Some residents in Ronda barangay refuse to leave danger area
CAPITOL’s Engineering Office has yet to check the reported cracks in the mountains of Ronda, saying the issue is not their concern yet.
Provincial Engineer Eulogio Pelayre said the matter is the jurisdiction of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).
Guv invited to leaders’ eco-forum
A JAPANESE official has invited Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia to attend a convention on environmental issues in their country.
Naotoshi Sugawara, a member of Kanagawa Prefectural Assembly, paid a courtesy visit on the governor last Friday.
Sitoy denies making mangrove a dumpsite
CORDOVA Mayor Adelino Sitoy denied reports that a mangrove area in Sitio Camonilas, Barangay Poblacion was made as a garbage dumping site.
Sitio Camonilas is where the town’s P80-million port is situated. It also has a complementary project of reclamation, which environmentalists...
Guv shares tourism ideas with Puerto Princesa
PUERTO Princesa City, Palawan-Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia said the benefits of tourism should not be focused on metropolitan areas but on the countryside as well.
Garcia shared the Suroy-Suroy Sugbo, a local tourism program of the Province, during the first tourism summit of Puerto Princesa...
Capitol wants to distribute manuals to provincial jail guards
PROVINCIAL jail guards should have a book of instructions with a list of their responsibilities. That’s why the Capitol wants to implement the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) manual.
A series of incidents involving prison guards who were reportedly lenient on...
Wardens sacked
GOV. Gwendolyn Garcia yesterday relieved the provincial jail warden and his assistant when she learned that a guard had allowed, without court approval, a former mayor detained in jail to have lunch in a restaurant after his hearing.
The Department of Justice (DoJ) will also ask the court...
House disaster body tackles quake
FOLLOWING the earthquake that hit Cebu and Negros Oriental last Monday, congressional officials are urging disaster risk reduction agencies to work better to prevent misinformation.
The House committee on national defense conducted a hearing on disaster risk management yesterday to...
Gwen assures project is ‘environmentally sound’
CEBU Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia said the Provincial Government’s bulk water investment with a private firm is environmentally-sound because it is surface water and the contractor would not be digging holes on the ground.
Garcia issued the statement in a news conference yesterday, taking a...
Capitol eyes March groundbreaking for joint water venture with private firms
ONCE it gets the Provincial Board’s (PB) authority, Capitol and its private partner can break ground for the Cebu bulk water supply project.
The groundbreaking can take part as early as March, said Capitol spokesperson Rory Jon Sepulveda in a press conference yesterday, where the...
Cebu City to give P5M to victims of earthquake
RELIEF goods were sent to earthquake victims in Negros Oriental yesterday, as Cebu City Hall and the Capitol prepare to extend financial assistance to the affected families in the neighboring province.
The City Government will allocate P5 million as financial aid to the families displaced...
Capitol: No award yet despite private firm’s PSE disclosure
AN Ayala-led consortium may have won the bid to implement a bulk water supply project that will tap Luyang River in Carmen, but the private group still has to get over some “formalities” before the Cebu Provincial Government awards the undertaking.
Capitol Spokesperson Rory Jon Sepulveda...
Filinvest hopes to start work on project
FILINVEST Land Inc. hopes it can get its certificate of bid award on time so it can start development on Capitol’s 1.2-hectare property in Salinas Drive, Barangay Lahug, Cebu City.
The developer, which also invested in the South Road Properties (SRP), won the bid with its P2-billion...
PB wants interpreters in court
THE Provincial Board (PB) wants Cebu’s courts to hire sign language interpreters, saying there are many unresolved cases involving persons with hearing disabilities.
The request was made in a resolution passed in mass motion in one of the PB’s regular sessions. The letter was addressed to...
‘Kenyan seems resigned’
KENYAN national Asha Atieno Oguto was crying hard when she, escorted by Bureau of Jail Management and Penology personnel, returned to the Lapu-Lapu City Jail Monday afternoon.
Last Monday, Judge Toribio Quiwag of the Regional Trial Court Branch 27 ordered the 24-year-old mother to serve a...
SRP investor ‘gets’ provincial lot
FILINVEST Land Inc. will put up a business process outsourcing (BPO) complex on the 1.2 hectare Capitol-owned lot in Salinas Drive, Barangay Lahug, Cebu City.
The Bagong Buhay Rehabilitation Center and Cebu City Treatment and Rehabilitation Center used to occupy the lot.
Gwen to get new P3-M SUV
CEBU Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia will buy a new service vehicle for P3 million.
She told a press conference yesterday that she will use the funds allotted for a new vehicle for her in 2004 yet, to buy a new Nissan Patrol.
Carcar City allocates P7M to finish diversion road by November this year
CARCAR City Mayor Nicepuro Apura said the city has allocated this year a supplemental budget for a four-lane diversion road aimed at decongesting traffic.
A P7-million additional budget will be spent for construction, which started last December, he said.
Carcaranons, he said,...
6 lawmakers met with Cebu guv
ALL six congressmen in the Province have agreed to remain “politically united” at the local level for the 2013 midterm elections, Rep. Pablo Garcia (Cebu, second district) said Friday when asked what they talked about during their meeting last Thursday night at the Marco Polo Hotel with Governor...
93-1 lots in Busay get price tag
THE Cebu Governor’s Office and the Provincial Board (PB) have agreed to peg a 5.2-hectare lot in Barangay Busay, Cebu City at P3,300 per square meter.
The lot is covered by Provincial Ordinance 93-1, which allows settlers of Province-owned properties to buy the lots they are occupying....
Larsian to undergo upgrading next month, says Gwen
STARTING next month, the Provincial Capitol will begin upgrading the Larsian near the Fuente Osmeña in Cebu City after it was postponed last November.
The P6-million Eco-Larsian Development Project was supposed to be finished before Christmas, but the vendors requested Cebu Gov....
Occupants offer to buy Busay lot from Capitol
A 5.2-hectare lot in Barangay Busay, Cebu City, which is covered by Provincial Ordinance 93-1, has a buyer.
Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia said Province-owned lot will be bought by the Skyview Homeowners’ Association, whose members have occupied the property for about 25 years.
ABC federation supports move to postpone polls
THE president of the Association of Barangay Captains (ABC) Federation of Cebu Province has requested all 51 associations to pass a resolution expressing their support to postpone the synchronized Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) and barangay elections slated next year.
ABC Provincial President...
Children not allowed to ride motorbikes
THE Provincial Board (Pb) asked the Land Transportation Office (LTO) 7 and all traffic enforcement agencies to apprehend motorcycle drivers who are transporting small children.
Their call was in the form of a resolution, which was passed in mass motion during last Monday’s session.
...CPDRC gets P72.6M budget
THE Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center has a budget of P72.6 million for this year, a slight increase from last year’s P72.1 million.
Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia has allocated P14.2 million for the security of inmates, whose jail guards were reminded not to allow their wards to...
Capitol allots nearly P40M for TV, paper
CEBU Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia allocated P39.8 million this year for the Public Information Office (PIO), which produces the Capitol’s TV show and newsletter.
The Office of the Governor’s budget for this year is P835.9 million, which is also used to fund the PIO’s programs and activities.
