MCPO, TEAM told to strictly enforce anti-mendicancy ordinance

Mary Rose Sagrino 05/13/2024

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu – A Mandaue City Councilor wants a city ordinance that prohibits begging in public places and business establishments strictly enforced to especially avoid road accidents from happening. In a resolution that she authored and…

TEAM: It’s unsafe to stay under the Maguikay flyover

Mary Rose Sagarino 08/10/2023

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu — Loitering under the Maguikay flyover in Mandaue City is prohibited. On Wednesday, August 9, personnel of the Traffic Enforcement Agency of Mandaue (TEAM) asked a group of men, whom they saw there, to vacate…

Police, concerned agencies to do daily rescues of mendicants in Cebu City’s streets

Pegeeen Maisie Sararaña 02/20/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Policemen and concerned city government agencies in Cebu City will now do daily rescues of mendicants and mentally-disturbed individuals loitering the city’s streets. Police Lieutenant Colonel Janette Rafter, deputy city director for operations…

Public warned: Don’t give alms to beggars on Cebu City streets or you will be apprehended, fined

Wenilyn Sabalo 12/22/2022

  CEBU CITY, Philippines — Starting Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022, the Cebu City Anti-Mendicancy Board (CCAMB) will conduct rescue operations and issue citation tickets to mendicants and those who will be caught giving cash or any material…

Mandaue execs ready measures to keep beggars, badjaos, deranged persons off the streets

Mary Rose Sagarino 11/14/2022

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines — There will be no beggars, Badjaos, and mentally deranged persons on Mandaue City streets soon. This is because the City Social Welfare and Services and the Mandaue City Enforcement Unit have been requested…

50 mendicants rescued from Cebu City streets

Pegeen Maisie M. Sararaña 06/24/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A total of 50 mendicants were rescued in Cebu City in a joint operation conducted by the police and Cebu City government personnel on Friday, June 24, 2022. These street dwellers composed of…

NCRPO: 535 street beggars rescued during holiday season

Inquirer.net 12/16/2018

Manila, Philippines — More than 500 indigenous individuals begging on the streets this Christmas holiday were rescued by authorities following various operations that were conducted around Metro Manila. According to the data of the National Capital Region…

Your last happiest days

Raymund Fernandez 03/14/2017

In the ’70s, we told each other in posters: “Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” Today, the same thought is better said this way: “These are your last happiest days.” Either way,…

Prohibiting alms

06/05/2016

Despite an existing ordinance prohibiting the giving of alms, beggars like this mother and her child at the intersection of Pope John Paul II Ave. and S. Osmeña Blvd. continue to proliferate. (CDN PHOTO / CHRISTIAN MANINGO)…

Get kids off the streets with love

Frauline Maria Sinson 02/13/2016

Love  is necessary to keep children off the streets.  Often, it has to be a tough kind of love where one has to say ‘no’ to a child who is begging for food or money. “Gugma, dili…

TEMP SHELTER, BUT NO ALMS

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 12/24/2015

Cebu City welfare office  deals with December, January influx of street beggars A temporary shelter for street dwellers or beggars in Cebu City will be ready soon, said a city official. “We have our own coming shelter…

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