Christmas in Cebu City: ‘Peaceful, no reported incidents’

Pia Piquero 12/26/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Christmas Day in Cebu City has been generally peaceful, with no untoward incidents, as reported by Councilor Philip Zafra, the chairman of peace and order committee. During his assessment, Zafra revealed that that…

CCPO accepts Rama’s challenge to improve city’s peace and order

Emmariel Ares 12/22/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Cebu City police have accepted the challenge of Mayor Michael Rama to maintain the city’s peace and order for the coming year. Recently, a significant number of incidents have disturbed the peace in…

Maine City grapples with aftermath of mass shooting: ‘Never seen anything like this’ 

10/27/2023

LEWISTON, Maine- Residents of Lewiston, a hard-bitten former mill town in Maine city, struggled on Thursday with a new reality: the scourge of American mass shootings had arrived. Eighteen people were killed in gunfire in Maine’s second-largest…

Teves’ lawyer says no order for solon to come home: We can attend hearing online

Gabriel Pabico Lalu - Reporter / @GabrielLaluINQ 03/20/2023

MANILA, Philippines — The lawyer of Negros Oriental 3rd District Rep. Arnolfo “Arni” Teves Jr. has maintained that there was no compulsory order for the lawmaker to return home and report for work, saying that the House…

Mayor Chan: Sending cops to Negros Oriental can help maintain peace, order in CV 

Futch Anthony Inso 03/13/2023

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Junard “Ahong” Chan said that sending some of the city’s policemen to Negros Oriental would help maintain peace and order not only there but in the whole region as well.…

Marcos orders police, military to suppress impunity in Negros Island – Galvez

Pegeen Maisie M. Sarara 03/11/2023

DUMAGUETE CITY, Negros Oriental — Stop the bloodshed and impunity. Pres. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has issued a “verbal call out order” to the police and the military to stop the impunity and lawless actions on Negros Island.…

Selling of firecrackers in Cebu City is not yet allowed — police

Pegeen Maisie Sararana 11/11/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Selling of firecrackers in Cebu City is still prohibited until the local government unit will give the order to allow the selling these products in Cebu City. Police Lieutenant Colonel Wilbert Parilla, deputy…

PROBE fears rise in quarantine violators with reduced penalty

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 08/21/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Prevention, Restoration, Order, Beautification, and Enhancement (PROBE) team is concerned that the number of quarantine violators may increase once the reduced penalty of quarantine violators will be implemented. The City…

Alaska, Mambaling residents’ cry: Food, security

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 05/09/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A Mandaue City Hall of Justice worker is trapped inside Sitio Ypi-ypil in Alaska, Barangay Mambaling, Cebu City since the area has been locked down by Mayor Edgardo Labella on May 6, 2020.…

Dismissal from service order of ex-Argao police chief signed

Alven Marie A. Timtim 04/20/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The dismissal from service order of Police Major Ildefonso Miranda, former Argao police chief, was signed by Police Brigadier General Albert Ignatius Ferro, Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7) director, on Monday,…

NegOr gov orders stricter border control 

Florence Baesa 04/17/2020

DUMAGUETE CITY, Negros Oriental—Governor Roel Degamo ordered stricter border control in the province due to rising coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19)  cases in the neighboring province of Cebu. In an interview with reporters after the meeting with…

Stay at home order for Cebu City minors, elderly inked

Morexette Marie B. Erram 03/22/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City government has ordered minors and senior citizens to stay at home as a means to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella issued…

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