City Hall wants P124M budget for garbage disposal

Izobelle T. Pulgo, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/31/2016

CEBU City Mayor Tomas Osmeña sought a P102 million budget that will go to outsourcing heavy equipment and dump trucks for the city’s garbage collection and disposal next year. The mayor also asked for P22 million in…

Cebu City continues use of Inayawan landfill amid closure order

Nestle L. Semilla 10/22/2016

THE Cebu City government will continue to use the Inawayan Sanitary Landfill and will dump garbage it collects there. This despite the order of Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) secrertary Gina Lopez closing down the…

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…

Tomas to attend court hearing on landfill

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/19/2016

CEBU City Mayor Tomas Osmeña will appear at the Court of Appeals (CA) next Monday in relation to the hearing on the petition for a temporary environmental protection order (TEPO) against the city’s operation of the Inayawan…

Villages still adjusting to garbage schedule

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/17/2016

SOME Cebu City barangays still collected and dumped garbage in designated areas within the day despite the new garbage collection schedule implemented by the Department of Public Services (DPS). “No matter how much we informed the barangays…

New garbage collection sked starts Sunday

Nestle L. Semilla 10/14/2016

The Department of Public Services (DPS) announced the implementation of the new garbage collection schedule in Cebu City that will start tomorrow. DPS assistant head John Paul Gelasque urged the public to heed the new schedule from…

PUNISH TRASH VIOLATORS

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/05/2016

Cebu City ends leniency on those who fail to segregate Mounds of stinking garbage are reported in many Cebu City barangays, and when the rain pours, rivers of floodwater rise in the metropolis, at times carrying the…

New garbage collection sked by Oct. 16

Edison Delos Angeles 10/05/2016

The Department of Public Services (DPS) in Cebu City is implementing a new schedule for its garbage collection service. Asst. DPS chief John Paul Galasque explained that starting on October 16, garbage collection will be scheduled from…

Landfill finally gets a dose of enzymes

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 09/30/2016

Expect Cebu City’s sanitary landfill in Barangay Inayawan to stink less in the coming days. After the purchase of P400 thousand worth of deodorizers using the city’s Accelerated Social Amelioration Program (ASAP) funds, bigger amounts of enzymes…

Impounded vehicle owners urged to follow up claim

Edison Delos Angeles 09/29/2016

The Cebu City Transportation Office (CCTO) called on owners of impounded vehicles to claim them before the end of the year lest they be forfeited in favor of the city government. CCTO operations chief Rafael Yap said…

Cebu City Hall to tap emergency funds for landfill

Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 09/05/2016

CITY Hall’s executive department will tap into Cebu City’s emergency funds in order to cure defects at the Inayawan dumpsite and comply with environmental standards set by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Environmental Management…

Inayawan dumpsite raises health alarm

Morexette Erram 08/21/2016

On a humid afternoon last August 16, Cheryl Oguimas and her grandchild, Jerry, were sleeping on a bamboo bed outside their house in a place called “White Road” in Barangay Inayawan when a swarm of huge, black…

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