Tacloban City—Former Health Secretary Janette L. Garin said the new cases, as well as the ones previously filed against her and 36 others before the Department of Justice last week, are all “baseless” and not supported by expert medical testimony.
MALACAÑANG is eyeing to establish in other parts of the country the Malasakit Center being piloted in the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu City.
President Duterte and Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi graced the ceremonial commencement of the oil and gas production of the Alegria Oilfield in Southern Cebu last Saturday.
THE Cebu Provincial Board (PB) is seeking the assistance of the Office of the Cabinet Secretary through the Performance and Projects Management Office (PPMO) to provide technical assistance in the preparation of a road map for the development of Bantayan Island.
A REPRESENTATIVE of the Cebu Provincial Government laid down the Capitol’s immediate plans of action aimed at easing the traffic concerns in the province.
THE municipal government of Tuburan, Cebu, has gathered various government agencies to support its quest to become Cebu’s coffee capital.
THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE 7) issued on Tuesday a work-stoppage order against the project manager and the owner of a 4-story commercial building project located at AS Fortuna Street corner Governor M. Cuenco Avenue in Cebu City.
FUJITSU Philippines Inc., a leading information-technology (IT) systems integrator and solutions provider, is strengthening its array of cloud offerings in the Visayas and Mindanao amid the growing market demands in the region.
CONCERNED over sightings of child laborers in Bogo City and Medellin town in Cebu, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE 7) in the region will have work places where children were seen, inspected.
HIRNA, Davao’s homegrown taxi-hailing app, is eyeing nationwide expansion in the coming months.
IF she has her way, former Health Secretary Janette L. Garin prefers to have the Dengvaxia row be brought to court rather than in the Senate investigation.
CIVIL works on the Bohol-Cebu Friendship Bridge (BCFB) may start in 2020.
The Philippine Society of Pathologists (PSP), cognizant of the current events related to the dengue vaccine, is prepared and willing to help dispel the fear and hysteria created by some sectors of the society.
WORLDWIDE International Services Inc. (Wise Immigration) is continuing its mission to help aspiring nurses to go to Canada and eventually create better opportunities for themselves and their families.
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THE number of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) served at Region 7’s One-Stop Service Center for OFWs (Ossco) skyrocketed to 82,554 in 2017.
AFTER its Visayas-wide launch, the movement for federalism will be launched in every district in the province of Cebu starting on January 27.
REP. Benhur L. Salimbangon of the Fourth District of Cebu is proposing the construction of a coastal highway in Northern Cebu that would stretch from Mandaue City to Bogo City.
THE Provincial Board (PB) of Cebu is urging all business establishments and owners of buildings that are three-story high or more to conduct fire-safety audits with the help of the Bureau of Fire Protection.
ON the third week of the docu-series Our Fragile Earth: Protected Areas of the Philippines, Sen. Loren B. Legarda enjoined the public to watch the episode on the Camotes Island Mangrove Swamp Forest Reserve, described as a precious fortress in Central Visayas.
STUDENTS of Cebu Technological University (CTU) discovered an innovation using the Internet to help solve crimes committed inside taxicabs.
THE opposition cannot stop the plan of Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña to give P50,000 to policemen who kill criminals in the ongoing war against illegal drugs.
Presidential Adviser on Legislative Affairs Adelino B. Sitoy has drafted his own version of federal parliament in the Philippines as an alternative proposal to that of former Senate President Aquilino Q. Pimentel Jr.
THE bidding for the upgrading of the Ubay Airport in Bohol is set early next year after evaluation of the plan, detailed engineering design and program of works are done.
The National Alliance of Movements for Federalism (NAMFed) Inc. for the Visayas was formally launched last Saturday in Cebu City.
AT least eight officials of the Mactan-Cebu International Airport Authority (MCIAA) are facing a complaint before the Office of the Ombudsman for allegedly demanding kickback from the contractor of the airport’s security-fence project.
THE Bureau of Customs (BOC) is now processing all requests and permits of shipments within five days.
THE Cebu Provincial Board (PB)has approved an ordinance of the city of Bogo restricting lending firms, usurers and individuals from accepting cash cards of the government’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) program and other documents as collateral or security for a loan.
A NEWLY formed group of farmers and fishermen in Central Visayas held its first regional assembly in Cebu City last Saturday.
WITH the objective of fostering better and closer friendship and fellowship and promoting mutual growth and development, the businessmen in Mandaue and Bacolod cities have entered into a sisterhood agreement.
TEN more teacher-OFWs (overseas Filipino workers) received two weeks ago teaching kits worth P10,000 each from the National Reintegration Center for OFWs (NRCO), a bureau of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).
THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has launched in the City of Naga, Cebu, the DOLE Clinic, the region’s contribution to the Department’s goal of establishing a mechanism of bringing the DOLE closer to the community.
Rep. Raul V. del Mar of the First District of Cebu City has cautioned his colleagues in Congress from considering House Bill 6517 that would allow access to marijuana.
The Province of Cebu and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) are moving toward the management of safe water in the province.
DEVELOP more tourism destinations and create more activities in those destinations to make tourists extend their stay longer.
