How to apply for a Canada visitor visa

Wenilyn Sabalo 06/08/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Traveling to Canada has become easier for Filipinos who had a Canadian visa in the last 10 years and those who currently hold a US non-immigrant visa. This as Canada added the Philippines…

AWOL cop, female jail visitor killed

Norman V. Mendoza 03/02/2018

Shootings in six hours in Mandaue, Lapu-Lapu The killings by motorcycle-riding-gunmen in Metro Cebu continue on Friday with a police officer, who has been absent without official leave (AWOL), and a female jail visitor as among the…

Tomb raider

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 11/03/2017

Eleven years ago, I started a practice on All Souls’ Day where I bring along flowers and candles to public cemeteries. I would scan the tombs and ask caretakers which ones do not have “visitors.” I normally…

No visitors to Jaguar’s mausoleum on eve of All Saints’ Day

Nestle L. Semilla 10/31/2017

THOUGH his funeral procession drew 2,500 sympathizers, there was hardly anyone who visited slain drug lord Jeffrey “Jaguar” Diaz at the mausoleum where his remains were buried at the Calamba Cemetery in V. Rama Street, Cebu City.…

Masses at CPDRC, visits to continue

Izobelle T. Pulgo 04/12/2017

THERE won’t be any Holy Week programs to be held this week at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) except for Masses on Black Saturday and Easter Sunday. Acting CPDRC warden Roberto Legaspi said visitation…

MAO BA?

Editorial 03/29/2017

PRICEY SPA A government official complained of pain in her neck during a seminar at a high-end hotel, so her assistant referred her to the hotel spa. But the official balked at her recommendation, saying it would…

Men in civilian clothes block media from going near David Jr.

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 03/22/2017

At least seven private individuals in civilian clothes have restricted the media from going near the detention cell, and taking photographs and videos of David Lim Jr. at the Cebu City Police Office stockade on Wednesday afternoon.…

Jail visitor nabbed for drugs

Rene Alima 03/16/2017

A man who tried to sneak drugs for a friend, who is detained at the Argao Police Station detention cell, was arrested Wednesday afternoon. Ryan Dela Cerna, a resident of Barangay Talaytay, Argao, was also detained together…

Help us, Santa Claus

Jason A. Baguia 12/02/2016

Brimming with joy, the tax man told his guest, the God-man, that he would return to his victims four times the amount he had stolen from them. The visitor then proclaimed that salvation had come to the…

Female visitor attempts to smuggle shabu inside Talisay City Jail

Dominic D. Yasay 11/15/2016

A female jail visitor in her teens was arrested by the jail guards of the Talisay City Jail in Barangay Maghaway after allegedly trying to sneak in packs of suspected shabu inside the jail facility at past…

Kin wade through flooded cemetery to visit tombs

Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Morexette Erram, Norman V. Mendoza 10/31/2016

THE ankle-to-knee-deep waters flooding the municipal and protestant church cemetery in Barangay Gun-ob, Lapu-Lapu City, failed to stop some visitors yesterday from visiting the tombs of their loved ones there. These visitors, who wanted to avoid the…

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