A 14-year-old student of Argao town, southern Cebu, was honored by the Provincial Board yesterday for winning a bronze medal in an international mathematics competition held in August. Barly Dinalo, a Grade 8 student of the Philippine…
Aileen Glinogo was bullied in grade school in a mountain barangay in Alegria town, southern Cebu. It didn’t get better when she transferred to another school about three kilometers away. “Because I was shy, my classmates would…
THE founder of the University of Cebu (UC) yesterday said the increase in tuition and other school fees this year is needed to allow the school to raise the salaries of teachers and to improve facilities. UC…
SEATTLE- Their relationship scandalized America. In 1996, teacher Mary Kay Letourneau began a sexual relationship with Vili Fualaau, her sixth-grade student in Seattle. She was 34 and he was 13. They formed a strong bond, one that…
A 36-year-old criminology student and his two companions were arrested in a buy bust operation last Tuesday in sitio Kabatuan, barangay Lamintak Norte, Medellin, northern Cebu. Police said Zosimo Olivar was the subject of the operation and…
A 36-year-old woman was killed after she allegedly jumped from the Marcelo Fernan Bridge yesterday afternoon. The woman was identified as Angeline Dimpas, a resident of barangay Paknaan, Mandaue City. The victim was identified by her aunt,…
A 28-year old public school teacher and his nephew were killed when the motorcycle they rode on was hit by a truck along the national highway of Balisong, Argao at 8:20 p.m. last Wednesday. Fermin Sardual, a…
His girlfriend was worried when she didn’t get a text message from him last Saturday. When she went to his boarding house in barangay Banilad in the evening, she found only smoke and burned ruins. The charred…
The remains of a 16-year old female student was found floating in the shore of barangay Poblacion in Santander town, southern Cebu, Sunday afternoon. Police believed that Maria Teresa Tano committed suicide due to a slash wound…
FOUR days after typhoon “Yolanda” struck Daanbantayan, schools in northern Cebu towns remain roofless and soaked classrooms were filled with fallen tree trunks, leaves and branches. While the Department of Education (DepEd) continues to assess the situation,…
