ABRIL 9 SA YANONG TAWO SAB See story on page 11 CCMC ipahuman sa adlaw sa mayor Gasolina nga may diskwento gidalit Trash ‘Stateavailabletechnologyforcityofcalamity’inthecity See story on page 05 See story on page 06 See story on page 10 See story on page 13 ‘More innovations’ in Buhing Kalbaryo See story on page 03
Contents03040506070809101112CityawaitsotherWTEfacilityproposals,CSOWasteSummitBuhingKalbaryo,5kAyudaUpdate @cebucity.info For city updates, follow us online: Cebu City Public Information Office @cebucity.info @infocebucity CCMC ipahuman sa adlaw sa mayor Cooperation appealed for effective trash collection City ‘ready’ to host sporting events, Fuel Discount ‘To solve trash woes, we uplift lives of poor’, Highland pilgrimage Tour Rajah Humabon Day, Waste Management Solutions Waste to Energy for Cebu City Day of Valor Observance Mayor Orders Evacuation No work, no classes declared
Labella, who has been involved with the play for more than 10-years, said that this year the musical scoring has been given spe cial attention.“We are including this because this is not just an entertainment thing but a spiritual refueling of our Christian world, which we want our future generation to understand,” he said. “Silver anniversary man ron ato pang panin dotan. Unya naa pud bag-o nga konsepto,” he added. He said that aside from the traditional play, the early life of Jesus will be included as well. As the path for the street play, the entire stretch of V. Rama Ave. up to the Archdiocesan Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe de Cebu already has the Stations of the Cross being put up. The 14 stations are placed at regular intervals along theSinceroute.the city is now under CoViD Alert Lev el 1, Labella said they ex pect a large crowd in this year’s street play. The working com mittee intends to seek the help of the Philippines Navy and force multipliers like barangay tanods for crowd control and ensuring the observance of minimum public health standards.
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PHOTO: Jesus Christ's death, as reenacted during a previous Buhing Kalbaryo, which one of the most anticipated Holy Week activities in Cebu City on Good Friday. (Photo: Rene Martel)
CEBU CITY (Abril 4, 2022) -- Moabot na sa 106,212 ka mga taga-dakbayan ang nakadawat sa P5,000 nga ayudad alang niadtong mga panimalay nga naguba o nakaangkon og kadaot tungod sa bagyong Odette. Kini nagpasabot nga sa tag-P5,000 kada usa, niabot na sa P531,060,000 ang kantidad nga naapudapod isip ayuda gikan sa P576 milyones nga kinati buk-ang pundo nga gigahin alang sa maong katuyoan. Kini ang gibutyag ni Portia Basmayor, ang pangulo sa Department of Social Welfare and Services (DSWS), sa pakighinabi kaniya sa PIO karong adla wa. Sumala sab niya, anaa na lang sa 40,000 ka mga lumolupyo ang wala pa nahatagan sa ayuda. Human gisugdan ang pagpanghatag sa ayu da niadtong Disyembre 30 sa 18 ka mga barangay sa dakbayan, nahunong kini tungod sa pagdili sa pag pagawas sa pundo ilawom sa mga lagda sa Commis sion on Elections kabahin sa pagsugod sa lokal nga panahon sa pagpangampa nya niadtong Marso 25. Ikaduha kini nga pagkalangan sa pundopagpanghatagsasatumanngahinabang.pagpang-apud-apodpadayongsaAngunamaonagkinahanglangmoangkagamhananmgapamalaudsaauditdilipamakapadayonsakaylagiangsaniagingtuigpa.
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CEBU CITY (April 4, 2022) -- With only 11 days to go before the staging of the re-enactment of the Passion of Christ, Buhing Kalbaryo organizers said the street play would feature more in novations, including a com bination of various music scoring to better interpret the passion of Christ. This, however, could not push through without the full cooperation of those involved in realiz ing this yearly “Magtinabangaytradition.
“Right now, we are at 70 percent of our prepa ration na and we will do our best to make this special for the 25th anniversary,” La bella said.
lang gyud ta ani ang ug mo-cooperate lang gyud ta para nindot atong 25th anniversary ani atong pas sion play,” said Elmer “Jojo” Labella, creative and artistic consultant.Among those play ing crucial roles in the suc cess of the street play are the Philippine National Po lice, Cebu City Traffic Of fice, Department of Public Services, Parks and Play grounds, Department of General Services, Cebu City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office, among others.The Buhing Kalbaryo happens on Good Friday, April 15. A dry run will be done this week.
