Barangay officials told: Monitor areas despite having no more control points

Alven Marie A. Timtim 06/05/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Barangay officials in Cebu Province should continue monitoring their respective areas despite the removal of the barangay control points. If they would continue to monitor their respective areas then their residents would still…

16 barangay officials, 27 others charged for ‘irregularities’ in SAP distribution

Alven Marie A. Timtim 06/02/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines –Irregularities made during the distribution of the Social Amelioration Program (SAP) cash aid will not go unpunished. Police Major Ronald Allan Tolosa, deputy chief of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group in Central Visayas…

CCPO chief asks barangay officials to create system in securing coastal areas

Alven Marie Timtim 05/04/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) Chief Police Colonel Josefino Ligan, is asking  barangay officials here to monitor and create a system in securing their areas, especially those along the coastlines. This, after two…

If unfairly excluded in SAP list

Atty. Ruphil F. Bañoc 05/01/2020

  COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) does not just kill people. There are other effects. The quarantine, for example, makes not a few feel depressed for apparent reasons. This is the reason psychologists and psychiatrists advise us to…

Dispute between two Mambaling chiefs affect distribution of senior citizen financial assistance

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 06/13/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines–The senior citizens of Barangay Mambaling were the latest to be affected by the continuing dispute between elected Barangay Captain Gines Abellana and Mambaling first councilor and Acting Chief Anne Marie Palomo. This after the…

DILG Cebu reminds barangay officials to conduct inventory of records, properties

Morexette B. Erram 02/09/2018

The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) in Cebu province cautioned barangay chairpersons to face the consequences if they refuse to conduct an inventory of financial records and properties under their custody. Each barangay is required…

Unprecedented control

03/29/2017

The Duterte administration has only until August this year to enact and approve a law that will suspend this year’s barangay elections for an undetermined period and allow the President to appoint barangay officials, but this early,…

Some basic services stalled

Inna Mejia, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 02/02/2017

Many services in Barangay Ermita are now at a standstill following the suspension of all its barangay officials. Among the problems encountered by residents is the non-issuance of barangay clearances, which is a requirement for many transactions,…

Lessons from Brgy. Ermita officials’ suspension

Atty. Ruphil F. Bañoc 02/02/2017

Hopefully, the 6 months preventive suspension slapped on all elected officials of Barangay Ermita, Cebu City will serve them a lesson, although through the hard way. May this incident also serve as a warning to other barangay…

Not another shortcut

Nestor Ramirez 01/24/2017

If the gauge to quantify the performance of barangay officials in the campaign against illegal drugs is the continued presence of drug lords, drug peddlers and drug users, Barangay Ermita officials should not only be preventively suspended…

Surprise drug test for barangay officials during assembly

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/20/2016

WHEN 60 barangay chairpersons of Cebu City went to the New White Gold House Restaurant yesterday morning, they expected to attend a general assembly. A few hours later, the officials were called out of the room in…

Barangay officials gripe anew on ambulances, health workers

Izobelle T. Pulgo 08/04/2016

  Cebu City barangay officials mostly identified with Team Rama vented their sentiments on the recall of ambulances and the termination of services of 540 barangay health workers to City Hall lawyers during a mediation hearing held…

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