‘Does City Hall have rehab, closure plans for landfill?’

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 08/02/2016

Cebu City Councilor Joel Garganera wants to know if Cebu City Hall has post-closure and rehabilitation plans for the Inayawan landfill more than a month after it reopened. Garganera, who heads the committee on environment, wants both…

P250K saved daily with landfill reopening

07/07/2016

THE Cebu City government has saved at least P250,000 a day on tipping fees alone with the reopening of the Inayawan sanitary landfill. John Paul Gelasque, Department of Public Services head, said that with the average daily…

GETTING READY FOR ‘BUTCHOY’

Doris C. Bongcac, Julit C. Jainar, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 07/04/2016

Still coping with the effects of the rain-induced floods that hit Metro Cebu on Friday, Cebuanos were told yesterday to again brace for more heavy rainfall when a tropical storm enters the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR)…

Traffic, public services staff may be retained

Nestle L. Semilla 06/20/2016

MOST of the frontline personnel assigned at the Cebu City Transportation Office and the Department of Public Services (DPS) may be retained while a lot of casuals won’t be renewed once Mayor-elect Tomas Osmeña assumes office on…

Minor glitches noted in centralized trash collection in city’s lowland barangays

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 03/14/2016

SOME minor issues were faced by City Hall on the first day of centralized garbage collection in lowland barangays in the city yesterday. The dispatching team of the Department of Public Services (DPS) at the South Road Properties…

Double budget for new trash scheme?

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/17/2015

The Department of Public Services (DPS) is seeking a P238.2 million budget for garbage services next year or double its current figure to afford a new scheme of outsourcing services of waste collection and diposal in Cebu…

‘Council skirting budget issue with garbage problem’

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/02/2015

NO one from the executive department will be allowed to attend the Cebu City Council’s hearings on the garbage problem, Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama said yesterday. Instead, the mayor said in yesterday’s press conference that the…

Cebu city trash increasing but still no budget approval

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/29/2015

The volume of garbage collected in Cebu City has almost doubled in past months, an official said. Cebu City Councilor Nida Cabrera said she has “lost my title as queen of garbage” (rayna sa basura)” with the…

Volunteers clean up SRP’s coastline

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 06/29/2015

MORE than 200 people collected over 100 sacks of garbage at the coastal area of the South Road Properties (SRP) yesterday morning. The cleanup, spearheaded by the Movement for a Livable Cebu (MLC), drew volunteers from civil…

7 DPS men tested positive for drug use

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 06/11/2015

Seven out of 132 personnel from Cebu City Hall’s Department of Public Services (DPS) tested positive for illegal drug use  during a  random testing yesterday. The results still have to undergo confirmatory testing. “ Within this week…

SRP tunnel closed for cleaning today

Doris C. Bongcac 09/03/2014

The Cebu South Coastal Road tunnel will be closed to vehicle traffic starting at dawn today for clean up. Joy Tumulak, City Traffic Operations Management (Citom) operations head, said that mud has started to build up on…

Cebu City to enforce no segregation, no collection rule

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 02/12/2014

EITHER segregate or go all the way to Consolacion town to dump your garbage. Rolando Ardosa, chief of Cebu City Hall’s Department of Public Services (DPS), said this as the city’s barangay officials committed to enforce waste…

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