In turn, the City Government is entitled to a share of three percent of the gross power sales rev enues, and five percent of the revenues from sales of all otherNewby-products.Skyis given one year to secure rights to the project site, which means there is still no final project site as of the mo ment.
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While there are objections to the project, the City Legal Office has already issued a legal opin ion stating it found no legal impediment for the mayor to sign the JVA, as it under went the right process.
The City Coun cil also conducted sever al discussions on the JVA through an ad hoc com mittee it formed in October 2021. City Councilors Joel Garganera and Eduardo Rama, Jr. noted that devel oped countries have been using WTE technology to effectively manage their solid waste, without any hazards to the public.
“Our challenge to day is sustainability and maintenance to keep our city truly livable. Just the same, your mayor will val ue people’s views and welcome ideas and sug gestions, like what you can share to the City from this Summit,” the mayor said. On behalf of the mayor, Public Informa tion Officer Cerwin Eviota read the mayor’s message during the hybrid summit, which was held via Zoom and with a live audience at the University of Cebu main campus.The Philippine Earth Justice Center, EcoW aste Coalition, and Regional Center of Expertise on Edu cation for Sustainable De velopment organized the summit.
City Councilor Ray mond Alvin Garcia, Council committee on laws, ordi nances, and styling chair man, said the JVA is now up for a “Swiss Challenge”, or that any interested third party can submit its pro posal to contest the offer of New Sky Energy (Philip pines), Inc.Under Section 4A of Republic Act 6957, as amended, “in the event an other proponent submits a lower price proposal, the original proponent shall have the right to match that price within thirty (30) working Thedays.”mayor said he will wait for the outcome of the Swiss challenge before signing the JVA. Last March 9, the City Council authorized him to sign a JVA with New Sky for the construction and operation of the WTE fa cility, which is expected to process 800 tons of solid waste per day. The facility will also re cover previously disposed resources and transform these into usable materials and energy.Under the draft JVA, New Sky gets a 40-year franchise period to operate the WTE, which will them be turned over to the City. On the other hand, the City would deliver its waste to the facility and pay New Sky a tipping fee of P1,000 per ton in the first three years of operation. The fee is then increased to P1,150 per ton in the fourth to sixth year, and P1,300 per ton in the seventh to ninth year.
CEBU CITY (April 4, 2022) -Weeks after the City Coun cil authorized the mayor to enter into a Joint Ven ture Agreement (JVA) for a P4.4-billion waste-to-en ergy (WTE) facility, other interested parties can now submit their own proposal to “challenge” the deal.
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Discussion during the summit centered on a recent City Council reso lution authorizing Mayor Rama to sign, on behalf of the City, a joint venture agreement (JVA) with New Sky Philippines, Inc. to es tablish a WTE facility in the city. “I am glad that you have initiated a par allel Waste Summit, al beit focused more on the Waste-to-Energy option. We all want to address the concern on garbage. We would welcome the output of this session and incorpo rate it in the broader Sum mit,” Mayor Rama said in his message.The City is orga nizing a three-day Solid Waste Management Sum mit, which starts tomorrow, April 6, and ends on April 8, at the SM Seaside Sky Hall. Two minority coun cilors who voted against the JVA signing were also pres ent during the CSO Waste Summit.Councilor Nestor Archival, Sr. said he was not convinced that the facility is advantageous to the city.
-- Mayor Mike Rama today expressed his openness to listen to opinions and solu tions, especially from civil society organizations, on how to address the City’s growing garbage concern. He gave this as surance through a mes sage during the 2022 CSO Waste Summit, whose main topic is whether or not waste-to-energy (WTE) is the best solution.
