No new projects for Cebu City in 2016 budget

Nestle L. Semilla 06/08/2016

The Cebu City government has not included new projects in the budget proposal this year considering that next month is already July and the incoming administration of Mayor-elect Tomas Osmeña will already start preparing the 2017 budget.…

Terminated City Hall workers contemplate filing case vs Margot

Edison Delos Angeles, Izobelle T. Pulgo, Nestle L. Semilla 06/07/2016

Around 1,000 job order employees of the Cebu City government who were dismissed from service are expected to flock to the office of private legal counsel Atty. Inocencio dela Cerna today to consult the lawyer about the…

Davide pushes stalled Ciudad project

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 06/06/2016

After being stalled for a decade, will the Ciudad project in Barangay Apas, Cebu City finally push through? Cebu Gov. Hilario Davide III said he was hoping that within this year, on his second term, the project…

Tommy O is fit, says Margot

Nestle L. Semilla 06/05/2016

CEBU City Mayor-elect Tomas Osmeña and his wife Margot, now the city’s acting mayor, are set to leave for the United States of America in August for the annual check up of Tomas, a cancer survivor. Margot…

Customs told: Bury rotten meat stored at CPA compound

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag, Nestle L. Semilla 06/03/2016

“BURY them.” This was the request of Acting Cebu City Mayor Margarita “Margot” Osmeña for the rotten meat inside 14 40-footer cargo containers stored for at least two years at the Cebu Port Authority (CPA) compound. Osmeña…

Margot files criminal complaint vs village chiefs before Ombud

Nestle L. Semilla 06/02/2016

For failing to return their government-issued vehicles to the Cebu City government, 47 barangay captains and officials are facing a slew of criminal and administrative cases before the Visayas Ombudsman from carnapping to malversation of public property,…

More Job Order workers terminated

Nestle L. Semilla 06/02/2016

MORE Job Order (JO) workers were terminated yesterday by Cebu City Acting Mayor Margarita Osmeña. Of the 58 recently terminated JOs, 39 were under the Parks and Playgrounds Commission and 19 from the Cebu Environmental Sanitation and…

Who will lead Cebu City’s opposition?

Stephen D. Capillas 06/02/2016

The reported appearance of businessman Michael Dino at the press conference where President-elect Rodrigo Duterte showed off his Cabinet members was a bit of surprise to anyone familiar with his involvement in the Davao City mayor turned…

Make new proposal for budget for 2016

Nestle L. Semilla 06/01/2016

The Cebu City Council approved a resolution returning the P9.8-billion proposed annual budget for 2016 and asked the executive department for another revised budget to be submitted by Acting Mayor Margarita Osmeña. During yesterday’s 36th regular session,…

Council to dump P9.8 billion budget, pass a new one

Nestle L. Semilla 06/01/2016

THE Cebu City Council approved a resolution returning the P9.8 billion proposed annual budget intended this year for another revised budget to be submitted by acting Mayor Margot Osmeña. With only three members, the council passed Councilor…

Demolish structures inside Osmeña Shrine

Nestle L. Semilla 05/31/2016

AT first it was just plastic straw tied to the trees to delineate the areas they claimed for themselves. Now illegal structures have sprouted on the 4.2-hectare Osmeña Shrine in Barangay Kalunasan, Cebu City. But the clincher…

Probe on P50-K reward pushed

Doris C. Bongcac, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 05/31/2016

CEBU City Councilor-elect Jun Alcover yesterday said he wanted Cebu City Mayor-elect Tomas Osmeña investigated for giving cash rewards to policemen who could kill suspected criminals. “If he would continue giving rewards, this will really promote extra-judicial…

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