LUDO COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT Protesters to Council: Explain endorsement

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 02/17/2017

Residents of Barangay Sawang Calero in Cebu City were surprised over the sudden revival of the Ludo coal-fired power plant after the project was rejected by the previous members of the Cebu City Council last year. They…

Naga residents cry foul over plant odor

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 02/09/2017

A MILITANT group is urging government agencies to check the disposal waste facility of a plant in Sitio Upper Soton, Barangay Pangdan, Naga City. Dennis Darige, coordinator of Partidong Manggagawa (PM), said that Fresh Cuts Agri Cebu…

Veco brings back color to Cansaga playground

PR 12/15/2016

VISAYAN Electric Company (Veco) employees and volunteers rehabilitated last Nov. 19 a playground under the New Cansaga Bay Bridge in Consolacion town, northern Cebu that the power distribution utility built for the community in 2012. Around 30…

AFP welcomes peace talks with Misuari

11/04/2016

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Thursday welcomed the temporary suspension of the arrest warrant against Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) founding chair Nur Misuari in connection with the Zamboanga City siege in 2013. “Malugod…

New Italy quake sows terror

10/31/2016

NORCIA, Italy — Italy’s most powerful earthquake in 36 years struck the country’s mountainous center Sunday, panicking shell-shocked residents for the third time in two months and flattening a world famous 600-year-old basilica. Remarkably, there were no…

Tension high in fire site as backfilling work starts

Julit C. Jainar 06/03/2016

Tension rose on the first day of the backfilling operation for the site development in Barangays Guizo and Mantuyong in Mandaue City yesterday, after some residents who are opposed to the project tried to stop the operation.…

5.2 quake hits Sabah

AP 06/14/2015

A strong aftershock measuring 5.2 hit Ranau in Sabah at 2:29 a.m. The tremors rattled residents in Kota Kinabalu where some people in highrise buildings ran out of their home, fearing for their safety. “I felt tremors…

Cebu City Council revokes special permits for Globe, Sun towers

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 05/28/2015

WILL TOWERS GO? Tears of joy were shed by 44-year-old Cristina Baldomar, who has been battling breast cancer. The Cebu City Council yesterday  approved a resolution to revoke special permits issued by the city to Globe Telecom…

PJ: Voters in countryside want Gwen back as governor

Victor Anthony V. Silva 05/18/2015

Former congressman Pablo John Garcia yesterday said the people in the countryside want his sister, Rep. Gwendolyn Garcia, back as governor. “I think this is the case anywhere I go, whenever I talk to leaders in the…

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