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Councilor Nestor Archival of Bando Osmeña-Pundok Kauswagan (BO-PK) got a chance to sample the authority that comes with being the city’s No. 2 man after the Office of the President issued a preventive suspension against Cebu City…
One can read a lot into the Bando Osmeña-Pundok Kauswagan (BO-PK) bloc’s refusal to accept the P30,000 cash incentive included in the P207-million Supplemental Budget 2 (SB2) that was approved by the City Council last Monday. To…
THE Bando Osmeña-Pundok Kauswagan (BO-PK) bloc in the Cebu City Council won’t budge on its deferral of the P2.8 billion Supplemental Budget 1 (SB1). This despite a court ruling dismissing the case filed by former prosecutor Romulo…
The Cebu City Council yesterday failed to override the veto of Mayor Michael Rama who refused to approve an ordinance for one-year moratorium on demolitions in the city. The outcome disappointed urban poor groups hoping for relief…
CEBU City Hall’s executive department is seeking a P240-million budget for its Peace and Order Program (POP) for next year. But opposition councilors under the Bando Osmeña-Pundok Kauswagan (BO-PK) said the bulk of this year’s budget for…
CEBU City Hall’s Human Resource Development Office (HRDO) asked for a P16 million budget for local and foreign travels and trainings for next year. But councilors belonging to the Bando Osmeña-Pundok Kauswagan (BO-PK) bloc questioned the amount,…
FOR the fifth time, the Cebu City Council voted against acting on a P2.8-billion supplemental budget that includes outlays for garbage tipping fees and wiping out foreign loan payments for the South Road Properties. The Bando Osmena-Pundok…
NO one from the executive department will be allowed to attend the Cebu City Council’s hearings on the garbage problem, Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama said yesterday. Instead, the mayor said in yesterday’s press conference that the…
The volume of garbage collected in Cebu City has almost doubled in past months, an official said. Cebu City Councilor Nida Cabrera said she has “lost my title as queen of garbage” (rayna sa basura)” with the…
One of the items included in that much-talked-about (at least in Cebu City) Supplemental Budget 1 (SB1) was the funds that will be used by the city government to pay the private haulers of garbage and…
When Elizabeth Espinosa heard about a farmers’ market being opened near the South Road Properties (SRP), she grabbed the opportunity. Espinosa, 48, and her husband have been bringing her family’s farm products from the mountain barangay of…
WHAT will it take to impress former Cebu City mayor Tomas Osmeña? The former mayor and congressman, whose efforts to develop the South Road Properties (SRP) was recognized by Mayor Michael Rama on Saturday, said revenue from…
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