My maternal grandmother was born in the Philippines but brought to China by her father when she was a child. Unknown to her then, her parents had separated. She returned to the country as a young bride. She had lost touch with her mother and sisters. So, when her husband died, she was all alone. […]
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Letigio: Growing up without ‘Mama’
My mother would have been 63 years old by now. She would have celebrated her birthday last January 20. Yet in my mind, she’s still 49 years old, frozen in age with my last memory of her, before I went to school on the morning of January 25, 2008. It wasn’t the last time I […]
Carpenter arrested for raping stepdaughter
A 47-YEAR-OLD carpenter was arrested by police in his home in Barangay Poblacion Occidental, Consolacion town on Tuesday, August 30, 2022, after he was accused of raping his teenage stepdaughter almost three years ago.Personnel from the Consolacion Police Station captured Oscar (real name withheld) at his house through a warrant of arrest issued by Mandaue […]
Bullied by friends, 27-year-old man takes own life, police says
NEIGHBORS’ bullying reportedly led a 27-year-old man to depression and later to his death after he reportedly took his own life in Danao City, northern Cebu.The man’s body was found by her mother on Sunday morning, June 26, 2022.Based on the police investigation, the mother noticed a few days ago that her son was sad, […]
Police arrest, charge man who raped 7-year-old niece
LOCAL police in Dalaguete town, Cebu arrested a 42-year-old man for allegedly raping his seven-year-old niece on Monday, April 18, 2022.Rodrigo (not his real name), a resident of Barangay Balud in the same town, was arrested based on a complaint filed by the mother of the victim, Niña (not her real name).Niña’s mother claimed she […]
Rice cooker claims life of 40-year-old OFW
NEVER touch electric appliances if your hands are wet.This was a painful lesson for the family of Elvira Demotor, an overseas Filipino worker in Bahrain who was in Cebu when she met her untimely death.Demotor, 40, was electrocuted after she came in contact with their plugged rice cooker while her hands were still wet.Shanaine, the […]
Malilong: Careful, MOM is watching
EVERYTHING I wanted to write about Edgar Labella, I had already written when he was still alive. So let me write about some of the people he left behind instead. Former city administrator Floro Casas Jr. was, next to the late mayor’s immediate family, the person closest to him. Jun has done errands for Edgar […]
Richard Yap says no to DNA test
ACTOR and Cebu City north district congressional aspirant Richard Yap will not subject himself to a DNA test as he dismissed the challenge of Joshua Paolo Jensen, a 24-year-old Cavite resident who is claiming to be Yap’s “abandoned” son. Jensen has filed a petition for compulsory recognition before the Cebu Regional Trial Court (RTC) and […]
Court convicts cop for murder of mother and son in Tarlac province
A REGIONAL trial court in Tarlac on Thursday convicted a former policeman for the murder of a mother and her son last year. The court sentenced ex-Staff Sergeant Jonel Nuezca to a jail term of 40 years for each count of murder. It also ordered the convict to pay the heirs of Sonya and Frank […]
Daughter admits existence of Covid-19 after her mother’s hospitalization
COVID-19 is real. This was the realization of Rizza Maye Lirasan from Oslob, Cebu. Her mother was recently discharged from hospital after beating Covid-19, the respiratory disease caused by Sars-CoV-2. More than one year into the pandemic, there are still people who doubt the existence of the novel coronavirus, which first in Wuhan, a city […]
Cop caught extorting money from detainee’s mother
A POLICE intelligence officer assigned in Carmen town was arrested by operatives of the Integrity Monitoring and Enforcement Group Central Visayas (Imeg 7) after he was caught in the act of extorting money from the mother of a detainee on Friday, March 12, 2021. Executive MSgt. Julius Medura Obañana, who heads Carmen’s intelligence section, will […]
Sunday Essay: Not quite all about my mother
THERE are stories about my mother that I may never know. That’s one of those things the greeting cards leave out. No matter how much you love someone, no matter how deeply bonded you are, it remains impossible to know everything there is to know about them. This is one of life’s essential mysteries. There […]