DPWH workers complain about stench from garbage at SRP

Inna Mejia, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 01/27/2017

Personnel from the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) office are the latest people to complain of the stench coming from the garbage left to be transferred at the temporary transfer station in the South Road…

P25M FOR JOMARA

Inna Mejia, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 01/07/2017

Cebu City’s garbage disposal woes are good as solved, at least for this month. Jomara Konstruckt Corp., the same private hauler hired by the city government last month, is expected to continue transporting the city’s garbage to…

MAO BA?

Editorial 01/05/2017

EXPENSIVE RENT Firecracker vendors stationed at the South Road Properties (SRP) complained that last year’s rent is the most expensive so far. “We were surprised after the bidding that the rent was pegged at P6,000, but after…

Cebu City Council resets special session to tackle garbage

Inna Mejia, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 01/04/2017

THE special session of the Cebu City Council which was called to tackle the city’s garbage woes was reset to Friday morning because of lack of quorum. Vice Mayor Edgardo Labella said yesterday that upon consultation with…

END OF CONTRACT

Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Nestle L. Semilla 01/02/2017

Despite the December 31, 2016 expiration of the Purchase Order (PO), Jomara Konstruckt Corp. has not totally cleared the temporary transfer station at the South Road Properties (SRP) of garbage. According to DPS assistant chief John Paul…

Cebu City garbage: Nowhere to go but SRP

Morexette Erram 12/31/2016

It’s the New Year and the day that the South Road Properties is supposed to have been cleared of all the tons of garbage that were dumped on a one-hectare lot behind the headquarters of Cebu City’s…

Hauling of SRP garbage resumes

Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag, Morexette Erram 12/29/2016

HAULING of Cebu City’s garbage dumped at a lot in the South Road Properties (SRP) resumed yesterday with the arrival of the heavy equipment and dump trucks of Jomara Konstruckt Corporation, which the city contracted to bring…

AFTER ALL, LACION

Morexette Erram 12/28/2016

Cebu City trash still ends up in the private landfill in Consolacion, six months after Mayor Tomas Osmeña rejected its use Six months after Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña rejected the use of the private landfill in…

Early Christmas gift

Ricky Poca 12/26/2016

Allow me wish you all a Merry Christmas. It is a time to show our appreciation to the kindness of our Savior by loving, adoring, worshiping and thanking him for all the blessings that he showered us…

Taliño tells SRP vendors to display firecrackers, pyrotechnics separately

Nestle L. Semilla 12/23/2016

FIRECRACKER and pyrotechnic vendors at the South Road Properties (SRP) should comply with the new requirement set by the police or else their merchandise will be confiscated. This was the advice of Chief Supt. Noli Taliño, Police…

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,…

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