Cebu Informer

One of our regular Cebu Informer readers shared the following story and pictures with us. He is living in Barangay Camputhaw here in Cebu and has seen something he does not understand. And we have to admit, we could not help him either. Maybe you can help us figure this one out. First a nice [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Deputy Presidential spokesman Gary Olivar joined Monday the call of not allowing the sisters of President-elect Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino III any government position. And the call on surface appears to concern about avoiding nepotism. This comes without provocation or any information that Aquino is planning to even appoint any of his sisters to government. The [...]

Three days after the general elections on May 10, Liberal Party standard-bearer Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino III runs full steam, now at 5.1 million lead, over former president Joseph “Erap” Estrada of Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino as of 9:40 in the morning on 13 May 2010.  Based on partial unofficial count performed by GMA News.TV, Aquino reached [...]

The new President of the Philippines Noynoy Aquino and Mar Roxas get the highest number of votes in Cebu. YouTube Direkt

At 88.60 percent of election returns counted, Liberal Party standard-bearer Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino III continues to widen gap ahead of closest contender deposed former president Joseph “Erap” Estrada of Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino. With a partial unofficial count of 13,593,033 votes his lead moves up by 4.98 million from 4.97 million three hours earlier on [...]

The official results of the Philippine Presidential Election 2010 are not yet out, and it will still take one or two more days before a new President of the Philippines will be officially announced, but you can see the updates on the presidential election results live. For the count of every single precinct in Cebu [...]

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 [...]

Three days before the May 10 elections, police arrested nine suspected hired goons and seized high-powered firearms inside the house of a village captain in a northwestern Cebu town. A team of the Regional Intelligence Office and Regional Special Operation Group arrested the suspects—Brendon Muñoz Maglasang and Joramel and Adonis Almonacin of Tabuelan town; Dennis [...]

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 [...]

His fans had been waiting for more than five hours Yesterday. Senator Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino 3rd. came to Cebu today to talk to the Cebuano’s. He started his “show” at 9.00pm and the first few Aquino supporters started to line up at the Cebu City Hall at 4pm. Thousands of Noynoy fans came at the [...]

This is going to be a short and sweet news for all of those monitoring the developments of the campaign trail of all the Presidentiables. Whether you like Villar or not; whether you are going to vote for him or not, I think you’d love to chew on this information: While Gilbert “Gibo” Teodoro’s headquarters [...]

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo stopped by in Cebu City this afternoon to tour the Asiatown IT Park in Lahug. This was as part of her tour of the key cities and towns nestled within the country’s cyber corridor or locations of choice by information and communications technology and business process outsourcing firms. This is the [...]

You are not sure yet who you will get your vote in the presidential elections later this year? What is the program of this one candidate again? What does the other one stand for? Too many open questions if you are interested to vote for a new president this year. But help is on it’s [...]

It’s official. Press Secretary Cerge Remonde was pronounced dead in Makati Medical Hospital at 11:51AM today. His wife is now rushing to Mactan International Airport to catch an immediate flight going to Manila. He was earlier reportedly found unconscious in his Malacañang office earlier today, but was later corrected to say that he was found [...]