CEBU, PHILIPPINES — As floodwaters inundated rivers and streets across several Cebu City barangays yesterday, some residents were caught throwing garbage into swollen waterways, underscoring the city’s persistent struggle with improper waste disposal even as it grapples with a...
CEBU, PHILIPPINES — The Land Transportation Office in Central Visayas (LTO-7) has suspended for 90 days the driver’s license of Dumanjug Mayor Efren “Gungun” Gica and ordered him to explain why he should not face administrative sanctions after he...
CEBU, PHILIPPINES — Motorists will face another round of steep fuel price hikes starting today, Tuesday, with diesel and kerosene registering double-digit increases due to the continuing conflict in the Middle East, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced yesterday....
CEBU, PHILIPPINES — The deadly collapse of Binaliw landfill, which claimed the lives of 36 waste workers and a volunteer rescuer, was not an unforeseeable accident but the result of long-ignored warnings and systemic failures in the country’s solid...
CEBU, PHILIPPINES — The Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Central Visayas (DENR-7) has ordered the Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) in Argao to issue a cease and desist order (CDO) on tree-cutting activities at the...
CEBU, PHILIPPINES — Cebu City’s P13.41-billion annual budget for 2026 has received the Department of Budget and Management’s (DBM) highest review classification, with the agency declaring it “operative in its entirety.” The DBM ruling covers the city’s 2026 annual...
CEBU, PHILIPPINES — Cebu City Mayor Nestor Archival has urged the Cebu–Cordova Link Expressway (CCLEX) Bridge Management Board to fast-track the proposed P4.2-billion CCLEX–Cebu South Coastal Road (CSCR) Interchange, citing the need to ease worsening traffic congestion at the...
CEBU, PHILIPPINES — Every official visit leaves behind lessons that shape the way we govern. My recent mission to Cebu was no different. While the itinerary was filled with sisterhood signings, consultations, outreach activities, and meetings with fellow local...
CEBU, PHILIPPINES — Former Cebu City mayor Michael Rama has been cleared of graft charges after the Sandiganbayan dismissed the cases against him, ruling that the prosecution failed to sufficiently allege the elements of an offense under the Anti-Graft...
CEBU, PHILIPPINES — Cebu City’s ability to deliver critical infrastructure and socio-economic programs has been hampered by chronic project delays, inadequate documentation, and weak inter-office coordination, leaving billions of pesos in development funds largely unspent, the Commission on Audit...
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