Cebuanos turn to FireChat app amid telco shutdown for Sinulog

Ryan Macasero 01/14/2017

Amid a shutdown of telecommunication services in Cebu City for the Sinulog Festival, Cebuanos are turning to mobile app FireChat for communication. The first shutdown began at 3 a.m. before the fluvial procession in Mandaue City that…

Anti-Marcos groups hold simultaneous noise barrage in Cebu

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 12/06/2016

To reiterate their stand against the burial of the late dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB) , militant groups held simultaneous noise barrage in seven different areas in Cebu on Tuesday noon.…

Lapu has new garbage hauler

Norman V. Mendoza 11/02/2016

LAPU-LAPU City has a new hauler to deliver their garbage to the Consolacion private landfill facility after it dropped its previous hauler due to its inefficient collection efforts. In yesterday’s press conference, Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Paz Radaza…

Honda Motors unveils Gen S motorcycles

Glendale G. Rosal 10/31/2016

Honda Motors Philippines Inc. introduced its Gen S motorcycles during the 2016 Honda Riders Convention last Oct. 29 at the Hoopsdome in Lapu-Lapu City. Around a thousand riders representing different Honda motorcycle clubs in Cebu converged to…

Crackdown set on vendors, illegally parked vehicles

Norman V. Mendoza 08/31/2016

LAPU-LAPU City’s streets will be cleared of illegally parked vehicles, ambulant vendors and other obstructions, Mayor Paz Radaza said yesterday. She said tow trucks will impound illegally parked vehicles in all streets to a vacant space in…

Brazen traffic altercation

Editorial 08/29/2016

Hopefully, by the time this comes out, more light would have been shed on the brazen traffic altercation that occurred at the foot of the Mandaue-Mactan bridge last Saturday. The perpetrators, who included PO3 Renato Inot and…

Remains of headless caretaker found in Lapu

Norman V. Mendoza 08/21/2016

RESIDENTS of Sitio Looc, Barangay Maribago in Lapu-Lapu City found the remains of a headless 50-year-old man at 6:30 am Sunday. SPO2 Frederick Eslit of the Lapu-Lapu City police said the headless victim was identified as Raymundo…

Twelve drug suspects yield to Lapu police

Norman V. Mendoza 08/10/2016

Twelve self-confessed drug pushers, including two men who supposedly supplied drugs to 30 barangays in Lapu-Lapu City, surrendered themselves and their firearms to the Lapu-Lapu City Police Office yesterday morning. Senior Supt. Rommel Cabagnot, Lapu-Lapu City police…

Lapu traffic chief’s condition ‘stable’

Jhunnex Napallacan, Norman V. Mendoza 08/07/2016

Lapu-Lapu City’s traffic chief Frank Brazil is in stable condition after doctors removed a bullet near his rib cage at a private hospital in Mandaue City last Saturday evening. The bullet of a .45 pistol pierced his…

THE RISE OF VIGILANTE KILLINGS

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Nestle L. Semilla, Rene F. Alima 07/29/2016

Four suspected drug pushers are dead. Gunned down by unknown masked assailants in separate incidents in Metro Cebu, in just twenty four hours. Another person, also a suspected drug peddler, escaped a slay try, again by unknown…

Roofs fly off; 13 injured, 30 houses damaged in Metro Cebu

Norman V. Mendoza 11/06/2013

Roofs of small houses were blown off in Mandaue and Mactan island. Utility posts were uprooted. The damage by a tornado during Monday s thunderstorm extended to the northern town of Compostela, catching people by surprise, damaging…

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