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CEBU CITY, Philippines— Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia has expressed disappointment with the rating system of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) for road clearing efforts of towns and cities. “Wa ko mobilib anang rating nila.…
MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday downplayed his new record-high net satisfaction rating, saying he was just doing his job. The President received a net satisfaction rating of +68 in a survey conducted from June…
CEBU CITY, Philippines—Regional Director Salome Siaton of the Department of Labor and Employment cites the need to check the effectiveness of the K-12 program by monitoring the placement rate of senior high graduates. Siaton urged the Labor…
CEBU CITY, Philippines –The Philippines registered a higher tourist arrivals growth when compared to global average growth rate, said Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat. Puyat, who delivered the welcome remarks on the first day of Routes Asia 2019…
When interest rate goes up, expect investments, including the interest rate sensitive consumption expenditures, to fall. The government placed the country’s inflation rate last month at 6.0 percent. It is actually lower in Metro Manila at 5.8…
A resident of Barangay Sambag 2 in Cebu City has resorted to use of social media for his illegal drugs business. Abellana Police arrested early on Tuesday morning a certain John Angel Bantilo, 21, who uses the…
The Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) opposed the proposal of the Cebu City Council to impose a flat rate of 1.5% on business taxes. In a statement sent to the legislators, CCCI President Antonio Chiu…
When the economy is overheating or operating above the country’s normal capacity to produce, inflation will follow. So the interest rate is going up now. What is interest rate? Very simply, it is the price we pay…
THE surge in prices due to high inflation has now affected the delivery of basic services of the different local government units (LGUs) in the province. The present inflation rate of 6.4 percent is the highest in…
10-YEAR-HIGH More Filipinos gained jobs in July as the employment rate inched up to a 10-year high of 94.6 percent, the government reported on Wednesday. The Philippine Statistics Authority’s July 2018 Labor Force Survey showed that the…
Despite the unsolved killings, police records show that the crime rate in Cebu province went down by 11 percent for the first half of 2018 compared to the same period last year. A report released by the…
With the scheduled issuance of cash cards for passenger jeepney operators in Cebu this month under the government’s Pantawid Pasada program — if they haven’t received them yet as of this writing — one has to ask…
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