READY-MIX concrete supplier Suprea Phils. Development Corp. has expanded its operations in the municipality of Compostela with its newly opened batching plant in the town, taking a turn to advancement in Cebu’s construction industry. The company has become a consistent provider of ready-mixed concrete in the province and the northern Mindanao area. The firm has two concrete batching plants spread out evenly in the northern and southern parts of Cebu: one in Labogon, Mandaue City and Pangdan in the City of Naga, southern Cebu. “The expansion of the batching plant helps bolster several industries in Compostela, Cebu,” Mayor Felijur P. Quiño said. Suprea has gone far in undertaking both private and governmental projects. The company counts several major construction companies as clients. Among the structures built with Suprea’s ready-mix concrete are high-rise and quality commercial and residential buildings, as well as government infrastructure projects such as major bridges and roads that connect provinces, towns and municipalities. Company chief operating officer John Chua Abellana shared: “We have been supplying and providing to various high-rise commercial and residential buildings, and industrial buildings including condominiums, hotels, commercial malls, business offices and even heavy industrial projects such as steel fabrication plant and cement. We have also supplied concrete to various government structures both in Cebu and Cagayan de Oro.” Suprea has provided high-quality and trusted ready-mix concrete since 2016, proving its viable service to its clientele. Rochelle G. Dedicatoria, Suprea’s operations manager shared that modern technologies are not limited to gadgets and computers, saying that concrete products have also been upgraded nowadays. “With this, our team of concrete specialists are constantly doing research and development that enables us to cope with modern concrete innovations and technologies. We can certainly assure our roster of clients with the superb quality of our concrete.” On Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022, the company hosted a ribbon-cutting and blessing ceremony at its new concrete batching plant in Compostela, Cebu, graced by the presence of company frontrunners and associates.
LONDON (Reuters) -The top civil servant at Britain's finance ministry said he was leaving his job with immediate effect because new finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng, who has been critical of the Treasury's work, wanted a change. "The Chancellor decided it was time for new leadership at the Treasury, and so I will be leaving with immediate effect," Scholar said in a statement issued by the Treasury on Thursday. Kwarteng and new Prime Minister Liz Truss lambasted the Treasury during the Conservative Party's leadership race.
Neither the rain nor the darkness descending across the U.K. did anything to dissuade the hundreds, possibly thousands, of mourners from making a beeline for Buckingham Palace on Thursday evening. Within hours of Queen Elizabeth II’s death being publicly announced, the streets around the palace were cordoned off to cars (except London’s iconic black cabs, […]
THE Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH 7) warned the public against swimming and doing similar activities within the coastal waters of Barangay Catarman, Cordova town due to high fecal coliform level.DOH 7 Director Jaime Bernadas issued the warning Thursday, September 8, 2022, following the request of Cebu Provincial Administrator officer-in-charge Prince Lee Balaba for the issuance of a health advisory in relation to the updated inspection report submitted by the Environment and Manag
STORY: Prince Charles has spent most of his life waiting. But now, says former royal correspondent, Charles Rae, the longest serving heir to the throne in British history has a new and very immediate role."It's very much, you know, the queen is dead. God save the king. Simple as that, it's almost a seamless transition. And then there will be, then there'll be, you will have (him) sit on the throne and get the crown at a later date, so it will be seamless in that sense. I mean, from the moment that the queen passes away, Charles is king. It's that simple."Born in 1948, he became heir apparent at the age of three, when the queen acceded to the throne on the death of her father George VI. Following an unhappy time at school in a remote area of the Scottish Highlands, he studied at the University of Cambridge. He was made Prince of Wales by the queen at the age of 20. Charles then entered the military before leaving to concentrate on royal duties in 1976.His relationship with his new subjects has been at times