Lapu-Lapu News

Several road repairs to cause heavier traffic in Lapu-Lapu
SEVERAL road projects are causing heavier traffic in Lapu-Lapu City. Frank Brazil, head of the City Traffic Management System, asked the riding public to bear with the inconvenience, as the projects are aimed to improve the roads. No rerouting schemes will be implemented but the contractors have deployed flagmen to manage the...

More victims of P6-million scam surface; Mandaue cops to join probe
The Lapu-Lapu City Police Office yesterday continued to receive complaints from victims who said they were swindled by Aljohn Abrenica, one of the suspects in a P6 million scam involving unfunded checks.

Downside of a Mactan province
When Congresswoman-elect Aileen Radaza of Lapu-Lapu City announced her proposal to convert the city into a province with two municipalities (Olango and Opon also to be created) and one component city (what remains of Lapu-Lapu City after carving out the two new municipalities), her main contention was that doing so would mean a bigger share of the internal revenue allotment (IRA) from the ...

Submarine operator apologizes
THE operator of the controversial underwater tour in Lapu-Lapu City said they will take full responsibility for the damaged corals in a diving site where their submarine operated. “We would like to apologize for the trouble that the Yellow Submarine has caused,” Cebu Yellow Submarine Undersea Tour Corp.

Korean manager apologizes for Yellow Submarine hitting corals in Lapu-Lapu city
An apology for damaging corals in the sea off Mactan finally came two weeks after a Korean-owned tourist submarine was grounded and its losses reached P8 million based on its estimates.

Adidas and Puma take rivalry to European football final
By Victoria Bryan and Keith Weir FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) - German sportswear makers Adidas and Puma renew their own decades-old rivalry when football teams Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund meet in Europe's Champions League Final at Wembley on Saturday. Adidas is the long-standing kit supplier to Bayern and owns a stake of around nine percent in the Bavarian club, while Puma became the ...

Platini repeats call for European sports police force
By Mike Collett LONDON (Reuters) - UEFA president Michel Platini renewed his call for the formation of a European sports police force on Friday, telling delegates at the opening of the UEFA Congress he was upset that his appeal for one had been ignored for six years. "Six years ago now, in response to...problems of betting, corruption and match-fixing, as well as the problems of hooliganism and ...

Platini warns of 'dangers' threatening sport
Michel Platini, the president of European football's governing body UEFA, on Friday called for action against the three dangers threatening football: match-fixing, discrimination and financial excess.

Tonga beat Japan 27-17 in Pacific Cup rugby
Right winger Fetu'u Vainikolo scored two tries to lead Tonga to a 27-17 victory in the opener of the Pacific Nations Cup rugby tournament on Saturday.

PH vies in ASEAN C’ship football
The Philippines will open its bid in the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM)-Frenz U-15 ASEAN Champions Trophy 2013 today at the Cebu City Sports Center.