DENR orders close watch on SRP

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 12/19/2016

Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Undersecretary Isabelo Montejo disclosed that a team from the Environmental Management Bureau in Central Visayas (EMB-7) has been sent to the South Road Properties (SRP) to check on the garbage…

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…

City garbage still being dumped at Inayawan Landfill

Nestle L. Semilla 12/17/2016

At least 51 city-owned dump trucks with thousands of tons of garbage still drove to the Inayawan Landfill on Saturday morning to dispose of the wastes collected from the different barangays in the city despite the closure…

City to dump garbage at SRP

Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 12/16/2016

City to comply with CA ruling, SRP lot to be used as temporary waste transfer station Starting today (Saturday), the Cebu City government will start dumping the city’s collected garbage at the South Road Properties (SRP), which…

CA to Cebu City: Stop dumping garbage at Inayawan landfill

Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 12/16/2016

A FRESHER air to breathe and cleaner waters to drink. A victory for Cebuanos. These are among the things to be expected with the Court of Appeals (CA) granting the first-ever Writ of Kalikasan in Cebu and…

Tom slams council after it reduced proposed landfill rehab budget

Inna Mejia 12/09/2016

CEBU City Mayor Tomas Osmeña again threatens to dump the city’s garbage in the South Road Properties or in front of the Legislative Building of City Hall after the City Council reduced the proposed budget for the…

‘Skin and bones’ budget for city cut down to P6.1B

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 12/08/2016

The “skin and bones” budget of P7.2 billion proposed by Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña for next year was skinned and deboned further to P6.1 billion by the Team Rama bloc in the Cebu City Council. During…

Students join anti-Marcos rally, call for free education

Morexette Erram 11/17/2016

AFTER some 500 anti-Marcos protesters buried an effigy of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos at the Inayawan landfill last Tuesday, about 20 students held their own protest rally at Fuente Osmeña yesterday. Carrying placards with statements such…

Osmeña considers Kalunasan as new city jail site

Inna Mejia 11/17/2016

CEBU City Mayor Tomas Osmeña said the city government has yet to find a suitable site for a new jail facility. The mayor said this after Councilor Joel Garganera questioned his plan of converting the Inayawan landfill…

‘Digong, 9 justices on wrong side of history’

Izobelle T. Pulgo, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/15/2016

“THEY are on the wrong side of history.” This is retired Judge Meinrado Paredes’, a known anti-Marcos advocate, description of President Rodrigo Duterte and the nine Supreme Court justices, who voted in favor of the burial of…

With the rest of the garbage

Raymund Fernandez 11/15/2016

Yesterday, we “buried” Marcos at the Lubnganan sa mga Basura, better known as the Inayawan Sanitary Landfill, so to speak, together with the rest of the garbage. The sponsors of this mass action invited us to make…

‘Libingan ng mga Basura is perfect place for Marcos’

Izobelle T. Pulgo, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/14/2016

Tom O to join rally to bury late dictator’s effigy at Inayawan landfill today About 1,000 protesters including Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña, are expected to join today’s burial of the coffin containing an effigy of the…

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