Carbon Market tensions heat up; vendors, Market Authority personnel clash

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 03/11/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Tensions heat up in the Carbon Market while Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama is yet to sign a supplemental Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) to cure the Joint Venture Agreement (JVA) the city has…

Rama’s promise to Carbon vendors: I will fix problems caused by extortion scandal

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 12/11/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The need to identify individuals who extorted vendors at the Carbon Public Market is just the first step in addressing the problem. Mayor Michael Rama said he also needs to find means to…

Arce has names of market personnel who ‘extort’ vendors

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 12/08/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The in-charge of Cebu City’s Market Operations Division (MOD) said she already has the names of individuals who are believed to be involved in extortion practices at the Carbon Public Market Complex. Raquel…

Mandaue market exec: 70% of vendors get jabbed

Mary Rose Sagarino 12/06/2021

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines —  About 70 to 80 percent of the vendors in Mandaue City Public Market are already vaccinated. Cedar Mercadal Jr., assistant head for operations of the market, said about 70 to 80 percent of…

300 Cebu vendors, trisikad drivers, fisherfolk receive aid from APPL

Doris C. Bongcac 12/06/2021

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu – At least 300 Cebuanos received aid from Ang Probinsyano Party List (APPL) during the Cebu visit of Rep. Alfred Delos Santos last week. Grocery packs were handed to 100 trisikad drivers in Bogo…

Cebu City restricts movement of unvaxxed residents starting Jan. 1

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 12/03/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City will be implementing more restrictive policies against unvaccinated individuals starting January 1, 2022. In a newly released directive, Mayor Michael Rama has specified that entry establishments, events, contact sports, face-to-face classes,…

Bakuna Para ni Suki: 428 people, mostly vendors jabbed in Mandaue public market

Mary Rose Sagarino 11/11/2021

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines — More than 400 individuals mostly vendors in Mandaue City were vaccinated against COVID-19 on Thursday, November 11, 2021. The city’s “Bakuna Para Ni Suki” program for public market vendors was conducted at the…

Carbon Market Unit III vendors: We support new Bagsakan

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 10/15/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The vendors of Carbon Market Unit III, Lavo Seaside, took time off their stalls on Friday noon, October 15, 2021, to show their support for the ongoing renovations of their Bagsakan Facility. The…

No vendors, no bringing of food inside Cebu City cemeteries during ‘Kalag-Kalag’

Mae Fhel Gom-os 10/14/2021

  MANDAUE CITY, Cebu – Vendors will not be allowed to do business inside the cemeteries during the observance of All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day in Cebu City, the head of the Cebu City Prevention,…

Pastor wants to ‘end political dynasties in Cebu’, runs as governor

Morexette Marie B. Erram 10/08/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A pastor from the town of Dalaguete in southern Cebu will be running as governor in the 2022 elections. And his agenda is to end all political dynasties in the province. Pablo Olmedo,…

Resch: Demolition of vendors’ stalls ‘inhumane’

Dyrecka Letigio 09/15/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City ex-officio Councilor Jessica Resch, the president of the city’s Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) Federation, has questioned the demolition of the stalls and vendor structures at the portions of Lavo Seaside, Unit 2,…

Police ready charges against wounded Carbon hostage taker

Pegeen Maisie M. Sararaña 09/06/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippies — Police are readying several cases against a 24-year-old man, who was shot and wounded after holding hostage two women vegetable vendors in the Carbon Public Market on early Sunday morning, Sept. 5, in…

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