‘Council skirting budget issue with garbage problem’

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/02/2015

NO one from the executive department will be allowed to attend the Cebu City Council’s hearings on the garbage problem, Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama said yesterday. Instead, the mayor said in yesterday’s press conference that the…

Mayor Rama: Boy’s death should spur utilities to speed up work

Aileen Garcia-Yap, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/29/2015

  Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama didn’t get his complete birthday wish of “zero” dangling street wires and hazardous utility posts yesterday when he turned 61. Some of the eight firms which pledged to finish the work…

Construction of new city hospital ahead of schedule

Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Marc Eric Cosep 10/28/2015

The construction of the new Cebu City Medical Center (CCMC) is still a little bit ahead of schedule, according to City Engr. Jose Marie Poblete. During yesterday’s first concrete-pouring ceremony at the construction site, Poblete said the…

Campaign season in full swing

Editorial 10/21/2015

If last week’s live radio confrontation between Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama and his predecessor Tomas Osmeña fit the bill of  the Commission on Elections’ (Comelec) plan to arrange  debates between opposing candidates for the public to…

Rama in Japan for conference

10/20/2015

CEBU City Mayor Michael Rama left for Yokohama, Japan yesterday for the 4th Asia Smart City Conference. The mayor will discuss Cebu City’s practices on Public and Private Partnership in the two-day conference that is hosted by…

Tomas questions Rama on Carbon market deal

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/18/2015

FORMER Cebu City mayor and south district representative Tomas Osmeña has another bone to pick with his successor Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama. In a letter addressed to the mayor, Osmeña questioned why a P167.3-million project contract…

Fanfare as Team Rama files COCs

Jhunnex Napallacan, Nestle L. Semilla 10/17/2015

CEBU City Mayor Michael Rama and his entire slate filed what he called  “people’s certificates of candidacy” yesterday at the Comelec office, with  a parade  and a dash of gimmickry. A drum and bugle corps played atop…

Former allies ‘face off’ over radio

Doris C. Bongcac 10/16/2015

Sparks flew when former allies Tomas Osmeña and Cebu CIty Mayor Michael Rama engaged in an impromptu discussion over radio yesterday about how to run the Cebu city government. They tangled over  the South Road Properties (SRP),…

Rama: Let public pressure City Council to approve P2.8-B budget

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/16/2015

Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama yesterday urged the public   to pressure the City Council to approve Supplemental Budget (SB) 1, which includes outlays to pay off the city’s foreign debt, release one-month incentives to city employees,  and …

Court denies plea to stop use of SRP proceeds

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/15/2015

The Cebu City government may use the P8.3 billion that it received as downpayment for South Road Properties (SRP) lots. Judge Alexander Acosta of the Regional Trial Court Branch 9 in Cebu City yesterday denied the petition…

Mayor Rama, City Hall officials take drug test

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/14/2015

Cebu City Hall officials yesterday underwent a surprise drug test conducted by Cebu City Office for Substance Abuse Prevention (Cosap). Mayor Michael Rama, Vice Mayor Edgardo Labella, department and office heads as well as some assistant heads…

Mayor Rama: I won’t beg Council to approve budget

Doris C. Bongcac, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/09/2015

Work resumed at Cebu City Hall yesterday, a day after over 1,000 employees crowded Plaza Sugbu to protest against delays in the passage of the P2.8 billion Supplemental Budget 1 by the City  Council. But some employees…

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