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MORE than 40 inmates at the Carbon Police Station (CPS) 5 have been transferred to the Cebu City Police Office headquarters in Camp Sotero Cabahug on Gorordo Avenue.The transfer was made after the station moved to its new location on the rooftop of the new interim building of Carbon Public Market on Wednesday, November 30, 2022.The old CPS building will be torn down to give way to the ongoing development in the area, which is being done by Cebu2World Development Incorporated (C2W).Major Kenneth
CHRISTMAS came early for Cebu Province’s village chiefs after Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia gave them P200,000 each to help fund projects in their barangays.Garcia handed out the cash aid during the last day of the Liga ng mga Barangay sa Pilipinas (LBP) Cebu chapter’s year-end general assembly at a hotel in Cebu City on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022.The Cebu Provincial Information Office said that at least 880 barangay officials joined the event.Garcia, who was guest speaker during the event, said she also
THE Cebu City Government is considering the possibility of tapping vloggers or social media influencers to strengthen its campaign in promoting proper waste disposal and recycling.Engr. Reymarr Hijara, executive director of the City’s Solid Waste Management Board, said the initiative will be jointly done with the City’s Public Information Office (PIO) to make the community understand the interventions undertaken by the City Government against issues on garbage and flooding.During the PIO’s Panag
AFTER providing cash gifts to Cebu’s barangay chiefs last month, Governor Gwendolyn Garcia is again showering more cash gifts to another set of officials in the Province.On Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022, Garcia gave P200,000 to each municipal and city councilors and P1 million each to vice mayors who attended the general assembly of the Philippine Councilors League (PCL) Cebu chapter.According to Sugbo News, the Capitol’s information arm, the PCL general assembly was held at the Waterfront Hotel in Bar
MORE than 200 visitors showed up during the start of the four-day dry run of face-to-face visitations at the Cebu City Jail (CCJ) that started on Tuesday, November 29, 2022.JO3 Blanche Aliño, spokesperson of CCJ, which is located in Barangay Kalunasan, said no untoward incident was recorded on the first day of the dry run.The dry run runs until Saturday, December 3, from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m., except Friday, which is a cleanup day inside the jail.Aliño said the visitors were able to exchange pleas
THE office of the Cebu City Police Station 5 started its transfer to the Unit 2 interim building of the Carbon Public Market on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022.The old police station building has to be demolished to give way for the ongoing redevelopment of the market.Maj. Kenneth Albotra, chief of Cebu City Police Station 5, said the move to Unit 2 is only temporary as those behind the redevelopment of the Carbon Public Market will make a new police station at the old site.But while police personnel wil
A NEOPHYTE councilor wants vulgar merchandise to be banned in malls and other shopping areas in Cebu City as the holiday season draws near.Councilor Rey Gealon has asked the reactivated Cebu City Anti-Indecency Board (Caib) to inspect shopping areas and confiscate products that are lewd, vulgar and pornographic.In his letter sent to Caib head Dr. Lucelle Mercado on Friday, Dec. 2, 2022, Gealon said that there is now a proliferation of merchandise depicting human sex organs and sexual acts in woo
THE Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO 7) ranked first among the regional police offices in the country for having the most number of accomplishments in their nationwide campaign against illegal drugs.PRO 7 Director Police Brigadier General Roderick Augustus Alba said that in their 155 anti-criminality operations from November 26 to 29, they were able to confiscate a total of 1,311.33 grams of shabu worth P8,939,544 million and arrest 193 drug personalities, including a high-value in
A LABORER was killed by his own brother-in-law in Sitio Tagaytay, Barangay Pansoy in the northern town of Sogod, Cebu, on Tuesday afternoon, November 29, 2022.The victim was identified as 41-year-old Froilan Orlanes, a resident in the area.The suspect, Mario Telibangko, a 62-year-old farmer, continues to be at large.According to Lieutenant Phil Restauro, based on their initial investigation, Orlanes had been drinking before the incident.Around 4 p.m., he went to see Telibangko, who was feeding h
