CEBU Rep. Duke Frasco with his wife incoming Tourism Secretary Christina Frasco at Vice President-elect Sara Duterte's inauguration in Davao City. CEBU CITY – Reelected Cebu Rep. Vincent Franco “Duke” Frasco on Monday, June 20, announced that he will file a resolution in the House of...
CEBU CITY – Income generated by Oslob, Cebu from tourism significantly went down in 2021 because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Oslob, a fourth-class municipality that gained worldwide prominence due to its whale shark-watching activities, only earned P3.4 million from tourism activities in 2021....
GARCIA (FB) CEBU CITY – Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia junked the ultimatum from the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) to amend a recent ordinance that made the wearing of face masks in open areas optional. Garcia said the province will stand by Executive Order (EO) No. 16 that she...
Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia took a dig on some government officials whom he said have been insisting on the strict implementation of the use of face mask but were themselves doing the opposite. In a GMA News report, Garcia presented the photos of Department of the Interior and Local Government...
CEBU CITY – A suspected drug pusher was killed while his companion escaped during a buy-bust operation inside a Chinese cemetery in Barangay Carreta here past midnight Friday, June 17. Police identified the fatality as Mark Ronald Matig-a. His alleged accomplice, June Tuñacao, was able to flee,...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) gave the Cebu Provincial Government until this weekend to correct its executive order which allows local residents the option not to wear face masks in public places. In a press briefing, DILG Sec. Eduardo Año also disclosed that he is...
The Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor (PCUP) – Field Operations Division for Visayas met with a Cebu-based developer to finalize the turnover and blessing ceremony of a 100-unit-medium rise building at Brgy. Lorega-San Miguel, Cebu City. (PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION FOR THE URBAN POOR)...
CEBU CITY – Two groups composed of elected government officials support the move of Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia to make the wearing of face masks in open areas optional. The Philippine Councilors League (PCL)-Cebu Provincial Federation and the League of Municipalities of the Philippines-Cebu...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) will be tapping government lawyers to stop the implementation of an executive order that lifts the mandatory use of face masks in the province of Cebu. DILG Sec. Eduardo Año said the Executive Order No. 16 issued by Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn...
Unperturbed by the warning from the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), authorities made no arrests in Cebu province with some doing away with the face mask rule amid the Covid-19 pandemic. In an ABS-CBN report on Thursday, June 16, Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia maintained that...
Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia was recently trending because of a “controversial” Executive Order that she signed, making the wearing of face masks optional in open and well-ventilated spaces. She clarified that this is “not totally scrapping the wearing of face mask” but giving people “a...
CEBU CITY -- Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia defended the former chief of the Cebu Provincial Police Office (CCPO) from what she described as “ungentlemanly castigation” by the officer-in-charge of the Philippine National Police (PNP). In a press briefing on Wednesday, Garcia called out Lt. Gen....
