Pasko sa Sugbo opens at Fuente

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 12/01/2016

Celebrate but remain cautious this Christmas season. This was the message of Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña during the opening of the annual Pasko sa Sugbo at the Fuente Osmeña Circle yesterday evening. “Dili ko makatulog usahay…

Taliño: stay alert but don’t panic

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Dominic D. Yasay 12/01/2016

Chief Supt. Noli Taliño, director of the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO 7), advised people in the region to stay alert but not to panic after the entire country was placed under terror alert level…

Holiday in Lapu City for today’s fiesta

Norman V. Mendoza 11/20/2016

SECURITY remains high as thousands of visitors flocked to Lapu-Lapu City on the eve of their fiesta yesterday. Some devotees of the Virgin of the Rule from Bohol province, like 68-year-old Saturnina Quimson, arrived in motorboats at…

Duterte’s ‘endo’ gains traction, 24K workers regularized

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/18/2016

Employers across the country have heeded President Rodrigo Duterte’s call to stop contractualization. In his keynote speech at the Labor Summit on Friday in Cebu City, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said that as of November 11,…

CCPO to assist LTFRB 7 enforcers

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/14/2016

Senior Supt. Joel Doria, director of the Cebu City Police Office, vowed to secure employees of the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board in Central Visayas (LTFRB 7) and their traffic enforcers after some of them received…

Police mapping plans to secure Miss U event, Asean, Sinulog

Dominic D. Yasay 11/10/2016

The Police Regional Office said they are now finalizing security plans for the Miss Universe swimsuit presentation in a Lapu-Lapu City hotel and the Asean summit in January and March next year respectively. Senior Supt. Rey Lyndon…

China passes cybersecurity law

11/08/2016

BEIJING — China on Monday passed a controversial cybersecurity bill further tightening restrictions on online freedom of speech, raising concerns that it could intensify already wide-ranging Internet censorship. The ruling Communist Party oversees a vast censorship system…

Governor holds emergency peace and order meeting

Nestle L. Semilla 11/07/2016

Cebu Gov. Hilario Davide III is presiding an emergency meeting of the Provincial Peace and Order Council to discuss the advisory of the United States Embassy in Manila that warned its citizens against traveling to southern Cebu…

Police, military discuss Cebu’s security situation

Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/05/2016

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and Philippine National Police (PNP) were holding a meeting with tourism officials on Saturday morning to discuss Cebu’s security situation in the wake of the travel advisory issued by the…

SECURITY UPPED IN SOUTH CEBU

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Nestle L. Semilla 11/04/2016

Better safe than sorry. Amid calls by law enforcement authorities for people to stay calm, government officials in Cebu don’t want to take chances and have stepped up security measures in southern Cebu. Cebu City Mayor Tomas…

Avoid going to southern Cebu, Americans urged

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Doris C. Bongcac 11/03/2016

CEBU CITY–The US Embassy in Manila has advised its citizens to avoid going to southern Cebu and avoid the risk of being kidnapped. The advisory, titled “Security message for U.S. Citizens: Risk of Kidnapping in Southern Cebu”…

Couple files raps vs Talisay cops

Izobelle T. Pulgo 10/28/2016

THE fight goes on for Adhmann and Priscilla Canangca-an as they filed criminal and administrative complaints against several police officers a little over a week after the Court of Appeals Special 18th Division junked their petition for…

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