Sumala sa mga lagda, kina hanglang i-obligar pa og balik ang pundo alang sa bag-ong tuig nga 2022 sa dili pa kini mapagawas gikan sa kaugalingong panudlanan sa kagamhan an. “Sa karon nagkuha pa man ta og exemption sa Comelec nga maka-pro ceed dayon ta sa pagpang hatag sa atong ayuda sa (bagyong) Odette,” nag kanayon si NidugangBasmayor. siya nga bisan pa man nga na hunong sila sa pagpangha tag sa ayuda, padayon gi hapon sila ug hikay sa mga dokumento alang niadtong mga wala pa nahatagan, ilabi na kadtong nabaliba ran tungod sa mga kakulian sama sa wala nagtakdo nga mga nagtakdopangalan.nga mga pan “Gi-continuegalan. lang namo. Then once moingon nga mo-go na, mo go na siya tanan, preparado na tanan,” pasalig ni tosubmitinterestedergyP4.4-billionturetocilWeeksCnasangaGipahibawBasmayor.sabniBasmayortanangbarangaydinhisiyudadangnahatagansaP5000ngaayuda.EBUCITY(April4,2022)--aftertheCityCounauthorizedthemayorenterintoaJointVenAgreement(JVA)forawaste-to-en(WTE)facility,otherpartiescannowtheirownproposal“challenge”thedeal.
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“In every study we conducted about incinera tion, the ash is always con sidered toxic,” he said. He added that di oxins are also among the most poisonous toxins that can come out of incinera tion. Dr. Emmanuel is also the former chief tech nical advisor for global en vironment projects of the United Nations Develop ment Programme (UNDP).
For his part, City Councilor Alvin Dizon said he is against the project as it promotes incineration, which he claimed emits tox ins and pollutants that can harm our“Myair. objection against the WTE project is grounded on the fact that the disadvantages of WTE are numerous and have be come more apparent in re cent years,” he said.
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Aside from him and Archival, Summit organiz ers also invited Dr. Jorge Emmanuel, a scientist from Silliman University and an expert in WTE facilities. Dr Emmanuel un derscored that all inciner ators release particulate matters, carbon monoxide, acid gases, heavy metals, toxic bottom ash, and diox ins.
While there may be safeguards against the release of these toxins into the environment, he said the Philippines, specifically the Environmental Man agement Bureau, is cur rently not capable of con ducting continuous dioxins monitoring.Inresponse, Aliko Garganera, executive assis tant of Councilor Joel Gar ganera who voted in favor of the JVA, said the project contract has several safe guards to ensure that New Sky will comply with all en vironmental laws and poli “Wecies. are really having a hard time finding the best solution. We’d like to em phasize that although there are risks on this project, we have safeguards under the CEBU CITY (Abril 6, 2022) –Imbis sa kapin sa tuig, buot ni Mayor Mike Rama nga ipahuman ang pagtrabaho sa bag-ong Cebu City Med ical Center (CCMC) building sa adlaw mismo sa iyang natawhan, o unom ka bu wan gikanKinikaron.ang gihimo niyang tagal sa M.E Sicat Construction nga mahuman na ang ikawalo hangtud sa ika-10 nga hawanan sa bag-ong edepisyo sa tam balanan.“With your com mitment that on October 28, on my birthday, the whole building will be fin ished...I will affix my signa ture. If there is such a thing (here) as (lancet) for diabetes then I’ll affix my blood as my signature to signify that I really mean what I am pleading,” nag kanayon ang Gisultimayor.niya ang maong mga pulong atol sa pormal nga pagpirma sa kontrata tali sa kagam hanan ug sa M.E. Sicat Con struction kaganihang udto, kanus-a gitunol sab ngadto sa M.E. Sicat Construction ang notice to proceed sa maong proyekto.Saiyang bahin, ni padayag si Michael Allan E. Sicat, ang presidente/CEO sa M.E Sicat Construction, nga buhaton nila ang tanan aron mahuman ang proyek to sa buwan sa Oktubre. “Contractually, the project is 570 calendar days. But as what we’ve heard from the mayor, he wants at least ma-top off ng October 28. . So yon, pag-aaralan namin agad pano magawa. Totoo rin naman ang sinabi ni mayor na nothing is impossible, so we will do our best to have it (CCMC building) topped off by October 28,” pulong niya. Gihangyo niya ang pagtinabangay aron nga mahuman ang maong proyekto subay sa kagusto han sa mayor.“Kailangan ma ganda ang communication namin and working rela tionship with the City law to help protect the rights and health of the people,” she Amongsaid.others, the JVA states that New Sky needs to secure an Envi ronmental Compliance Cer tificate, which can be sus pended, and the project will not continue, once there are violations.Garganera said the JVA states that the project site should be in a land area of six hectares and outside of any protectedAlthoughlandscape.theCity Council already approved the JVA with New Sky, May or Rama is yet to formally approve and sign it.
