francisco fernandez

THE CEBU City Council yesterday passed a measure to tap the city's calamity funds to allocate "food assistance" to scavengers who helped put out the fire at the Inayawan Sanitary Landfill as a reward for their efforts. The council, however, stipulated that before the funds could be released, certain requirements must be met. The names of the over 300 scavengers, who helped put out the fire, must be supplied.  

CEBU City officials declared an all-out-war against the University of the Philippines Visayas Cebu College (UPVCC) for its "immoral" act of institutionalizing an easy way of evicting urban poor settlers in the city. In separate news conferences yesterday, City Administrator Francisco Fernandez and Mayor Tomas Osmeña threatened to recall the donation of a five-hectare South Road Properties (SRP) lot worth P500 million to UP, if the latter evicts the fire victims from their lot in Barangay Lahug. "The M  

Dominican Carlos Humberto Sánchez Morel was sworn in as the new Culture Commissioner in a ceremony held at the headquarters of the Ministry of Culture in New York. Sánchez enumerated a list of activities he intends to carry out as the Culture Commissioner in the United States.  

SINCE the Commission on Audit (COA) will not exempt Cebu City Hall's fuel purchase from pre-audit, department heads and barangay officials were asked to file their requests for purchases and infrastructure project payments earlier than usual.  

Three police investigators chipped in P100 each to buy diesel for their patrol car.  

ORGANIZERS of the "Good versus Evil" will not be endorsing candidates in the May 2010 elections, and stressed that their movement is not against specific candidates, including Gov. Gwen Garcia. They will also not single out the "evil" personalities in local and national politics. Instead, they will focus on encouraging candidates to bring out what is good in them, and campaigning against everything evil in politics and elections, like vote buying, dynasties, corruption and personality-based campaignin  

CEBU City Hall accepted "in principle" the offer of SM Prime Holdings Inc. to buy a 30-hectare portion of the South Road Properties (SRP) for P2.7 billion, and will ask the company today to pay the P270-million bid bond.  

CEBU City's bids and awards committee (BAC) began assessing the financial and technical proposals of SM Prime Holdings in their bid to buy 30 hectares of the South Road Properties (SRP).  

This city's poll offices have run out of registration forms, prompting election officers to "borrow" 15,000 bond sheets from City Hall to avoid any disruption in the ongoing registration of voters. The number of registrants continues to increase as the deadline for registration nears, and city officials had to close one lane of the road across the Commission on Elections (Comelec) office in the city to accommodate the large crowd gathering in front of the building. On Tuesday alone, around 2,000 voter

Ang hirap kasi sa mga kababayan natin, nag-last minute registration (The problem with them is they register at the last minute)   -Jose Melo

 

The Cebu City Development Council (CDC) is pushing for P40-million worth of barangay infrastructure projects, even as it awaits other requests for projects to be charged to the P260-million Local Development Fund (LDF) for 2010.