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Editorial 01/05/2017

EXPENSIVE RENT Firecracker vendors stationed at the South Road Properties (SRP) complained that last year’s rent is the most expensive so far. “We were surprised after the bidding that the rent was pegged at P6,000, but after…

Living it up in 2017

Mia B. Zamora 01/03/2017

HAPPY new year, all you beautiful people out there! It’s 2017 and I couldn’t be more excited … as they say, every new year brings with it 365 opportunities. Every day we wake up is a gift,…

Two thousand seventeen

Raymund Fernandez 01/03/2017

It was absolutely reflective of the times that this writer was drunk, hungover and otherwise mostly stayed in bed from the evening of the 30th of last year’s December until New Year’s Day, 2017. He was up…

Police: Less firecracker, stray bullet injuries

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag, Nestle L. Semilla, Norman V. Mendoza 01/02/2017

FIRECRACKER-related injuries incurred in the aftermath of the New Year revelry in Central Visayas dropped by half last Dec. 31, the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7) said yesterday. From 67 cases in 2015, only 33…

Pia Wurtzbach and Marlon Stockinger spend New Year in Hawaii

Apple Ta-as 01/02/2017

MISS Universe Pia Wurtzbach welcomed the New Year with her beau Filipino-Swiss car racing champion Marlon Stockinger on the beach of Hawaii. On New Year’s Day, Pia shared a photo on Instagram showing her and Marlon, spending…

Paulina Sotto and Jed Llanes tie the knot

Apple Ta-as 01/02/2017

JANUARY 1 was not just a celebration of the new year for Jed Llanes and Paulina Sotto but also a beginning of their new life as husband and wife. The two exchanged “I dos” in an intimate…

A streamlined, safer Sinulog

Editorial 01/02/2017

The first week of the first month of the New Year happens to be Sinulog Week 1 for Cebu City in particular but its fame around the country and the rest of the world had associated the…

Good year, good luck

Ricky Poca 01/02/2017

Allow me to wish everyone a prosperous New Year. I pray that as we say goodbye to 2016, 2017 will bring us new hope and a better life especially in our relationship with God and with mankind,…

MAO BA?

Editorial 01/02/2017

TOUGH MEATBALLS A party hostess was her usual generous self, serving her friend’s son with food that she cooked on the buffet table. The hostess then asked the boy about his opinion of the food and he…

Stray bullets injure 2 in Cebu; firecracker blasts hurt 42 in Central Visayas

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 01/01/2017

At least 42 people were reportedly injured due to firecracker blast while two others were victims of stray bullets in Central Visayas at the height of the revelry to welcome the New Year, a Department of Health…

Mandaue fire leaves 450 families homeless on first day of 2017

Edison Delos Angeles 01/01/2017

CEBU CITY—It was a heartbreaking New Year for at least 450 families who were left homeless after fire hit two densely populated villages in Mandaue City, Cebu past midnight on Sunday. Lighted firecrackers might have triggered the…

DOH places govt’ hospitals on Code White alert; urges public to shun firecrackers

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 12/31/2016

GOVERNMENT-RUN hospitals across the country, including those in Cebu, have been placed on “Code White Alert” yesterday, the eve of the New Year’s day celebration. This means hospital staff are in place and ready to respond any…

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