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RUPINTA BACKTRACKS, EXPANDS ANTI-DRUG CAMPAIGN Ermita Barangay Captain Felicisimo “Imok” Rupinta has changed his mind anew. Less than 24 hours after he decided to stop attaching tarpaulins on houses they identified as “drug-free,” the controversial village chief…
Better safe than sorry. Fearing that they might be penalized for their actions, officials of Barangay Ermita on Friday afternoon decided to temporarily stop attaching tarpaulins on houses that they identified as “drug-free.” “Moundang usa mi…
REVERSE LABELING Instead of humiliating drug users and pushers, officials of Barangay Ermita in Cebu City, tagged by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Visayas (PDEA-7) as one of the drug hot spots in the city,…
THE Cebu City Council has disapproved the newly-passed ordinance of Barangay Ermita imposing a mandatory P10 per square meter “monitoring fee” on vendor stalls at the Carbon Public Market. According to the committee on laws and…
MORE than a hundred officials and workers of Barangay Ermita were made to undergo a surprise drug test, Tuesday morning, by the Cebu City Office for Substance Abuse Prevention (Cosap). Cosap announced the surprise drug tests after…
Barangay Ermita employees caught collecting “voluntary” contributions from Carbon Market vendors will have to risk arrest. Francisco Fernandez, executive assistant for Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña, said City Hall is also studying the possibility of filing robbery…
ONLY Barangay Ermita officials and employees won’t receive their subsidies from Cebu City Hall, Mayor Tomas Osmeña clarified to reporters yesterday. “I am sorry. I misquoted myself. I was only talking about Ermita,” he said. The mayor…
A drug suspect arrested by agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Visayas (PDEA-7) with about P5 million worth of illegal drugs on Monday, August 28, has tagged Ermita barangay officials as alleged conduits. Norman…
THE Cebu City Attorney’s Office is poised to slap Barangay Ermita with a cease and desist order to force village officials to stop the collection of P10 daily from vendors at Unit I of the Carbon Public…
CARBON PUBLIC MARKET For close to 15 years, the densely populated village of Ermita in Cebu City has relied heavily on collections from vendors at the Carbon Public Market for the barangay’s operations since 2002. Amounting to…
For the past six months, 35-year-old Lea Hermosa had to make do with an unstable income from selling food at her daughter’s school every afternoon. Hermosa, a single mother, has not received her P7,000 monthly salary as…
BALLOONS and streamers were put up at the Ermita barangay hall to welcome Barangay Ermita chairman Felicisimo Rupinta and seven barangay councilmen who finished serving their six-month suspension at noon Monday. The suspension issued by the…
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