Cordova incumbent councilor and mayor-elect Cesar "Didoy" Suan. (Photofrom Mayor Cesar Suan's FB page) CEBU CITY - Unfazed by an electoral protest threat, the mayor-elect of Cordova town on Friday pledged to intensify the municipal scholarship program and provide free rides for the people. Incumbent Councilor and incoming mayor Cesar "Didoy" Suan said in a presser while his legal team is ready to answer a possible electoral protest by his rival, Mayor Therese "Teche" Sitoy-Cho, he has consulted the people of Cordova on his plans for the next 100 days. Suan said increasing the number of scholarship slots is one of his top priorities once he assumes office on July 1 as the new mayor of the town where the new 8.9-kilometer Cebu-Cordova Link Expressway (CCLEX) linked to this capital city is located. He is confident that he can accommodate some 1,500 more scholars. Suan said the town will partner with incoming Cebu 6th District Rep. Daphne Lagon and Ako Bis
MULTI-SECTORAL MEETING. Senate president Vicente Sotto III speaks with leaders of various sectoral groups in a town hall meeting at the Shangri-la Mactan Hotel Resort in Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu on Friday (Oct. 8, 2021). Sotto pitched the BRAVE program that would enable LGUs to finance various development projects. (PNA photo by John Rey Saavedra) CEBU CITY - Senate president Vicente Sotto III has underscored the bottom-up budgeting scheme as an effective way of empowering local government units (LGUs) in pump-priming development in the countryside, as he engaged multi-sector groups in the provinces of Central Visayas on Friday. Sotto said the Budget Reform Advocacy for Village Empowerment (BRAVE) program would guarantee an annual Local Development Fund (LDF) to help LGUs in provinces, cities, towns, and barangays implement their three-year comprehensive development plans. In July 2019, Senator Panfilo Lacson filed Senate Bill 23 seeking to provide direct LDF to the LGUs and providing for