Cebu City to terminate 13 casual, job order employees for drug use

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 12/03/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines—The Cebu City government will terminate 13 job-order and casual employees for testing positive in drug tests done in November.  City Legal Officer Rey Gealon said in a text message to CDN Digital that the…

Cebu City spending P3,500 per day for suction of Poblacion Pardo floodwater

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 10/03/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Cebu City government has been spending P3,500 per day for the suction of floodwater in Second Street of  Sunrise Village in Barangay Poblacion Pardo, in Cebu City following the opposition of residents…

Budget for new Cebu City Market Authority Office sought

Morexette Marie B. Erram 12/19/2018

HOW much would they need to reconstruct the Cebu City Market Authority Office, which was destroyed by fire last November? City Market Administrator Winifredo Orcullo said in a press briefing on Wednesday that he was asking the…

DEPW asks for double its budget next year

Morexette Marie B. Erram 11/12/2018

THE Cebu City Department of Engineering and Public Works (DEPW) is asking for more than double their present budget as their operational budget next year, 2019. From their P114 million budget this year, DEPW wants it increased…

Heavy traffic expected as ‘street hole’ repairs start

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/28/2017

Collapsed portion of Juana Osmeña St. not a sinkhole — MGB-7 Heavy traffic is expected along Juana Osmeña St. as Cebu City’s Department of Engineering and Public Works (DEPW) continues to repair a collapsed portion of the…

DEPW assures there are enough drainage projects

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/18/2017

CEBU City’s Department of Engineering and Public Works (DEPW) assures that there are enough drainage and flood-control projects for next year. If not, then the budget can always be augmented, said City Engineer and DEPW head Josefa…

Drug test for DEPW workers

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 04/11/2017

Only 160 out of the 203 employees of Cebu City Hall’s Department of Engineering and Public Works (DEPW) were present during a surprise drug test conducted by the city yesterday. One employee reportedly fled from the DEPW…

COSAP subjects DEPW employees to surprise drug test

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 04/11/2017

Around 200 employees from Cebu City Hall’s Department of Engineering and Public Works (DEPW) were subjected to a surprise drug test on Tuesday morning. The test was conducted by the Cebu City Office for Substance Abuse Prevention…

Road hazard

Christian Maningo 01/06/2017

This unfinished work of the Department of Engineering and Public Works-City Engineering Office (DEPW/CEO) along Lakandula Street, Cebu City, is an eyesore and a road hazard (CDN PHOTO/CHRISTIAN MANINGO).…

DWUP hopeful Duljo-Fatima fire victims can rebuild homes before Christmas

John Carlo Villaruel 12/07/2016

THE Division for the Welfare of the Urban Poor (DWUP) is hoping that families who were affected by the fire in Barangay Duljo-Fatima last week can rebuild their damaged houses before December 25 so they can celebrate…

City builds a shortcut to the Inayawan landfill from SRP

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/22/2016

CEBU City Hall is constructing a new bridge-like access into the Inayawan landfill from the Mambaling side of the South Road Properties (SRP). In order to avoid costs, the city will use its spare culverts to form…

Cebu inches towards full recovery three years after

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/14/2016

Stone after stone, brick by brick, the road to recovery from the 7.2-magnitude earthquake which jolted Central Philippines on October 15, 2013, was slow but sure. In its epicenter, Bohol, the energy released by the powerful earthquake,…

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