Impact of extreme heat: soaring prices as vegetable supply drops, vendors fear for livelihood

Emmariel Ares 04/18/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Lera Daral is a regular shopper at Carbon Public Market in Cebu City. Every week, she joins countless others in buying groceries, especially vegetables. The market, known as the oldest and largest in…

Carbonhanong Alyansa to Garganera: Market JVA is also a human rights issue

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 03/30/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines—A week after Cebu City Councilor Joel Garganera condemned the alleged use of children as human shields in multiple Carbon Market incidents, vendor groups are challenging the councilor to look deeper into the city’s contract…

Partido Lakas Ng Masa candidates Bello, Espiritu back Carbon vendors, denounce WTE project

Jewil Anne Tabiolo 03/29/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Several national candidates vowed to bring local issues to the national scene like the modernization of the Carbon Public Market and the proposal to put up a waste-to-energy (WTE) facility if elected in…

Carbon Market vendors to lose stalls if they refuse to transfer to interim market

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 03/17/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Carbon Market vendors at the Freedom Park and Warwick Barracks in the Carbon Market who will refuse to transfer will lose their spot in the interim market. This was the warning of…

Rama tells Carbon Market vendors: Vacate stalls

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 03/17/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama is asking the Carbon Market vendors to peacefully vacate their stalls in the Freedom Park and Warwick Barracks and transfer to the interim market. This is to give…

Carbon Market tensions heat up; vendors, Market Authority personnel clash

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 03/11/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Tensions heat up in the Carbon Market while Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama is yet to sign a supplemental Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) to cure the Joint Venture Agreement (JVA) the city has…

Carbon Market vendors: Are ‘extortion-tainted’ certificates valid?

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 12/10/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Carbon Market vendors are now questioning the validity of the certificates released to them assuring them of a spot in the interim market in Unit II because of the extortion issue. Ann…

Rama: No preventive suspensions yet against market office officials over extortion scandal

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 12/01/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines—Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama said he will not yet order preventive suspensions on officials of the Market Operations Division (MOD).  He said that while the National Bureau of Investigations (NBI) continues its probe parallel…

Resch: Demolition of vendors’ stalls ‘inhumane’

Dyrecka Letigio 09/15/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City ex-officio Councilor Jessica Resch, the president of the city’s Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) Federation, has questioned the demolition of the stalls and vendor structures at the portions of Lavo Seaside, Unit 2,…

Carbon Market vendors to open community pantries in selected barangays

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 04/22/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Market Operations Division (MOD) will open community pantries at the barangays as response to the desire of Carbon Market vendors to help the community through this new movement. MOD Head,…

Megawide assures vendors: Carbon Market to remain public

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 02/05/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Megawide Construction Corp., the developer for the modernization of the Carbon Market, assured vendors that the market will remain public. This amid reports that the modernization would constitute a privatization of the public…

Cabales: Carbon Market vendors now compliant with safety, health protocols

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 10/09/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines –Vendors and market porters now wear face masks while within the vicinity of the Carbon Public Market in Cebu City. Irvin Cabales, head of the Cebu City Market Authority, said that even ambulant vendors…

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