Delegates from Magellan cities visit Lapu-Lapu City

Norman V. Mendoza 02/20/2016

Some 40 delegates from seven countries in Europe, South America and Asia comprising the group Global Network of Magellan Cities (GNMC) visited Lapu-Lapu City last Wednesday. Mayor Paz Radaza welcomed the delegates, who were accompanied by Cebu…

BRACE FOR THE WORST

Nestle L. Semilla 02/06/2016

Leave for MCIA four hours ahead of flights If you have no business in Mandaue City or on Mactan Island’s Lapu-Lapu City and Cordova town, it is best not to go there. Starting today up to the…

Papal legate leaves Cebu, visits P-Noy

Jhunnex Napallacan, Vanessa Claire Lucero 02/01/2016

YANGON Archbishop Charles Maung Cardinal Bo, Papal Legate to the 51st International Eucharistic Congress (IEC), paid a courtesy call on President Benigno Aquino III in Malacañang before he went home to Myanmar yesterday. Bo left Cebu City…

FLI eyes more economic housing projects

Vanessa Claire Lucero 01/27/2016

Developer Filinvest Land, Inc. (FLI) will soon launch three to six economic housing developments under the brand Futura Homes in the Visayas. FLI project development manager Archie Igot said this is the company’s contribution to efforts to…

Cordova, Metro Pacific ink deal for 3rd Mactan bridge

Jessie D. Campos 01/27/2016

Construction proposed under PPP, targeted to start in 2018 The Pangilinan-led Metro Pacific Tollways Development Corp. (MPTDC) yesterday signed a joint venture agreement with the Cordova municipal government for the construction of the P27.9-billion third Cebu-Mactan bridge.…

DOTC Secretary leads ground cement pouring of new airport terminal

Vanessa Claire Lucero 01/22/2016

Transportation Secretary Jose Abaya came down to Cebu to lead the ceremonial ground cement pouring of the Terminal 2 of Mactan-Cebu International Airport Friday morning. He was with Mactan Cebu International Airport Authority general manager Nigel Paul…

Hot, humid Sinulog weekend ahead

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 01/16/2016

WEAR light-colored and comfortable clothes. Bring hats, umbrellas and bottles of water, too. Weather specialists said it will be a hot and humid weekend, with above normal temperatures because of the El Niño phenomenon. Expect temperature of…

Domestic terminal fee hiked further to P300

Vanessa Claire Lucero 01/08/2016

As programmed, the second tranche of the P100 increase in the domestic terminal fee at the Mactan Cebu International Airport took effect on January 1, 2016. Domestic passengers will now have to pay P300 as passenger service…

Engineer shot dead in Lapu-Lapu

Norman V. Mendoza 01/06/2016

A freelance civil engineer was shot dead by an unidentified man near a shopping mall in barangay Basak, Lapu-Lapu City Monday evening. Alejandro Capilitan Jr., 41, of Deca Homes in Barangay Basak, Lapu-Lapu City died on the…

Suaco-Macachor wedding Jan. 9

Jaime Picornell 12/31/2015

SET for Saturday, Jan. 9, at 3:30 p.m., is the marriage of Rhoda Angelie Macachor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ronolfo Macachor, to Jose Luis Cañizares Suaco, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jose Arturo Suaco, at Chateau…

An uncle’s story

Radel Paredes 12/26/2015

Crosshatching A few weeks before Christmas, we learned that one of our paternal uncles has stage four cancer. It was already so advanced that the hospital that did his tests here in Cebu gave up on him.…

Airport Terminal 2 construction starts

Aileen Garcia-Yap 12/18/2015

Construction of the new terminal of the Mactan-Cebu International Airport is progressing well with the first concrete pouring today. The first batch of concrete mix was poured into the structure six months after work started on the…

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