Hauling of garbage out of SRP delayed

Morexette Erram 12/28/2016

At least 20 dump trucks of the Jomara Konstruct Corporation (formerly reported as Jomara Services), which was committed to be delivered from Surigao Province, has not arrived as of 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday. The dumptrucks were expected…

Cebu City to ask CA to allow use of Inayawan landfill

Morexette Erram 12/23/2016

The Cebu City government will file a petition asking the Court of Appeals (CA) to allow the use of the Inayawan landfill at Barangay Inayawan, Cebu City as a temporary dumping site until the administration can find…

ILLEGAL DUMPING

Aileen Garcia-Yap, Inna Mejia, Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 12/21/2016

The Cebu City government has been ordered by the Environmental and Management Bureau in Central Visayas (EMB-7) to stop the “illegal dumping” of garbage at the South Road Properties (SRP), but it is not going to happen…

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

John Carlo Villaruel, Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 12/19/2016

A dumpsite by any other name would still smell as awful. Cebu City continues to dump garbage at the SRP lot It’s been three days since Cebu City started dumping its garbage, averaging 500 tons per day,…

New dumpsite

Editorial 12/19/2016

If anything, Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña brought it upon himself when he reopened the Inayawan landfill despite an order from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to shut down landfills that have outlived its…

NEW DUMPSITE: SRP

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag, Nestle L. Semilla 12/17/2016

Cebu City began dumping its garbage at the South Road Properties (SRP) yesterday despite warnings from environment officials, a city councilor and a legal luminary that the city government is courting lawsuits for environmental violations. Department of…

Mandaue shifts from Casili from Umapad

Norman V. Mendoza 10/26/2016

Umapad landfill to be closed, collected garbage to be dumped in Casili dumpsite The Mandaue City government will start dumping their garbage in a new dumping area in Barangay Casili by the middle of November this year.…

Cebu brand might as well be ‘Where Cebu stinks’ — MLC

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 09/18/2016

Next to the Cebu City Council, the Department of Health (DOH) and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), comes another group that wants the Cebu City government to stop using its 15-hectare landfill in Barangay…

Body found dumped in San Remigio

Rene F. Alima 05/31/2016

The body of a still unidentified man was found dumped near a fishpond in Sitio Patag, Barangay Argawanon in San Remigio town, north of Cebu. The victim was half naked with his face covered with something that…

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