MCWD urges water users to ‘use only what they need’

Jessa Mae O. Sotto, Rosalie Abatayo 08/25/2018

  As Pagasa confirms the increasing possibility of the El Niño phenomenon at the end of 2018, the Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) bares its sourcing plans to minimize the growing gap between the supply and demand…

Suspected user, supplier caught

Benjie Talisic 06/20/2018

Police arrested a 28-year-old man for alleged possession of illegal drugs and an unlicensed firearm in Barangay Punta Princesa, Cebu City on Tuesday evening, June 19. Mark Jasper Aquino, 28, did not resist arrest. Chief Insp. Henrix…

FB user defends post, photos

Doris Mae C. Mondragon 04/22/2018

A Facebook user accused of maligning Cebu City government personnel who apprehended street vendors defended her post, saying she only voiced her thoughts on the incident. In her reply to a personal message sent to her by…

Drug user tested positive for HIV

Benjie B. Talisic 10/07/2017

ONE of the 66 suspected drug users arrested in last Thursday’s One Time, Big Time anti-drug roundup operation by the Cebu City police tested positive for HIV/AIDS, the police said yesterday. Chief Insp. Clark Ariola of the…

Drug peddler, user shot dead in a buy-bust operation

Winson Ensomo 08/19/2017

A drug peddler and alleged drug user was shot dead in a buy-bust operation by PDEA-7 agents in Barrio Luz Cebu City, on Saturday midnight, August 19. Eddie Apura, middle-aged, a resident of Barrio Luz was the…

DRUG TRAIL STILL LEADS TO BILIBID

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 01/04/2017

P15.6 million shabu seized Tuesday traced to an inmate inside the National Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City. The new haul is on top of the P194.7 million drugs recovered in CV in 2016 Despite the strict security…

P1.4M shabu in ‘Xmas gift’ found; drug suspect nabbed

Norman V. Mendoza 01/02/2017

Two road incidents in Mandaue City over the weekend led to the discovery of suspected shabu worth P1.4 million inside a pack wrapped in Christmas wrapper, which was believed to have fallen from a passing vehicle in…

Big time drug pusher nabbed with P12M shabu in Carcar City

Nestle L. Semilla 12/30/2016

A man identified as a big time drug pusher in Carcar City was arrested by the Central Visayas Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA 7) in a buy bust operation early today. Ramilo Dayon, tagged as a level…

A different kind of surrender

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 12/29/2016

CONCLUSION (A four-part series on why there is hope for drug users and pushers) Katherine (not her real name) started using shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride) last February. She was only 14 years old and wanted to get the…

A DIFFERENT KIND OF SURRENDER

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 12/29/2016

(A four-part series on why there is hope for drug users and pushers) PART III How do you deal with drug addicts with a desire to change? According to Rene Francisco, co-developer of the Surrender to God…

A different kind of surrender

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 12/26/2016

(A four-part series on why there is hope for drug users and pushers) Fe Mantuhac Barino, 59, could not remember a time when her life was not affected by illegal drugs. The chief executive officer of Duros…

Still productive

Editorial 12/21/2016

The arrests of Jeffrey “Jaguar” Diaz’s trusted aide Joselito Arellano, the two other men accused of selling two large packs of shabu worth P29 million wrapped in a paper bag, and two women selling shabu in Barangay…

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