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“It does not give any advantage to the City in the aspect of environmen tal, economic, and social,” he said. He said the facil ity may cost the City more since aside from the tipping fee it has to pay, the City also has to shoulder the ex penses of transporting gar bage to the facility.
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mayor’s office. Kaya yan basta magtutulongan,” si Sicat nagkanayon.Ang istruktura karon sa bag-ong CCMC anaa pa lang sa pito ka an dana. Gusto ni Mayor Rama nga mahuman kini ngadto na sa ika-10 ug katapusang andana. Gipasalig niya nga padayon siyang makigki ta sa mga tawo ug si kinsa pa kadtong nanumpa nga motabang sa paghimo sa CCMC. “I have said that even before the structure will be ultimately complete, I will never stop and I’m now connecting with pri vate people to complete every floor. If it needs me to go back to America to ask for what they had pledged, then I will do it for the sake of the people of Cebu, es pecially the poor.... Hospital sa mga kabus apan dato ang serbisyo niining ospita la,” nagkanayon ang mayor. Si Dr. Anton Oli ver Reposar II, ang med ical director sa CCMC, nagpasalamat nga mapa dayon na gyud ang pag trabaho sa tambalanan kay mas modaghan pa ang ilang maalagaran pa nga mga tawo.“Ang sa part sa Cebu City Medical Center nga management, we are very grateful. We are very inspired nga at least the new building will be contin ued,” ingon niya It is very inspiring because we can again, ex tend, expand our services and with that we can also cater to more patients,” du gang ni Dr. Reposar. from
“The Cebu City Sports Commission made use of various materials that they had and trained our athletesEvenonline.with that struggle, our grassroots program is still very suc cessful despite the limitation,” he said. “This is one thing that I am also proud of is that our grassroots pro gram is one of a kind and it has been used as a basis for the national government,” he added.Edward Hayco, im mediate past chairman of the Cebu City Sports Com mission said it is import ant to keep the children active, noting that sports contribute to mental well ness, which is why training continued through online engagements even at the height of the pandemic.
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lang gyud ta na mahuman siya ug dali para maka-host na ta og mga sports tourism and major events. But for now we must make use of what we have,” he said.
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CEBU CITY (April 6, 2022) -- With the easing of public health restrictions owing to its Alert Level 1 status, the city is now ready to orga nize sporting events in the region. This is what Vice Mayor Dondon Hontiveros declared today, April 6, during the ‘Panaghisgot” discussion at the City Hall Social Hall, where guests talked about the city’s read iness to enliven the sport ing scene“Weagain.look forward to hosting big events, es pecially under the sports tourism. Right now, naa tay inter-barangay sports and naa tay volleyball and bas ketball tournaments hap pening”, he said The vice mayor said he is proud of how the City’s Sports Commission has been continuously training its athletes even when the city went on lockdown.
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Now that the City is under Alert Level 1, he said the city will ramp up the sports program and tap more schools and ba rangays to produce more world-class athletes. He said one top priority is to revive “unpop ular” sports like weightlift ing.
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“Right now, we are trying to revive unpopular sports to help them be cause popular sportsman gud, not to belittle them, they can stand on their own and we need all the help we can get to nurture the tal ents sa mga bata under these unpopular sports,” Hayco said.Hontiveros said that while the city still could not afford to host national and commercial sporting games, he looks forward to the SM Seaside Arena as sporting“Hopefulvenue.
Councilor Eduardo Arana also said they collect garbage daily since they have a much big ger population, Poblacion Pardo being in the urban area of the city. As one way of re ducing their residual waste, he said they plan to have a site where they can do composting of biodegrad able food waste, just like Barangay Lorega-San Mi guel is doing.“Mao na amo plano para ang among mapadan gat na sa Binaliw (landfill) ang dili malata na lang. At least makuhaan ang basura sa barangay,” Arana said. Luardo welcomed the initiative, adding that there are CESET Barangay Environmental Officers (BEOs) who introduced composting in the upland barangays, which have a lot of land space.Composting, though, is difficult to imple ment in urban barangays due to the lack of space.
