Police secure Pasil port

Ador Vincent Mayol 06/19/2017

POLICE are securing the Pasil port to prevent the entry of terrorists in Cebu City even if there are no sightings of the Maute terror group or Abu Sayyaf bandits. “It is still possible (that they can…

Woman shot dead in Pasil

Benjie Talisic 04/19/2017

A woman was shot dead by an unknown assailant along L. Flores St. in Barangay Pasil, Cebu City late afternoon Wednesday. According to PO2 Jose Acop of San Nicholas Police Station, Kristylle Cate Milan, 27, who is…

Coal plant project draws support

Fe Marie Dumaboc, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 02/21/2017

Despite being pregnant with her eighth child, 30-year-old Jesiebel Paluena joined 100 residents of Barangays Sawang Calero, Duljo Fatima, Suba and Pasil in showing support to the 300-MW Ludo coal plant project yesterday. “Our barangay chairman who…

PDEA-7 to target ‘big fish’ in Cebu City’s barangays

Fe Marie Dumaboc 02/17/2017

  THEY are gunning for the big fish in the illegal drug trade in Cebu City’s barangays. Director Yogi Felimon Ruiz of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Visayas (PDEA-7) said that this would be their…

Village execs: We’re doing our share to collect trash

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 01/25/2017

Officials of Barangay Kamputhaw in Cebu City refuted the allegations raised by Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña about the uncollected garbage in their area. Kamputhaw Barangay Chairman Trifonio Lequigan Jr. said the photos of uncollected garbage along…

Over P1 M worth of drugs seized in buy-bust operation

Nestle L. Semilla 12/24/2016

At least P1 million worth of shabu was seized from a suspected drug pusher in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Pasil, Cebu City on Saturday afternoon. In an interview with Cebu Daily News, San Nicolas Police Station…

No more displacement of residents as access road to Cebu-Cordova toll bridge scrapped

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 12/12/2016

Residents near the mouth of Guadalupe River in Cebu City can now heave a sigh of relief as their houses won’t have to be cleared anymore as the planned additional access road near the mouth of the…

Village chiefs defend Station 6 police on Osmeña’s illegal gambling claims

Edison Delos Angeles, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/16/2016

DIFFICULT access to some locations and criminal lookouts giving suspects an early warning to an impending police raid were among the reasons given by village officials for the proliferation of illegal gambling in Barangays Pasil and Sawang…

Pasil vendors insist they don’t sell shark meat

Izobelle T. Pulgo 11/16/2016

VENDORS in Pasil fish market were adamant that they don’t sell shark meat even before Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña signed the “Shark and Ray Protection Order” last Tuesday. Melba, a 35-year-old fish vendor in Pasil who…

City to protect shark, ray species

Izobelle T. Pulgo 11/15/2016

At least 100 pro-shark advocates marched to Cebu City Hall on Tuesday morning to meet with Mayor Tomas Osmeña to get the city’s commitment to protect all shark species. The group led by Vince Cinches of Greenpeace…

Cebu City seaside villages watched closely for drugs

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Dominic D. Yasay, Inna Mejia, Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Norman V. Mendoza 11/09/2016

  In the adjoining drug-prone villages of Pasil and Ermita, where government operatives had seized some of their biggest shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride) hauls ever in Cebu City, the illegal drug trade proliferates amid relentless government efforts to…

Cebu City busts yield P46M shabu; 2 nabbed

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/08/2016

CEBU City police conducted two separate operations yesterday and confiscated suspected shabu worth P46.8 million and arrested two alleged big-time drug pushers in the coastal barangay of Pasil and Barangay Guadalupe. First to fall was Melchor Ocarol,…

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