LISTED homegrown property developer Cebu Landmasters Inc. (CLI) has signed a P4-billion project with two of the leading local businessmen in Davao City.
THE Cebu Association of Tour Operation Specialists (Catos) is looking to attract young travelers from Thailand and Indochina.
THE Cebu Bankers Club (CBC) is opposing the proposed measure seeking to increase the business tax rates on banks and other financial institutions in the city.
THE Cebu Provincial Board (PB) has approved and adopted the P25.2-billion Provincial Development Investment Program (PDIP) for 2017-2022 without any questions during its session on November 13.
THE Visayan Electric Co. (Veco) vowed to cover all key areas of its underground distribution system (UDS) in Cebu City, promising to complete it even if it takes several years to do so.
DETACHABLE canopies on motorcycles in Cebu City are a common sight. Their safety is still, however, subject to debate among members of the Cebu City Council.
THE Cebu provincial government and the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (Rafi) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the creation of an integrated development project in the newly created seventh congressional district.
SEAGROVE, a P35-billion joint- venture leisure project of Ayala Land Inc. (ALI) and the Metro Gaisano Group’s Taft Properties Inc., was unveiled last Friday in Mactan Island.
CEBU City Mayor Tomas Osmeña said a giant company has proposed an P18-billion mixed-use development project at the 8-hectare Kawit Island property in the South Road Properties (SRP).
THE Chungnam Provincial Police Agency (CPPA) in South Korea has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Police Regional Office (PRO) in Central Visayas on Tuesday for the safety of its citizens here.
THE Maritime Industry Authority (Marina) has conducted its theoretical examinations for seafarers in Cebu last Monday, the first outside Manila.
THE Cebu City government will allow owners to recover their property the city has forfeited.
THE Cebu City government will avail itself of the P3-billion loan offered by the Land Bank of the Philippines (LandBank) to fund the city’s infrastructure projects.
CEBU Landmasters Inc. (CLI) CEO was named Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst and Young on October 18 in an awards banquet at the Makati Shangri-La Hotel.
THE House Committee on Tourism chaired by Rep. Lucy Torres-Gomez of the Fourth District of Leyte is slated to attend the World Travel Market (WTM) in London from November 6 to 8.
FIVE barangays in Bugasong town in Antique province suffered its worst flood this year because of an unfinished Supertyphoon Yolanda relocation site, residents told a fact-find mission conducted by the Kilusang Pagbabago (KP).
The municipality of Ayungon is the rice bowl of Central Negros, a peaceful community of healthy and God-fearing people who live in a sustainably managed and ecologically balanced environment. Located on the midriff of Oriental Negros’s northern stretch and approximately two hours away from Dumaguete City, Ayungon is home to a 9.4-hectare tree nursery, the biggest in the Philippines.
Rep. Erico C. Aristotle Aumentado revealed this recently in his speech before the uniformed men and women, as well as guests, of the Philippine Army’s 703rd Infantry “Agila” Brigade during its 29th founding anniversary at its headquarters in Barangay Calaanan, Bongabon town in Nueva Ecija.
With the revocation of the Negros Island Region (NIR), the provinces of Negros Occidental and Negros Oriental are back to Regions 6 and 7, respectively.
EFFECTIVE today, October 9, Elvira Cruz will vacate her post as district collector for the Bureau of Customs (BOC) in Cebu and will be assigned to the bureau’s Compliance Monitoring Unit.
Victims of Supertyphoon Yolanda in Tacloban City have expressed their disappointment to the Office of the President against Presidential Assistant for the Visayas Michael Lloyd Dino about the glowing publicity regarding the housing situation in the area.
Community-oriented activities marked the month-long celebration of Carmen Copper Corporation’s 13th Anniversary in September.
THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE-7) issued a work stoppage order (WSO) to the owner and general contractor of the Velez Medical Arts Building Project located at Ranudo Street, Cogon Ramos, Cebu City.
ASIDE from a drug-rehabilitation program, Wayback Academy, a drug-rehabilitation center in Olango Island in Lapu-Lapu City, is getting involved in waste-management solution to preserve the place as a tourist destination.
By Charles R. Pepito | Correspondent
Homegrown taxi-hailing app Micab got a boost when it launched its partnership with the Metro Cebu Taxi Operators Association (MCTOA) in a ceremony at the Casino Español in Cebu City.
THE municipality of Argao in southern Cebu has unveiled its new tourism logo last Thursday during the media launch at the Capitol Legislative Building for its 229th town fiesta celebration from September 19 to 29.
THE Cebu Provincial Government, through the Human Resource Management Office (HRMO), will host the first-ever Human Resource Convention at the Capitol Social Hall on September 26 with the theme “Understanding People”.
THE House of Representatives is set to deliberate the granting of Philippine citizenship to Carlos Kwok-Hing Yeung, a Hong Kong national and the husband of Cebuana philanthropist Mariquita Salimbangon-Yeung.
THE Cebu Integrated Transport Service Multipurpose Cooperative (Citrasco) said it will establish a Driver’s Academy to promote professionalism among local drivers.
