ACTING Cebu City Mayor Margot Osmeña yesterday issued a memorandum ordering the suspension of all pending demolitions targeting vendors and informal settlers occupying city-owned properties until June 30. The suspension will not apply if there is an…
Though campaign posters of both Team Rama and Bando Osmeña-Pundok Kauswagan (BO-PK) plastered throughout Cebu City don’t constitute premature campaigning, Mayor Michael Rama wants them removed. Rama said he issued a standing order for the Prevention, Restoration,…
DESPITE the request of Sun Cellular to extend the use of its cell sites, Acting Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella ordered the Prevention, Restoration, Order, Beautification and Enhancement (PROBE) team to implement the removal of the telecommunication…
VICTIMS of the alleged “tanim-bala” scam at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) recounted during a Senate investigation yesterday how airport security personnel tried to extort money from them and made them admit to owning the bullets…
Unless there’s a late-breaking development or the police uncovers a solid lead, the murder of human resources manager Agnelen Uy may remain unsolved for some time. The woman was found dead inside the family’s green Picanto…
CEBU City’s Prevention, Restoration, Order, Beautification, and Enhancement (PROBE) team has sent a 72-hour notice to vendors asking them to demolish their structures that obstruct roads leading to cemeteries. The move is part of the city’s preparation…
The Prevention, Restoration, Order, Beautification and Enhancement (PROBE) team filed charges against two ambulant vendors whom they apprehended during clearing operations at Natalio Bacalso Avenue last Wednesday. Rocelyn Tanguilan, spokesperson of the United Small Vendors of Cebu…
The Cebu City Council called for an investigation into alleged cases of abuse committed by the Prevention, Restoration, Order, Beautification and Enhancement (PROBE) team against street vendors. “I understand the need for beautification, especially now in the…
Cebu City’s demolition team failed to demolish two structures in Doña Pepang cemetery in barangay Tejero yesterday after former Cebu City mayor Tomas Osmeña and his lawyer, Benjamin Militar, intervened. Osmeña, who is also a former Cebu…
PART of the wall of 138 Mall in Colon Street was demolished yesterday to prepare for the dredging and de-silting of the Estero de Parian starting Monday. Dredging of the waterway, which is clogged with trash and…
A restaurant along Don Jose Avila Street in barangay Capitol Site, Cebu City was shut down yesterday for failing to comply with zoning and building requirements. Camia Street Cafe and Resto, a two-story building owned by siblings…
Cebu City Administrator Lucelle Mercado has ordered the removal of billboards promoting the Cebu concert of TV celebrity Vice Ganda for being “sexually suggestive”. She said that as chairman of the Cebu City Anti-Indecency Board, she was…
