Cebu City drug bust: 18-year-old man nabbed with P102,000 ‘shabu’

Emmariel Ares and Paul Lauro 02/29/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines — An 18-year-old man, who is believed to be the suspect of a previous shooting incident, will be spending some time in jail after he was caught in the act of counting illegal drugs…

Christmas eve drug bust: Shabu worth P13.6M seized in Cebu City

Paul Lauro 12/25/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Authorities have scored another big hit on Christmas eve with a 2 kilo-drug-haul of shabu worth P13.6 million confiscated during a buy-bust operation in Barangay San Nicolas in Cebu City. Aside from the…

Car bumps man, crashes into 2 motorcycles, leaving 2 dead, 3 injured in Cebu City

Emmariel Ares and Paul Lauro 06/11/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A mechanical engineering student, who was driving his car and heading home after a gathering with friends, ended up hitting a pedestrian and colliding with two motorcycles, resulting to the death of two…

Altar servers share a glimpse of hope on Christmas Day!

Immae Lachica 12/27/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines— Christmas is indeed the season of giving and forgiveness.  As we go ahead and celebrate this season with the hopes of being saved by the coming of our savior, Jesus Christ, let this simple…

History in a Chinese New Year meal

Ambeth R. Ocampo - @inquirerdotnet 02/12/2021

My search for hopia and history in Chinatown last weekend required prior research, curiosity, and imagination. I learned, for example, that what we outsiders know as Chinatown is composed of Binondo and San Nicolas—two districts separated by…

P2.6M worth of illegal drugs confiscated in Cebu busts

Alven Marie A. Timtim 07/22/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Officers from the Regional Drug Enforcement Unit (RDEU) and Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) confiscated a total of P2.6 million worth of suspected shabu in two separate buy-bust operations here on Tuesday, July…

Complaint against Basak San Nicolas captain, 12 others submitted to fiscal

Alven Marie A. Timtim 06/29/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The case against Barangay San Nicolas Captain Norman Navarro and 12 others over a fiesta celebration and street dancing has been submitted to the fiscal this afternoon, June 29, 2020. Police Colonel Cydric…

Two police stations’ operations affected as most cops still under quarantine

Alven Marie A. Timtim 05/24/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — As the Carbon and the San Nicolas Police Stations’ personnel still await for the clearance to get back to work after two to three weeks under quarantine, buy-bust operations and community engagements for…

CCPO chief: Cops under quarantine at stations doing office work

Alven Marie A. Timtim 05/18/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Policemen in stations under Cebu City Police Office (CCPO), who have been under quarantine, continue to perform regular and routine tasks in their offices. Police Colonel Josefino Ligan, chief of CCPO, said that…

Cops eye ‘grudge due to drugs’ angle in killing of pregnant woman in Pasil

Alven Marie A. Timtim 04/13/2020

  CEBU CITY, Philippines — Police are investigating if the killing of a woman, who was three months pregnant, in Barangay Pasil, Cebu City on Sunday, April 12, 2020, is drug-related. Police Master Sergeant Rey Iligan of…

Cebu City Health Dep’t: No new ILI for Good Friday

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 04/10/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Health Department has recorded no new cases of influenza-like-illnesses (ILI) in the city for Good Friday, April 10, 2020. In the recent data released by the CHD, there are zero…

Alumnos gym to be turned into evacuation center

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 03/05/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City government is planning to convert the Alumnos gym in Barangay San Nicolas into an evacuation center following the fire that destroyed 81 houses in Sitio Ipil in the barangay on…

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