A TELECOMMUNICATIONS company will build a drug- rehabilitation center worth P35 million in Pinamungajan town in southern Cebu, at no cost to the Cebu provincial government.
THE first Philippine branch of Toyoko Inn Cebu has been advised to momentarily cease the operation for operating without a certificate of occupancy.
CEBU lawmaker and Deputy Speaker Gwendolyn Garcia is calling for an investigation into the dumping of 25,000 metric tons (MT) of garbage from South Korea in Cebu in February.
ENERGY Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi called for the widening of the energy base with efficient and reliable power sources at the Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) event in Panglao Island, Bohol.
THE 5,843 residents of Barangay Don Juan Climaco Sr. (formerly Barangay Magdugo) in Toledo City, Cebu, now enjoy a concrete road that spans 260 meters at once sludgy and accident pron Sitio Panog.
OFFICIALS of China’s top power-producing company have presented to Cebu Gov. Hilario P. Davide III its intention to build a 200-megawatt (MW) to 300-MW coal-fired power plant in the province.
THE Cebu Provincial Government has formally inaugurated the Co-op Business Center (CBC) inside the Cebu South Bus Terminal.
TO accommodate the growing demand for visa services, specifically for employment and tourism transactions, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has opened regional visa services centers in three Philippine cities.
By Charles R. Pepito | Correspondent / Photo courtesy of Cebu City Mayor’s office
THE Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) fostered its coordination, collaboration with various stakeholders and partners to uphold its commitment to shape and broaden the linkage between academe and the industry.
LAND Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) Chairman Martin Delgra III has instructed the Central Visayas regional office to resolve the 815 pending applications for Uber and GrabCar in Cebu.
Rep. Erico Aristotle Aumentado of the Second District of Bohol is bullish on producing energy from residual waste.
A GROUP of multicab drivers in Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu, now owns a service and spare-parts center after being given livelihood assistance by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).
CEBU Landmasters Inc. (CLI) remains bullish about the prospects of real estate in the Visayas and Mindanao as it widens its foothold in southern Philippines, where demand for housing, offices and commercial spaces is soaring.
LOPEZ JAENA Street located in Barangay’s Parian and Tinago, Cebu City, will now be called Eduardo Aboitiz Street.
Story and photos by Charles R. Pepito / Correspondent
THE provincial government of Cebu will help place the Nug-as Forest Reserve in Alcoy town in the south in the forefront of the capitol’s tourism campaign that aims to make Cebu a community-based eco-tourism destination.
IMPROVED ports may serve today’s population well, but these may be insufficient in the coming years.
AN international lecturer from the UN Climate Change conferences is in Cebu City to speak in a lecture on Creating a Climate of Change.
PHYSICAL works for the Bonotbonot Small Reservoir Irrigation Project (SRIP) in Buenavista town in Bohol is now set to go full blast.
J. NITTON Development Corp. has raised the bar on socialized-housing standards with the introduction of its newest development in Carcar City, Cebu, the Esperanza Homes.
PRESIDENTIAL Assistant for the Visayas Michael Lloyd Dino is questioning the Department of Transportation (DOTr) project in Cebu, particularly the proposed Bus Rapid Transit (BRT).
COMMUNITY-BASED organizations in five tourist destinations in southern Cebu province can now serve as food caterers, aside from being tour guides, as the Capitol allocated each of them with kitchen and cooking wares.
CEBU CITY Mayor Tomas Osmeña and Mayor Lou Qiang of Chengdu, China, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for sisterhood relationship on Wednesday.
IN an effort to fast track the processing and issuance of land titles over alienable and disposable lands, the Cebu Provincial Government, in partnership with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), assisted the public land-titling program in Consolacion town.
CEBU CITY—Danao City Mayor Ramon “Nito” D. Durano III won another victory in his fight against a three-month suspension ordered by the Office of the Ombudsman-Visayas.
CEBU Fifth District Rep. Ramon “Red” Durano VI has proposed a bill that penalizes the use of an automated teller machine (ATM) skimming device as a form of economic sabotage and a heinous crime.
BOGO CITY became the first city in Central Visayas and the second nationwide to be declared drug-cleared.
THE minimum wage of kasambahay, or domestic helpers, in Central Visayas is now P3,000 per month.
CEBU Business Month (CBM) is celebrating its 21st year as the metropolitan’s business festival.
ENVIRONMENTALIST lawyer Benjamin Cabredo has urged newly installed Environment Secretary Roy A. Cimatu to investigate the blunder committed by his men in Cebu.
THE Mactan Cebu International Airport Authority (MCIAA) board has approved the proposal of Rep. Raul Del Mar of the Cebu City North District to start the construction of the airport’s second runway.
THE contractors and subcontractors of a Filipino multinational company converged during an orientation held last week by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE-7).
IN compliance with Republic Act (RA) 3846, an Act Providing for the Regulation of Public and Radio Communications in the Philippines, communicators of the Cebu City government underwent a Restricted Land Mobile (RLM) seminar with the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC).
THE Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) hosted a miniconference, entitled “Shaping a New Workforce: 2nd Industry-Academe Consultation Workshop”, at the Cebu City Marriot Hotel on April 25.
