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PART 1 Eight-year-old John Paul Liray ignored the drizzle. He was busy putting the trash he collected from a dirty creek into three sando bags. Despite his frail frame, he carried the bags to a compactor truck…
ABOUT 121 barangay tanods and garbage loaders employed in Barangays Inayawan, Quiot, Basak San Nicolas and Cogon Pardo in Cebu City underwent a surprise drug test at the Quiot Sports Center yesterday morning. Dr. Alice Utlang, chief…
THE drama surrounding Cebu City’s use of the Inayawan landfill seems to continue to hound the mayor, and this time including his wife. The landfill had been the subject of the first-ever Writ of Kalikasan issued in…
80th Charter Day: Cebu City also awards traffic enforcers, bar topnotchers Garbage collectors and traffic enforcers took center stage yesterday morning as they were recognized by the Cebu City government during a program in celebration of the…
Per news reports, 5,000 tonnes (translated to 5,000,000 kilograms, as a unit is equal to 1,000 kg.) of mixed wastes on board M/V Christina arrived in Cebu on January 20, with the cargo declared as “solid…
THE Cebu City government’s P77.8 million garbage-hauling contract has been awarded to Jomara Konstruckt Corp., the same service provider tapped by the city since December last year. A Notice to Award, signed by Cebu City Mayor Tomas…
The tons of shredded plastics found dumped in a private lot in Barangay Tingub, Mandaue City, were not garbage but components in making briquettes. This was clarified by “Marco” (real name withheld on his request), who introduced…
CITY Hall’s Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) is set to post-qualify Jomara Konstruckt Corp., the second lowest bidder for a new P77.8 million garbage hauling contract after the project’s lowest bidder, Pasajero Motors Corp. (Pamocor), was disqualified…
By extending the contract for private garbage hauler Jomara Konstruct Corp., Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña drove home the message that the city’s garbage would go anywhere except the Consolacion landfill whose operator has yet to collect…
Turn your garbage into gold, or in this case, turn it into a can of sardines. Agapita “Pita” Eking, a 54-year-old mother of six, received a pleasant surprise from the city’s garbage collectors yesterday when they handed…
Cebu’s local governments should cluster their landfills to resolve common garbage problems, a top official of the Environment Management Bureau (EMB) said yesterday. “This has been discussed by the Cebu province for a long time. This needs…
Mayor gives more time for BAC to decide on new P77.8M hauling contract Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña is planning to extend the emergency contract of private service hauler, Jomara Konstruckt Corp., which will expire today (Jan.…
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