A streamlined, safer Sinulog

Editorial 01/02/2017

The first week of the first month of the New Year happens to be Sinulog Week 1 for Cebu City in particular but its fame around the country and the rest of the world had associated the…

A CYCLE OF TRASH

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag, Morexette Erram 12/30/2016

By the first day of the New Year, there is a big chance that the South Road Properties (SRP) has not yet been completely cleared of trash as earlier promised by the Cebu City government. This much…

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…

SRP: DUMPSITE NO MORE?

Morexette Erram 12/27/2016

City starts taking garbage out of South Road Properties. But the hauling fee is higher than what was paid during the Rama administration, says Councilor Joel Garganera Here’s one good news: The tons of trash that have…

Tom on vacation, Vice Mayor Labella acting mayor

Inna Mejia 12/27/2016

Cebu City Vice Mayor Edgardo Labella will be the acting mayor until Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña returns from his vacation from Japan on January 2. Osmeña said that his wife, Councilor Margot, and son Miguel were…

Cebu City Council approves funds for garbage collection

Morexette Erram 12/23/2016

The Cebu City council has authorized Mayor Tomas Osmeña to use the P9.2 million unspent funds of the previous administration to pay a private hauler or service provider to collect the city’s garbage and dump it in…

Libel case vs Osmeña junked

Nestle L. Semilla 12/23/2016

THE Cebu City Prosecutor’s Office has recommended the dismissal of the libel and oral defamation cases filed by former Cebu City mayor Michael Rama against Mayor Tomas Osmeña. In a joint resolution dated Nov. 3, 2016, City…

Council grants emergency powers to Osmeña

Morexette Erram 12/23/2016

Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña was granted authority by the Cebu City Council to use the unspent savings of last year worth P9 million pesos on hiring a private hauler to collect garbage and dump it into…

City prosecutor dismisses libel, oral defamation charges against Osmeña

Morexette Erram 12/23/2016

The Cebu City Prosecutor has dismissed the five libel and two oral defamation charges filed by former Cebu City mayor Michael Rama against Mayor Tomas Osmeña on the grounds that there are no probable cause present in the…

Cebu City to ask CA to allow use of Inayawan landfill

Morexette Erram 12/23/2016

The Cebu City government will file a petition asking the Court of Appeals (CA) to allow the use of the Inayawan landfill at Barangay Inayawan, Cebu City as a temporary dumping site until the administration can find…

Land swap deal

Editorial 12/22/2016

When the Team Rama bloc in the Cebu City Council decided to review the proposed land swap deal between the city and province for settlers occupying province-owned lots under Provincial Ordinance 93-1, a lot of people thought…

Giving Osmeña the benefit of the doubt on the garbage problem

Atty. Ruphil F. Bañoc 12/22/2016

In fairness to Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña, he also has his valid and practical reasons for making the South Road Properties (SRP) the temporary transfer station of the mountainous garbage of the city. Last Tuesday, I…

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