Niño Rey Boniel’s camp to file motion for recon on denied bail petition

Futch Anthony Inso 06/28/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The camp of former Bohol Provincial Board Member Niño Rey Boniel plans to file a motion for reconsideration after his petition for bail was denied by the Regional Trial Court (RTC) in Lapu-lapu…

Bacaltos’s bid to raise suspect’s homicide case to murder hits another snag

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 05/17/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Another attempt of the family of slain Edwin and Shaun Bacaltos to raise the case of the alleged perpetrator of their deaths, Vincent Navales, from homicide to murder has been denied by a…

Retired Judge Paredes to ask court to quash search warrant vs Arquillano brothers

Rosalie O. Abatayo 04/07/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The camp of San Francisco Mayor Aly Arquillano and his younger brother, Al, will be asking the court to invalidate the search warrant that lead to their arrest and the confiscation of firearms…

Carillo gears for legal fight as Sandigan rules to proceed case over aide-turned-cook

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, and Nestle Semilla, Morexette Marie Erram 01/07/2019

  CEBU CITY, Philippines — Former Cebu City Councilor Gerardo Carillo is preparing for legal battle after the Sandiganbayan ruled to proceed with the trial against him for ordering his aide to moonlight as cook  at his…

Angkas files motion to lift TRO suspending its operations

Inquirer.net 12/21/2018

MANILA, Philippines — Ride-sharing company Angkas has filed before the Supreme Court (SC) an urgent motion to lift the temporary restraining order (TRO) which effectively bars them from operating. In the motion filed last December 13, DBDOYC,…

Suspended Ermita village officials file motion before Court of Appeals

Rosalie O. Abatayo 07/22/2018

THE camp of suspended Ermita barangay officials refuse to wait for a year in order to re-assume their posts. Suspended Barangay Captain Mark Rizaldy Miral said he and the other six councilors, who were slapped with a…

SC junks former Bantayan Mayor Despi’s motion for reconsideration

Morexette Marie B. Erram 11/11/2017

CITING that there were no substantial arguments to question the order, the Supreme Court (SC) denied with finality the Motion for Reconsideration of former Bantayan Mayor Arthur Despi seeking to reverse the decision of the Commission on…

City Council OKs P56M settlement deal with ACTIEF

Rosalie O. Abatayo 11/11/2017

THE Cebu City government will enter into a P56-million settlement agreement with the Asian College of Technology International Education Foundation (ACTIEF). This developed after the City Council approved a resolution authorizing Mayor Tomas Osmeña to enter into…

Lagon files motion to assume mayoralty post of Tuburan

Morexette Marie B. Erram 10/18/2017

THE court-proclaimed winner of Tuburan’s 2016 mayoralty race Daphne Lagon has filed early on Wednesday morning a petition asking the Toledo City Regional Trial Court to allow her to assume the office of the mayor pending appeal…

A tablet in the dark

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 08/05/2017

In his book “The Poetry Home Repair Manual,” Ted Kooser cites this sentence from Tomas Tranströmer’s poem “The Couple” to illustrate a successful simile: They turn the light off, and its white globe glows an instant and…

Decision on Niño’s motion falls on Cebu City RTC judges

Morexette Erram 07/04/2017

CONSOLIDATING CASES The motion to consolidate the charges of illegal detention, kidnapping and parricide lodged against Bohol Provincial Board (PB) Member Rey “Niño” Boniel now lies at the hands of the Cebu City Regional Trial Court (RTC)…

City Council sets proposed SRP ordinance into motion

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 05/02/2017

AFTER a long verbal tussle between lawyer-councilors at the session, the Cebu City Council finally agreed to push for a proposed ordinance, authored by Councilor Hanz Abella, for the sale of another three hectares of the South…

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