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Kini human gilusad buntag karong adlawa, Abril 6, ang programa nga “Gas olina Mo, Sagot Ko Project” sa kagamhanan pinaagi sa Cebu City Disaster Risk Re duction and Management Council ug inubanan sa De partment of Energy-7 ug sa F1rstEnergy Corporation ug Phoenix Fuel osamapublikongnag-drivesanodangproyektoTumongCompany.samaongngamatabanganpublikosasunod-sungapagsakasapresyolanailabikadtongmgaogmgapangmgasakyanansadyip,habal-habal,taxi.Nipadayagsaiyang pagsalig si Atty. Russ Mark Gamallo, director sa DOE-7, daghan unyang mga loka nga pangagamhanan ang mosunod sa gibuhat sa dakbayan sa “ThisSugbo.isa laud able project of the Cebu City Government nga na kig-partner sa oil company to give competitive price against aning mga existing nato nga mga oil compa nies karon.... I am sure nga once nga ma-implement ni daghan gyud ang LGUs nga maingganyo nga mosunod ani,” pulong“Makitaniya.na sa atong mga consumers nga naa na silay power of choice, nga makakita sila nga pwede gyud diay sila makakuha og fuel at a lesser price com pared to the normal sug gested retail prices sa mga oil companies,” dugang niya. Aduna unyay duha ka mga pamaagi nga makapahimulos sa disk wento nga“Naayihatag.manual ap plication ug ang usa is atong gi-upload ang link. Ang manual application naay gi-prepare nga gamay nga sheets that is intend ed for those kadtong way access sa internet,” sulti ni Bernard Maraasin, ang director sa Sugbo Bike Lanes. “Kadtong naa nay internet access they can apply through online. You just have to put in the infor mation nga gipangayo nato then we’ll just schedule them kanus-a na nila kuha on ang ilang cards,” dugang niya. Si Atty. Gerardo Carillo, ang chairman sa CCDRRMC, mapasalamaton sa First Energy sa pagtubag niini sa awhag nga pamin osan ang presyo sa ilang gasolina.“Nalipay sad ta nga ningsakripisyo ang First En ergy kay this is indeed sac rifice. Imagine, P2, P3 per liter (ang diskwento) unya daghan kaayong mag pa-gas up, they will be los ing,” matudNaghinaotniya. siya nga mosunod sab ang ubang mga kompanya nga pamin osan ang ilang presyo alang niadtong mga mahatagan sa discount card. Sa bahin sa First Energy, nipadayag sa ilang kaandam nga mohatag sa diskwento si Ronald Reyes, presidente sa “We’reF1rstEnergy.veryexcited to serve our commuters sa atong mga stations. We’re very excited to start the program. Kadtong giingon nato nga next week, then so be it. Next week magsugod ta,” nakanayon siya. Gipahibawo sab niya nga lakip sa may diskwento ang ilang LPG.“Including sa atong LPG kay I’m sure most of our commuters as well nag gamit og mga LPG prod ucts,” si Reyes nagkanayon. Atol sa paglusad sa programa sa City Hall Social Hall, giklaro ni Carillo nga walay kwarta nga ipagawas ang kagamhanan alang nii ni.
Cooperation appealed for effective trash collection
CEBU CITY (April 6, 2022) – Residents and barangay officials should cooperate with the City Government in garbage collection and disposal.Cebu City Envi ronmental Sanitation and Enforcement Team (CESET) Head Grace Luardo sug gested this during a panel discussion in the first day of the Solid Waste Manage ment Summit held at the SM Seaside Sky “KailanganHall. sad gyud dili lang ang enforce ment and implementation kundi ang cooperation. Tin abangay gyud unta, gikan sa household level,” she said. Luardo lamented that while the City Govern ment and barangays have agreed on their respective areas of garbage collection, residents usually do not fol low the rules.Forexample, when there is no scheduled col lection by the barangay in a certain day, there are peo ple would still dump their garbage beside main thor oughfares.Seeing this, the City would have no choice but to collect the garbage to keep the roads clean so as to avoid“Walacomplaints.natay tawo ma-issue-han or ma-call up kay wala naman diha. Mao na atong usual problem,” Luardo said.She urged baran gays to strengthen their information drive in telling their respective constitu ents to follow designated schedules of garbage col lection. Representatives from two barangays who joined the panel discussion also shared their thoughts about theSiraosituation.Brgy.Council or Felix Arcilla said they set Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday as garbage col lection days and residents have so far adhered to the schedule.Brgy.