turbulent. Following years of speculation about his marriage plans, Charles married 20-year-old Lady Diana Spencer in 1981 with a dazzling wedding ceremony at St Paul's Cathedral. Two sons and new heirs William and Harry later, the marriage ended in 1992. The decision was apparently amicable at first, but emerged as acrimonious by the time of their eventual divorce in 1996. The union was said to have been a disaster from the start. The tragedy was compounded by Diana’s death in a car crash in Paris a year later. Charles was left looking an unlikely sovereign and royal-watchers openly questioned whether he would ever by crowned.Author Penny Junor maintains he is a popular figure. "There are always going to be people who don't like him, because he has been quite a controversial figure. When the queen came to the throne, I don't think anybody disliked her because nobody really knew her. Charles has been around for over 70 years, and he has, he has been active in those years. He's got involved in all sorts of quasi political areas and expressed his views. But anybody that has come across Charles, I would say, or who knows him, will, will love him."Charles’ long-term relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles became more public after Diana’s death - and the couple were married quietly in 2005 after gradually appearing in public together and becoming part of the royal circle. Charles' approval rating also gradually improved, burnished by the popularity of his two sons who also married. He began undertaking more official senior royal duties after Queen Elizabeth scaled back her workload, due to ill health. Professor of the history of monarchy, Anna Whitelock, says the transition from heir to king will not be radical. "He's not going to reflect or represent a fresh face for the monarchy. It's going to be another, you know, aged elderly monarch extending to the throne, even though, of course, he's been Prince of Wales for so many years. I think you know that he does have a potential relevance around the environment. But I don't think he's going to end up feeling, you know, that he's particularly popular and certainly not, you know, on the level of his mother, the queen."
The Deo et Patria Eagles rallied to take down the Ogre Kicks Dragons, 81-75, in the Aspirants Basketball League Cebu on Thursday evening at the Cebu City Sports Institute in Sawang Calero.The Eagles were down by double-figures in the first half but turned things around in the second half, where they overcame the deficit before grabbing the victory. Saul Hortelano had 21 points to lead the way for the Eagles. Trystan Chu added 13 while Leonardo Tool Jr. pitched in 10.Ervin Lopena had 15 points fo
After news of a woman accused of killing two children in Ethiopia emerged in early September, social media in the country was awash with an image purporting to show the suspect. However, AFP Fact Check found that this is an old photo; it shows a woman who was detained by Ethiopian police in 2018 on suspicion of carrying explosives during a ceremony to welcome political activist Jawar Mohammed back home from exile. “This is the woman who tragically killed two children yesterday in Addis Ababa,” r
Human Rights Watch said that the senseless killings have not stopped, and impunity continues to reign supreme in the Philippines. Will the ICC halt its investigation?
KEY ISSUES. [1] A presidential executive order (EO) may affirm Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama’s EO on face masks but what if there are still differences in scope or application, whose order will prevail in this city?[2] Still to be resolved is the issue of national authority during emergency versus local autonomy. Laws are not clear or specific and there’s no jurisprudence that squarely applies.[3] But without serious enforcement, such as widespread arrests by police, disputes between national off
THE afternoon downpour in Metro Cebu on Friday, September 9, 2022, flooded several areas in Mandaue and Consolacion, displacing at least 1,837 individuals and destroying 14 houses.In Mandaue City, Camelo Basaca Jr., head of the City Social Services, said 17 families or 70 individuals were affected in Barangay Paknaan, 170 families or 650 individuals in Barangay Casungtingan, 57 families or 232 individuals in Barangay Tabok, 146 families or 587 individuals in Barangay Umapad and 77 families or 29
ELECTRIC tricycle (e-trike) drivers in Barangay Pooc, Talisay City who are often drunk, don’t bathe and are not presentable while taking passengers are now forewarned.This after officials of the coastal barangay recently approved an ordinance that will require e-trike drivers to follow basic hygiene practices such as bathing properly and applying deodorant if they want to keep their livelihood.Violators, especially those caught emitting foul body odor, will pay a fine of P100 for the first offen
