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THE essence of good governance lies in the partnership between the government and private citizens. When private citizens are given the opportunity to voice out what they want for themselves and to contribute to what the government…
GOVERNORS and mayors who fail to eliminate or at least reduce the spread of illegal drugs in their respective areas by the end of the year will face administrative charges and, if found guilty, be suspended. Interior…
A transport group appealed to the local government units (LGUs) in Metro Cebu to solve traffic gridlocks in their towns and cities as it has been affecting the livelihood of public utility vehicle (PUV) drivers. Ryan Benjamin…
An official of the Children’s Legal Bureau (CLB) yesterday encouraged local government units to first create a center for minors before implementing curfew on minors. Lawyer Joan Saniel, CLB executive director, said minors who are rescued at…
With no sanitary landfill, towns and cities in Cebu province are resorting to dumping their garbage in commercial facilities which are costly or in open dumpsites, a practice that is already prohibited by law. The Cebu provincial…
The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) yesterday emphasized the need for Cebu province to have a suitability map, which is another important tool to create an action plan that is disaster risk reduction and…
Even in the distribution of cash or material assistance, Filipino officials can find time to engage in politicking and promote both their candidacies and their names to their constituents. We don’t know if other countries engage in…
Local governments should partner with investors in building sanitary landfills in their respective areas, the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (PENRO) said yesterday. PENRO chief Chad Estella said these public-private partnerships (PPP) can address “financial constraints”…
Local chief executives and police chiefs of Lapu-Lapu, Mandaue and Cebu cities have promised not to round up street children to hide them from the delegates of the high-level APEC meetings later this month. “We will face…
Former senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson called on Cebu’s mayors to demand a bigger allocation from the national government for their cities and towns. He spoke last Friday during a regular meeting of the League of Municipalities of…
Why is the most vulnerable and poster country to climate impacts still gung-ho about coal? It defies reason and logic to build more climate-change causing coal power plants amid the indubitable fact that burning coal and other…
The administration of Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama was recently involved in a controversy over the Commission on Audit’s (COA) adverse report about purchases of alcohol and oxytocin. The 2014 annual report of the COA was cited…
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