Toddler drowns in Pinamungajan

Rene F. Alima 02/22/2017

A toddler died after she drowned in a pail of water on Monday afternoon. But the incident, which happened in Sitio Bakhaw, Barangay Cabiangon in Pinamungajan town located about 50 kilometers southwest of Cebu City, was only…

MAO BA?

Editorial 02/21/2017

BRIBE CLAIM Local reporters were abuzz over reports that a top Palace official alleged that some reporters covering the Senate allegedly received $1,000 each in order to cover a press conference of a critic of President Rodrigo…

Sibonga hall uses water from firetruck

Izobelle T. Pulgo 02/17/2017

DAYS after the water supply in their municipal hall as well as in the other government buildings of the town had been cut off, the municipal officials of Sibonga, a town in southern Cebu, has resorted to…

Water coop cuts off Sibonga municipal hall’s water supply

Izobelle T. Pulgo 02/16/2017

The Sibonga municipal hall had no running water after its supply was cut off by the town’s water supply cooperative due unpaid bills since 1995. Arceli Guaves, chairman of the board of the town’s local water supplier,…

Teenager remains missing after swimming in Dalaguete

Rene F. Alima 02/13/2017

Cebu City–A 17-year-old boy remains missing, a day after he reportedly drowned while swimming with a companion in the waters of Barangay Poblacion in Dalaguete town, located 90 kilometers south of here. Rene Wong of Bais, Negros…

Surigao needs clean water Exec: DSWD-7 will receive donations for quake victims

Inquirer, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 02/12/2017

Cebuanos can give their donations for the residents of earthquake-hit areas in Surigao City and Surigao del Norte to the office of the Department of Social Welfare and Development in Central Visayas (DSWD-7). Kerwin Macopia, one of…

A Danao with no lake

Jobers R. Bersales 02/08/2017

In the Cebuano language, Danao connotes a lake or at least a large body of freshwater. In fact the lake in San Francisco, on the Camotes Islands just across Danao City, is named Danao. Anyone going to…

Salt and light

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 02/04/2017

Our hands, as well as eyes, Meet when you pass the salt. Indeed, life is encounter (Buber has it down pat). I could have asked you for Your name, but you’re my wife, My cure-all, like salt-water,…

Relocation sites sought for families

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 02/01/2017

The Cebu City Council called on the National Housing Authority (NHA) to help identify relocation sites for residents in the mountain barangays of Sirao, Adlaon and Busay who were displaced by last month’s landslides. In a privilege…

Chinese woman drowns in Sumilon

Rene F. Alima 01/27/2017

A 27-year-old woman from China died after she drowned while swimming in the seawater of Sumilon Island, Oslob town, southern Cebu last Thursday. PO2 Noel Mamali, police desk officer of Oslob Police Station, identified the victim as…

Tourist death leads to dive shop suspension

Norman V. Mendoza 01/26/2017

Acting Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Marcial Ycong is set to order the temporary closure of NTJ Water Sports Cebu based in Punta Engaño, Mactan, after the company figured in a parasailing accident which killed a tourist on Tuesday.…

Worsening floods

Editorial 01/24/2017

It was no small coincidence that the floods and landslides in Metro Cebu and Cebu province occurred at the same time that a city in faraway northern Mindanao experienced its worst flooding since it went through the…

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