Guidelines for college sports reboot forwarded

June Navarro 10/27/2020

After the pros, college athletes will now be subjected to a set of clear-cut ground rules to resume training. Commission on Higher Education Chair Prospero de Vera III announced on Monday, October 26, 2020, that the guidelines…

Secretary Dino supports proposed state-funded College of Medicine in Cebu

Irene R. Sino Cruz 11/21/2019

CEBU CITY—Cebu will have its own state-funded medical college once the proposal gets approval from the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd). In an emailed press release, Secretary  Michael Dino, Presidential Assistant for the Visayas, expressed support for…

Catriona Gray bats for approval of gender equality bill

08/15/2019

MANILA, Philippines – Miss Universe 2018 Catriona Gray said it is high time to pass the Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression (SOGIE) Equality Bill, after a transgender woman was accosted and prevented from using  a…

Congressional inquiry sought on delay of HRP approval

Rosalie O. Abatayo 11/27/2018

MEMBERS of the Apo Union of Employees have asked the House Committees on Natural Resources and Labor and Employment to conduct a joint inquiry on why the hazard reduction plan (HRP) of the company remains pending before…

Bill for business-friendly PH gets bicam approval

Inquirer.net 11/27/2018

A bill that seeks to revise the Corporation Code to strengthen and simplify corporate governance standards was approved by the bicameral conference committee on Monday. The reconciled House and Senate versions of the measure was approved by…

Mabatid defies Osmeña, to travel abroad even without the mayor’s approval

Intern 08/25/2018

  Although she didn’t get the nod of Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña, Mabolo Barangay Captain Niña Mabatid will still travel to Australia from August 29 to Sept 6. Mabatid said the DILG allowed her to go…

Council defers approval of disputed minutes

Morexette Marie B. Erram 08/15/2018

THE Cebu City Council has decided to defer the approval of the 200-page minutes of their regular session last week, which lasted up to two days, from Aug. 7 (Tuesday) to Aug. 8 (Wednesday). But the tug-of-war…

Tomas says approval was his ‘greatest achievement’

USJ-R Intern 07/31/2018

93-1 LAND SWAP DEAL Despite all the problems that he has been facing recently, Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña was still able to put on a jovial mood yesterday after scoring what he termed as one of…

Tomas: ‘Approval of land swap deal to secure 5,000 families’

Gerard Vincent Francisco, Morexette B. Erram 07/31/2018

The approval of the land swap deal with the Cebu Provincial Government will ensure the security of tenure of 5,000 Cebu City families who now occupy around 32-hectares of province-owned land, said Mayor Tomas Osmeña. Osmeña said…

Cebu as lone federal state needs approval of Congress

Jessa Mae O. Sotto 07/29/2018

Members of the Consultative Committee (ConCom) said that proposals to make Cebu a lone state will need congressional approval. The committee members said that the draft of the new Constitution stated that Cebu and Bohol will form…

Barbra Streisand gives early nod of approval to Lady Gaga’s ‘star’

AP 06/18/2018

LOS ANGELES—Barbra Streisand’s “A Star Is Born” is being reborn online with scenes she’d cut from the 1976 movie. Long known as a perfectionist, Streisand tinkered with the film to restore an exchange between the star-crossed lovers…

Del Mar storms out of RDC meeting but vows to get Congress’ approval

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 03/16/2018

AFTER PROPOSALS WERE EXCLUDED FROM PAPs When members of the Regional Development Council (RDC)-7 refused to outright endorse around P16 billion worth of underpass projects pushed by Cebu City North District Rep. Raul Del Mar, they had…

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