Trafficking case dismissed

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 07/30/2015

The couple who was accused of hiring and exposing a 17-year-old girl to prostitution in downtown Cebu City four years ago was cleared of  the charges. Ricardo and Myrla Ramos were found not guilty of violating Republic…

German facing sexual abuse raps posts bail

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 07/24/2015

German national Dietmar Karl Moenig stepped out of jail yesterday, more than eight months after his arrest  on accusations of sexually exploiting a 14-year-old girl in Cordova town, Cebu. Moenig posted bail in the amount of P144,000.…

Archbishop Villegas calls on LGBT community to aspire to become holy, saints

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 07/17/2015

Be holy and aspire to become saints. This was the challenged posed by Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transexual (LGBT) community during a convention on family and life by Catholic leaders in…

Clergy, lay groups march against same-sex marriage

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 06/27/2015

Under cloudy skies, members of Cebu’s clergy and Cahtolic lay groups  yesterday staged a solidarity walk to oppose  same-sex marriage as a threat threat against the Filipino family. The “Solidarity Walk for the Family” began at Fuente…

American retiree nabbed for trafficking still has no lawyer

Victor Anthony V. Silva 06/07/2015

There’s no lawyer for 69-year-old American retiree Harold Glover, who was brought to the Bogo City Prosecutor’s Office to face charges of alleged human trafficking last Friday afternoon. Glover, a pensioner from Georgia, USA, was arrested inside …

Consul ‘shocked’ over arrest of 4 Koreans for trafficking

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 05/24/2015

Korean Consul General Lee Ki-seog yesterday expressed shock over the arrest of four Korean nationals who were accused of exposing local women to prostitution. In a phone interview, Lee said he would meet with  Korean consuls to…

Aussie blames ex-girlfriend for arrest, claims innocence

Victor Anthony V. Silva 05/14/2015

The 61-year-old Australian national charged with molesting female minors blamed his ex-girlfriend for spreading “lies about him.” “I have not committed any crime. I did not do nothing. The allegations were spread by my ex-girlfriend,” a defiant…

‘Undergo HIV tests’

Victor Anthony V. Silva 05/12/2015

The Cebu Provincial Board passed a resolution asking all local government units in the province to support voluntary testing programs for persons suspected of having the human immuno-deficiency virus/acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS). In its regular session yesterday,…

HIV epidemic

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 05/07/2015

The National HIV/Aids Testing Week (May 11 – 17) reels off in a couple of days and if government and nongovernment organizations are doing their utmost to keep the public aware of the disease, it is because…

HK politician rapped for ‘racist’ remarks on Filipina maids’ sex lives

04/20/2015

HONG KONG—A senior Hong Kong politician is under fire after she accused some Filipina domestic helpers of seducing their male employers, in comments branded “racist” and “offensive” by critics. There are 300,000 maids in Hong Kong, mostly…

Tourism office to meet Bogo resort owners

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 04/13/2015

Bogo City’s Tourism Office will schedule a meeting with resort and hotel operators to  intensify its campaign against human trafficking in the city. “We want to meet and inform them about our campaign on human trafficking. The…

Former Aussie teacher accused of child trafficking found dead inside Cebu jail

Apple Ta-as 04/12/2015

Before taking his own life, Munro wrote another inmate: ‘Help me pass quietly’   The night before, he stayed up late scribbling on a sheet of paper. A fellow inmate across his cell said he noticed the…

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