Only two of five members of the influential Garcia political clan made it in the 2013 elections. Suspended Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia and brother, Nelson, won the third district congressional race and the mayoral contest in Dumanjug town, Cebu.
A group of divers on Wednesday found damage on corals in the waters off this city, which was believed to have been caused by an underwater tour operator that had been ordered to cease operations.
Eight senatorial candidates called for a level political playing field by addressing the issue of political dynasty during the third and final senatorial forum of the Philippine Daily Inquirer held at the Cebu Cultural Center on Friday.
Customs authorities announced Thursday they had uncovered P1.2 billion worth of smuggled rice declared as stone and granite slabs in 1,169 containers from Vietnam.
Senatorial candidates of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) on Tuesday began taking the “beautiful road,” or “daang maganda.”
I died. I saw God … then I just woke up.” That was how 87-year-old Laura Duterte Banzon described in Cebuano what she said was the most extraordinary experience in her life.
Jun Uy felt his world falling apart when his son Zach died from dengue fever in 2008. He could not move on and he needed to talk to other parents who also lost a child to the disease.
Cebu’s famous lechon has just been given a delicious twist. Instead of an entire pig, a boneless belly is roasted to yummy perfection. The lechon belly is also packed with herbs and spices and its red-brown skin is crispy and tasty, just like the lechon which Cebu is famous for.
A visit to a museum has convinced Jessa Parreño to pursue a career in broadcast journalism once she completes a mass communication degree at the University of the Philippines College Cebu.
It was their final exams. His heart was pounding while his hands were clammy and sweating. He was nervous, not because he did not study but because his teacher might not allow him to take the exams since his mother was not able to pay his tuition again.
Students of the state university in Cebu suddenly found themselves without a library. Officials of the University of the Philippines Cebu College (UPCC) condemned the two-story building that housed the university library citing as reason the danger of its collapse as a result of cracks that had been found on beams of the building’s ceiling.
CEBU CITY—Whoever said power is addictive could be proven correct in this city. Rep. Eduardo Gullas, on his last term as representative of the first district here, is fielding his grandson, Gerald Anthony Gullas Jr., as a candidate for the seat that the elder Gullas will vacate. Gerald Anthony, 26, has been working as chief [...]
The celebration of Independence Day on Tuesday took a deeper meaning than a no-work, no-class holiday for Arnel Garcia, a sophomore accounting student of the University of Southern Philippines Foundation (USPF) in Cebu City.
