabahug 05/29/2015

THE  Cordova municipal government will be fined P50,000 for dumping limestone in a fish pond in barangay Ibabao without an Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC). Engr. William Cuñado, regional director of the Environmental and Management Bureau (EMB-7) said…

Seized Zambo shells may be returned to sea

Peter L. Romanillos 06/27/2014

Thousands of endangered helmet and trumpet shells worth P2 million that were intercepted last Wednesday may still find their way back to the sea. The “budyong” and “tambuli” shells can be returned to the sea to provide…

Daanbantayan town mayor irked by video of another shark sale in town’s public market

Marian Z. Codilla, Victor Anthony V. Silva 06/11/2014

A female vendor holds up a juvenile shark, offering it for P200 in the wet market of Daanbantayan town, north Cebu. In the background, another female vendor walks by carrying a bamboo shark less than three feet…

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