Cataroja escapes NBP by clinging under a garbage truck – BuCor

Faith Agrosino 08/20/2023

MANILA, Philippines — Rearrested maximum security inmate Michael Cataroja, who went missing last July, escaped from New Bilibid Prison (NBP) by clinging underneath a garbage truck, according to the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor). In a video from…

Motorcycle rider dies after he was ran over by Cebu City garbage truck

Paul Lauro 06/01/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines – A motorcycle rider was killed after he was ran over by a garbage truck owned by the Department of Public Services (DPS) in Cebu City. The accident happened at the corner of Barangays…

No one hurt in garbage truck that caught fire at SRP

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 02/13/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines—A Cebu City-owned garbage truck caught fire while traversing the South Road Properties (SRP) early morning of Wednesday, February 13, 2020.  According to Lawyer John Jigo Dacua, the head of the Department of Public Service…

Man lands in hospital after he grabs, latches on to rear wheel of moving garbage truck

Alven Marie A. Timtim 09/30/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — An unidentified man is in critical condition after he was run over by a 10-wheeler garbage truck along M.J. Cuenco Avenue corner T. Padilla Street, Barangay Tejero, Cebu City, at 7:45 Monday morning,…

Garbage truck driver shot dead in public market

Chito O. Aragon 09/28/2016

A GARBAGE truck driver was shot dead by a security guard of the Ramos public market at past 4 am Wednesday. PO3 Edario Manatad said 53-year-old truck driver Nestor Pasilan sustained a gunshot wound in the head…

‘NO SEGREGATION, NO COLLECTION’

Nestle L. Semilla 06/29/2016

A notice to Cebu City residents: if you do not segregate your garbage, it will not be collected. Cebu City Acting Mayor Margot Osmeña made the strict enforcement of the city’s existing “no segregation, no collection” policy…

Re-opening of Inayawan landfill highly possible – Margot

Nestle L. Semilla 06/16/2016

Cebu City mayor-elect Tomas Osmeña will re-open the Inayawan sanitary landfill once he assumes office at the end of the month. In a press conference, acting mayor Margot Osmeña told reporters that re-opening of the Inayawan landfill…

Stinking garbage

Editorial 10/28/2015

  One of the items included in that much-talked-about (at least in Cebu City) Supplemental Budget 1 (SB1) was the funds that will be used by the city government to pay the private haulers of garbage and…

Boy pinned down by garbage truck

Norman V. Mendoza 01/23/2015

A 10-YEAR-OLD boy was killed after a garbage truck ran over him in barangay Umapad, Mandaue yesterday morning. Police said the victim and another boy climbed aboard the truck but slipped while stepping on the fuel tank.…

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