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This time, Talisay City drivers get the squeeze from Osmeña
by Mitchelle Calipayan - June 9, 2005 - 12:00am
CEBU CITY — Jeepney and taxi drivers from Talisay City are the latest victims of the squeeze Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña has applied on the neighboring city to punish its officials for laying claim to...
Ombudsman suspends Cebu port manager
by Mitchelle Calipayan - June 4, 2005 - 12:00am
CEBU — The Office of the Ombudsman-Visayas has ordered the suspension of the general manager of the Cebu Port Authority (CPA) for 60 days without pay. Deputy Ombudsman for Visayas Primo Miro directed Transportation...
Cebu board supports move to split province
by Mitchelle Calipayan - May 27, 2005 - 12:00am
CEBU — The provincial board’s approved resolution supporting the pending congressional bills creating three more provinces out of the present Cebu has no effect at this stage, a constitutional law expert...
Extradition of shabu ‘financier’ still uncertain
by Mitchelle Calipayan - May 23, 2005 - 12:00am
CEBU — After all the hoopla, the extradition of suspected drug financier Calvin de Jesus Tan from Hong Kong could not be confirmed until Hong Kong’s Chief Executive renders a decision on or before June...
Cebu City traffic czar wants 5 schools moved to the mountains
by Mitchelle Calipayan - May 22, 2005 - 12:00am
CEBU CITY — If the vice chairman of the Cebu City Traffic Operations and Management (CITOM) has his way, he wants to uproot the campuses of four colleges and universities here and relocate them to mountain barangays,...
Men in car stalk UP prof
by Mitchelle Calipayan - May 15, 2005 - 12:00am
CEBU — Dr. Raquel Fortun, one of the country’s foremost forensic pathologists and a prosecution witness in the parricide case against cult leader Ruben Ecleo Jr., expressed alarm over what she perceived...
Men in car stalk UP prof
by Mitchelle Calipayan - May 15, 2005 - 12:00am
CEBU — Dr. Raquel Fortun, one of the country’s foremost forensic pathologists and a prosecution witness in the parricide case against cult leader Ruben Ecleo Jr., expressed alarm over what she perceived...
Exhumed body similar to Ecleo wife’s, says forensic expert
by Mitchelle Calipayan - May 14, 2005 - 12:00am
CEBU CITY — One of the country’s leading forensic pathologists testified that the body of a woman which she subjected to a re-autopsy last March 7 bore similarities to that of Alona Bacolod, wife of cult...
Mandaue warehouse owner released on P1.5-M bail
by Mitchelle Calipayan - May 8, 2005 - 12:00am
CEBU CITY — One of the owners of a Mandaue City warehouse where a shabu laboratory, considered among the biggest in Asia, was raided last year, walked out of detention the other day after posting P1.5-million...
Gov’t scores in Mandaue City shabu megalab case
by Mitchelle Calipayan - May 1, 2005 - 12:00am
CEBU — "Our efforts finally bore fruit." Thus said Cebu City Rep. Antonio Cuenco on the decision of a Hong Kong magistrate granting the Philippine government’s petition to extradite Calvin Tan,...
Resolve 100 cases within 6 months, SC tells Cebu judge
by Mitchelle Calipayan - April 22, 2005 - 12:00am
CEBU CITY — The Supreme Court recently ordered a Municipal Trial Court in Cities (MTCC) judge here to cease and desist from hearing pending cases in his sala and focus instead on resolving at least 100 cases...
Cebu power firm vows no brownouts
by Mitchelle Calipayan - April 18, 2005 - 12:00am
CEBU — The Visayan Electric Co. Inc. (VECO) has given assurances that its services will not be hampered by the power shortfall in the Cebu-Negros-Panay grid since it has a contract with the National Power Corp....
Osmeña: Talisay folk to be issued ‘security passes’
by Mitchelle Calipayan - April 17, 2005 - 12:00am
CEBU CITY — While maintaining his refusal to reopen the south coastal road to the public, Mayor Tomas Osmeña announced that he will issue "security passes and clearances" to private individuals...
Cebu faces serious power shortage in coming months
by Mitchelle Calipayan - April 17, 2005 - 12:00am
CEBU — The production of the Cebu-Negros-Panay (CNP) grid recently fell by 77 megawatts, giving Cebu a serious power shortage in the coming months due to repairs of power generators. Moses Red, corporate staff...
Defense panel to call Osmeña to witness stand
by Mitchelle Calipayan - March 11, 2005 - 12:00am
CEBU CITY — The defense lawyers of the key suspect and his three alleged conspirators in the murder of Cebuano lawyer Arbet Sta. Ana-Yongco, said it will present 16 witnesses, including Mayor Tomas Osmeña. Osmeña...
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