Bogo City inmates cast vote in jail
By Chito O. Aragon
In an unprecedented event, inmates of the city jail here were able to exercise their right to suffrage in the facility on Monday for the nationwide midterm elections.
In an unprecedented event, inmates of the city jail here were able to exercise their right to suffrage in the facility on Monday for the nationwide midterm elections.
Tropical storm Ofel caused minor damage in a few houses, farms and a barangay road in seven barangays in Bogo City in north Cebu where the storm passed.
THE Bogo city government is asking the Cebu Ports Authority to help fund the expansion of the Pulangbato Roll-on and Roll-off Port as part of efforts to spur economic growth. The city government trying to carve out a ‘business district’ out of vast sugarcane fields in barangay Cayang. This will be completed in December or [...]
Not only Bogo City but the entire 4th district of north Cebu as well.
That was the stand of Bogo City Mayor Celestino “Junjie” Martinez Jr. on a petition by Rep. Benhur Salimbangon to place the city under the control of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for next year’s elections.
CITING violence like the Tuesday shootout in Tabuelan town involving a former anti-crime volunter of Bogo City, Cebu 4th district Rep. Benhur Salimbangon wants the northern Cebu city placed under Commission on Election control. In an interview after the filing of his certificate of candidacy (COC) yesterday morning, Salimbangon cited that there is a “problem [...]
Southeast Asian Games gold medalist John Renee Mier will don the leader’s yellow jersey today as the first leg of the four day Cebu Challenge Cycling Classic heads to Bogo City. The 20-year-old Mier took the lead after ruling yesterday’s Individual Time Trial (ITT) at the South Road Properties (SRP). Though he was never [...]
AS Bogo City marked its fifth City Charter Day, its mayor called on the League of Cities in the Philippines to drop their plan contesting the cityhood status of Bogo and other new cities.
A collector complained that he was robbed by two unidentified men in barangay Don Pedro, Bogo City, northern Cebu.
THE Commission on Audit (COA) is verifying claims by the Bogo city government that they didn’t receive any livelihood trainings from the office of Rep. Benhur Salimbangon of Cebu’s 4th district despite being listed as beneficiaries. Susan Garcia, director of COA’s Special Audit Office, said they were told by Bogo City Mayor Celestino Martinez Jr. [...]
The first natural gas power plant in Cebu was launched yesterday in barangay Libertad, Bogo City, north Cebu, with a generation capacity of one megawatt and a field life of five years.
The Cebu Provincial Board is asking the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) to conduct a feasibility study for an airport in Bogo City or Medellin town in northern Cebu. The proposal of PB Member Joven Mondigo was approved in last Monday’s out-of-town PB session in Medellin. Mondigo said it was Jose Ma. Lorenzo [...]
BOGO City Mayor Celestino “Junie” Martinez said the City of Bogo’s Anti-Criminality Task Force (CBACTF) is an augmentation force in the city’s fight against crime and not a private army. In the 888 News Forum last Tuesday, Martinez said CBACTF reinforced the limited number of policemen that monitors incidents of crime. Martinez said CBACTF members [...]
Mall giants SM and Robinsons are entertaining plans to set up shop in the old City Hall area in Bogo City. But Mayor Celestino “Junie” Martinez Jr. said such plans will only commence after the local government completes their transfer to their new office. Martinez said the Poblacion area is already congested, which compelled city [...]
