Robredo to LGUs: Treat citizens as partners for development

Dominic D. Yasay 08/23/2016

THE essence of good governance lies in the partnership between the government and private citizens. When private citizens are given the opportunity to voice out what they want for themselves and to contribute to what the government…

Governors, mayors face suspension over failure of anti-drug campaign

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 07/26/2016

GOVERNORS and mayors who fail to eliminate or at least reduce the spread of illegal drugs in their respective areas by the end of the year will face administrative charges and, if found guilty, be suspended. Interior…

Citrasco to Metro Cebu LGUs: Solve traffic congestion

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 07/02/2016

A transport group appealed to the local government units (LGUs) in Metro Cebu to solve traffic gridlocks in their towns and cities as it has been affecting the livelihood of public utility vehicle (PUV) drivers. Ryan Benjamin…

LGUs encouraged to have holding centers for kids first

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 06/11/2016

An official of the Children’s Legal Bureau (CLB) yesterday encouraged local government units to first create a center for minors before implementing curfew on minors. Lawyer Joan Saniel, CLB executive director, said minors who are rescued at…

Landfill site eyed in Carmen town

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 06/05/2016

With no sanitary landfill, towns and cities in Cebu province are resorting to dumping their garbage in commercial facilities which are costly or in open dumpsites, a practice that is already prohibited by law. The Cebu provincial…

Suitability map for Cebu pushed

Izobelle T. Pulgo 05/16/2016

The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) yesterday emphasized the need for Cebu province to have a suitability map, which is another important tool to create an action plan that is disaster risk reduction and…

Politicking in calamity aid

04/17/2016

Even in the distribution of cash or material assistance, Filipino officials can find time to engage in politicking and promote both their candidacies and their names to their constituents. We don’t know if other countries engage in…

Invite investors to build landfill, Cebu LGUs told

Victor Anthony V. Silva 02/15/2016

Local governments should partner with investors in building sanitary landfills in their respective areas, the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (PENRO) said yesterday. PENRO chief Chad Estella said these public-private partnerships (PPP) can  address “financial constraints”…

We won’t hide street children from APEC guests – LGU execs

Melissa Q. Cabahug 08/03/2015

Local chief executives and police chiefs  of Lapu-Lapu, Mandaue and Cebu cities have promised not to round up street children to hide them from the delegates of the high-level APEC meetings later this month. “We will face…

LGUs should demand bigger budget, Lacson says

Victor Anthony V. Silva 08/02/2015

Former senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson called on Cebu’s mayors to demand a bigger allocation from the national government for their  cities and towns. He spoke last Friday during  a regular meeting of the League of Municipalities of…

Ending the romance with dirty coal

Atty. Gloria Estenzo Ramos 07/27/2015

Why is the most vulnerable and poster country to climate impacts still gung-ho about coal? It defies reason and logic to build more climate-change causing coal power plants amid the indubitable fact that burning coal and other…

COA got it wrong

Ricky Poca 07/19/2015

The administration of Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama was recently involved in a controversy over the Commission on Audit’s (COA) adverse report about purchases of alcohol and  oxytocin. The 2014 annual report of the COA was cited…

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