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Fr. Jerry M. Orbos SVD - @inquirerdotnet 10/08/2023

Someone noted that on the night the Titanic sank, all classes of people were in it—wealthy and poor, famous and unknown, literate and illiterate, bosses and workers. A few hours after it sank, there were only two…

Lost child reunited with parents after riding jeep from Tisa to Pier 4

Morexette Marie B. Erram and Paul Lauro 03/23/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines – A Liberian child found wandering around Pier 4 unaccompanied on Thursday, March 23 has been reunited with his parents. Officials from Barangay Tejero took to social media to ask for the public’s help…

Russian goes viral for selling bottled water after losing passport

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 03/09/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A foreigner has gone viral for selling bottled water in downtown Cebu City while wearing a placard and asking for help after losing his passport. A photo of Igorevich Vladislav Saulev, 43, a…

Osmeña’s lawyer says ‘lost’ Mayor’s Seal was used during Labella’s inauguration

Delta Dyrecka C. Letigio 07/09/2019

Cebu City, Philippines—The Camp of former Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña said the Mayor’s Seal was not actually lost but was  instead used by Mayor-elect Edgardo Labella during his inauguration last June 30, 2019. Read more: Labella:…

PhilHealth lost P154B to overpayments, fraud

06/07/2019

(Second of three parts) More than 757,000 people got sick with pneumonia in 2018, according to claims made by hospitals and paid for by Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth), the state insurance company. The number is staggering…

Freed OFW says she never lost hope while in UAE prison

Inquirer.net 11/02/2018

JENNIFER Dalquez, the overseas Filipino worker (OFW) who was released from prison in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), said Friday that she never lost hope that she would return home someday and be with her family again.…

Coaches’ violation lost the game for AdC in PSDL

Ray Charlie Diaz 10/13/2018

The coaching staff of the Academia del Christifidelis (AdC) became their team’s undoing as they were slapped with a uniform violation that made their 50-48 win against Divine Life Institute of Cebu (DLIC) moot in the 9th…

Ronda lost a good servant

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 09/06/2018

BLANCO’S DAUGHTER SAYS Let the people judge.” This was the statement of the eldest daughter of Mayor Mariano Blanco III of Ronda town, southwest Cebu as they continue to grieve the loss of a father who she…

THE LOST BOOKSTORES OF DOWNTOWN CEBU

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 08/08/2018

PART 3 JANE’S WALK THE CONCLUSION article of this three-part series delves into three stories: a family who used to operate a bookstore on P. Del Rosario St.; a bookstore that was inspired by Paris Shakespeare and…

THE LOST BOOKSTORES OF DOWNTOWN CEBU (Part 2)

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 08/01/2018

JANE’S WALK I HAVE never been to the Cebu Music House or Gaisano Super Bookstore. My earliest memory of downtown Cebu was the Gazini Plaza, where my mother bought me a copy of a Cinderella book for…

THE LOST BOOKSTORES OF DOWNTOWN CEBU

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 07/25/2018

  There was a time in the past when downtown Cebu was a destination for bibliophiles and bookworms. The bookstores did not boost of air-conditioned spaces or nooks that sold macchiato or cappuccino. They were plain and…

Dimsum Break returns lost wallet

PR 07/21/2018

DIMSUM Break Fiesta Mall recently returned a wallet left by a customer a year ago. Last July 2017, a wallet containing a huge amount of cash and two Senior Citizen’s identification cards was left inside a Dimsum…

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