No safety gear

02/19/2016

Without any safety gear in place to protect them, these two members of a demolition team begin dismantling houses at M. Velez St., Sitio Sta. Cruz, Barangay Capitol. (CDN PHOTO/JUNJIE MENDOZA)…

Capitol Site settlers yield to demolition

Marc Eric Cosep 02/18/2016

Settlers who earlier resisted the demolition team in Sitio Sta. Cruz Barangay Capitol Site, Cebu City have packed their belongings and left their homes an hour before noon yesterday. Still others like 39-year-old Diane Culpa pleaded with…

Settlers pack belongings as demolition team resumes job

Marc Eric Cosep 02/18/2016

THE settlers who previously stood up against the demolition team in sitio Sta. Cruz, barangay Capitol Site, Cebu City had packed their belongings and left their homes at 9 a.m. Thursday. Most of the 40 families whose…

40 houses demolished

Marc Eric Cosep 02/17/2016

Despite  some resistance from residents, the demolition of houses in an area in barangay Capitol Site, Cebu City finally pushed through yesterday. The demolition team will return today after tearing down 40 of the 150 houses in…

Demolition team tears down five of 150 houses in Capitol Site

Marc Eric Cosep 02/17/2016

ONLY the rains prevented a demolition team from completing their job in sitio Sta. Cruz, barangay Capitol Site in Cebu City Wednesday. The demolition team arrived early and dismantled five of the 150 structures in the area…

DPWH evicts 50 bridge families

Nestle L. Semilla, Vanessa Claire Lucero 02/17/2016

For more than 20 years, Nelson Heyrosa has been an “under-the-bridge” dweller but he will soon have to vacate the house  he built beneath the Mandaue-Mactan Bridge. Heyrosa, 52,  a former messenger of the Mandaue city government, …

Capitol Site demolition to push through today

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 02/16/2016

The demolition of several houses in Barangay Capitol Site, Cebu City will proceed today. Sheriff El Cid Caballes announced this after a closed-door meeting with Judge Wilfredo Navarro of the Regional Trial Court Branch 19 in Cebu…

Settlers block demolition team in Capitol Site

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 02/16/2016

Settlers of a lot located near the regional National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) office in Sitio Sta. Cruz, Barangay Capitol Site in Cebu City formed a human barricade to block a demolition team at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday.…

Labella stops demolition

Marc Eric Cosep 02/11/2016

Cebu City Vice Mayor Edgardo Labella stopped the demolition of houses in Sitio Kamansi, Barangay Mabolo yesterday. Labella said this is the fourth time that informal settlers occupying the private lot owned by Aznar Enterprise Inc. were…

No override on demolition moratorium; Dizon quits committee chair post

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 02/10/2016

Cebu City Councilor Alvin Dizon relinquished his chairmanship of the council’s housing committee after the council failed to override another veto on his ordinance that seeks to impose a one-year moratorium on demolitions. “I feel I let…

Demolition moratorium vetoed anew

Marc Eric Cosep 02/06/2016

For the second time, the Cebu City executive department rejected  the ordinance that provides for  a one-year moratorium on demolitions in the city. Acting Mayor Edgardo Labella vetoed the ordinance because it violates the Urban Development and…

One-year freeze on demolitions

Marc Eric Cosep 01/21/2016

The Cebu City Council approved for the second time an ordinance imposing a one-year moratorium on all demolition andclearing operations by the city government. In yesterday’s session,  Councilor Alvin Dizon, who authored the ordinance, said the one-year…

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