Cebu City Fire Station wins 1st Fire Truck Decoration Contest

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 12/12/2016

The Cebu City Fire Station won the first fire truck decoration contest in Cebu on Monday evening. Its engine 193 beat 12 other fire trucks, including Carcar City in the south and Danao City in the north.…

Cebu bizmen: Cebu-Bohol bridge will spur tourism, economic growth

Victor Anthony V. Silva 12/07/2016

CEBUANO business leaders are looking forward to the planned Cebu-Bohol Friendship Bridge, a project which they said will help spur the economies of the two neighboring island-provinces. Gordon Alan Joseph, president of the Cebu Business Club (CBC),…

Go bananas!

Dominic D. Yasay 11/30/2016

Traders urged to consider exporting fruits to get slice of China’s market Explore opportunities in the fruit export sector. Federico Escalona, Philippine Exports Confederation, Inc. (Philexport) Cebu Chapter executive director, made this call to local exporters as…

Survival tips for exporters

Dominic D. Yasay 11/30/2016

EXPORTERS in Central Visayas are encouraged to continue to innovate and improve their products and explore new markets to survive in a market that has been experiencing a 17-month decline in demand. Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez said…

Gifts, decor, houseware sector gears up for spike in demand

Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/29/2016

CONSUMER spending in the coming holiday season this December is expected to boost demand for gifts, decor and houseware (GDH). Venus Genson, president of the GDH sector in Cebu, said this demand would be further bolstered by…

Entrepreneurs urged: Embrace e-commerce

Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/27/2016

Entrepreneurs are encouraged to take advantage of the country’s growing internet population and put up online platforms of their operations to scale up their businesses. Ma. Elena Arbon, Cebu provincial director of the Department of Trade and…

SM: We followed tax rules, paid obligations timely, properly

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/24/2016

THEY have been compliant with all tax regulations and have paid timely and properly their real estate obligations on their SM Seaside Cebu property. This is part of SM Prime Holdings Inc.’s answer to allegations by the…

Infra spending hike to grow logistics sector by 300%

Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/24/2016

Increased spending on infrastructure, which is the thrust of the Duterte administration especially on improved transport facilities, is expected to grow the Philippine logistics industry by at least 300 percent in the next four years. Jonathan Cabaltera,…

Bank of China to host cross-border trade and investments conference next year

Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/23/2016

Small and medium enterprises (SME) in the country are expected to gain access to a wider array of information, capital, technology, and markets through the Bank of China’s cross-border trade and investment conferences set to happen here…

DTI: No increase in prices of noche buena items

Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/14/2016

WITH six weeks left before Christmas, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in Cebu noted no movement in prices of majority of noche buena items this year. Zaide Bation, chief of DTI Cebu’s consumer welfare division,…

Kris Aquino ‘humbled’ by Duterte’s ‘epic snub’

Apple Ta-as 11/13/2016

IT COULD have been the biggest comeback for TV host and actress Kris Aquino, but things didn’t go as planned. President Rodrigo Duterte failed to show up at her widely promoted one-on-one interview last Friday for the…

DSWD aid for kin of jailed drug surrenderers unused

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/11/2016

THE Department of Social Welfare and Development in Central Visayas (DSWD-7) is asking its central office to redefine or revise its guidelines in extending assistance to affected families whose kin are drug surrenderers who are in jail.…

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