Legal assistance kiosk to be set up for Pasil fire victims

Doris Mae Mondragon 01/19/2018

FIRE victims of the last week’s fire in three sitios in Barangay Pasil in Cebu City can have a chance to re-acquire their legal documents destroyed by the fire for free through the a legal assistance kiosk…

Council okays LRT study

Intern 10/29/2017

The Cebu City Council approved a resolution authorizing Mayor Tomas Osmeña to enter into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for a pre-investment study on a proposed Light Railway Transit (LRT) in the city. This after Eldon C.…

Province to give financial assistance to quake-hit Ormoc

USJ-R Journalism Intern Kristine Q. Remolisan 08/30/2017

THE Cebu provincial government will give financial assistance to Ormoc City, Leyte, for the city’s rehabilitation efforts after it was hit by the 6.5-magnitude earthquake last July 6. The members of the Provincial Board approved in mass…

19 NGOs fail to account for P32M in assistance

Morexette Erram 07/20/2017

At least P32 million in financial assistance given to non-government organizations (NGOs) remain unaccounted for. The Commission on Audit (COA) discovered that the government funds given to 19 Cebu-based NGOs have not been liquidated since 2016. “The…

Elderly’s plea: Increase Cebu City’s cash aid

Intern 07/08/2017

Although most elderly persons of Cebu City received the P2,000 cash, the fifth tranche of the city’s cash assistance for the senior citizens, with smiles and gratitude, some of them are calling for an increase in the…

City eyeing assistance for Sirao families affected by landslides

Inna Gian Mejia 06/28/2017

The Cebu City Division for the Welfare of the Urban Poor (DWUP) will conduct a consultative meeting tomorrow with the families affected by the landslides in the mountain barangay of Sirao. DWUP head Genevieve Alcoseba said they…

BOHOL SENDS AID

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Benjie B. Talisic, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag, Norman V. Mendoza 06/15/2017

Bohol, after all, cares. A week after efforts to find the body of Mayor Gisela Boniel of Bien Unido town in Bohol started, Gov. Edgar Chatto decided to release P100,000 in financial assistance to the ongoing search…

No cash aid yet for whirlwind-hit families

Doris C. Bongcac 06/07/2017

Families affected by a whirlwind that hit Barangay Suba, Danao City, on Monday night will have to face another hurdle. City Councilor Roland Reyes said the city government will be constrained from releasing their cash aid because…

Grandpa who fought Abu Sayyaf in Bohol asks for financial assistance

Leo Udtohan 05/31/2017

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol- Porferio Cosenas spoke as if he was being strangled. He walked slowly since his groin was still aching. Cosenas, 82, also known as Lolo Peryong, was suffering from the severe beating in the hands…

Embassy seeks local police assistance in investigation

Nestle L. Semilla, Norman V. Mendoza 05/22/2017

  The death of a Korean national could have been a case of robbery with homicide. The Korean was found dead inside his rented room in Sitio Soong Center, Barangay Mactan last Saturday; his body in an…

Cebu City mulls release of P4K rental subsidy for fire victims

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Fe Marie Dumaboc 02/21/2017

Monday’s fire which hit five densely populated sitios (zones) within the boundaries of Barangays Tisa and Labangon has paved the way for City Hall to consider the release of rental subsidies for affected families in order to…

Fewer jail inspections sans police assistance

Nestle L. Semilla 02/20/2017

WITH the police being sidelined in the war against illegal drugs, the Cebu City Jail said it may only be able to conduct one major surprise greyhound operation in a year. Supt. Jessie Calumpang, Cebu City Jail…

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