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75 Families of Distinction for August 4 families receive awards
August 20, 2012
Four Cebuano families were honored in a dinner last Friday night as part of the 75 Families of Distinction or “Pinanggang Banay’ng Sugbuanon” in Cebu City. August is the turn of the clans of Abellana, Alcoseba, Cañete and Villanueva. As part of its 75th year, Cebu City has been giving honor to 75 families that […]
Young people figure in RH debate
August 6, 2012
YOUNG people are making their opinion known on the controversial reproductive health bill. And not all participants who joined the solidarity march against RH bill last Saturday were actually against it. Arjie Pacomo, a fourth year high school student of Zapatera Night Highschool said that although he wore red to represent the anti-RH stand, he […]
Danao mayor faces contempt charge
August 6, 2012
Danao City Mayor Ramon “Boy” Durano Jr. and two government officials are facing indirect contempt charges for refusing to heed a court order. Three employees of the Danao City Council requested the court to hold the mayor liable for failing to comply with its order to process the payments to the city’s 238 casual employees. […]
Families wake up to fire
August 4, 2012
DESPITE being six-months pregnant, 33-year-old housewife Irene Cabido managed to get her six children and herself away from the fire that razed her house and 93 others in sitio Sto. Niño, barangay Quiot, Cebu City at past 2 a.m yesterday. Cabido and her 42-year-old husband Josefero, a freelance shell craft laborer, carried a TV set […]
Stepfather stabs kid
July 26, 2012
A five-year old child was stabbed by his stepfather while sleeping in their house at sitio Alegre, Brgy. Basak San Nicolas, Cebu City. The 55-year-old stepfather Pedro Navale stabbed the kid with a kitchen knife following a squabble with his live-in partner, Arlene Arnoco at 12:20 a.m. After the incident, the victim fled from their […]
MAMA KILLED IN GUN ATTACK
June 29, 2012
A 42-year-old woman was killed yesterday at dawn after her house in Lapu-Lapu City was strafed allegedly by enemies of her husband. Police said the killing of Prima Paquibot Aying, a worker of Maitland Smith Inc., an export firm at the Mactan Economic Zone, may have stemmed from a family feud involving her husband, Jerry, […]
Lapu-Lapu strafing incident kills mother
June 28, 2012
Mother’s instinct sent a 43-year-old woman in the line of fire and died in an early morning strafing incident in Lapu-Lapu City yesterday. Prima Aying, 43, died on the spot when hit in the forehead after she stood up and run to the room where her four children were sleeping after hearing several of gunfire […]
Construction worker kills pa-in-law, stabs wife and nephew at home
May 15, 2012
Angered over her refusal to reconcile with him, a construction worker stabbed his wife and his father in-law in Dalaguete town, southwest of Cebu last Monday evening. Rolando Plarisan followed his wife Maricel to the Mantalungon, Dalaguete public market and tried to convince her to come back with him at their home in Guihulngan town, […]
STC complainants down to 2
May 10, 2012
Another family backed out of the lawsuits filed against St. Theresa’s College (STC). A high school graduate and her guardian recently entered into a compromise agreement with STC. This leaves two complainants to pursue the court battle against the Catholic school that barred five seniors from attending their March 30 graduation rites for posting “lewd” […]
August 20, 2012
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