Council approves ordinance imposing one-year moratorium on demolitions

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 01/20/2016

The Cebu City Council approved an ordinance imposing a one-year moratorium on demolitions in Cebu City. During their regular session Wednesday morning, Councilor Alvin Dizon pushed for the approval of the ordinance for the second time. Several…

Mayor’s VETO keeps out moratorium on demolitions

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/26/2015

The Cebu City Council  yesterday failed to override the veto of Mayor Michael Rama who refused to approve an ordinance for  one-year moratorium on demolitions in the city. The outcome disappointed  urban poor groups hoping for relief…

Rama vetoes ordinance on demolition moratorium

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/20/2015

CEBU City Mayor Michael Rama vetoed an ordinance imposing a moratorium on evictions or demolitions undertaken by the city government. He said it contradicts national laws like the Urban Housing and Development Act (UDHA) of 1992 and…

Mayor asked to approve no demolition measure

Nestle L. Semilla 11/14/2015

URBAN poor groups held a prayer rally yesterday at City Hall to urge  Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama to approve the ordinance imposing a moratorium on demolitions. in the city. The groups were led by  the Kilusan…

Carreta demolition postponed to November 30

Nestle L. Semilla 10/24/2015

At least 78 families occupying a private lot in  barangay Carreta yesterday breathed a sigh of relief after they were allowed to stay for another month. The landowner agreed to postpone to November 30 the demolition of…

City to give P10,000 financial aid to displaced Guadalupe residents

Nestle L. Semilla 10/21/2015

THE Cebu city government will give financial assistance to the families  affected in the demolition of houses on a property owned by a lawyer in sitio ESCO-Englis, barangay Guadalupe, Cebu  City. Acting Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella…

City officials stop Guadalupe demolition

Nestle Semilla 10/20/2015

More than 100 families in sitio ESCO-Englis, barangay Guadalupe, Cebu City will be displaced after the court ordered the demolition of 46 structures in the 2,000-square-meter property of lawyer Makilito Mahinay. The sheriff served the demolition order…

Probe resumes clearing at Doña Pepang cemetery

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/14/2015

CEBU City Hall’s demolition team resumed work at the Doña Pepang Cemetery, clearing over 20 vacant niches and mausoleums yesterday. Raquel Arce, head of the Prevention, Restoration, Order, Beautification and Enhancement (Probe) team, said settlers have  voluntarily…

Settlers resist, yield to demolition

Melissa Q. Cabahug 09/18/2015

THEY tried to resist at first, even forming a human barricade to block a City Hall demolition team accompanied by police and a Special Weapons Tactics (SWAT) team. But 44 families of sitio Mahusay, barangay Subangdaku in…

Market across Pepang cemetery demolished

08/20/2015

Shanties in the  marketplace fronting the Doña Pepang Cemetery were torn down yesterday by a City Hall demolition crew a day earlier than its original schedule. “The island where the market place used to be was a…

Tensions flare as Probe tries to demolish structures

Nestle L. Semilla 08/14/2015

Cebu City’s demolition team failed to demolish two structures in  Doña Pepang cemetery in barangay Tejero yesterday after former Cebu City mayor Tomas Osmeña and his lawyer, Benjamin Militar, intervened. Osmeña, who is also a former Cebu…

Capitol Site residents ask judge to reconsider demolition order

08/14/2015

Hundreds of residents living in a sitio Santa Cruz lot in barangay Capitol Site asked the Regional Trial Court Judge Wilfredo Navarro of branch 19 to heed their call to exclude their lot from the demolition order…

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