Night-shift differential pay for Cebu City government employees pushed

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 12/08/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Councilor Jose Lorenzo Abellanosa has drafted and filed an ordinance granting night-shift differential pay to some Cebu City government employees. The City council, during its regular session on Wednesday, December 7,…

DPS head wants to refer proposed garbage collection fee increase to city’s Solid Waste Management Board

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 12/03/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Lawyer Jigo Dacua, Cebu City Department of Public Services (DPS) head, wants to refer first the proposed garbage collection fee increase by the City Treasurer’s Office (CTO) to the Cebu City Solid Waste…

Mayor Rama wants increase in fines for indiscriminate throwing of garbage in Cebu City

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 11/29/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Residents and visitors in Cebu City should take the garbage ordinance of the city more seriously as Mayor Michael Rama has suggested increasing the city-imposed fines for violators to discourage the public from…

City Council to DPS: Submit garbage truck inventory on or before Oct. 5

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 09/24/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Council has agreed to request the city’s Department of Public Services (DPS) to submit an inventory report of all the city-owned garbage trucks on or before Oct. 5, 2022. Councilor…

Rama wants all Cebu City streets lighted by July 1

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 06/17/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama has instructed the Visayan Electric and Department of Public Services (DPS) to light up all the streets in the city by July 1, 2022.  Rama said that all…

Almost 68,000 kilos of garbage collected in Cebu City’s quarterly clean-up

Dyrecka Letigio 09/18/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Almost 68,000 kilos of garbage were collected from Cebu City’s major waterways during the city’s quarterly coastal clean-up on September 18, 2021. The Coastal Management Task Force (CMTF) reported 27,150 kilos of garbage…

Cebu City Council scrutinizes contract with Inayawan transfer station contractor

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 06/30/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Council is not impressed with the current contract of the city government with the Inayawan Transfer Station contractor, DOCAST, amounting to P404 million for one year. The Council held a…

Councilor Rama pushes for more garbage transfer stations

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 06/22/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Councilor Eduardo Rama, Jr., the City Council’s chairperson for the committee on public services, said that the city needs more transfer stations to address its mounting problem on garbage collection. Rama…

New garbage collection schedule set in Cebu City

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 02/09/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines—The Cebu City Department of Public Services (DPS) has updated the schedule of garbage collection here.  This was in response to the mandate of Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella to give residents more time to…

Health frontliners can now apply for free accommodation in Cebu City

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 03/31/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines—The Cebu City government is now accepting applications for free accommodation for health and medical frontliners.  Lawyer John Jigo Dacua, the head of the Department of Public Services, announced this on Tuesday, March 31, 2020.…

Disinfection of Cebu City roads begins

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 03/31/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines—The Cebu City government took advantage of the lesser number of vehicles and people on the city’s major thoroughfares and began disinfecting these areas to bolster the fight against the spread of the coronavirus disease…

DPS wants bottled water companies to provide nets for recycling within Sinulog routes

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 01/03/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines–The Cebu City Department of Public Services (DPS) is asking bottled-water companies to provide recycling nets that the public can throw their used bottles into around the Sinulog route. Engineer Joel Biton, the head of the…

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