Entries Tagged as 'Government'

Neighboring areas complain against ‘Imperial Cebu’

December 10th, 2005 · No Comments

Cebu, according to Dumaguete City Mayor Agustin Perdices, is “becoming like Imperial Manila.” Perdices and Siquijor Gov. Orlando Fua complained in yesterday’s Regional Development Council meeting that Cebu is cornering most of the projects approved for Central Visayas.
Here’s Sun.Star’s story on the issue:
DUMAGUETE CITY - Tired of hearing about so many infrastructure projects for Cebu, [...]

Tags: Government · cebu news

Prove Cebu City is not Murder City

November 23rd, 2005 · No Comments

Mayor Tomas Osmeña isn’t worried by the rash of killings of suspected criminals in Cebu City. “It’s worse for the city’s image if there are many criminals,” he said in a press conference.
So the recent killings of “criminals”-of previous convicts-don’t give an impression that Cebu City has many criminals?
Mayor Osmeña had admitted he may have [...]

Tags: Government · cebu news · planner

Google bombing of President Arroyo, Cabinet secretaries succeeds

November 21st, 2005 · No Comments

Start sending your e-mails now: the campaign by activists to google bomb President Arroyo’s website with the search term “pekeng pangulo” or fake president has succeeded. Check it out. Go to www.google.com enter pekeng pangulo in the search field and click on I’m Feeling Lucky or Sinuswerte Ako.
The Young Radicals blog, which initiated the campaign, [...]

Tags: Government · Internet · Politics

Pinoy politics in RSS feeds

November 12th, 2005 · 1 Comment

With the number of blogs discussing Philippine politics, how does one monitor postings without getting tied up in blog-hopping for hours? With an RSS reader, of course. I recommend Google Reader even if it suffers short (less than a minute) downtimes once every few days. Bloglines, the reader I used before I transferred to Google [...]

Tags: Blogs · Government · Highlights · Politics · RSS

Stop vigilante killings, Cebu City councilors ask police

November 10th, 2005 · No Comments

Cebu City will continue to bear its new label “Murder City” if the city police can’t stop the series of vigilante killings that has claimed 102 lives as of last Monday, Sun.Star Cebu reported.

Tags: Government · cebu news

Cebu City Hall, Capitol are blogging

November 10th, 2005 · No Comments

I found this morning, via Technorati, a link to a new blog by the Cebu City Government. From the date of the “Hello World” entry, which is automatically published when you install WordPress, Blog Cebu City was set up only yesterday.
It appears that the site is still being configured-what with the default Hello World entry [...]

Tags: Blogs · Government