THE Cebu City Council will begin on Monday, December 5, 2022, the series of public hearings for the proposed P50-billion annual budget for 2023.This, despite that the public hearing for the proposed tax code revision has not yet concluded and this is one of the City Government's eyed sources of revenue to achieve next year's budget.Councilor Noel Wenceslao, chairman of the committee on budget and finance, said Thursday, December 1, that a marathon public hearing will be held beginning Monday and
A STATE-OF-THE-ART cleft care center is expected to open at the Cebu City Medical Center (CCMC) in the first half of 2023.The Cebu Comprehensive Cleft Care Center of Excellence will be occupying the sixth floor of the hospital and will have a floor area of 1,700 square meters.Mayor Michael Rama said the center will complement his vision for CCMC to become a “hospital for the poor, but the services are like that of the rich.”The Cebu City Government has partnered with Operation Smile Philippines
COMMUTERS can now buy beep-stored value cards through online selling platforms like Lazada, Shopee and Facebook Marketplace amid the shortage of cards for sale in various train stations.A beep card may be used in LRT-1, LRT-2, MRT-3, select buses, modern PUVs, Cebu Ferries, and select retail merchants.“We have previously reallocated stocks to the rails and continuously work with our partners to address public demand for beep™ cards. At the same time, we also need to cater to customers who use ou
Abusing illegal drugs is never right, but treating users as an outright criminal is inhuman.Drug users must be sent to rehabilitation centers, not prisons where changing them into better versions of themselves could be a remote possibility.Most often than not, users do not carry large amounts of prohibited substances. That is done by big-time drug traffickers.Neophyte senator Robin Padilla is right when he said drug users caught with small amounts of illegal drugs should be sent to rehabilitatio
A SECURITY guard died after he was ambushed by a gunman who was riding a motorcycle in Barangay Balud, San Fernando town in southern Cebu.Eugene Dakay Degamo, of legal age, a security guard under Genghis Khan Security Agency who was assigned in Universal Robina Corporation, died on the spot after sustaining gunshot wounds in the different parts of the body.Police Major Timothy Jim Romanillos, chief of San Fernando Police Station, said the victim was walking toward home in Purok Lawin, Barangay B
THE Cebu City Council will begin a series of public hearings for the proposed P50 billion budget for next year on Monday, Dec. 5, 2022.This will happen even if the public hearing for the proposed revision of Cebu City’s tax code revision has yet to be concluded. The proposed increase in tax rates is one of the City Government’s eyed sources of revenue to achieve the 2023 budget.Councilor Noel Wenceslao, chairman of the committee on budget and finance, said on Thursday, Dec. 1 that a marathon pub
THE Federal Reserve will push rates higher than previously expected and keep them there for an extended period, Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022, in remarks likely intended to underscore the Fed’s single-minded focus on combating stubborn inflation.Yet in a speech at the Brookings Institution, Powell also signaled that the Fed may increase its key interest rate by a half-point at its December meeting, a smaller boost after four straight three-quarter point hikes. Rate increases
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THE body of a man was found dumped along the roadside in Transcentral Highway in Sitio Tupas in the mountain barangay of Taptap, Cebu City.Police Major Alvin Llamedo, chief Talamban Police Station 8, said the residents discovered the body Friday at 6 a.m., December 2, 2022, but they were only informed by the village chief around 7 a.m.The police are still trying to establish the identity of the victim as nobody in the area was able to recognize him.There were also no wallet or other documents re
TWO Talisay City officials have suggested the revision of the city’s old market code in order to increase their revenue collection.For Talisay City Budget Officer Edgar Mabunay, there is now a need to increase fees being charged for stalls and services at the Tabunok Public Market.Mabunay said as far as he can recall, based on the old market code, some stall owners at the Tabunok Public Market are only charged P9 per day for their rent, while stores and other offices shell out a minimal amount f
DRIVEN by the strong collection of home loan payments in the last 10 months, Pag-Ibig Fund’s performing loans ratio climbed to 89.96 percent in October, exceeding the agency’s yearend target by 196 basis points, top executives announced Monday, Nov. 28, 2022.From January to October, home loan payments amounted to P57.58 billion, a double-digit increase of 30 percent, or P13.31 billion higher than the P44.27 billion collected in the same period last year. The amount is a record high in terms of h