Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG)-7 Director Leocadio Trovela joined Undersecretary Terence Calatrava of the Office of the Presidential Assistant for the Visayas (OPAV) and other government officials in walk through at the rice retailers section of Carbon Public Market on Thursday, September 14, 2023.
The micro rice retailers in Cebu received cash assistance on Thursday during the Distribution of Sustainable Livelihood Program Economic Relief Subsidy to Micro Retailers in Cebu in collaboration with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Department of Agriculture.
DILG-7 Director Leocadio Trovela joined the distribution of cash assistance at the Cebu City-Interim Bldg., Carbon Public Market, where eight micro rice retailers received P15,000 each.
The simultaneous cash assistance distributions are for qualified micro rice retailers who were affected by the implementation of Executive Order (EO) 39, which imposed a mandated price ceiling on rice.
USec Calatrava, PBGen Anthony A Aberin, Dir. Trovela and other government officials led the joint monitoring of on mandated price ceiling in Carbon Market.
Also present during the ceremony were Cebu City Councilor Junjun Osmeña Jr., DTI Cebu Provincial Director Rose Mae Quiñanola, DILG Cebu City Director Dr. Neila Aquino, DSWD-7 Division Chief Emma Patalinghug, and other government officials.
In Region 7, a total of 87 micro rice retailers received cash assistance on Thursday under the Sustainable Livelihood Program of the DSWD.
