Online scams and the elderly

Randy David - @inquirerdotnet 09/04/2022

We who were born in the age of passbooks and real bank tellers will never feel at home in the world of digital banking and automated teller machines (ATMs). This is not a Luddite resistance to all…

2,600 senior citizens in Punta Princesa receive P3,000 cash aid

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 08/13/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Carlito Romeo, 68,  is among the senior citizens in Barangay Punta Princesa in Cebu City, who were waiting for the announcement of the city government on the start of the distribution of financial…

Coast Guard CV nabs lolo in Bohol for possession of materials for ‘homemade dynamite’

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 07/09/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Personnel of the Philippine Coast Guard sub-station in Tubigon, Bohol and the Philippine National Police arrested a senior citizen for the possession of materials used in making homemade dynamites. Lemuel Batuasa, a resident…

Cebu City EOC: Unvaxxed resident, senior citizen were latest COVID-19 fatalities

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 05/30/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines – A 57-year-old resident, who remained unvaccinated, and a senior citizen with comorbidities were the two COVID-19 deaths that were reported in Cebu City this May, Emergency Operations Center (EOC) deputy chief implementer Joel…

Man nabbed for beheading elderly woman in San Fernando, Cebu

Paul Lauro and Wenilyn Sabalo 05/28/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Policemen in San Fernando town arrested a man on Friday, May 27, for the gruesome killing of a senior citizen. The suspect Larry Lantape Sabellano, 37, was arrested in his residence a day…

Pilar attack: Drinking session ends with 66-year-old man stabbing his 57-year-old brother 

Paul Lauro 01/23/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — What was supposed to be a relaxing Sunday for a 66-year-old man and his 57-year-old brother turned into a bloody and tragic one after one of them landed in the medical health center…

One dead after motorbanca capsizes off the shore of Daanbantayan

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 10/30/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A female senior citizen died after floating off the shore in Daanbantayan town in northern Cebu for more than three hours when the motorbanca that she was riding on along with her relatives…

Talisay residents told: Always be careful when crossing roads

Pegeen Maisie M. Sararaña 09/19/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Always be very careful when crossing the road and always use the designated pedestrian lane. This was the reminder of Jonathan Tumulak, chief of the City of Talisay Traffic Operations Development Authority (CT-TODA),…

Senior citizen crosses street in Talisay, gets run over by dump truck, dies

Pegeen Maisie M. Sararana and Paul Lauro 09/18/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A senior citizen, who was believed to have just bought medicine from a drug store, did not make it back home alive today, Sept. 18, after he was ran over by a dump…

BREAKING: Senior citizen jab roll-out halted: No more vaccines

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 04/23/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The number of vaccinated senior citizens is growing in Cebu City as the program continues to roll out in three sites in the city. Yet the number of vaccine doses is limited and…

Senior citizens in Cebu City urged to register for vaccination now

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 04/06/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City government is urging senior citizens in the city to register for the vaccination program now while the city waits for more doses of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines. The…

Senior, 5-year-old girl are latest addition to active cases in Talisay City

Doris C. Bongcac 12/28/2020

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu – After two days of not having new cases of the coronavirus disease, Talisay City reported two new infections on Saturday, December 26. The city’s new patients are a 74-year-old man from Barangay Maghaway…

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