Senate adopts OVP’s proposed P733-M budget as approved by Lower House

Faith Argosino 11/05/2024

MANILA, Philippines — Senator Grace Poe announced that the Senate has adopted the P733-million budget proposal for the Office of the Vice President (OVP), as approved by the House of Representatives in the 2025 General Appropriations Bill…

Proposed P7.4B Mandaue City budget approved on 2nd reading

Mary Rose S. Sagarino 11/29/2023

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines –  The proposed 2024 annual budget for Mandaue City, amounting to P7.4 billion, was approved on the second reading without amendments during the city council session on Wednesday, Nov. 29. This budget includes the…

DBM declares Cebu City’s appropriation ordinance for 2023 annual budget ‘inoperative in part’

Wenilyn Sabalo 03/31/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Department of Budget and Management in Central Visayas (DBM-7) has declared the Appropriation Ordinance (AO) for Cebu City’s P51.457 billion 2023 annual budget “inoperative in part.” The DBM-7 has already finished reviewing…

OSCA head: P1.08 billion needed for the Cebu City Senior Citizen’s Program next year

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 10/20/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — At least P1.08 billion is needed to fund the release of cash aid to senior citizens in Cebu City in 2023. The amount is higher by 46 percent as compared to 2022’s approved…

P3B Lapu-Lapu proposed annual budget good as dead – Sitoy

Futch Anthony Inso 03/29/2022

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — The P3 billion proposed annual budget of Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Junard “Ahong” Chan is good as dead. This was revealed by Vice-Mayor Celedonio “Celsi” Sitoy who said that since the budget didn’t even…

Cebu City eyes P9B for 2022 annual budget

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 11/05/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Local Finance Committee has begin drafting the 2022 annual budget.  Councilor Raymond Garcia, committee chairperson on budget and finance, said that they were considering near P9 billion for next year’s…

Tom proposes P7.2B budget for next year

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/17/2016

CEBU City Mayor Tomas Osmeña is proposing a P7.2 billion “skin and bone” annual budget for next year. Several new items were included in the budget proposal. The biggest of these new items is the P600 million…

Council to slash P2B from 2016 budget

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 12/17/2015

The Cebu City Council is set to  reduce by P2.79 billion the already slimmed down  P8.9 billion budget proposed by the mayor for next year. Critics of suspended mayor Michael Rama wil continue to object to using…

P3.6-billion budget for Cebu

Victor Anthony V. Silva 12/15/2015

The province will have a P3.6-billion budget for next year, about P300 million or 20 percent more than this year. “We never slash. We always give them (the executive department) what they propose for as long as…

Playing with the budget

Editorial 10/22/2015

What’s Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama up to? To counter road blocks by the City Council, which has refused to approve his gargantuan, unprecedented  Supplemental Budget No. 1 of P2.85 billion, he’s responded with a flat-as-a-pancake annual…

Davide submits P3.6-B budget

Victor Anthony V. Silva 10/20/2015

HOPING to get reelected next year, Cebu Gov. Hilario Davide III has proposed a bigger budget for 2016 to finance several projects. The proposed budget submitted to the Provincial Board on Friday amounted to P3.6 billion, about…

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