Tag: Cebu

India-Philippines consortium sells Cebu airport business for $440.2 mn

  MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — A consortium that includes India’s GMR Group is selling its business developing and operating the Philippines’ second-largest airport for 25 billion pesos ($440.2 million), its Filipino partner announced Friday. The consortium of GMR Group and the Philippines’ Megawide Construction Corp will sell its interests to operate the Mactan-Cebu International Airport to Aboitiz InfraCapital Inc, a unit of a family-owned conglomerate. Megawide said in a disclosure to the local stock exchange […]

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PNP: 48-year-old man wanted for kidnapping nabbed in Cebu

(Eagle News)–Authorities arrested a 48-year-old man wanted for kidnapping, the Philippine National Police said. According to the PNP, Allan Nacorda Gemongala Sr. was nabbed in a manhunt operation in Barangay Canduman in Mandaue, Cebu on Monday. Gemongala was nabbed by virtue of a warrant of arrest issued by Cebu City Regional Trial Court Branch 22 Judge Manuel Patalinghug for kidnapping on June 16, 2014. No bail was recommended. The PNP did not give additional details […]

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Pres. Duterte vows to release P2-B aid for typhoon-hit Visayas, Mindanao as he starts inspection of areas

Calls for a meeting with budget officials as most funds already spent for COVID response   (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte made a commitment to release around P2 billion to typhoon-devastated areas in Visayas and Mindanao region as he visited some of the areas hit by the super typhoon over the weekend. “I can release more or less 2 billion. So this amount will be divided among all the areas that were hit by […]

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Typhoon Odette also leaves trail of destruction in Cebu

(Eagle News) — As in the other provinces it had hit, super typhoon Odette (international name Rai) also left a trail of destruction in Cebu where it had made its seventh landfall on Thursday, December 16. Videos and photos provided by Eagle News correspondent Kim Lua in Compostela, Cebu and in the city of Cebu showed just how the typhoon’s catastrophic winds and rains had devastated lives and properties. Odette made its seventh landfall in […]

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Mayor Sara confirms meeting with Bongbong Marcos in Cebu, posts photos of talks

  (Eagle News) — Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio confirmed on Saturday, Oct. 23 that she and presidential aspirant former Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., met today in Cebu. “Confirmed po na nagkita kami ngayon lang ni Presidential aspirant at former Senator BBM sa masayang pagdiriwang ng birthday ni Cong. Yedda, maybahay ni House Majority Leader Martin Romualdez sa Cebu,” Duterte-Carpio said in her official Facebook post on Saturday, Oct. 23. She also posted several […]

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Mayor Sara flies to Cebu on same day that Bongbong Marcos is also in the province

  Cebu visit, “Sara All 2022” shirt, fuel speculation that presidential daughter might run for a nat’l post in 2022   (Eagle News) — Davao City mayor Sara Duterte flew to Cebu on Friday, Oct. 22, after recovering from COVID-19, on the same day that presidential candidate former Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos was also in the province for a scheduled visit. The presidential daughter posted photos on her official page showing her alighting from a […]

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Eleazar orders thorough probe into alleged kidnapping of development worker in Cebu

(Eagle News) — Philippine National Police Chief has ordered a thorough probe into the alleged abduction of a development worker who was believed kidnapped last year and turned up dead in August this year. In a statement, Eleazar said he ordered the Anti-Kidnapping Task Group to coordinate with Elena Tijamo’s family to get additional information that would shed light on what happened in June 2020 when she was supposedly kidnapped. Tijamo was a coordinator forthe […]

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Cebu placed under GCQ with heightened restrictions from MECQ, says Palace

Laguna, Aklan, Apayao placed under MECQ from Aug. 1 to 15   (Eagle News) — Cebu province was placed under General Community Quarantine with heightened restrictions on Sunday, Aug. 1, until Aug. 15, according to Malacanang. This was after President Rodrigo Duterte approved the recommendation of the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) to place Cebu from Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ) to GCQ with heightened restrictions. The provinces of Laguna, Aklan and Apayao, on the other […]

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PNP: P7.1 million worth of shabu seized in Cebu buy-bust; 1 nabbed

(Eagle News) — Authorities seized P7.1 million worth of shabu in Cebu, the Philippine National Police said. According to the PNP, also arrested during the buy-bust operation in Barangay Tejero was an individual identified only as “Toro,” a distributor of illegal drugs. “Maganda na nahuli ng ating mga operatiba sa Central Visayas ang suspek na ito dahil ayon sa inisyal na impormasyon, sangkot siya sa malakihang operasyon ng iligal na droga (It’s good that the […]

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Cebu-bound travelers from Bohol, Negros provinces required to present negative RT-PCR or antigen tests

(Eagle News) — Travelers going to Cebu from Bohol and Negros provinces are required to present negative RT-PCR or antigen tests. The Cebu government made the announcement in a statement posted on its official Facebook account. According to the provincial government, the RT-PCR test must have been taken within 72 hours before the trip. The rapid antigen test, on the other hand, must have been done within 48 hours before the travel. Earlier, the national […]

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PNP: P2.9 million worth of shabu seized in Cebu buy-bust; one arrested

(Eagle News) — Authorities seized P2.9 million worth of shabu in a  buy-bust operation in Cebu on Thursday, May 21, the Philippine National Police said. According to the PNP, also arrested was Johnrey Gelbolingo Jabagat, 30, a “high-value individual” in the province. The PNP did not say how the police operation came about  in Sitio Tinabangay, Alaska-Mambaling. It said, however, that the operation was witnessed by Roseller Salvador,  a councilor of Barangay Mambaling and a […]

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PNP: Over P4 million worth of marijuana plants destroyed in Cebu

(Eagle News) — More than P4 million worth of marijuana plants were destroyed by authorities in Cebu on Monday. The Philippine National Police said the more or less 11,200 fully-grown marijuana plants uprooted by PNP operatives and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Sitio Sampinitan, Brgy. Tagba-o had an estimated value of P4,480,000. The plants were situated on a 800 sqm space owned by a certain Boy Ardimer, the PNP said. It said manhunt operations […]

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