NEWS BRIEFS
Rainy week for Cebu
CEBU wraps up its week with more rains ahead, the Mactan office of the state weather bureau Pag-asa said yesterday.
Pagasa Mactan weather analyst Boy Artiaga said a low pressure area (LPA) in Palawan is affecting the climate in Cebu.
“This will last until Sunday,” Artiaga said in Visayan. Correspondent Carmel Loise Matus
Mandaue City budget passed
THE Mandaue City Council passed the city’s P1.6-billion budget for 2012 without any cuts last Wednesday.
Councilor Beethoven Andaya said there was no need for budget cuts. “If there were sufficient funds, we would have added more,” he said.
The P1.6 billion was P6.6-million higher than this year’s budget of P953 million.
The Department of General Services gets the biggest funding at P221,493,207.80.
They are followed by the City Engineers’ Office with P85.5 million and the mayor’s office with P68.9 million.
Personnel services gets the biggest outlay at P243,375,004 followed by debt servicing at P114,763,000.
The city’s development fund is set at P82,721,997.80 million or about 20 percent of the city’s projected Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) share of P413,609,982.
About P53 million from debt servicing will be derived from the city’s general funds. Cortes said the budget doesn’t exceed the city’s total estimated income. Reporter Jucell Marie P. Cuyos
Aloguinsan farmers complaint
SIX farmers filed a complaint for grave misconduct against 38 police officers who arrested them while they tried to stop the fencing of Hacienda Gantuangco in Aloguinsan town, midwest Cebu, last Aug. 29.
The six farmers sought the Ombudsman-Visayas’s intervention on their case, claiming they were beaten up by the police during their confrontation.
Over 30 farmers and three college students were arrested after they clashed with policemen over ownership of the farmland in Aloguinsan town.
Police claimed they were attacked by the farmers and students when they enforced the court order allowing the Gantuangco family to fence a parcel of land in Aloguinsan. Reporter Ador Vincent Mayol
