Mambaling fire victims get cash aid from City Hall

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 12/04/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The 1,013 families in Sitio Lawis in Barangay Mambaling, who lost their homes to a recent fire, are now be a step closer to standing back up after the tragedy. The Cebu City…

Mandaue City prepares calamity aid to fire victims

Rosalie Abatayo 06/27/2019

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu—The city government of Mandaue will be readying aid for the hundreds of families who lost their homes to the dawn fire in Barangay Tipolo on Thursday, June 27, 2019. The City Council, who just…

Scornful of foreign calamity aid

Editorial 10/28/2016

As someone who is identified with the militant Left, Social Welfare secretary Judy Taguiwalo views anything associated with the US and other Western countries that are not socialist or communist as evil and having an ulterior agenda.…

COA-7 rules anew for the return of P20K calamity aid

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/19/2016

The Commission on Audit in Central Visayas (COA-7) has denied the appeal of the Cebu City government to reconsider its ruling that disallowed the P20,000 calamity aid to city employees in 2013. COA-7 director Alicia Malquisto, in…

Margot Osmeña can end up as acting mayor

Doris C. Bongcac, Jhunnex Napallacan 04/10/2016

COUNCILOR Margot Osmeña could end up as the acting mayor of Cebu City should the Commission on Elections (Comelec) allow the implementation of the Malacañang order to suspend Mayor Michael Rama, Vice Mayor Edgar Labella and 12…

‘REFUND HAS NO IMPACT’

Doris C. Bongcac, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 01/14/2016

Case vs. Rama up for resolution; Team Rama insists calamity aid is valid Rumors on the possible issuance of another suspension order against suspended Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama prompted former councilor Jocelyn Pesquera to refund the…

‘Officials included in calamity aid’

Nestle L. Semilla 11/13/2015

Cebu City Councilor Gerardo Carillo yesterday said  he and other elected city officials, including the mayor, were qualified to receive the P20,000 individual calamity aid in 2013. In yesterday’s resumption of the administrative hearing of the  Department…

Osmeña: Probe use of city aid

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/12/2015

Based on an opinion by the Department of Budget and Management (DBM),  an P800 million  lumpsum for  aid to Cebu City barangays last year became  “inoperative” with Mayor Michael Rama’s veto. With this,  Cebu City Councilor Margot…

Calamity aid release ‘above board’

Nestle L. Semilla 11/12/2015

ACTING Cebu City accountant Mark Salomon yesterday testified that the procedure for the release of government funds was followed when the city government distributed P20,000 calamity aid to officials and employees. During the hearing at the Department…

DILG to resume probe on 20K calamity aid

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 09/04/2015

The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) will resume next week its administrative investigation of Cebu city officials who approved and benefited from P20,000 calamity aid distributed to city government personnel in 2013. The hearing has…

DILG to start formal inquiry on calamity aid case

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 06/10/2015

AROUND a hundred Cebu City Hall employees are expected to troop to the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) 7 when the formal investigation of the P20,000 calamity aid case starts within the next two months.…

Let officials refund

01/28/2015

The Commission on Audit (COA) findings which declared the P20,000 calamity aid approved by the Cebu City Council as “illegal” is welcome news to those who opposed it and fodder for those out to get Cebu City…

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