IRR ON SENIORS READY: QUIJANO
SECRETARY Franklin Quijano of the National Commission for Senior Citizens (NCSC) said the Implementing Rules and Regulation (IRR) of Republic Act (RA) 11350 creating his agency is already finished and will be submitted to President Rodrigo Duterte.
Quijano and the NCSC Board have a...
"The best for COVID19 prevention"
Seaoil supplies free fuel aid for hospitals
SEAOIL is providing free fuel to hospitals as its way of continuously giving support to the country’s health care institutions in the battle agains...
PBA celebrates quiet 45th anniversary
THE Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) has to put off its 45th anniversary with Luzon still under enhanced community quarantine due to COVID-1...
GIVE P1B NOW; STOP FIGHTING
Council must demand swift action by executive: Rama. The Cebu City Council in a special session yesterday asked Mayor Edgar Labella to immediately...
CV FIRMS MAY GO BANKRUPT
Business leader says they face new reality of survival. THE chairman of the Economic Development Committee (EDC) of the Regional Development Counci...
Mactan Rock offers free water in Cebu
BULK water supplier Mactan Rock Industries Inc. (MRII) is preparing its plants to distribute free water to Cebuanos especially during the coronavir...
Punish stupidity
Manuelito Luna of the Presidential Anti-Crime Commission (PACC) wants Vice President Leni Robredo investigated and punished for helping in the figh...
How to use text alerts to fight the Covid-19
For people living in South Korea, emergency text from officials now come about three to five times a day. They detail the exact locations and movem...
The Cebuano KKK revolutionary song
Philippine history was written to make it appear that the fight for Philippine Independence was a monopoly of the people from Luzon. The raising of...
Corona Culture
A childhood friend who now resides in Yokohama, Japan said they are still reporting for work despite the pandemic. They seemed to enjoy the normal...
Too many quarantine pass exemptions
This is the 18th day since the quarantine protocols were imposed March 15, 2020. And for two months and almost to the day, that we started feelin...
Social distancing a failure: Alcover
Mayor Vico hailed for helping habal-habal, PUJ drivers. LOCAL leaders have only themselves to blame for the dismal failure of government’s social...
Early Cebu lockdown much better - Panelo
“DECLARING Cebu under a lockdown is long overdue.”
In a talk with host Elias O. Baquero of “Yagyagan” program, a daily two-hour news comment...
Enlisted volleyball stars on duty vs COVID-19
ATHLETES who are part of the different branches of the Armed Forces of the Philippines are serving in their mother units, working behind the scenes...
Council okays P1B vs. COVID-19
Tell us how spent, who benifited: Rama
The Cebu City Council has approved last week the amount of over P1 billion for the Local Gov...
Rentals of buses, jeepneys reduced
The Cebu Provincial Operators Transport Cooperative (CPTC) has reduced rentals of passenger buses and passenger jeepneys by 30 percent due to the l...
Lack of buses lead to stranded passengers
Thousands of passengers were stranded last March 26, 2020 at Cebu South Bus Terminal and Cebu North Bus Terminal due to lack of buses plying their...
Koko Pimentel to face criminal raps for breaching COVID-19 quarantine
Criminal charges, including a disbarment case, are prepared by a group of lawyers against Sen. Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III for violating the Luzon...
Cebu provincial farmers “not allowed” in Carbon
Former Dumanjug mayor says it’s just not fair
FORMER Dumanjug Mayor Nelson Garcia has denounced the actuation of some officials of th...
Makers of alcohol go 24/7, says Lopez
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Ramon Lopez assured consumers that with the 24/7 production of alcohol, the supply of the product...
Olympics reset; Hidilyn saddene
Hidilyn Diaz, Filipina weightlifter who is currently in Malaysia, was saddened by the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics because of the ongoing cor...
Rich urged to help the poor
NAPC chief said listing names of poorest
The National AntiPoverty Commission (NAPC) has urged rich families to support the government...
LTO closes 11 offices due to COVID-19
The Land Transportation Office (LTO) 7 has closed seven offices throughout Central Visayas starting last March 18, 2020 including that in Negros Or...
National ID card replaces voter’s ID
Poll official: PSA may release national ID in July this year
THE Office of the President has ordered the Commission on Elections (Come...
All people have anxiety: doctor
All people have anxiety and they should maintain mental health amid the issue on Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19), said a doctor specializing in psy...
CDA urged to order coops to distribute dividends
Rep. Sabeniano “Ben” Canama of Coop NATCCO Party-List has urged Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) to issue a circular for cooperatives to dis...
Saving Cebu from pollution
The man who spearheaded the total cleanup of Manila Bay to spare the Filipinos from pollution wants to replicate it in Cebu.
Businessman Bob...
Cebuano to help rebuild Rizal-Xentro Mall
Rizal-Xentro Mall will try to rebuild its team by signing Cebuano scorer Eloy Poligrates for the upcoming season of the league.
The team me...
MCWD allocates P1.6B for 26 wells
Additional water in 2-3 months, says Daluz
The Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) has allocated P1.6 billion for the digging of 4...
Cebu to hold masses online
The parish priest of the Archdiocesan Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes (Lourdes Shrine) in Punta Princesa, Cebu City led a penitential dawn rosary to Virgin Mary starting last March 14, 2020 to ask the B...
Russian Medicine
Is Russian medicine more advanced than the other countries especially the United States? This thought came after I learned that a Russian company has been manufacturing this over-the-counter drug call...
Face Masks Sold Out? Make One Using Your Bra
Just when we thought that we’ve seen the worse of Covid-19 outbreak, the coronavirus said ‘Nope!’, raised its middle finger and continue to infect more that 110,000 people around the world to date. Wi...
The Cebuano influence of Mindanao
When the Philippines was sold to the United States by Spain via the Treaty of Paris signed on December 10, 1898, the Americans officially became the new colonizers. They introduced republicanism, wher...
Corona Lockdown
I thought it was just a scare about the Coronavirus at first. When the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic, people are now worried and alarmed. What shocked me was when Senator Migs Zu...
Coping with Coronavirus
The Civil Service Commission (CSC) on March 11, 2020 issued a memorandum circular (MC), adopting the interim guidelines for alternative work schemes in government amid the threat posed by coronavirus...
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The 1939 novel Gadsby is the longest book ever published that doesn’t contain the letter ‘e.’
The first item sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer
Santa Claus was given an official pilot’s license in 1927
A Brazilian man was killed in bed when a cow fell through the roof and landed on him
Agyrophobia is the belief that crossing a street will harm you in some way
Jackie Chan broke twelve concrete blocks with his hand, while keeping the egg he was holding intact.
Before alarm clocks were affordable, there were professional “Knocker Uppers” to wake people up for work.
In the 18th Century, Napoleon and Benjamin Franklin were both defeated at chess by a machine called the Mechanical Turk.
Japanese people use more paper for manga than toilet roll? Most modern Japanese toilets feature bidet washing facilities rather than toilet paper.
Kakorrhaphiophobia is the Fear of failure.
Chrometophobia is the Fear of money.
The symbol on the “pound” key (#) is called an octothorpe.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
“Go,” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
All polar bears are left handed.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
No word in the English language rhymes with “MONTH.”
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