Tanods were sent by barangays Tisa and Labangon to secure the house where crowds have flocked to view an image of the Our Lady of Fatima believed to have shed tears of blood last Tuesday. Hundreds of visitors from neighboring barangays continue to come to the Rayla household which is hosting rosary prayers and a [...]
The Bureau of Fire Protection kicked off the annual Fire Prevention Month yesterday by engaging stakeholders in fire safety and boosting its capability to fire fire. Members of the media were briefed on basic first aid, rescue and safety while covering disasters and calamity. Six Central Visayas cities were also given Austrian-made Rosenbauer TLF 4000 [...]
Fire Prevention Month kicks off today as the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) sets it sight on Cebu City where more than half of the fire incidents in Central Visayas occured last year. Of 603 recorded fire incidents, 377 or 65.5 percent were in Cebu City. Mandaue City ranked second with 51 fires. Cebu City’s [...]
MARYJOY skipped school to join the multitude of devotees who welcomed the images of the Sto. Niño and the Lady of Guadalupe as it made its way through the boundary of the cities of Cebu and Mandaue yesterday.
At least five persons, including a 10-year-old girl who was nearly crushed by a speeding fire truck, were hurt in a fire that destroyed at least 11 houses in barangay Bulacao, Cebu City yesterday afternoon.
Charges have been dropped against the suspects in the foiled ambush of two Korean nationals in Pacific Villa in barangay Pajac, Lapu-Lapu City. The Lapu-Lapu City Prosecutors’ Office dismissed the frustrated murder case filed against Rodenio Espiritu, Felix Booc and Korean Kim Jae Hyung, the alleged mastermind in the attack The three were tagged as [...]
THOSE who desecrated the image of Lapu Lapu City’s Nuestra Señora de Regla may have used a child to open the glass case and steal the icon’s jewelry.
ALL 11,355 barangay volunteers in the Cebu province each received a P2,400 allowance from the provincial government during their general assembly at the Cebu International Convention Center yesterday.
THE feast of the Birhen sa Regla in Lapu-Lapu City was generally peaceful. The event also gave the Catholic Church the venue to highlight its opposition to the Reproductive Health bill being tackled in Congress. This was the assessment of Senior Supt. Rey Lyndon Lawas, director of the Lapu-Lapu City Police Office, and parish priest [...]
Police officers met with Korean comunity leaders in Cebu City to discuss how to maintain peace and order in the wake of a kidnap for ransom and car ambush involving conflicts between Koreans in recent weeks.
The management of Aviatour Air said it will wait for results of a government inquiry but is aware the company is in a precarious situation after initial reports leaked that pilot error was found to be a factor in the Aug. 18 plane crash that killed Interior Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo.
A series of vehicular accidents occurred in Mandaue City and farflung towns of Alcoy. Sogod and Balamban in Cebu last Friday or All Souls’ Day.
In this season of the dearly departed, the services of those locally known as mananabtans are in demand.
