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For more than ten long, agonizing years of waiting, the thousands of occupants of the lot covered by 93-1 finally saw the light at the end of the tunnel when Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña and Cebu…
With barely two weeks to go, the Cebu City Council may or may not approve the agreement signed by Mayor Tomas Osmeña and Cebu Gov. Hilario Davide III that would finalize a land swap deal for occupants…
THE Division for the Welfare of the Urban Poor (DWUP) is hoping that families who were affected by the fire in Barangay Duljo-Fatima last week can rebuild their damaged houses before December 25 so they can celebrate…
Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña called on urban poor groups to support his legal battle against some major developers while he promised aid to them and their children in a speech during the Urban Poor Solidarity Week…
Cebu City Tomas Osmeña called for support from members of the urban poor communities in Cebu City to claim back the real estate properties several national conglomerates purchased and owned in the South Road Properties (SRP) in…
THE Cebu City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CCDRRMO) has proposed a community-based fire prevention system in Barangay Suba following two successive fires which hit the densely populated village within just weeks. CCDRRMO proposed the installation…
For a while there, it looked like activists and political protesters were happy playing footsies with the police and military. Where normally activists, many of them from the Left, would be the first to raise a howl…
WHILE supporters of President-elect Rodrigo Duterte whooped it up in a concert held at the South Road Properties (SRP), over a thousand urban poor residents availed of free services offered by Duterte supporters at the Plaza Independencia,…
LACK of an access road prevented Talisay City firefighters from immediately putting out a fire which hit an urban poor community in the interior portion of Sitio Nonok in Barangay Tabunok, Talisay City at 3 p.m. Thursday.…
The Cebu City Council yesterday failed to override the veto of Mayor Michael Rama who refused to approve an ordinance for one-year moratorium on demolitions in the city. The outcome disappointed urban poor groups hoping for relief…
URBAN poor groups held a prayer rally yesterday at City Hall to urge Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama to approve the ordinance imposing a moratorium on demolitions. in the city. The groups were led by the Kilusan…
Rep. Maria Leonor “Leni” Robredo may be a newbie in politics. But the Liberal Party vice presidential candidate has had deep experience in working with the urban poor and other marginalized sectors. “All my life has…
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