Pressure on at DPS on use of hauling budget

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/31/2017

WITH garbage reduction programs set to be in place, Cebu City Hall’s Department of Public Services (DPS) has been pressured not to fully use their proposed budget for garbage hauling services next year. The DPS has proposed…

‘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…

200 drug surrenderers register for Lapu’s cash-for-work program

Norman V. Mendoza 10/05/2016

MORE than 200 drug surrenderers from Olango Island have registered for the Lapu-Lapu City government’s cash-for-work program last Saturday. Mayor Paza Radaza visited and spoke to around 400 surrenderers in the island and expressed her gratitude to…

Lapu absorbs hired drug surrenderers

Norman V. Mendoza 09/28/2016

SEVENTEEN drug surrenderers who were hired by the Lapu-Lapu City government to work at the Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) in Lapu-Lapu City will be absorbed by the city government as job order employees. In a press conference…

Work, training, rehab options for drug users

Norman V. Mendoza 08/29/2016

SELF-CONFESSED drug addict Joji Cuizon, 39, says he has been a given an opportunity that he could not pass up. A resident of Barangay Bankal in Lapu-Lapu City, Cuizon used to drive a habal-habal (motorcycle for hire),…

Work for Lapu ‘surrenderers’

Norman V. Mendoza 08/24/2016

THE Lapu-Lapu City government has given work to persons who have surrendered in line with Oplan Tokhang. Initially, 57 have been deployed at the Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) in Barangay Mactan starting last Tuesday. They receive a…

Garbage solutions

05/07/2015

When Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama first disclosed through his point man lawyer Jade Ponce his plan to convert the former Inayawan landfill site into a mixed-use development project, not a few came away admitting that his…

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