The “Basura Mo, Sardinas Ko” program of the Cebu City government is an expensive program, but it will address the city’s drainage problem. Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmena said he sees the program as an effective way…
The Cebu City Department of Public Services (DPS) has been given another P40 million for the hauling of the city’s garbage for the month of May, causing opposition councilors to raise a furor that this administration is…
ISLA MUSICFEST GARBAGE Sacks of garbage collected at the site of the Isla Music Festival 2017 in Barangay Pooc, Santa Fe, Bantayan Island have infuriated a green advocate as he called for organizers to craft clear policies…
SANTA Fe town officials are warning guests and organizers of the Isla Music Festival 2017 to keep their trash. “Clean as you stay and clean as you go,” said Santa Fe Mayor Jose Esgana after empty bottles…
COLOMBO — The death toll from a collapsed garbage mountain in Sri Lanka’s capital rose to 11 Saturday, officials said, with the disaster destroying 145 homes. Colombo National Hospital spokesperson Pushpa Soysa said two boys and two…
(Part 2 of a special report on how the ‘Queen City of the South’ copes with one of its biggest problems) Garbage collection has always been a problem of Cebu City, a highly urbanized area – dubbed…
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…
