SRP: DUMPSITE NO MORE?

Morexette Erram 12/27/2016

City starts taking garbage out of South Road Properties. But the hauling fee is higher than what was paid during the Rama administration, says Councilor Joel Garganera Here’s one good news: The tons of trash that have…

Sustainable solution

Editorial 12/27/2016

It must have grated Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña’s nerves to have to appear in a City Council session like any other common resource person to explain his budget for garbage collection and disposal to the council…

Cebu City’s P7.2B annual budget okayed; majority dads’ ‘quick approval’ slammed

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 12/20/2016

On its last regular session yesterday, the Cebu City Council has finally approved the city’s P7.2 billion annual budget for next year.But other councilors from the council’s minority bloc were not satisfied by the lack of thorough…

Council restores P7.2B budget, but keeps reduced items

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 12/13/2016

AFTER initially reducing next year’s budget to P6.1 billion, the Cebu City Council’s committee on budget and finance decided to restore the amount to the original proposal of P7.2 billion. But all the items slashed and reduced…

Council refers 93-1 land swap deal to ad hoc body

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 12/13/2016

THE two rival camps in the Cebu City Council argued long over the land swap deal between the city and the Cebu province. But in the end, they both decided during their regular session yesterday that the…

Land swap

Editorial 12/13/2016

With barely two weeks to go, the Cebu City Council may or may not approve the agreement signed by Mayor Tomas Osmeña and Cebu Gov. Hilario Davide III that would finalize a land swap deal for occupants…

SLASHED IN HALF: Of the P33 Million proposed budget, City Council only approves P17 Million for CCSC

Calvin D. Cordova, Rabboni Centino Borbon 12/09/2016

The Cebu City Sports Commission’s (CCSC) proposed budget for 2017 was slashed to almost half during the Cebu City Council’s special session at the Cebu City Hall last Thursday afternoon. The CCSC presented to the council a…

Truck breaks down at SRP, causes five-hour traffic CCTO to urge City Council to amend obstruction measure, raise fine

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 09/23/2016

The Cebu City Traffic Office (CCTO) will recommend to the City Council to amend the traffic obstruction ordinance and increase fines for erring motorists after a truck, which broke down at the South Coastal Road yesterday caused…

Outgoing city dads honored

06/29/2016

The Cebu City Council gave tribute to outgoing councilors, including those suspended, in its last regular session yesterday. In a privilege speech, Vice Mayor Edgardo Labella acknowledged the 13th Sangguniang Panlungsod as one of the most prolific,…

New budget approved without slice for Osmeña’s new office

Nestle L. Semilla 06/29/2016

If all goes well this Friday, employees of the Cebu City government will finally get their mid-year bonuses after the three-man Cebu City Council passed the city’s revised annual budget during a special session yesterday. But while…

Council takes out ‘unnecessary’ appropriations, approves P5.8 B budget

Nestle L. Semilla 06/28/2016

The Cebu City Council has approved P5.8 billion annual budget for 2016 in a special session held Tuesday afternoon. This is P200 million lesser than the second revised P6 billion budget proposed by the Acting Cebu City…

Entitlement

Editorial 06/21/2016

Unless the barangay officials who refused to return their service vehicles to City Hall for inventory produce incontrovertible proof that doing so will paralyze services in their areas, then there is no reason for them not to…

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