8-year-old Quarius Dunham was shot and killed by a man randomly firing a gun at passing cars from woods near his house in South Carolina, authorities said. 40-year-old Charles Allen has been arrested and charged with murder.
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Outgoing Vice President Leni Robredo said her legacy will be turning the Office of the Vice President (OVP) from a ceremonial one into an advocacy-driven agency, according to reports.
The TNT Tropang Giga staved off a hardfighting NorthPort Batang Pier squad, 117-112, on Wednesday afternoon in the PBA Season 47 Philippine Cup at the Smart-Araneta Coliseum.Veteran guard Jayson Castro helped TNT preserve the victory by hitting a clutch three down the stretch to help his team nab their fourth win in a row and improve to 6-2. Mikey Williams also continued to round into form after missing the start of the season due to an impasse during contract negotiations.Playing without numero
CEBU Governor Gwendolyn Garcia will attend the inauguration of President-elect Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. in Manila on Thursday, June 30, 2022.“Yes I will be attending. I would also wish to return the favor that they extended to us...,” said Garcia during the mass oath taking of elected officials under the One Cebu party on Tuesday, June 28, 2022.Marcos attended Tuesday’s mass oath taking of One Cebu officials held at the Marco Polo Hotel in Barangay Lahug, Cebu City. Incoming Vice Presiden
THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in Central Visayas still has to wait for the decision from their central office on whether it would continue requiring unvaccinated employees in places under Alert Level 2 and above to undergo Covid-19 testing before they could go back to work onsite under the new administration of President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.Malacañang had earlier announced that employees in places under Alert Level 2 and above who would go back to onsite work should un
Requiring teachers to physically report to school without compensation is a “new form of forced labor,” ACT Philippines Chairperson Vladimer Quetua said.
More lower-income Filipinos still find it costly to open and maintain bank accounts, according to the World Bank.
ALL schools run by the government and private institutions in Cebu City can now fully implement face-to-face classes amid the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic after Mayor Michael Rama signed an executive order (EO) permitting such on Wednesday, June 29, 2022.Rama’s EO 164 allowed the conduct of in-person classes at all levels provided that minimum public health protocol must be observed in schools. These include the wearing of face masks and observance of physical distancing, checking of
A proposed experiment by a Filipino student of the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) is set to be conducted on the International Space Station (ISS) in the fall of 2022.
President Rodrigo Duterte's term was memorable. Who would not remember the administration that killed thousands of people in a drug war, institutionalized disinformation, normalized misogyny and sexism, and attacked the media?
From events and activities to rediscovering old favorites, there are lots to do in Manila this week.
IN LESS than six months this year, the dengue cases in Central Visayas outpaced by sixfold the cases that the region recorded from January to December in 2021.This after the Department of Health (DOH) regional office reported 6,399 cases with 47 deaths from Jan. 1 to June 18, 2022. Last year, Central Visayas only saw 942 dengue cases with five deaths.Despite the increasing number of cases in the past months, not a single local government unit (LGU) has declared an outbreak, according to Dr. Rona
INFLATION is projected to have hit a fresh three-year high this month as prices of basic goods continued to increase, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said Thursday.Outgoing BSP Governor Benjamin Diokno said inflation is likely to settle within the 5.7-6.5 percent range in June, with the lower end already higher than the three-year high of 5.4 percent recorded in May.A 5.7 percent inflation would be the highest since the 5.2 percent the country recorded in December 2018, while 6.5 percent w
NINE barangays in Cebu island passed the 2021 Seal of Good Local Governance of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG).These include barangays Budla-an in Cebu City, Bankal in Lapu-Lapu City, Tugas in Madridejos town, Subangdaku, Tabok, and Pakna-an in Mandaue City, To-ong and Calambua in San Remegio town, and Mohon in Sogod.The said barangays were assessed based on six indicators set by the DILG specifically peace and order, financial administration and sustainability, disast
THE Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) in Central Visayas has received 1,881,012 national identification cards out of the 5,705,777 individuals who have registered in the region since February 2021.It said 1,067,226 cards have been distributed to residents in Cebu, out of the 3,638,804 Cebuano registrants.There were also 463,367 cards sent to Bohol, out of 1,041,042 registrants.Clare Coronado, public information officer of PSA-Central Visayas, said the card delivery rate has already reached 9
VETERAN economist Felipe Medalla is the new governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) starting Friday, July 1, 2022.Medalla has been a member of the BSP’s Monetary Board since July 2011.He had also served as socioeconomic planning secretary and the director general of the National Economic and Development Authority from 1998 to 2001 during the administration of former President Joseph Estrada.He is replacing incumbent BSP Governor Benjamin Diokno who has been appointed as Finance secreta
SOME residents of Cebu are expecting Mayor Michael Rama to handle Cebu City better than before, with more attention given to the city’s traffic and illegal drug problems, among other issues.Rama took his oath of office on Thursday, June 30, after he was elected mayor in the May 9, 2022 elections.In his inaugural speech on June 30 at Plaza Sugbo, Rama said he plans to finish the long-awaited bus rapid transit (BRT) system in order to offer mass transportation to the city's rising workforce. He sa
THREE companies in Central Visayas have sent applications for exemption from the P31 increase in wage for minimum workers in the region.The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB)-Central Visayas said they received the three applications, which include two from corporations based in Cebu but with branches in the cities of Mandaue, Lapu-Lapu and other areas in the province.Lawyer Evita Mendoza-Balane, officer-in-charge (OIC) board secretary of RTWPB-Central Visayas, said the firs
The DepEd memorandum comes after four graduating senior high school trans gender women were not allowed to attend graduation wearing clothes appropriate for their gender.
After an assault on a group of women in the northeastern Chinese city of Tangshan sparked outrage, a graphic video of a car driving over a person surfaced in social media posts claiming it showed surveillance footage of the attack. The claim is false; the video was filmed in the southern city of Guangzhou in October 2020, more than one year before the Tangshan attack."The CCTV footage of the assault that happened at a barbecue restaurant in Tangshan is brutal," reads a simplified-Chinese tweet p
In a multi-stakeholder cancer advocacy summit, advocacy group Hope From Within is encouraging all Filipinos to get tested for cancer.
