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…

Labella orders having rainwater catchments in establishments

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 11/21/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella has ordered the implementation of a 13-year-old ordinance on rainwater conservation that would entail all establishments to have rainwater catchments. The mayor met with the city’s Water Advisory…

Labella: Osmeña can file any case he wants, but city will use SRP sales proceeds

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 08/30/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella said former Mayor, Tomas Osmeña, can file a petition for declaratory relief to void the sales of the 45-hectare South Road Properties (SRP) lot in 2015. However, Labella…

No benefits for officials charged in Archival murder

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 07/19/2018

The Ombudsman forfeited the retirement benefits and annulled the civil service eligibility of two former police officials who were tagged in the ambush-murder of Cebuano lawyer Noel Archival and his two companions in 2014. In a joint…

Tom: Archival to run for councilor, not vice mayor

Rosalie O. Abatayo 06/25/2018

WHILE he is certain to seek a second term in office, Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña admitted that he is still without a running mate. Osmeña discounted the possibility of having his wife, now third term Councilor…

Farmers group wary over proposed anti-GMO law

Nestle L. Semilla 06/08/2015

A Cebu City-based farmers group voiced reservations against a proposed ordinance banning the planting of genetically modified crops (GMC) in the city’s mountain barangays. Emelio Secretaria, president of the Cebu City Farmers Federation, said there is still…

‘NBI prober has ax to grind vs HPG men’

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 10/03/2014

The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI-7) just wanted to get even with the police highway troopers that;s why they were implicated in the Feb. 18 ambush of lawyer Noel Archival and his companions. This was the point…

3 HPG cops charged for Archival murder

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 08/29/2014

Three of the five police officers implicated in the Feb. 18 killing of Cebuano lawyer Noel Archival will go to trial for multiple murder and frustrated murder. Two lower ranking police officers were cleared. The prosecutor’s office…

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