Exercising the Fourth Estate’s power to line/item veto the provincial government’s budget, SunStar today cut the Capitol’s budget increase by some P198 million pesos. In the story submitted by the reporter, it was reported:
“The P2.2-billion for next year is just a little higher than this year’s budget of P2.001 billion.”
The P199 million increase, however, was apparently unacceptable to the headline writer, who wrote:
Capitol hikes 2008 budget by P200T
thereby decreasing the appropriation for FY 2008 by around P198 million pesos, money that could have gone to basic services.
The Governor would not say whether she would exercise her power to veto the budget cut.
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Hi. Im in the other side of the world yet all we hear is still the same problem over and over…only time can tell when this will end. In the newspaper, we always read ä gun man in Cebu”killed … how can we stop this? Maybe by imposing check points in the designated areas…pls stop the killing..stop corruption…
Forever a third world country. People are so poor…but govt officals are rich. WE all know this. Shame…we laugh at all this so called political leaders…not all…but almost all. They dont even care how many families dont have proper toilets and homes.Children begging money and a very dirty city. Cheers to Talisay City, its quite ok compared to Cebu City.