Village execs: Vehicle used on ‘official business’

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 05/16/2017

  OFFICIALS of Barangay Babag, Cebu City reiterated yesterday that a service vehicle issued to them wasn’t used for personal and family affairs. They issued the clarification after photos of the Toyota Hilux service vehicle with its…

Raid in village chief’s house yields drugs, pistol, bullets

Benjie Talisic 05/10/2017

A village chief in Ronda town was rudely awakened early morning last Monday by a joint police team that swooped down his house to serve a search warrant issued by Regional Trial Court Judge Jerry Dicdican. Tupas…

Police raid Ronda village chief’s house; drugs, gun found

Benjie Talisic 05/10/2017

A village chief in Ronda, south of Cebu was arrested in a raid by the Provicial Intelligence Branch (PIB) on Wednesday dawn. With a search warrant issued by Judge Jerry Dicdican of RTC Branch 25 in Danao…

Slain village chief received threats

Norman V. Mendoza 05/04/2017

Business conflicts could have led to the shooting of Barangay Mantuyong, Mandaue City Barangay Captain Antonino Maquilan. The Mandaue City police investigating his death are looking into a report from his wife Fe that Maquilan received threats.…

Village chief charged by Cenro

Rene Alima 05/03/2017

THE village chief arrested for transporting logs without a permit from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) was formally charged before the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office yesterday. PO3 Ederlino Bacusmo, investigator of the Sibonga Police Station,…

Mandaue City village chief killed near barangay hall

Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Norman V. Mendoza 05/03/2017

The Mandaue City government has ordered a manhunt for the killers of Mantuyong Barangay Captain Antonio Maquilan who was shot dead by still-unidentified suspects early yesterday morning. Hours after the daring daylight attack on the village chief,…

VILLAGE CHIEF ARRESTED

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag, Rene Alima 05/02/2017

Village officials are the first line of defense against the abuse of natural resources, but a municipal councilor-cum-barangay captain in Sibonga in southern Cebu now finds himself in deep trouble for allegedly violating forestry laws. Richie Fiel,…

Most village employees test positive for drug use

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 04/30/2017

  Cebu City’s barangay officials were challenged anew to clear their areas of drug users and pushers after results of drug tests showed a rising number of barangay workers testing positive for drug use. Dr. Alice Utlang,…

Magpale backs village intel network for Cebu

Izobelle T. Pulgo 04/26/2017

VICE Gov. Agnes Magpale said she will lobby for the revival of the Barangay Intelligence Network (BIN) during next week’s Regional Peace and Order Council in Cebu City. Magpale told reporters that she will lobby for proper…

Inabanga village chief claims 2 killed in clash were villagers, not Abu Sayyaf

Leo Udtohan 04/13/2017

INABANGA, Bohol-Do the five bodies recovered by the military really belong to members of the bandit group Abu Sayyaf? Not all, according to residents of remote village of Napo, Inabanga where alleged members of the Abu Sayyaf…

Balamban village councilor shot dead

Rene Alima 03/23/2017

  An active anti-drug crusader in the town of Balamban, midwest of Cebu, was shot dead by two unidentified armed men on Wednesday inside his home. Sixty-year-old Cornelio Pepito, a former barangay captain of Luca, was sitting…

Village chiefs ask Ombuds for help to claim allowances

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 03/06/2017

Sixty-four barangay chairpersons in Cebu City signed a letter asking the Ombudsman-Visayas to investigate Mayor Tomas Osmeña’s order to suspend the cash incentives to barangay tanods and garbage loaders. “With all due respect, we are manifesting our…

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