120 faulty weighing scales seized in Cebu City’s Operation Timbangan

Wenilyn Sabalo 06/10/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Market authorities confiscated about 120 faulty weighing scales during its 10-day “Operation Timbangan” in the ten city-managed public markets from May 30 until June 9, 2023. Robert Barquilla, head of Operations…

Poverty seen from below

Mahar Mangahas - @inquirerdotnet 08/13/2022

The scale of poverty as seen from below, by the people, is very much larger than as seen from above, by the bureaucracy. Nearly half of household heads in the nation rate their families as Mahirap (Poor),…

SEC files criminal complaint vs Kapa execs for large-scale investment scam

06/18/2019

MANILA, Philippines – The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday filed a criminal complaint before the Department of Justice (DOJ) against Kapa Community Ministry International Inc. (Kapa) founder and President Joel A. Apolinario and its other…

Small scale RE market reels in more investors

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 06/07/2018

More investors are exploring the small-scale renewable energy market in Central Visayas. This amid the thrust of the Department of  Energy Visayas Field  Office (DOE-VFO) to welcome more solar energy projects in Eastern and Central Visayas. Engineer…

Businesswoman nabbed in Cebu City for large scale estafa

Benjie B. Talisic 04/26/2018

A 36-year-old woman from a southern Cebu town, who is facing 14 counts of large scale estafa, was arrested in a coffee shop in Barangay Kasambagan, Cebu City on Wednesday. Maria Victoria Torralba of Naga City, Cebu,…

Entrepreneurs urged: Embrace e-commerce

Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/27/2016

Entrepreneurs are encouraged to take advantage of the country’s growing internet population and put up online platforms of their operations to scale up their businesses. Ma. Elena Arbon, Cebu provincial director of the Department of Trade and…

BIG-TIME DRUG SUPPLIER NABBED

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 10/28/2016

A big-time drug trader was nabbed with P4 million worth of shabu within 24 hours after the Philippine National Police and drug enforcement agencies started the second phase of the government’s antidrug campaign on Thursday targeting “high…

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