Marawi rehab delay worsens poverty

Ben de Vera, Jigger Jerusalem - Inquirer.net 12/08/2019

The delay in the rebuilding of war-torn Marawi City has partly caused a slight increase in poverty in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), the lone region where poverty incidence rose although the nationwide rate dropped…

Police: Ramirez’s killers took advantage of hospital’s location, lack of CCTV

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 06/19/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines –The Bogo-Medellin Medical Center, Inc. in Barangay Luy-a, where Medellin Councilor and former town mayor Ricky Ramirez was placed under hospital arrest for almost a year now, is located in an isolated area that…

Chinese tourist arrivals in Central Visayas nearly doubled in 2017

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 12/06/2018

RELATIONS between China and the Philippines, including Cebu, are expected to continue improving in the coming months, especially in terms of tourism. Consul General Jia Li, the newly appointed consul of the Consulate of the People’s Republic…

BINIBINING CEBU TOURISM 2017 Samantha Lo WINS BEST MODEL OF THE WORLD PHILIPPINES COMPETITION

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/09/2018

BINIBINING Cebu Tourism 2017 Samantha Lo was hailed as one of the grand winners in the Global Asian Model (GLAM) Philippines 2018 held at XYLO at The Palace in Taguig City last Nov. 8. Lo, who represented Cebu,…

Makati City dislodges QC as PH’s richest city in 2017 – COA

Inquirer.net 11/05/2018

Makati City’s total assets soared to more than P195 billion in 2017, enabling it to dethrone Quezon City as the richest city in the country, the Commission on Audit (COA) said in its report. In COA’s 2017…

DOJ reverses 2017 findings, orders filing of case vs Kerwin, et al.

Inquirer.net 07/19/2018

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has ordered the filing of drug charges against self-confessed drug distributor Kerwin Espinosa, convicted drug lord Peter Co and four others. In its resolution, the DOJ panel of prosecutors reversed last year…

DPWH only spent a third of 2017 budget despite Build, Build, Build push

Inquirer.net 07/09/2018

THE Duterte administration’s infrastructure push continues to be hampered by bureaucratic bottlenecks, as shown by the Department of Public Works and Highways’ use of only a third of its P662.69-billion funding in 2017. Even as the DPWH…

Drug war worsened jail overcrowding in 2017, says COA

Inquirer.net 07/04/2018

Overcrowding in the country’s jails — housing suspects who have not even been convicted yet — got worse last year, as the Duterte administration waged its war on illegal drugs. The Commission on Audit (COA) said the…

Cebu Holdings, CPVDC post double digit growth in 2017

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 04/11/2018

AYALA Land’s (ALI) property units in Cebu will continue to grow their respective companies despite the impending merger which is expected to happen within the year. Cebu Holdings Inc. (CHI) and its subsidiary Cebu Property Ventures Development…

2017 honor graduate gives back

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 03/22/2018

THE SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS She arrived with three boxes of pizza and a Black Forest cake. Regine Villamejor, University of San Jose Recoletos (USJR) 2017 Magna Cum Laude, visited Cebu Daily News in the afternoon of…

Manufacturing investments dropped by half in 2017 due to tax reform

Inquirer.net 02/28/2018

New investment pledges in the manufacturing sector plunged last year to almost 50 percent due to the uncertainty brought by the tax reform law, top officials of the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) said on Wednesday. New…

DOLE-7: Only 340 CV firms complied in 2017

Futch Anthony Inso 02/20/2018

13th MONTH PAY ONLY 340 business establishments out of an estimated hundreds of thousands of them in Central Visayas have given their employees their 13th month last year. Luchel Taniza, Department of Labor and Employment in Central…

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