Cebu City lacks funds for salaries, projects — Mayor-elect Archival

Pia Piquero 06/06/2025

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City’s incoming administration may face serious financial headwinds, with initial assessments revealing that the city’s available cash assets may not be enough to sustain operations, pay employee salaries, or fund ongoing projects.…

CCMC: Archival, Osmeña vow to complete hospital within a year

Pia Piquero 05/22/2025

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Incoming Cebu City leaders promise audit, action, and accountability to finally deliver the long-delayed hospital Twelve years after construction began on the Cebu City Medical Center (CCMC), Mayor-elect Nestor Archival Sr. and Vice…

Archival: Minority bloc will secure chairmanships in Cebu City Council

Pia Piquero 05/22/2025

CEBU CITY, Philippines — For one of the few times in recent memory, minority councilors in Cebu City are poised to secure committee chairmanships under the incoming administration. Cebu City Mayor-elect Nestor Archival Sr. has committed to…

24/7 City Hall: Mayor Garcia says digital services ‘more sustainable’

Pia Piquero 05/20/2025

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Outgoing Cebu City Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia said he would support the incoming administration’s plan to implement a 24/7 City Hall. However, he added that digital transformation, not round-the-clock staffing, would be the…

Raymond Garcia concedes, pledges support for Mayor-elect Archival

Pia Piquero 05/14/2025

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Incumbent Cebu City Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia has pledged his full support for Mayor-elect Nestor Archival Sr., following his defeat in the May 2025 midterm elections. Garcia made the pronouncement in an interview…

Election 2025: BOPK dominates Cebu City polls

Pia Piquero 05/13/2025

CEBU CITY, Philippines — BOPK candidates Nestor Archival Sr. and Tomas Osmeña claimed Cebu City’s top posts in the 2025 elections with 256,197 and 233,906 votes, respectively. The Commission on Elections (Comelec) in Cebu City proclaimed the…

Wastewater treatment project: Rama, Archival slam Garcia; ‘Ipa-angkon niya tanan’

Pia Piquero 02/15/2025

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A brewing political storm has erupted in Cebu City as former Mayor Michael Rama and Councilor Nestor Archival lambasted Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia for allegedly claiming full credit for the P42.39-million Kalunasan Wastewater…

Archival: Cebu City minority floor leader to serve as fiscalizer in 16th Council

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 06/25/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The incoming Cebu City council will be dominated by administration councilors from Barug-PDP Laban, but the minority floor leader of the Bando Osmeña Pundok Kauswagan (BOPK) promised to hold their ground for the…

Thorough review causes delay in approval of Cebu City’s 2021 budget

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 12/06/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A thorough budget review is causing the delay of the approval of the 2021 annual budget in Cebu City as the City Council members to scrutinize the P10.8 billion budget proposed by Mayor…

Gealon on opposition dads intervention on SRP lot issue: It’s a desperate move

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 12/18/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Lawyer Rey Gealon, Cebu City Legal Office head, said the intervention attempt of the opposition councilors on the withdrawal of the petition for declaratory relief by the City against the 2015 sales of…

Opposition councilors intervene in sale of SRP lots

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 12/18/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines—The opposition councilors of the Cebu City Council from the Bando Osmeña-Pundok Kauswagan (BO-PK) have filed in court an intervention for the withdrawal of a petition for declaratory relief for the sale of a 45-hectare…

Cebu City’s P10.4 billion budget awaits council approval

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 12/17/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Less than a month until the new year, the Cebu City Council is yet to approve the 2020 budget proposed by Mayor Edgardo Labella. Councilor Raymond Garcia, majority floor leader, said the budget…

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