Osmeña to shut down offices

Nestle L. Semilla 07/02/2016

CEBU City Mayor Tomas Osmeña will shut down offices in Cebu City Hall that he deems useless unless their heads can justify their existence. In last Friday’s press conference, Osmeña said some of the 90 offices in…

CAIB to tabloid: Stop lewd stories

Marc Eric Cosep 02/11/2016

THE Cebu City Anti-Indecency Board (CAIB) will ask a tabloid circulating in the city to stop publishing lewd and very descriptive stories. Lucelle Mercado, Cebu City administrator, said yesterday that they will call the attention of the…

Party organizers told: Don’t hire sexy dancers

Marc Eric Cosep 12/22/2015

Anti-indecency body warning Party organizers in Cebu City were warned against hiring the services of sexy dancers for Christmas and New Year’s Day celebrations. Remember that some minors may be watching, said Lucelle Mercado, Cebu City Administrator…

City Hall destroys sexy magazines, video karera

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 12/18/2015

SEIZED illegal gambling machines and “pornograpic”  materials were destroyed at the Cebu City Hall grounds yesterday. Almost 20 issues of  FHM and Cosmopolitan magazine confiscated in past months by the  Cebu City Anti-Indecency Board were ripped up.…

Suggestive shows

07/28/2015

It’s been over a week now but  the warning issued by Cebu City Hall Administrator Lucelle Mercado to  organizers of the Vice Ganda concert not to stage a similar  show still reflects the deep conservatism of city…

Billboard ‘too sexy’ for City Hall

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 07/07/2015

Cebu City Administrator Lucelle Mercado  has ordered the removal of billboards promoting the Cebu concert of  TV celebrity Vice Ganda for being “sexually suggestive”. She said that as chairman of the Cebu City Anti-Indecency Board, she was…

Public hearing today on plan to amend the anti-indecency ordinance

Doris C. Bongcac 10/08/2014

The Cebu City Council will hold a public hearing today on the proposed amendment to an ordinance that would expand the authority of the Cebu City Anti-Indecency Board (CAIB). Councilor Leah Japson, proponent of the amendatory ordinance,…

CCPC says no to magazine seizures

09/26/2014

Cebu journalists  and private sector partners are opposing a move to reinforce the power of  the Cebu City Anti-Indecency Board (CAIB) to confiscate magazines and newspapers “even without any prior court order.” A resolution  strongly opposing this…

Magazines, DVDs seized from book shop and theater

Doris C. Bongcac 07/08/2014

The Cebu City Anti-Indecency Board (CAIB) confiscated DVDs from vendors at the old Vision Theater in Colon Street and glossy magazines from a book shop in a mall in separate operations. The Book Sale outlet in SM…

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