Cenro: Providing trash bins in all public places ‘too expensive’ for city

Rosalie Abatayo 12/31/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Environment and Natural Resources Office (CCenro) has renewed its call for the public to dispose of their garbage properly. Providing trash bins in public places, however, is a different story.…

Cenro wants designated smoking areas part of OBO, business permit requirements

Rosalie Abatayo 12/31/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines —  Two years into the effectivity of Cebu City’s Anti-Smoking in Public Ordinance, the City Environment and Natural Resources Office (Cenro) admitted that several establishments are still non-compliant with the requirement of putting up…

Zapatera chief facing preventive suspension: I am innocent

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 12/19/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Barangay Zapatera Captain Francisco Benedicto is facing preventive suspension by the Cebu City Council for alleged corruption, harassment, illegal termination, and acts prejudicial to the interest of the public service. “I am facing…

Cebu City’s Cenro impounds five trucks hauling sand with no delivery receipts

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 12/18/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Environment and Natural Resources (Cenro) apprehended five trucks carrying sand in Barangays San Roque and Tinago in Cebu City for falsified or lacking delivery receipts (DR).  Lawyer John Jigo Dacua,…

Water treatment facility needed to solve City Jail wastewater problem

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 12/18/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines—The Cebu City government is doing “all it can” to solve the overflow of waste water from the City Jail in Barangay Kalunasan.  Lawyer John Jigo Dacua, the head of the City Environment and Natural…

Environmental lawyer goes to CA to stop DENR, DPWH from cutting down roadside trees

Rosalie O. Abatayo 10/03/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Environmental lawyer Benjamin Cabrido has asked the appellate court in Cebu City to order the stoppage of the cutting of roadside trees in Cebu. Cabrido filed before the Court of Appeals in Cebu…

Cebu City to plant 3 million seedlings in 3 years

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 09/29/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City government intends to plant three million seedlings in the next three years as its contribution to the fight against climate change. Mayor Edgardo Labella said he wanted to see a…

Cebu Cenro needs help cleaning up Mahiga Creek

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 09/10/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines—The Cebu City Environment and Natural Resources Office (Cenro) is calling on volunteers and establishments to help them in the clean up of the Mahiga Creek on Saturday, September 14, 2019. Lawyer John Jigo Dacua, the…

CCLEX employees plant guyabano seedlings in mountain barangay of Buot, Cebu City

PR 08/24/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Cebu Cordova Link Expressway Corporation (CCLEC), owner and operator of Cebu-Cordova Link Expressway (CCLEX) project, mobilized its employees to Barangay Buot, Cebu City and planted guyabano seedlings with the officers and members…

Cebu City’s Cenro, volunteers clean-up swamp in Brgy Basak San Nicolas

Doris C. Bongcac 08/24/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (Cenro) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Central Visayas (DENR-7) organized earlier today, August 24, a clean-up drive in Sitio Lusimba, Barangay Basak…

Cenro Chief: Lack of discipline caused Guadalupe River’s dismal state

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 08/17/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The 5, 000 volunteers who joined the Guadalupe River clean-up this morning, August 17, collected at least 21 tons of garbage. But Lawyer John Jigo Dacua, head of the Cebu City Environment and…

Pasil market clean-up: 15 unauthorized stalls closed down, drainage declogging underway

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 08/08/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines—The Cebu City Market Authority in coordination with the barangays and the City Environment and Natural Resources Office (Cenro) has closed down 15 unauthorized stalls in the second major clearing operation at the Pasil Public…

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