The country’s Finance chief was confident that the economic reforms being introduced by the Duterte administration will bring about “irreversible achievements” that will benefit more Filipinos. “I assure you: this is an exciting economic story, and it…
TACLOBAN CITY – There is no such thing as forever in politics. Former Energy Secretary Carlos Jericho Petilla abandoned the political party that carried his senatorial ambition that went bust and whose leaders appointed him to…
Central Visayas has grown remarkably in the last six years, according to the country’s economic chief, but he said it can still do better with Cebu taking the lead. Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia said Central Visayas,…
FORMER Cebu City mayor Michael Rama said he met with regional director Supt. Royina Garma of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) at 11 am Thursday but declined to elaborate on their meeting. “I cannot issue…
Former Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) Inc. president and chief executive Hans B. Sicat will head the Manila branch of Dutch banking giant ING when current country manager Consuelo D. Garcia retires in November. According to a statement…
THE forty-one-year-old man from Southern Leyte, who was killed in a shootout on Sunday in Talisay City, Cebu, was identified as a big-time drug dealer in the level of Kerwin Espinosa by the chief of drug enforcement…
CENTRAL Visayas is projected to grow between 7.5 and 8 percent on average in the next six years on the back of robust industry and services sectors, the region’s economic chief said. Efren Carreon, director of the…
Energy chief assures power back by Monday with work on Leyte power plants done by then Just a few more days. Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi on Tuesday said electricity services would be back in quake-affected areas by…
WHILE the Cebu City government affirmed the Commission on Audit report claiming the disaster management fund was underutilized by the city, the current city disaster management chief is already spending funds for preparedness projects. “We spend our…
The election officer of Barili, a town 58 km south of Cebu City, was shot dead by a lone gunman on Monday afternoon. Cresente Flores, 57, was standing outside his car near the public market in Barangay…
Agents of the regional Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG-7) arrested last Friday the alleged mastermind and gunman in the killing of environmental lawyer Mia Manuelita Mascariñas-Green in Bohol last February 15. Lloyd Lancer Gonzaga didn’t resist…
MANDAUE City Mayor Luigi Quisumbing released an order appointing protocol officer Jesselito Perez as acting chief of the City Social Welfare Services Office effective on Saturday this week July 1. Perez is tasked to oversee a minor…
