Danilo Gumanao said his daughter was able to reach out to them on Sunday, Jan. 15, asking to be rescued in a resort in Carmen, Cebu. She said they were left by their abductors at the said resort.
We are demanding the urgent action and cooperation of state forces in our collective efforts to identify the whereabouts of Dyan and Armand.
Martial law survivors and families of slain martyrs in Cebu remembered the stories of atrocities under martial rule of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. at the Redemptorist Compound in Cebu City on May 21, 2022. The activists vowed to honor the memory of their former...
More than 200 individuals and members of multisectoral groups marched along downtown Cebu City on Friday, May 13, in a nationally-coordinated “Black Friday Protest” to oppose the Marcos-Duterte alliance following the unofficial and partial results of the May 9 elections.
Progressive organizations in Cebu asserted their indignation against the oil price hike and to call for a Php750 minimum wage and suspend the excise tax and value-added tax (VAT) on oil
The “Himamaylan 3” political prisoners composed of peace consultant Ramon Patriarca, and youth activists CJ Matarlo and John Michael Tecson conducted a one-day fasting inside their detention cells yesterday, March 30, in line with the anniversary of the Negros 14...
Alyansa sa mga Mamumuong Kontraktwal sa Sugbo (ALSA Kontraktwal-Cebu), an organization of contractual workers, filed a petition before the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board in Central Visayas (RTWPB-7) today, March 21, seeking a wage increase in the...
An NDFP peace consultant and two youth activists, dubbed the Himamaylan 3, were arrested at 4:00 AM in Barangay Suay, Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental on March 18, 2022. They currently face trumped-up charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives,...
After more than three years, a Mandaue City court on Thursday found Vincent Juarez, Gerome Villarino, and Oscar Villarino, workers also known as Coke Cebu 3, “not guilty” of charges of direct assault filed against them by Mandaue police. The Coke Cebu 3, who were...
Makabayan progressives on Wednesday have endorsed the tandem of Joseph Felix Mari “Ace” Durano and Hilario “Junjun” Davide III in Cebu province’s May 2022 local elections.
Carbon vendors and residents announced a Carbon vendors’ strike to oppose their scheduled transfer in line with the Carbon “modernization” project of the Megawide Construction Corporation and the Cebu City government.
On the one-month anniversary since Super Typhoon (ST) Odette (international name: Rai) made landfall in the Philippines, cause-oriented groups in typhoon-hit Cebu slammed the Philippine government’s “lack of urgency” in providing government aid or “ayuda” to the victims.
At present, Central Visayas sets its minimum wage at Php404. Like the rest of the country, it has seen no increase amid the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.