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…

Tension between Unit II vendors, market personnel intensifies

Delta Dyrecka Letigio, Jewil Anne Tabiolo 03/21/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Tension at Unit II of the Carbon Public Market in Cebu City continues to heat up. Early on Monday morning, March 21, clash again erupted after Unit II vendors resisted the installation of…

Megawide assures vendors interim market well-equipped amid strike

Morexette Marie B. Erram 01/24/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines – In protest of the ongoing modernization of Carbon Public Market, some vendors will be holding a two-day strike starting today, Monday (January 24). The Movement Against Carbon Market Privatization announced in a statement…

Rama warns scalawags in City Hall: No more warning when caught in wrongdoings

Morexette Marie B. Erram 11/29/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama vowed to cleanse the ranks within City Hall. And on Monday, November 29, 2021, he gave a stern warning to employees that he will not be issuing any…

Administrative aide in charge of Cebu City Market Operation Division arrested

Pegeen Maisie M. Sararana and Paul Lauro 11/26/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A Cebu City hall employee accused of demanding P100,000 from some Carbon Public Market vendors affected in the modernization of the market has undergone inquest proceeding after she was arrested during an entrapment…

Carbon Alliance inks another manifesto against Carbon Market modernization

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 11/05/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A multisectoral alliance has once again sought a stop to the Carbon Market modernization project of the Cebu City government and Megawide Construction Corp. In a manifesto released by the Carbon Alliance following…

Relocated Carbon vendors assured livelihood won’t stop

Morexette Marie B. Erram 09/14/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines – No livelihood will be lost or suspended as project proponents for the modernized Carbon Public Market started civil works on Sunday, September 12, 2021. Megawide subsidiary Cebu2World made this assurance following Sunday’s clearing…

Carbon modernization underway as clearing operation starts

Morexette Marie B. Erram 09/13/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The construction of a modernized Carbon Public Market is now underway. Authorities from the Cebu City Government have started clearing portions of Lavo Seaside on Sunday, September 12, with 20 vendors already relocated.…

Police believe Carbon Market hostage taker was ‘under the influence of drugs’

09/06/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The chief of Carbon Police Station suspects that the man who held hostage two women on Sunday, September 5, 2021, at a stall at the Carbon Market was under the influence of drugs.…

Carbon Alliance: Fight continues despite City Council’s plan to amend JVA on Carbon market project

Mae Fhel Gom-os 09/02/2021

  MANDAUE CITY, Cebu — The Carbon Alliance will continue its fight to make null and void the joint venture agreement (JVA) between the Cebu City government and Megawide Construction Corp. over the Carbon Market modernization program.…

CCPO suggests ‘One Entrance, One Exit’ in Carbon Public Market

Mae Fhel Gom-os 08/18/2021

  CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) suggests the re-implementation of the ‘One Entrance, One Exit’ policy in the Carbon Public Market, particularly in the afternoon to avoid overcrowding. Police Lieutenant Colonel Wilbert…

Porters of Carbon Public market get Father’s Day goodies from police, Cebu City gov’t

Pegeen Maisie Sararana 06/18/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — At least 100 porters of the Carbon Public Market, who are all members of the Barangay Ermita Kargador Association (BEKA), received early Father’s Day special treat today, June 18 in Plaza Independencia in…

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