IEC BUDGET. Organizers assured they worked within the P300-million budget they set for the IEC, and supplemented the registration fees with donations and proceeds from fund-raisers, like a priests’ concert.

SWU. Eighty-three Southwestern University (SWU) students, 23 of them medicine graduates last year, are caught in the crossfire between two SWU schools.

ROAD WORKS. The Mandaue City Government asked the Department of Public Works and Highways to give them time to release traffic advisories before the agency will continue the road works along A. Soriano Ave., and portion of the Plaridel St. in Mandaue City.