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+ April 27, 2021 I THOUGHT that it was a joke when I first heard the news that the Quezon City police and the National Task Force to End the Local Communist Insurgency (NTF-Elcac) red-tagged the community pantry that Ana Patricia Non started in Maginhawa Street, Quezon City. Non had to stop temporarily her community work to avoid the red-tagging. The police probably misread the community pantry sign as communist party (lol).
The matter was made worse when NTF-Elcac spokesman Army Lieutenant General Antonio Parlade Jr. called the senators stupid as he lamented the plan of some senators to defund the NTF-Elcac. The Senate approved the P19-billion budget for the task force this year and the P16 billion is budgeted for development projects for the 800 villages in the country that were freed of the influence by the communist rebels.
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(File photo) April 26, 2021 THE Cebu Provincial Government is planning to buy the excess supply of cabbage from farmers in Dalaguete town, southern Cebu, and distribute them to charities, district and provincial hospitals, religious organizations, jail facilities, and police offices, and other institutions.
It is also planning to tap community pantries as a venue to encourage individuals to distribute food, such as vegetables, to those in need.
The excess supply of cabbage is a result of a steep decrease in demand as an effect of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic, according to Sugbo News.
In 2020 when strict quarantine checkpoints were enforced for months, at least two tons of unsold assorted vegetables go to waste daily in Dalaguete, which is considered Cebu’s “Vegetable Basket.” This resulted in huge losses for the farmers.
Despite standing ban, Garcia gives exemption for Manila Bay dolomite shipment
Apr 19, 2021 3:03 PM PHT
Lorraine Ecarma
Despite a standing ban on the domestic sale and shipment of dolomite from the Municipality of Alcoy, Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia confirmed she had given a special exemption for a shipment of dolomite intended for the rehabilitation of Manila Bay.
During an address to the province on Monday, April 19, she confirmed giving the go-signal for the shipment of 8,600 cubic meters of dolomite sand and 6,600 cubic meters of dolomite pebbles to Manila.
“We did not want na ma-caught in the middle ang DENR for that project. Di ko manghilabot sa debate kung unsa na ang dolomite or whatever. If that was given clearance, then, we will allow. So, we allowed but at a very specific volume,” she said.
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Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia. (File photo: Screenshot from Sugbo News Facebook Live)
+ April 13, 2021 THE Cebu Provincial Government is planning to take back the 679-square-meter property along Gorordo Avenue that was donated by the previous administration in August 2018 to the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) 7.
Governor Gwendolyn Garcia said the donation was “defective.” She said that the Commission on Audit (COA) submitted an observation that the donation did not have its approval.
“This deed of donation needs to be revoked and enter into a deed of usufruct with CIDG for another piece of property that the CIDG and Cebu Provincial Government decide upon in the designated government center,” said Garcia.