Cebu

Francisco Comendador III faces up to six months without pay after a rival port operator accused him of letting vessels dock at a private terminal in violation of rules meant to protect the state port authority's own facilities.

Ombudsman Jesus Crispin Remulla says a quarter of the six-year Cebu flood-control allocation went to a single contractor and another quarter to one congressional district, as he orders lifestyle checks on DPWH engineers and a province-wide review of whether projects were ghost, substandard, or simply mis-designed.