Release income estimates, Labella tells finance execs

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/16/2016

CEBU City Vice Mayor Edgardo Labella called on the City Accountant’s Office to release the estimates of income to the city’s barangay officials so they can prepare for the annual budget for their respective barangays next year.…

Barangay execs told: Submit pro-notes or no clearance

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/05/2016

Barangay officials in Cebu City have been asked to submit promissory notes stating that they will pay back the incentives they received from the city government last year which was disallowed by the Commission on Audit (COA).…

Osmeña questions proposed allowance for teachers

Margarette Managaytay 10/05/2016

CEBU City Mayor Tomas Osmeña questioned the move of a city councilor to give a monthly allowance to public school teachers. A proposed Cebu City ordinance is aiming to grant public school teachers a P4,000 monthly allowance…

Bureau of Treasury: No missing fund from government coffers

10/03/2016

The Bureau of Treasury (BTr) assured on Monday that there are no funds missing from the government coffers. In fact, National Treasurer Roberto Tan disclosed that the government has around P411 billion cash in 153 bank accounts…

No Lakbay Aral trips for Cebu City Hall

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 09/19/2016

THERE won’t be any Lakbay Aral or out-of-town study trips for City Hall department heads and employees this year after Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña ordered that seminars and trainings be done in-house. “This administration adheres to…

Rama, city officials to COA: Reverse move to disallow incentives

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 09/18/2016

CEBU City Hall officials, led by former Mayor Michael Rama, have filed an appeal to the Commission on Audit (COA) for its earlier disallowance on the city’s grant of incentives to barangay officials in 2015. In their…

Alcoy registrar suspended

Izobelle T. Pulgo 09/01/2016

The Office of the Ombudsman-Visayas has suspended municipal civil registrar Ferdinand Edward Mercado of Alcoy, Cebu after he was found guilty of simple neglect of duty. Mercado was meted a penalty of three-month suspension without pay, convertible…

Grant of teachers’ allowances has ‘statutory bases’

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 08/31/2016

THE granting of allowances to public school teachers has legal basis. This was emphasized by former Cebu City Local School Board (LSB) head Raddy Diola as he defended the grant of the Cost of Living Allowance (COLA),…

Capitol failed to remit GSIS premiums, taxes

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 07/31/2016

The Cebu provincial government has failed to remit P17.3 million to the Bureau of Internal Revenue, representing the 20 percent share of the national government of the Development fund and Special Education Fund (SEF) which the province…

COA: No accounting, no cash aid for NGOs

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 07/31/2016

THE provincial government was advised not to release additional financial aid to non-government organizations (NGOs) and people’s organizations (POs) which have yet to liquidate their previous allocations. State auditors found out that the province granted P7.9 million…

Capitol questioned on nearly P1M food expenses

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 07/20/2016

STATE auditors considered as “unnecessary” the nearly P1 million spent by the Cebu provincial government for food served in meetings, sessions and caucuses last year. In their Annual Audit Report (AAR) of the provincial government, the Commission…

Barangays fail to secure P71.6M real tax share

Nestle L. Semilla 07/18/2016

THE Commission on Audit (COA) questioned the Cebu City government’s failure to release the barangays’ share of real property taxes. State auditors said based on records as of December last year, the city government failed to remit…

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