Cebu City to deploy buses for stranded passengers on Monday

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/15/2017

Cebu City Councilor Dave Tumulak assured that 15 Kaohsiung buses will be on standby for stranded passengers on Monday, October 16 due to a scheduled transport strike. Transport group Piston will be holding a nationwide transport strike…

Heritage church in Dauis restored

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/14/2017

BOHOL EARTHQUAKE 4TH ANNIVERSARY Located 3.1 kilometers southwest of Tagbilaran City, Bohol, is the town of Dauis on the island of Panglao. Exactly four years ago, on October 15, 2013, parishioners witnessed portions of the town’s centuries-old…

‘Pay for volume, not hourly rate for garbage’

Inna Gian Mejia, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/12/2017

Barug Team Rama bloc says they were unable to review contract Instead of paying hourly rates to private garbage trucks to collect Cebu City’s garbage, some opposition councilors suggested that they be paid based on the volume…

Opposition backs review of anti-drug campaign

Inna Gian Mejia, Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Norman V. Mendoza 10/12/2017

SOME Barug Team Rama councilors supported yesterday the decision of Cebu City barangays to temporarily suspend the labeling of “drug-free” houses pending review. While they were mixed over the campaign initiated by Barangay Ermita, the opposition bloc…

Barug Team Rama bloc questions truck rentals

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/11/2017

OPPOSITION councilors in Cebu City questioned the city government’s rental of 21 compactor and dump trucks for the city’s garbage collection program. “The contract is very disadvantageous to the city government,” Councilor Jocelyn “Joy” Pesquera said. Starting…

Rupinta reinstates vendors, but sets conditions

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/11/2017

Ambulant fish vendors outside the Unit 1 of Carbon Public Market have asked Barangay Ermita to allow them to sell in the area again. Members of the Carbon Integrated Fish-Chicken Vendors Association (CIFVA) met with Ermita Barangay…

Brgy chiefs wary of putting tip boxes in their areas

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/10/2017

ASSOCIATION of Barangay Councils (ABC) Cebu City president Philip Zafra has also expressed his reservations on the putting up of boxes where people could drop names of those allegedly involved in illegal drugs in each of the…

Cebu City Council commends UC for ‘unprecented’ feat

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/10/2017

UNIVERSITY of Cebu’s (UC) latest feat did not go unnoticed. A day after the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) released results of the 2017 Naval Architect and Marine Engineer Licensure Examination (NAMELE), the top honors of which were…

BRGY TIP BOX

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/09/2017

Boxes to be placed in villages where residents can drop names of those involved in drugs, corruption; CHR, church wary This is one drop box where you don’t want your name to be drawn. The Department of…

Governor gives alternative to shame campaign: Jobs

Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Morexette B. Erram 10/09/2017

Provide drug users and surrenderers jobs that can help the community. Cebu Gov. Hilario Davide III suggested this alternative instead of implementing different versions of the shame campaign done by some barangays in Cebu and Lapu-Lapu cities.…

MORE BRGYS WANT ‘DRUG-FREE’ DRIVE

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/08/2017

Barangay Ermita has gained a supporter in its campaign of labeling households which they have identified as “drug-free.” The Association of Barangay Council (ABC) in Cebu City is pushing for a dialogue with the Commission on Human…

Materials recovery facility eyed at Inayawan landfill

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/08/2017

CEBU City Hall wants to set up a centralized materials recovery facility (MRF) inside the already closed Inayawan landfill. Councilor Eugenio Gabuya Jr. authored an ordinance to put up an MRF in the closed landfill’s five-hectare service…

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