Crackdown on illegal campaign posters starts

Carmel Loise Matus 04/12/2016

REMOVAL of campaign materials that don’t conform to size requirements and were posted on non-designated areas in Metro Cebu started yesterday evening. Two teams consisting of personnel of the Commission on Elections (Comelec), the Department of Environment…

Bets have 72 hours to remove campaign materials from trees

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 03/15/2016

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR-7) has given all candidates for the May 9, 2016 elections 72 hours to voluntarily remove campaign materials that were nailed on trees. Raul Pasoc, Cebu community environment and natural…

Heed EMB findings, Lapu gov’t told

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 03/10/2016

THE findings of the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB-7) on the coastal waters of Mactan Island must be taken positively by the Lapu-Lapu City government. Regional Director Isabelo Montejo of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR-7)…

Radaza asks DENR: Run tests to my office first

Norman V. Mendoza 03/09/2016

LAPU-LAPU City Mayor Paz Radaza asked the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to first speak with her before disclosing the results of their bacteriology test on their coastal waters. Radaza said several resort operators called…

DENR seizes illegal logs

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 02/29/2016

SEVERAL pieces of illegally logged Mangkono, a premium species of hardwood, were seized yesterday dawn by authorities in Cebu. According to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Central Visayas (DENR 7), the seized pieces of…

City gov’t should protect its property

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 02/28/2016

IT is the Cebu City government that should protect its ownership over the 4.2-hectare Osmeña Shrine in Barangay Kalunasan and not the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) 7. Amid rumors that the property would be…

2 barangays won’t give clearance to remove JP II trees

Marc Eric Cosep 12/04/2015

The Cebu City government has not yet filed an application for earth-balling with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to transfer 11 trees on Pope John Paul II Ave. in preparation for the 51st International…

DOE to fine butane station owner, but no mass confiscation

Marc Eric Cosep 11/26/2015

THE Department of Energy (DOE) will file an administrative case against the owner of the butane refilling station whose eight employees were injured by a butane canister explosion last November 3. ( Read :Eight injured in butane…

‘Don’t nail or hang posters on trees’

Nestle L. Semilla 11/25/2015

Trees are not posts on which to nail or hang campaign materials. The candidate who is promoted this way will be held liable for violating  two national laws against damaging trees in public places, said officials. Several …

DAR holds climate change resiliency forum for farmers

11/22/2015

THE Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) conducted a climate change resiliency forum with the theme, “Empowering smallholder farmers towards climate resiliency.” About 50 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) from the different agrarian reform communities in Cebu attended the…

Firm says it cleared land, not trees

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/22/2015

One of those charged by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) with the illegal cutting of  982 trees in barangay Talavera, Toledo City denied taking part in the  destruction. “Cutting of trees is not our…

Lawyer accused of land grabbing, tree cutting

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Nestle L. Semilla, Norman V. Mendoza 11/21/2015

FORMER Mandaue City administrator Briccio Boholst has been accused by an uncle of land grabbing and cutting trees without a permit within the disputed property. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) 7 ordered Boholst to…

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