Osmeña to designate Carbon market administrator as Ermita caretaker

Inna Mejia 02/07/2017

Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña will be designating Carbon Market administrator lawyer Winifredo A. Orcullo Jr. to act as Barangay Ermita caretaker. Osmeña made this announcement after Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO 7) Director Chief…

Gica contests dismissal order, files motion for reconsideration at Ombudsman’s office

Izobelle T. Pulgo 02/06/2017

  Dumanjug Mayor Efren “Gungun” Gica, who was ordered dismissed after he was found guilty of dishonesty and grave misconduct, filed a motion for reconsideration on Monday at the Visayas Ombudsman’s office, contesting the anti-graft office’s decision…

Sanchez suspended for trip ticket violation

Izobelle T. Pulgo 02/05/2017

IS it mere coincidence or is there a clear effort to suspend Cebu City officials affiliated with Team Rama before the anti-graft office? According to former Busay barangay captain Eliodoro Sanchez, now a barangay councilor, this appeared…

Ombudsman orders the suspension of Guardo

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 02/05/2017

FOR failing to remit financial statements during his time as barangay captain of Sambag 1, now Cebu City Councilor Jerry Guardo was slapped with a three-month suspension without pay by the Office of the Ombudsman Visayas. In…

Dumanjug mayor taps lawyer-dad’s help in contesting dismissal order

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 02/04/2017

DUMANJUG Mayor Efren Guntrano “Gun-gun” Gica has turned to his father, Edgar, a known lawyer in Cebu, for help as he plans to contest the Visayas Ombudsman’s order dismissing him from service and indicting him for malversation…

THE MISSING P10 THOUSAND

Izobelle T. Pulgo 02/03/2017

Ombudsman orders dismissal of Dumanjug Mayor Efren Gica for allegedly pocketing P10, 000 In what is another twist in the long-standing feud between two political rivals, Dumanjug Mayor Efren “Gun-gun” Gica now seems to find himself at…

Ombudsman orders Dumanjug mayor’s dismissal

Izobelle T. Pulgo 02/03/2017

Mayor Gungun Gica of Dumanjug has been ordered dismissed from service after he was found guilty of dishonesty and grave misconduct by the Office of the Ombudsman. The Ombudsman also found probable cause to file charges of…

School execs face graft raps in court for disallowance

Izobelle T. Pulgo 02/02/2017

  EIGHT officials of the Cebu Technological University face trial after they were indicted by the Ombudsman for violating Republic Act 3019 or the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act. The officials, most of whom were also dismissed…

Ombudsman orders dismissal of 8 CTU officials

Izobelle T. Pulgo 02/02/2017

Eight officials of Cebu Technological University are dismissed from service after having been found guilty by the Office of the Ombudsman of grave misconduct. The dismissal stemmed from the grant of P3,000 monthly payment to accountant Gilminarde…

DILG withholds signing of documents sans caretaker

Edison Delos Angeles, Inna Mejia, Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Nestle L. Semilla 01/31/2017

After all the elective officials of Barangay Ermita were served their preventive suspension, there is no one authorized to sign any official documents, which could include the payroll of barangay employees. Emma Joyevelyn Calvo, acting Department of…

Visayas Ombudsman suspends Danao City Mayor Ramonito Durano for 3 months

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 01/28/2017

The Office of the Ombudsman in the Visayas has ordered the suspension of Danao City Mayor Ramon “Nito” Durano III for his alleged failure to reinstate city employees whose appointment he earlier recalled. Durano was found liable…

Airport personnel not off the hook yet

Izobelle T. Pulgo 01/27/2017

AN airport personnel’s bid to contest his indictment was denied by the Office of the Ombudsman. On June 30, 2016, Albert Payusan Barliso, former acting customs examiner assigned at the Mactan Cebu International Airport, was indicted after…

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