Cebu City shooting: Cops checking if woman’s killing is drug-related

Mae Fhel Gom-os 07/03/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Police are investigating if the shooting today, July 3, in Barangay Ermita, Cebu City of a 23-year-old woman that led to her death was a drug-related killing. This after police found out that…

Not all ambulant vendors will be accommodated in interim market — MOD

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 06/16/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Only some of the ambulant vendors of the Carbon Market will be accommodated in the temporary interim market Megawide will build for vendors of Warwick Barracks and Freedom Park. Market Operations Division (MOD)…

Megawide promises completion of Interim market by last quarter of the year

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 06/15/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Construction giant, Megawide Construction Corp., promises that the interim market where vendors affected with the modernization of the Carbon Market would be transferred will be finished before the end of the year. Megawide…

Normal crowd for Carbon Market this Holy Thursday

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 04/01/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — There were no more binignit riot for this year’s Holy Week as the Cebu City Market Operations Division (MOD) said they had controlled the crowd entering the Carbon Market. MOD Head Irvin Cabales…

Rama disapproves groundbreaking of Carbon Market modernization

Delta Derycka C. Letigio 03/25/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Vice Mayor Michael Rama has expressed his disapproval over the groundbreaking for the Carbon Market modernization program in a privilege speech delivered shortly after what he called a “hasty” event. Rama,…

Labella eyes waiving rent for Carbon Market vendors in the next 3 years

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 03/24/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella wants the rent for Carbon Market vendors to be waived for the next three years until the new market is built. This he said during the groundbreaking of…

Vendors: We will not give up Carbon Market

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 03/23/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Carbon Market vendors are dismayed that the groundbreaking for the Carbon Modernization program will push through on Tuesday, March 23, 2021, despite issues surrounding the joint-venture-agreement (JVA) the city has entered through…

Megawide continues talks with Carbon Market vendors

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 03/18/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The developer of the Carbon Market modernization program, Megawide Construction Corporation, which has been granted a joint-venture agreement (JVA) with the Cebu City government, continues to discuss concerns with the stakeholder-vendors of the…

Police to man Holy Week crowd at Carbon Public Market

Pegeen Maisie M. Sararaña 03/13/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines —The Carbon Public Market will be opened to all buyers during the Holy Week celebration. However, crowd control measures will have to be complied with to avoid overcrowding and the possible spread of the…

Carbon Market may be closed to non-Cebu City residents during Holy Week

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 03/10/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines—Carbon Market may be closed to those who are not from Cebu City during the Holy Week to prevent crowding.  Police Colonel Josefino Ligan, chief of the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO), said on Wednesday,…

Labella’s first order back at City Hall: Secure markets during Lent

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 03/09/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella is finally working back at the City Hall after a month of working from home while recuperating from an ear infection. Labella said he has chosen to work…

More Carbon vendors oppose privatization, want JVA junked

Morexette Marie B. Erram 03/01/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines—More vendors from the Carbon Public Market here joined the call for officials of the Cebu City Government to reconsider the joint venture it has entered with engineering giant Megawide Construction Corporation in redeveloping the…

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