Pee pressure

Fatima Gimenez - @inquirerdotnet 08/15/2022

How often have you received a request for a urinalysis? Initially termed uroscopy, “it was derived from the Greek words ‘ouron,’ meaning urine, and ‘skopeo,’ which was to behold, contemplate, examine, and inspect.” While the single term…

Lack of papers delay booking process for foreign nationals nabbed in Lapu

Alven Marie A. Timtim 09/09/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) compound now stinks. Comfort rooms located at the Central Visayas office of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG-7) and portable toilets that were placed outside have…

Cebu City Hall employees undergo drug test

Morexette B. Erram 04/10/2018

Over 300 employees from the Cebu City Department of Engineering and Public Works are subjected to a surprise drug test by the Cebu City Office on Substance Abuse Prevention (COSAP) on Tuesday morning (April 10). COSAP executive…

Rama tests negative for illegal drug use

Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Lesley Cara Delos Santos 12/22/2016

Former Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama announced on Thursday that he was tested negative for illegal drugs. He made the announcement in a news conference conducted in his ancestral house in Barangay Basak San Nicolas in Cebu…

Rama’s drug test challenge

Ricky Poca 12/12/2016

Last Friday’s drug test challenge hurled by former mayor Mike Rama to Mayor Tomas Osmeña came out of nowhere, and though the mayor accepted, he wanted it done on his terms. Included on those terms was that…

SHOWDOWN

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 12/09/2016

Bitter political rivals Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña and the city’s former mayor, Michael Rama, are at it again, in what can literally be a pissing contest of sorts, or a hair-pulling duel, depending on what will…

Drinking your own urine?

08/22/2016

IF YOU are, hold that glass and do not say “cheers or ganbei” yet until you read the information on urine therapy in this column today. Informational technology is a wonderful gift to humankind. But just like anything…

26 Cebu journalists test negative for drugs

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 07/19/2016

Twenty-six of 27 journalists who underwent a surprise drug test on Monday were found negative of illegal drugs. One specimen submitted by a videographer wasn’t tested by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) because it lacked the…

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