City Hall eyes emergency measures on SRP trash dump

Edison Delos Angeles, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 12/21/2016

While Cebu City’s garbage dump is getting larger out there at the South Road Properties (SRP), officials have finally found a way to address the rising problem which entered its fifth day on Wednesday. City Hall has…

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

John Carlo Villaruel, Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 12/19/2016

A dumpsite by any other name would still smell as awful. Cebu City continues to dump garbage at the SRP lot It’s been three days since Cebu City started dumping its garbage, averaging 500 tons per day,…

New dumpsite

Editorial 12/19/2016

If anything, Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña brought it upon himself when he reopened the Inayawan landfill despite an order from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to shut down landfills that have outlived its…

The SRP as a dumpsite

Ricky Poca 12/19/2016

The issuance of a Writ of Kalikasan by the Court of Appeals against the Cebu City government that effectively ordered the closure of the Inayawan landfill came weeks after Environment Secretary Gina Lopez wanted it closed due…

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…

‘THIS IS NOT A DUMPSITE’

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo, Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag, Victor Anthony V. Silva 12/18/2016

It will only be temporary. One month at most. By then, however, at least 5,000 tons of garbage will be sitting in open dumpsites, the size of a small subdivision, at the South Road Properties (SRP). The…

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…

Cebu execs study Tacloban landfill to prepare for Carmen project

Izobelle T. Pulgo 12/15/2016

THE Cebu Provincial government and other stakeholders are studying successful models of sanitary landfills such as the one in Tacloban where they can adopt for the province’s planned landfill in Barangay Dauis Sur, Carmen Town in northern…

‘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…

INAYAWAN LANDFILL COMMITMENTS: Ombud to monitor Cebu City gov’t

Izobelle T. Pulgo 11/11/2016

THE Office of the Ombudsman is closely monitoring the Cebu City government if it will follow through with its commitments with the Environmental Management Bureau of Central Visayas (EMB-7) with regards to the Inayawan landfill issue. Environmental…

Garbage trucks plan : Dad: Outsource proposal unfair

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/07/2016

THE executive department’s proposal to outsource garbage trucks to do 24/7 garbage collection next year at a cost of P102 million is facing some opposition at the City Council. During yesterday’s continuation of the series of budget…

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