Capitol employees get P10,000 bonus

Morexette Marie Erram 12/22/2022

  CEBU CITY, Philippines – Good news for regular employees of the Cebu Provincial Government. The Provincial Board (PB) on Thursday, December 22 approved the P13.8 million supplementary budget that would fund the Special Recognition Incentives (SRI)…

Selling of firecrackers only allowed at SRP

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 12/22/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Councilor Philip Zafra, head of the Committee on Peace and Order, reminded the public that the only designated area for selling firecrackers and pyrotechnics in the city is at South Road…

VM Garcia urges barangays to set up animal welfare desks

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 12/20/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Vice Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia urged barangays in the city to set up their own animal welfare desk. Garcia, chairman of the city council’s Committee on Animal Welfare, emphasized the role…

Bearis is new PRO-7 chief

Pegeen Maisie Sararana 12/20/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Police Brigadier General Jerry Bearis is the new director of the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7). Bearis replaces Police Brigadier General Roderick Augustus Alba who is now assigned to the Human…

40 Cebu City Hall employees fail drug test

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 12/20/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Forty of the 3,007 Cebu City Hall employees subjected to a series of surprise drug tests last week yielded positive results. The Cebu City Office for Substance Abuse Prevention (COSAP), through the mayor’s…

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…

Cebu City Council approves resolution requesting VECO not to immediately cut power supply of overdue consumers

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 12/15/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Council approved on Wednesday, December 14, 2022, a resolution requesting Visayan Electric Company (VECO) to revisit their guidelines, processes, and procedures in disconnecting electrical power done by their subcontractor. Councilor…

Consumers, retailers in Asturias urged not to buy imported ‘Korean spam’

Morexette Marie B. Erram 12/14/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Local agricultural officials of Asturias town in western Cebu have urged consumers as well as retailers there to avoid purchasing canned luncheon meat from South Korea. The Municipal Agricultural Office in Asturias made…

Capitol to file cases vs DPWH officials over UN Avenue project mess

Morexette Marie B. Erram 12/14/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia has had enough with the potholes and other road defects still found on U.N. Avenue in Mandaue City. During a press conference on Wednesday, December 14 Garcia announced that…

Velez College grad tops 2022 Occupational Therapist Licensure Exams

Morexette Marie B. Erram 12/06/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines – A graduate from Velez College topped the list of passers of the December 2022 Occupational Therapist (OT) Licensure Examinations. The Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) on Tuesday, December 6 released the full results of…

Alcover wants city’s local breeders to take advantage of ASF-situation, pig supply shortage

Wenilyn Sabalo 12/01/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines– While Cebu island closed its borders from swine and pork products coming from regions and areas with reported African Swine Fever (ASF) cases, a councilor here sees this as an opportunity for local breeders…

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