CEBU CITY, Philippines — Mayor Nestor Archival has flatly rejected calls to issue a cease-and-desist order (CDO) against the controversial Monterrazas de Cebu development. The mayor said that some members of the City Council failed to consider…
Cebu City Vice Mayor Tomas “Tommy” Osmeña said the city should not wait for public outrage, or worse, loss of life, before acting on safety concerns linked to the Monterrazas development.…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Netizens expressed mixed to critical reactions to celebrity engineer Slater Young’s recent statement defending the Monterrazas project. Young broke his silence more than five months after Typhoon Tino flooded parts of Metro Cebu.…
Celebrity engineer Slater Young has addressed the controversy around the Monterrazas project, more than five months after typhoon Tino inundated Cebu.…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — The controversial Monterrazas de Cebu project will continue operations under government monitoring after regulators lifted a stoppage order and found no sole link between the development and last year’s flooding. The development, long…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — The developer of the controversial Monterrazas de Cebu project is set to publicly address the issues surrounding calls for a cease-and-desist order (CDO) and ongoing scrutiny over its compliance and environmental impact. Mont…
(UPDATED: 1:20 a.m. of April 22, 2026) CEBU, Philippines–In the wake of the floods that submerged parts of Cebu City during Typhoon Tino, one name keeps surfacing — The Rise at Monterrazas. What began as an ambitious…
MANILA – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has filed both criminal and administrative cases against the Monterrazas project in Cebu City for what it described as massive tree-cutting. “For the Monterrazas case, we already…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — As heavy rains brought by Typhoon Tino triggered flooding in parts of Guadalupe and nearby low-lying areas last November 4, questions resurfaced on whether large-scale developments in the uplands, particularly Monterrazas de Cebu,…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) confirmed that only 11 out of 745 trees documented in 2022 remain standing within the Monterrazas de Cebu development site. The decline from more than…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — The local government of Cebu has launched its own city-led inspection of the controversial Monterrazas de Cebu development. This comes after widespread complaints and renewed scrutiny over the project’s alleged role in the…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — “Is the ‘no flood in the Guadalupe area’ in the room with us?” These were the words of a netizen after a post from CDN Digital last August resurfaced in the wake of…
