‘Reflect, pay respect to dead’

Izobelle T. Pulgo 10/28/2016

CEBU City Gov. Hilario Davide III is encouraging the public to take their time to reflect and to pay respect to the dead as they celebrate All Souls’ Day and All Saints’ Day and the long weekend…

Rehabilitation of surrenderers in rehab centers takes priority

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/23/2016

The bulk of the P50- million budget proposal for Cebu City’s campaign against illegal drugs will go to the rehabilitation of the drug surrenderers in the different barangays of the city, who can now be sent to…

Deadly compromise

Editorial 10/21/2016

The deaths of three workers due to accidents in the northern Cebu town of Liloan and at a mall in Cebu City are just the latest in a long list of work-related deaths in Cebu that, while…

Malls told: Secure customers’s safety

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/06/2016

MALLS should assign security personnel near escalators to prevent accidents, a Cebu City official said yesterday. Cebu City Councilor Dave Tumulak, who heads the City Council’s committee on public order and safety, told representatives of malls in…

Cebu: unsafe for criminals

Jhunnex Napallacan 06/24/2016

Early in 2006, Virginia was losing sleep over fears that her son Michael would be the next to fall in what appeared to be a spate of vigilante-style executions of petty criminals in Cebu City. Tomas Osmeña,…

Safety and convenience in voting

Editorial 05/11/2016

The death of two women voters and fainting of 11 people due to the summer heat in Cebu City and some parts of Cebu province only emphasized the urgency not only of including commercial malls as polling…

After quake: Where are emergency stairs?

Nestle L. Semilla 03/31/2015

After last Monday’s earthquake, Cebu City Mayor Mike Rama asked about the status of emergency stairs to be built in public schools, where the lack of exits worried city officials right after the destructive earthquake in October…

Hammock strangles boy, 6

Rene Alima 12/18/2014

A 6-year-old boy died after his neck got entangled with the rope of a  hammock Tuesday in barangay Perelos, Carcar City, southern Cebu. Everdeve Albrando, a kindergartner, was pronounced dead on arrival at  Carcar Provincial Hospital. SPO3…

Not a joke

11/11/2014

Airline companies may want to be more direct in warning  passengers not to make jokes about bombs or use words that may be construed as bombs in light of last week’s arrest of a businessman from Surigao.…

Store’s roof falls, hurts two

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/09/2014

A 53-year-old mother and her 10-year-old daughter landed in the hospital after the extended roof of a ready-to-wear (RTW) outlet fell on them in Manalili St., Cebu City  yesterday morning. Cynthia Andrada and her daughter Shan Fernan…

Tour guides resume canyoneering in province despite suspension

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 10/21/2014

Despite the suspension on canyoneering imposed by the provincial government, tour guides are accepting participants to a canyoneering trip to Kanlaob River in barangay Compostela, Alegria, southwest Cebu. Tour guide John Belle Ortega, who hails from Matutinao,…

Mandaue firemen struggle to put out warehouse fire

Anie M. Paujana 08/10/2014

Thick black smoke and the smell of burned combustible materials made it difficult to breathe a day after Friday’s fire hit an interior part of barangay Looc, Mandaue City. By noon, Mandaue City firefighters were still clearing…

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