Contacts of Ilocos Norte’s 1st UK coronavirus variant test negative
All 130 close contacts of the lone UK variant case of coronavirus in Ilocos Norte have already tested negative for the virus, Ilocos Norte health officials said.
Negros Oriental eyes more ‘green’ sources of energy
Negros Oriental Governor Roel Degam (PIO NegOr) The Provincial Government of Negros Oriental is eyeing solar and wind energy to support future investments.Gov. Ruel Degamo said he had a meeting with Department of Energy (DOE) officials to discuss funding for "green"...
Dumaguete electoral group opposes election postponement
The Dumaguete Diocesan Electoral Board is opposed to suggestions to postpone the presidential elections in 2022.Msgr. Julius Perpetuo Heruela, head of the Diocesan Electoral Board, said elections should continue despite the coronavirus disease (Covid-19)."It would be...
Cebu BRT to start by December 2021
The Cebu Bus Rapid Transit (CBRT) will be operational by the end of 2021 despite the coronavirus pandemic.Asst. Secretary Anthony Gerard ‘Jonji’ Gonzales of the Office of the Presidential Assistant for the Visayas (OPAV) said the Department of Transportation pushed...
Dumaguete bishop offers schools, parish grounds for vaccination
The Diocese of Dumaguete has opened its church and school grounds as vaccination areas for the national government’s mass vaccination program that will start this year.Dumaguete Bishop Lito Cortes floated the idea, citing the Catholic's Bishops Conference of the...
Cebu archdiocese’s advocacy arm, lawyers’ group, condemn police ops vs ‘bakwit’ group
Lumad students from Mindanao with Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma in October 2019. (COSA Facebook page) The Commission on Social Advocacies (COSA) of the Archdiocese of Cebu and the National Union of People's Lawyers (NUPL) Cebu have condemned the "rescue operation" of the...
Illegal LPG tanks seized in Northern Luzon
Potential gas leak explosions from substandard liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) were impeded after recent raids in Sto. Tomas and San Juan in La Union captured 32 illegally refilled and distributed Solane LPG tanks.The confiscated cylinders reportedly amounted to almost...
Manobo minors taken by police out of Cebu campus
Screen grab from Benjie Talisik’s Facebook Live. The Police Regional Office (PRO) in Central Visayas took out at least 19 indigent minors from Mindanao who were allegedly recruited by militant groups and housed inside a Catholic university in Talamban, Cebu...
‘Kuratong Baleleng’ house in Cebu served with a court freeze order
PDEA Director General Wilkins Villanueva personally served the freeze order for a property in Brgy. Guadalupe, Cebu City, allegedly owned by the late Ozamis City 'drug lord' Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog of the Kuratong Baleleng drug syndicate. (Screed grab from the video...
Negros Oriental cold facility ready for vaccine delivery
A provincial pharmacist inspects the Negros Oriental cold chain facility being preped for vaccination delivery and storage. The province of Negros Oriental is ready to receive vaccines from the national government with its cold chain facility funded by the United...
Slain broadcaster’s remains exhumed
A team from NBI Central Visayas exhumes the remains of slain broadcaster Rex Pepino Cornellio The Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMs) has announced the exhumation of slain broadcaster Rex Cornelio Pepino’s remains in Negros Oriental, as investigators...
Davao City holds Covid-19 vaccine arrival simulation
Following the example of Metro Manila, the Davao Regional Inter-Agency Task Force (RIATF) on Covid-19 held a simulation for the handling of the vaccines’ arrival Wednesday.
Cebu coalition calls on Robredo to run for President
Video grab from Cebu Citizen’s Assembly Press Conference at Cebu City on Tuesday, Feb. 9. Cebu-based supporters of Vice President Maria Leonor “Leni” Robredo have formed a coalition calling on her to run for president in 2022.Wearing lavender ribbons as a sign of...
NBI files graft charges against Cebu hospital, PhilHealth for ‘false’ Covid-19 claim
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in Central Visayas filed a complaint against a private hospital in Cebu and several officials of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) for alleged graft and corrupt practices and malversation of public funds at...
Magnitude 5.0 quake rocks Occidental Mindoro
A magnitude 5.0 quake rocked Occidental Mindoro, Monday morning according to the Philippine Institute for Volcanology and Seismology..
Cebu mayors: No UK variant cases yet
Two local chief executives in Cebu have called on the Department of Health (DOH) to coordinate with them before publicizing information concerning UK variant cases, to avoid panic.In a statement early this week, the DOH said that two of the eight recently confirmed...