Cebu Informer

Cebuanos will enjoy a super long  4-day weekend with two consecutive non-working holidays, Sept. 9 and 10, to be observed next week. To commemorate the 132nd birth anniversary of President Sergio Osmena Sr., the second president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, Cebu has declared Sept. 9 as a non-working holiday in the province while [...]

At least 25 newly-elected governors from various parts in the country are in Cebu for a two-day “peer-to-peer orientation seminar” intended at providing them with an orientation of the tasks that await them as heads of their respective provinces. Former governors and those who serving their provinces for two or three terms were invited as [...]

Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. has deferred the sale of the contracted capacity of the 110-megawatt Naga power plant complex in Cebu on request of the bidders, Energy Secretary Jose Rene Almendras said Tuesday. PSALM had scheduled the bidding for the Naga supply contracts today but bidders asked for more time to study [...]

In celebration of the 441st Founding Anniversary of the province of Cebu, there will be no classes and work in the entire province on Friday. August 6 every year is declared special non-working holiday through the enactment of Republic Act 8952 in July 26, 1999, which amended Republic Act 7698, the original Charter of the [...]

Driving in Cebu is special, we all know this. Every day you see many traffic violations in Cebu since not too many drivers actually seem to care. There are traffic rules in the Philippines of course, and even some traffic enforcers are seen sometimes on the roads. But does someone actually care for traffic signs? [...]

SM Prime Holdings Inc., the country’s largest shopping mall developer and operator, is investing another P1 billion in Cebu after acquiring another five-hectare property in the island. SM Prime president Hans Sy told reporters over the weekend that the company planned to develop the new property into another mall. SM Prime earlier committed to invest [...]

After the deadly accident in Toledo yesterday many of you are asking about their friends, family and relatives who often use this bus route. What happened to them? Did they survive the crash? Find the latest list of people who survived the Toledo accident and the ones who sadly died in the bus crash: Who [...]

Not so long ago we covered the deadly bus accident in Balamban, and now the next deadly bus accident happened in Cebu. This deadly crash came expected though as you will find out at the end of the article… An overloaded bus yesterday swerved off the road in Toledo City and crashed into the concrete [...]

As Benigno Simeon Cojuangco “Noynoy” Aquino III took his oath of office as the Philippines’ 15th President at noon Wednesday, local officials in this city were also sworn into office by Court of Appeals Associate Justice Portia Hormachuelos. Among those who took oath Wednesday were the new House of Representatives members headed by Tomas Osmena [...]

A retired prosecutor was found dead with a neck wound, in his house in Lawaan, Talisay City before noon Sunday, police said. Superintendent Henry Biñas, chief of the Talisay City Police Office, said former Regional State Prosecutor Hernando Masangkay, 72, was found with a stab wound on his neck around 11 a.m. in his house [...]

After decades of poverty and corruption Gloria Arroyo came and simply solved it. The problem of corruption and poverty. There is no more corruption and no poverty at all left in the province of Cebu. At least that’s what the archbishop of Cebu, Mr. Ricardo Cardinal Vidal, said on the Church-run Radio Veritas. He said [...]

Cebu is often recommended from so called experts as the perfect destination for Call Centers, IT companies and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) businesses from all over the world. That’s because of the talented people here and the superb infrastructure. Wait, superb infrastructure? LOL… What do all those businesses have in common? The all need cheap [...]

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo inaugurated the first underground tunnel in Cebu. The four-lane tunnel stretches about 600 meters from the viaduct connecting the South Road Properties to downtown Cebu City and passes underneath the Plaza Independencia. Estimated to cost P1.6 billion, the tunnel forms part of the Cebu south coastal road which provides a direct and [...]

Weapons, drugs, illegal possession of firearms, blackmailing and wild west behavior – it all seems ok here in the Philippines as long as your step-daddy is a Mayor. But did Joavan Fernandez go too far this time? It did not start so well yesterday… The filing of charges against Joavan Fernandez was stalled yesterday afternoon, [...]

The Cebu City government will not release its financial aid of P2,000 for each senior citizen of neighboring Cordova town if the municipal government doesn’t meet its audit requirements first. Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmena yesterday announced this after showing copies of a notice of suspension issued by the Commission on Audit (COA) for Cebu [...]

The Metro Cebu Water District (MCWD), Cebu’s main water distributor, has signed a second joint venture agreement (JVA) with a private water distributor to address the needs of consumers in upland areas in Cebu City affected by the dry spell. MCWD officials signed the JVA with representatives of Pilipinas Water Resources Inc. (PWRI) for the [...]

An attempt to buy votes in southern Cebu was foiled by the military when they chanced upon a village chief and councilman carrying bundles of small bills attached to the sample ballots of the pro-administration One Cebu slate, in Dumanjug town, some 73.3 kilometers southwest of Cebu City. Aside from two large bundles of P20 [...]

Failure of elections has been recommended for 11 municipalities in the Visayas and Mindanao due to various reasons, among them the non-appearance of election inspectors, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said on Monday. Included in these towns are Masiu, Lumba-Bayabao, Lumba-Unayan and Tubaran in Lanao del Sur where members of the board of election inspectors [...]

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has suspended the deployment of the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines to various precincts in the province following the discovery of glitches which were eventually traced to defective flash cards. Cebu provincial election supervisor Lionel Marco Castillano said around 20 percent of the PCOS machines were so far distributed [...]

On the final stretch of the campaign, administration standard bearer Gilbert Teodoro gets a warm welcome from residents here. Teodoro was mobbed by residents and local officials in this central Philippine city Tuesday when he served as guest of honor at the inauguration of the Garden City Hall. He gamely posed with supporters for photos [...]