Reality of drug prices

Rina Jimenez-David 06/15/2018

Anecdotal evidence, including letters to the editor, tells a too-familiar story of scenes at drug store counters. After handing the sales person a doctor’s prescription and hearing the amount involved, the customer blanches at the total cited.…

Consumers brace for hike in LPG prices

Jose Santino S. Bunachita and Rosalie O. Abatayo 05/31/2018

MANOLITA Enerlan feels like being hit by multiple whammy. Enerlan, who runs a small eatery along Gorordo Avenue in Cebu City could barely cope with the rising prices of meat and vegetables. Now, she had to face…

Supermarkets warned: Don’t raise prices of products yet

Futch Anthony Inso 05/30/2018

DTI asks a supermarket to explain why it hiked prices when goods displayed were old stocks The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI-7) has warned malls and supermarkets not to take advantage of the rapid increase of…

Prices of veggies not affected

Nestle L. Semilla 05/09/2018

AMID SUMMER HEAT There has been no increase in prices of vegetables and crops in the Central Visayas amid the summer heat, according to the Department of Agriculture in Central Visayas (DA-7). In an interview with Cebu…

DA-7 chief: Heat causes livestock prices to go up

Nestle L. Semilla 05/01/2018

PRICES of livestock have increased between P5 and P10 per kilo in the past weeks. Director Salvador Diputado of the Department of Agriculture in Central Visayas (DA-7) said that they had observed these in their monitoring in…

Commercial rice prices may go up this year – GreCon head

Nestle L. Semilla 03/16/2018

Prices of commercial rice may increase by the third quarter of the year especially since several consumers, who have patronized NFA rice, are turning to commercial rice because of the former’s low quality. Erwin Gok-ong, president of…

C. Visayas rice stocks, prices remain stable

Chris Evert Ruffolo, Jessa Mae O. Sotto 02/05/2018

Prices of rice remain stable at Cebu’s public markets and there is no shortage of rice stocks at the government’s National Food Authority (NFA), the regional office of the Department of Agriculture (DFA-7) said yesterday. Gerry Avila,…

Prices of commodities expected to go up

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 01/30/2018

  THE ripple effect is slowly happening. AS the oil prices increase in Metro Cebu, two business leaders and a labor organization are now anticipating the eventual increase in the prices of commodities as fuel is a…

INCREASE IS FROM P2-P3 PER LITER: OIL PRICES HAVE RISEN

Futch Anthony Inso, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 01/29/2018

Citrasco mulls P10 fare hike instead of P12.50; higher bus fare starts Feb. 1 As early as the second week of January, rent-a-car driver Dexter Lalican already observed an increase in the price of petroleum products in…

Fish, vegetables’ prices to go down after Sinulog

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 01/16/2018

  Prices of fish and vegetable varieties are expected to go down on the first week of February, a week after the Sinulog Festival which gathers tourists from all over the world. The price decrease will happen…

Consumer goods prices stable in CV stable — Neda-7 chief

Victor Anthony V. Silva 12/05/2017

  Despite movement in consumer prices nationwide, the prices of goods in Central Visayas remained unchanged in November this year. According to a report by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), regional inflation for November 2017 was recorded…

NFA: Rice prices up by P1 to P2 per kilo

Futch Anthony Inso 12/01/2017

A P1 TO P2 per kilo increase in the prices of rice in different major and small retailers in different public markets and supermarkets in Metro Cebu has been observed by the National Food Authority in Central…

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