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• Hotels asked to lower rates for local tourists.
  The Department of Tourism in Central Visayas said it is now working with hotel operators in Cebu to lower room rates in an attempt to trigger interest of the local market to take vacation within the province. According to tourism undersecretary Arturo Boncato Jr. hotels and resorts in Cebu agreed to slash rates in order to boost domestic bookings. Buscato met with key tourism stakeholders in Cebu, together with tourism officers in 40 towns and cities within the province to start of programs which drum up local spending in tourism. Hotels and resorts are encouraged to offer attractive and much affordable prices in order to draw interest from the domestic market.
• Experiences Of The Philippine National Police Non-Commissioned Police Officers (PNP-NCPO) In The Implementation Of Anti-Drug Campaign Program
• Experience Of Non-Commissioned Police Officers (PNP NCPO) In The Implementation Of Anti- Drug Campaign Program
• VP Leni to launch anti-poverty program in Cebu, Bohol.
  The VP Leni Robredo noted they were looking into the good programs of various local government units that can be replicated by other LGUs apart from the Angat Buhay program.
• The community views on anti-illegal gambling operation of the Philippine National Police
• AIRLINES SUSPEND ALL INTERNATIONAL, DOMESTIC FLIGHTS
  LOCAL carriers are temporarily suspending fights following the ''enhanced community quarantine'' in Luzon announced by the Philippine government on Monday March 16, 2020
• Source of corruption
  Getting rid of corruption in government, whether at the national or local, should be the goal of each administration.
• DOLE-7 dolesn out over P20M to tupad workers in Mandaue
  The DEpartment of Labor and Employment has turned a total of P20.6 million to 4, 726 beneficiaries of its Tulong Panghanapnuhay sa ating disadvantaged/displaced workers or (TUPAD) in Mandaue City.
• Province, millers concur: 20-day quarantine of raw materials from Mindanao
  As part of the preventive measures against the spread of African swine fever (ASF), local feed millers and the Cebu Provincial Government have agreed to subject raw materials from Mindanao to a 20-day quarantine.
• Tokyo rebuffs pound: No plans to cancel Olympics
  Tokyo-A spokesman for the Japanese government on Wednesday said the International Olympic Committee and local organizers are going as planned with the Tokyo Olympics
• Enforcing laws in open economy during COVID-19 pandemic: narrative of police managers
• Community views on human rights aspects of police service in Cebu
• Community views on human rights aspects of police service in Cebu City
• Community views on human rights aspects of police service in Cebu
• Hong Kong plans handouts, tax cuts to counter woes
  Hong Kong's government is proposing a nearly US$1,300 cash handout for each resident over 18 years old to help alleviate hardships brought on by the spreading viral outbreak and prolonged political protests.
• The order of battle: community views on red-tagging practices
• GSIS, Manila City sign loan transfer scheme
  State-run Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) and the Manila City Government have signed an agreement allowing employees to transfer and consolidate their loans from private lending institutions to the pension fund.
• City cops capture 'most wanted' man
  A man tagged by the local police as the most wanted person in Cebu was arrested recently, but he questioned his being ranked as the number one criminal.
• Over 2K vacancies for seekers of employment in Mandaue
  At least 2,000 vacancies for local employment are up for grabs at the Mandaue City Public Employment Services Office (PESO).
• Over importation of meat, vegetables hurts growers, farmers
  Senatorial bet and Ilocos Norte Gov. Imee Marcos has urged the Department of Agriculture to arrest the over-importation of pork and chicken meat, saying this is hurting the local industry, particularly backyard raisers who have been selling their produce at cost or at a loss just to recover their investment.
• SM Group extends P100M Covid - 19 aid
  THE SM Group is allowance P100 million towards Covid - 19 outbreak support to Philippine General Hospital (PGH), Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) and other government hospitals.
• Cebu City street vendors get P8M aid from Dole
  THE Cebu City Government received PS million in cash aid from the Department of Labor and Employment (Dole on Tuesday, March 17, 2020, and it will be distributed to the 400 street vendors affected by road clearing operations in the later part of 2019
• Bohol Imposes 5-Day Community Quarantine
  The Bohol provincial government will place the entire province on a community quarantine and will not be accepting visitors from outside Bohol starting midnight of monday, march 16 until friday, march 20, 2020.
• Congress votes to avert rail strike amid dire warnings
  Washington - Legislation to avert what could have been economically ruinous freight rail strike won final approval in Congress on Thursday as lawmakers responded quickly to President Joe Biden's call for federal intervention in a long-running labor dispute.
• Cebu provincial capitol to charge for parking soon
  The Cebu Provincial Government will soon charge clients for the use of parking spaces in the Capitol compound.