EXPLAINER: Cebu City Government owes BIR P3.989B in 2009-2010 taxes. With June 30 deadline, amnesty may reduce debt to P230M. Pay up or else. Who's to blame?
SunStar
+ May 21, 2021 A FORMER barangay official and ally of former Cebu City mayor Tomas Osmeña accused incumbent Cebu City Councilor Raymond Alvin Garcia of ordering the cutting off of the fuel allocation of some barangays.
In his Facebook post, former Tejero barangay councilor Garry Lao showed photos of a May 12, 2021 memo by Garcia ordering lawyer June Maratas of the City’s Department of General Services (DGS) to cancel the gas allowance for some vehicles owned by Barangays Tejero and Tinago.
Garcia, in an interview, said only the gas allowance of vehicles that are not indicated as essential vehicles were cut off.
SunStar Seares: Public issue in Councilor Mabatid’s private dance: Can public officials not behave like ordinary people?
+ May 15, 2021 A VIDEO of Cebu City Councilor Prisca Nina Mabatid dancing with an unidentified man in a party went viral last week, prompting mixed reactions from internet users, some of whom criticized the dancing as erotic, scandalous and unbecoming of a councilor who heads the Sanggunian committee on women and children and a would-be congresswoman – and the activity as breach of pandemic protocol.
ALLEGED THEFT, BRIBE. Last Thursday, May 13, Mabatid struck back in live video on her Facebook page: The dance video was “stolen,” she charged, by her secretary who was paid by BOPK, and posted by a chat group supporting that local party. She presented no evidence of the alleged theft and alleged bribe. Mabatid belongs to Barug, dominant party at City Hall and BOPK’s rival.
Wayne Peteau
The families of Raymond Garcia and Wayne Peteau are aching for their loved ones while trying to determine who would want the men dead. Both men are described as loving and easygoing who never had any issues with anyone. That is why when the location where the men would usually hangout was the target of gunmen, their friends and family were taken aback. Garcia, Peteau, and two other men, all middle aged men, were socializing inside a small building on Church Street in Belize City on Saturday, May 8, like they usually would. This night, however, would take a turn for the worse around 9:00 p.m. when gunshots were fired into the building. It was two men traveling on a motorcycle who were responsible for these shots. After the gunfire subsided, Garcia lay dead on the floor while Peteau and a third man, Gilbert Moss, were injured. Unfortunately for Peteau, however, he succumbed to his injuries within minutes of arriving at the hospital. The fourth person who was with them, So
May 10, 2021
Raymond Garcia & Wayne Peteau
Weekend violence left two men dead and another injured in Belize City. Today the families say their loved ones were not the intended targets. News Five Reporter Andrea Polanco tells us more:
Andrea Polanco, Reporting
Four men were socializing inside this small building on Church Street on Saturday night, but in a matter of minutes sometime around nine o’clock, two were dead and one other was left injured. Two men on a motorcycle approached the building and fired several shots – neighbours say they heard as many as nine fired off – and when the air cleared, Raymond Garcia had been killed on the spot. Wayne Peteau died minutes later at the hospital.