A PARTYLIST group that claims to represent the fisheries sector said they will pass laws that will address livelihood and income concerns of the country’s fisherfolk. The All Fish Partylist group comprised mostly of commercial fishers visited…
When it comes to campaigning, Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama seems to have this down pat as shown in last week’s observance of City Charter Day. During the activity, the mayor launched two projects that were incidentally…
The smell of fish and the noise of vendors have been replaced by green grass, pastel colored swings, slides and monkey bars in what used to be the Pasil Fish Market site. The 3,000-square-meter lot fronting the…
PLAYTIME. Kids have a grand time at a newly developed playground in the old Pasil fish market. (CDN PHOTO/CHRISTIAN MANINGO)…
TWO persons were arrested and packs of suspected shabu worth at least P300,000 were seized in separate anti-illegal drug operations in Cebu City last Tuesday night. Daisy Perez Cabutero was arrested by operatives of the Regional Anti-Illegal…
The Burmese prelate sent by Pope Francis to represent him to the 51st International Eucharistic Congress (IEC) yesterday showed Cebuanos that he had the moves. Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, Archbishop of Yangon, Myanmar, gave in to requests…
FIRE broke out in a pharmacy along M. dela Concepcion Street, barangay Pasil, Cebu City yesterday afternoon. The Cebu City Fire Department received the alarm at 4:38 p.m., and the fire was controlled 20 minutes later. Fire…
ABOUT 482 kilos of assorted dynamited fish were confiscated from a truck at a checkpoint in Liloan town at 11:30 p.m. last Wednesday. Lawyer Chad Estella, task force coordinator, said a team intercepted the truck and apprehended…
Nearly 150 children and their parents gathered at the Don Bosco Youth Center in Pasil, Cebu City recently to celebrate the Universal Children’s Month. The day- long gathering was organized by Feed the Children and participated in…
Various stakeholders in the campaign against illegal fishing agreed to work to ensure that fish sold in markets, especially Pasil fish market in Cebu City, would be dynamite-free. Doing this would require training consumers and fish inspectors…
More than 24,000 people have signed a week-old online petition to stop dynamite fishing after a grieving mother in Cebu called on the government to ensure that public and private markets sell only “dynamite-free fish.” Lorna Coyoca…
When the chief of the Philippine Coast Guard-Central Visayas (PCG-7) promised to “teach a lesson” to the boat owner and crew of the Motor Banca (MB) Mansan for sailing at night despite a ban against night travel,…
