Vice President Jejomar Binay gave out 7,500 food packs to families affected by tropical storm Seniang (international name: Jangmi) in southern Cebu yesterday. “Titingnan ko muna ho kung magkano ang [kailangan] pero pinangako po namin kay mayor…
Buses and cargo trucks weighing up to 20 tons may now use the Lindogon, Simala road as an alternative route to and from southern Cebu in the light of the damage to the bridge at the national…
While engineers are rushing to install a temporary steel bridge, Sibonga Mayor Lionel Bacaltos said the municipal government will do whatever it can to ease the inconvenience of commuters and drivers passing through his town in south…
With the concrete Dumlog bridge cut off, people traveling through Sibonga town in south Cebu have to take a detour. Bus passengers get down and transfer to a habal-habal or motorcycle-for-hire that takes riders through a barangay…
Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama set a January 9 deadline for road improvement projects in the city or nine days before the annual Sinulog celebration. “This is very important. By January 9, all roads in Cebu City…
Congressman Raul del Mar has finally put on the table all the hopes of many Cebuanos who have been to modern high-density cities like Singapore, Hong Kong, New York, Tokyo, and London, with the filing of House…
The Department of Education (Deped) prohibits students and teachers from using newly constructed school buildings that are yet to be turned over by the contractor. DepEd Provincial Schools Superintendent Arden Monisit issued the warning after Task Force…
The Cebu City government will require barangay officials to help monitor the hundreds of millions of pesos worth of infrastructure projects to be implemented in their area. “Since these projects will be implemented in their respective localities,…
Two private companies are fighting over a road in barangay Apas in Cebu City. Filinvest Land Inc. (FLI), which is constructing a P5-billion business process outsourcing complex on a lot owned by the provincial government, sought the…
About P39.1 billion worth of projects were listed for Cebu out of the P246.8 billion identified for implementation in Central Visayas in the next four years by the Regional Development Council (RDC). Infrastructure projects listed in the…
Cebu Gov. Hilario Davide III will invite more representatives from the private sector to join the Technical Working Committee (TWC) for the proposed P56-billion Trans-axial Highway. “This is inclusive. Due to the large membership, I cannot give…
The Cebuano business community’s collective sentiment towards the ongoing public relations war between GMR-Megawide and the Filinvest-Changi airport consortium over the Mactan-Cebu International Airport expansion project may or may not reflect the general public’s view. But it…
