The charcoal vendor

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 11/08/2015

We don’t see them anymore, not in the city. But I suspect that with their baskets they still foot the roads in the country to sell charcoal. Mostly elderly women with no other source of income, they…

Elderly Davao native sells wares near plush hotel

08/17/2015

For 24 years, sidewalk vendor Francisco “Tatay” Acar sold cigarettes and candies to passersby near the Radisson Blu Hotel at the North Reclamation Area, Cebu City. At the end of the day, the 82-year-old Acar walks several…

Deadly heat

AP 05/30/2015

Week-long heat wave kills over 1,800 in India HYDERABAD, India — Dizzying temperatures killed hundreds more Indians over the past day, causing water shortages in thousands of villages and driving the death toll from a weeks-long heat…

Vendor faces trial for selling lizards

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 05/27/2015

An animal vendor  will stand trial for selling exotic lizards along Magallanes Street in Cebu City. Alfredo Librando, a resident of barangay Basak-San Nicolas, Cebu City, was charged in court for violating Republic Act 9147 or the…

Veggie vendor by day, honor student at night

04/19/2015

Judy Ann Capilos, 17, wakes up at 5 a.m. each day, not to enjoy the sunrise, but to sell vegetables in her neighborhood and help her widowed mother put food on the table. In the afternoon, she…

Ex-terminal manager to go on trial for kissing food vendor

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 09/21/2014

The former administrator of the Cebu South Bus Terminal (CSBT) will go on trial for allegedly making sexual advances on a female food vendor over a year ago. The Cebu City Prosecutors’ Office indicted Vicente Dejoras Jr.…

Vendors, police clash in demolition

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 03/04/2014

Vendors at Warwick Barracks in barangay Ermita in Cebu City yesterday attempted to resist the advance of a City Hall demolition team, claiming they were not properly informed of the clearing operation. “Illegal ni ilang pag-clear kay…

Man on bike shoots vendor near Mabolo police station

Chito O. Aragon 02/08/2014

A vendor was critically wounded after he was shot near the Mabolo Police Station in Cebu City yesterday afternoon. Felix Lungat Jr., a 32-year-old resident of sitio Labrador, barangay Mabolo, sustained gunshot wounds in different parts of…

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