VM Garcia confident city can raise close to P50B for next year’s budget

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 12/20/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Vice Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia is confident the city can find ways to raise the P50 billion annual budget for 2023. This is in light of the fact that the Cebu…

Cebu City Council stops marathon budget hearings for lack of time

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 12/20/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Citing a lack of time, the Cebu City Council decided on Monday to stop its marathon budget hearings for the proposed P50 billion annual budget for 2023. Cebu City Councilor Noel Wenceslao, head…

Council to award former OPAV head Dino with ‘Order of Rajah Tupas’

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 12/20/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Council will confer the Order of Rajah Tupas Award to its first recipient, former head of the Office of the Presidential Assistant for the Visayas (OPAV) Sec. Michael Lloyd Dino,…

Aklan Provincial Board opposes international flights at Boracay Airport

Joey Marzan 12/20/2022

ILOILO CITY, Iloilo, Philippines — The provincial board of Aklan has opposed moves to allow the entry of international flights into Boracay Airport in Malay town, the jump-off point to the resort island of Boracay. According to…

Carcar mayor to police: Probe video allegedly using his voice talking about contractor’s ‘SOP’ for P149M project

Futch Anthony Inso 12/19/2022

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — Carcar City Mayor Patricio “Patrick” Barcenas will ask the Philippine National Police (PNP) to investigate a video that has proliferated on Facebook, where the mayor’s voice was allegedly used to talk about an…

Cordova: 2,245 senior citizens get P1,000 cash aid from town gov’t

Futch Anthony Inso 12/19/2022

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — Some 2,245 senior citizens in Cordova town received their financial assistance worth P1,000 each on Monday, Dec. 19, 2022, at the Cordova Sports Complex. The amount will cover the month of November and…

Education campaign on heavy rains, Christmas lights to be held this week — Mandaue DRRMO

Mary Rose Sagarino 12/19/2022

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines — An education campaign on being vigilant on possible heavy rains and what to do when this happens, on the use of Christmas lights, and Mandaue City’s prohibition on the use of firecrackers, will…

CV police told: Observe maximum tolerance, no muzzling of guns

Pegeen Maisie Sararana 12/18/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The top official of the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7) reminds his men to always observe maximum tolerance and be mindful enough to use firearms only when there is threat as…

Rama to City Hall officials, employees in garbage collection mess: Take leave of absence

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 12/18/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama will be asking City Hall department heads and employees who are the subject of a complaint filed by the National Bureau of Investigation in Central Visayas (NBI-7) over…

Cebu province’s 1st waste-to-energy facility gains grounds

Morexette Marie B. Erram 12/18/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Cebu Provincial Government has officially entered into an agreement with a private consortium for the construction of a waste-to-energy (WTE) facility, which, upon completion, will also be the province’s first. The Capitol…

Mayor Cortes: Odette changed Mandaue’s preparation, planning for calamities

Mary Rose Sagarino 12/17/2022

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines — Super Typhoon Odette has changed the way the Mandaue City government looks at preparation and planning for calamities. Super Typhoon Odette, which ravaged the Visayas including Metro Cebu on Dec. 16, 2021 or…

Chan to DPWH-7: Blacklist erring contractors

Futch Anthony Inso 12/16/2022

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Junard “Ahong” Chan urged the Department of Public Works and Highways in Central Visayas (DPWH-7) to blacklist erring contractors from participating in bidding and receiving projects. Chan said this in…

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