More modernized public utility jeepneys are set to ply the different routes in Cebu as 12 additional units are expected to be operational next month when the deadline to “phaseout” traditional jeepneys draws near.
LIVELIHOOD AID. Photo shows a child laborer parent-beneficiary showing the livelihood assistance she received from the Department of Labor and Employment-7. The agency said on Monday (Nov. 29, 2021) it released P4.6 million to 153 recipients in the southern Cebu town of Barili. (Photo courtesy of DOLE-7) CEBU CITY - The Department of Labor and Employment in Central Visayas (DOLE-7) has given PHP4.6 million worth of livelihood assistance to parents of profiled child laborers in Barili, southern Cebu. Around 153 parents of child laborers coming from the different barangays benefited from the livelihood program, with each receiving not less than PHP29,000 for their respective Livelihood Starter Kits (LSKs). The beneficiaries, who come from Barangays Candugay, Cagay, San Rafael, and Azucena, will engage in goat raising, cattle fattening, general merchandising, candle vending, buy and sell, frozen food products and "hanging rice" livelihood projects. "We distributed the livel