CEBU City Mayor Michael “Mike” Rama intends to put up a park in honor of the late President Sergio Osmeña Sr. in the South Road Properties (SRP).Rama made the pronouncement during the commemoration of Osmeña’s 114th birth anniversary on Friday, Sept. 9, 2022, at the latter’s historical marker on Osmeña Boulevard.In the meantime, Rama said he plans to construct an interim park where Osmeña’s marker is currently located; to make this possible, the mayor said he will talk to the owners of the prope
THE 400-hectare Mactan North Reclamation and Development Project (MNRDP) in Lapu-Lapu City will be established as a separate island.While this will be developed in the reclamation area in four barangays, Mayor Junard “Ahong” Chan said the implementation will not affect households nor buildings in the city.“There will be no households affected because that is a separate island. It is not adjoining the mainland,” said Chan on Thursday, September 8, 2022.The MNRDP will be established in Barangay Pu
WITH the success of the Night Market on Rizal Street, downtown Zamboanga City, the City Government is expanding operations to Baban Street in Baliwasan village.This, as Mayor John Dalipe issued Executive Order No. JD 2022-042, launching a night market along Ricardo Baban Street in Baliwasan and creating the Night Market Committee (NMC) tasked to regulate the operation of the same.Dalipe said in his EO that the second night market shall operate from 6 p.m. until midnight, Mondays to Sundays.It sa
LAPU-LAPU City Mayor Junard “Ahong” Chan has welcomed the decision of the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases to lift the mandatory wearing of face masks in open spaces across the country.“Well, maayo na. It’s a good development ang face mask pwede na dili na isul-ob og mga outdoor,” Chan told reporters Thursday, September 8, 2022.Chan reiterated that some people have trouble breathing outdoors with a mask on due to the heat.“So, at least dili na kaa
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A TikTok video with hundreds of thousands of views claims the US Marines who flanked President Joe Biden during an early September 2022 primetime address were not real, but part of a green screen. This is false; video and photo evidence shows a live backdrop behind Biden and the two servicemen moving before and after his speech."Marines?? Were they really there?" says text in a TikTok video that received more than 241,500 views and hundreds of thousands more across social media.The speaker in th
A video on Facebook and TikTok claims to show lawyers of four dissenting electoral commissioners being removed from Kenya's Supreme Court in Nairobi during a hearing challenging the outcome of the August presidential ballot. But this is false: the clip was filmed in 2020 and shows the removal from Kitui County Assembly premises of lawyers representing a former governor facing impeachment.The video shows a group of men dressed in suits being escorted from a gated building and was published on Fac
A WOMAN was shot dead on Spolarium St. in Sitio Panaghiusa, Barangay Duljo-Fatima, Cebu City on Saturday afternoon, September 10, 2022.Patrolman Glendale Cabañero of the Mambaling Police Station identified the victim as Riza Barbosa, a 19-year-old resident of Sitio Nava, Barangay Mambaling. He said Barbosa was originally from Barangay Duljo-Fatima.He said she was arrested in August for playing the illegal gambling game “hantak” and was just released two weeks ago.Cabañero said members of the Eme
THE Cebu City Government will demolish the regional offices of the Bureau of Fire and Protection (BFP) and the Land Transportation Office (LTO) on N. Bacalso Ave. to give way for the construction of the city’s command center and a wellness center.Gerry Carillo, chairman of the Cebu City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council told SunStar Cebu Friday, Sept. 9, 2022, he was tasked by Mayor Michael Rama to lead negotiations with the BFP and LTO Central Visayas offices to vacate the City Gov
A body placed inside a sack was found at 7:45 p.m. on Thursday, September 8, 2022, in Barangay Panas, Candijay town, Bohol.Police Corporal Salvador Dealagdon of Candijay Police Station said in an interview with SunStar Cebu on Saturday morning, September 10, 2022 that the local government unit (LGU) had decided to bury the dead person, who was already in a state of decomposition, due to its foul smell.Dealagdon said nobody came forward yet to claim the dead, which remained unidentified as of thi