Labella orders rescue of homeless individuals, mendicants

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 10/13/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella on Tuesday, October 13, 2020, ordered the rescue of homeless individuals here. The mayor said in a press conference on Tuesday morning that he noticed an increasing number…

Day 1 result of pooled testing: Only 1 out of 294 vendors is COVID-positive

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 10/02/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The pilot implementation of the pooled testing method for more efficient surveillance and detection of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) yielded surprisingly low positiveresults. On the first day of the testing of the…

Cebu City forms task force to study return of street vendors

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 10/02/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella has formed a task group to study the return of ambulant vendors on the sidewalks. In his Executive Order No. 97, the mayor ordered Councilors David Tumulak and…

First batch of Carbon Market vendors tested

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 09/30/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The first batch of Carbon Market vendors have been subjected to swab testing on Wednesday, September 30, 2020, the samples of which will undergo a pooled polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing. The city…

No total closure of Carbon market amid mass testing — Labella

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 07/30/2020

Cebu City, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella assured businesses, who relied on the Carbon Market for products, that the city’s largest public market would not close down even if the city planned to conduct a…

4 Banawa market vendors issued violation tickets for selling ‘overpriced’ goods

Doris C. Bongcac 05/13/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Four vendors at the satellite market in Banawa, Cebu City were issued with violation tickets after they were caught overpricing the goods that they were selling. Their prohibited acts were discovered during a…

PROBE ‘abuse’: Vendors’ group seeks Council’s help

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 03/15/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Independent Vendors for Empowerment and Development (I-vend) is seeking the help of the Cebu City Council to investigate alleged abuses of the Prevention, Restoration, Order, Beautification, and Enhancement (PROBE) in the clearing…

Vacant lot near SRP eyed for displaced vendors

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 02/07/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City government is considering a vacant lot near the South Road Properties (SRP) as the relocation area for the ambient vendors in the city.  Jonil Matuguina, City Market Authority head, revealed…

Labella: Night market can operate until end of February then …

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 02/01/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Night Bazaar or more commonly known as the night market is here to stay until the end of February. This was the statement of Mayor Edgardo Labella on Friday afternoon…

Labella discusses Carbon Public Market renovation plan with vendors, stall owners

Doris C. Bongcac 01/20/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Stall owners and vendors from unit III of the Carbon Public Market trooped to the Cebu City Hall on Monday morning, January 20, 2020, for a briefing on the planned renovation of the…

Street vendors are back but only for Sinulog weekend

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 01/07/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Street vendors will be allowed back into Cebu City’s streets but only on January 18 to 19, 2020 which is the Sinulog weekend. Jonil Matuguina, head of the city’s Market Authority Office, said…

Some Cebu City firecracker vendors not happy with new selling zone at SRP

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 12/31/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines –The firecracker vendors in Cebu City said they want to go back to their original spots at the middle of the South Road Properties (SRP) in the next firecracker season. Vendors said the number…

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