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(April 7, 2022) -- Gilusad karong adlawa, Abril 7, sa Cebu City Tourism Commission ang “Highland Pilgrimage Tour” isip laing tour package nga kapilian sa mga bisita sa dakbayan.
“We have to make their lives better. Once that’s out, that means you don’t have to be looking for garbage there,” the mayor said in his keynote speech. The mayor then asked that he be given an other mandate by the peo ple for the next three years so he and the rest of the City Government officials are able to focus on this is sue. Among others, he said the City plans on con structing more medium-rise buildings that will become relocation sites for informal settlers. He will also to re claim the three-meter ease ment in waterways and coastal areas. “ I’m very clear. I will take the steps, even if it takes my life, for the pres ervation of Mother Earth. That is what I have prom ised to my wife Malou and my sons MJ and Mikel, and to my daughter Micheline,” the mayor said. Mayor Rama con ceptualized the three-day Solid Waste Management Summit, which is being held at the SM Seaside Sky Hall, following the devastation of super typhoon Odette last December.
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PHOTO: Mayor Mike Rama (center) answers questions at the start of the Summit. With him is (left) Environ mental Management Bureau-7 Director Maribel Munsayac. (PIO/Ruel Rosello)
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The Summit opened this morning with Mayor Rama leading the ribbon cutting ceremony, together with guests and other city officials. In his opening mes sage, Vice Mayor Dondon Hontiveros said he hopes the summit will be an av enue for stakeholders to collaborate and cooperate to solve the city’s garbage problem.“We hope to dis cuss best practices, where we have failed, and where we can improve,” he said. His office has spearheaded the City’s quarterly coastal cleanup program.Aside from him, Atty. John Jigo Dacua, De partment of Public Services (DPS) head, also talked about the City’s current sol id waste management situ ation.
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Pulong ni Konsehal Joy Pesquera, commission chairman, taudtaud na nila kining gipangandaman ta liwa sa pagsaka sa kaso sa CoViD-19 sa niaging tuig. Gani, kauban kini sa una na nilang gilusad niadtong Mayo 11, 2021 nga “Highland Blooms and Eco-Tourism” apan karon karon pa lang gyud nila napahigayon.Pinaagi sa maong tour mapakita sa dakbayan ang maanindot nga mga simbahan ug monasteryo sa kabukiran sa trash woes, we uplift of poor’
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There is a need to improve the lives of the poor to ef fectively address the City’s garbage problem, specifi cally the waste that end up in rivers and the sea. This is the message of Mayor Mike Rama today, April 6, at the first day of the Cebu City Solid Waste Man agement Summit, where he shared his plan to address the city’s problems on sol id waste management is to relocate informal settlers along coastal areas. He said that in his daily walkthroughs around the city, he had observed people in depressed areas with no proper means to dispose their waste. In the end, they just throw directly to rivers and canals so that trash end up in the sea.
Dacua said a Waste Analysis and Characteriza tion Study (WACS) for Cebu City showed that by 2022, with a projected population of around one million, the City’s daily garbage will be at around 900 tons. Based on DPS data, however, DPS is only col lecting an average of 600 tons per“Thisday. could mean that the deficit, around 300 tons, nga basura adto pad ulong sa mga kanal, sa mga rivers, ug sa dagat,” he said. Dacua said this is also the reason why it is important that people are prevented from indiscrim inately throwing their gar bage as these end up in waterways and the sea. While the City is not lacking on ordinances and laws for environmental protection and solid waste management, he said the problem is that most of these policies are not im plemented.CEBUCITY
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“I find it more dig nified if we will be putting a historical marker other than just a local marker because we have to elevate the recog nition of Rajah Humabon not just as a local hero but hope fully let us bring to the atten tion of the national audience the important role that Hum abon played in 1521,” pama hayag ni GipasaligEscalante. niya nga ila kining lihokon dayon su lod sa usa ka buwan. “Right away. I in structed my deputy executive director to get in touch with my office. Although the pro cessing of marker in any city under normal consideration, mayor, take us three months, but because of you we will be fast-track for one month,” sulti ni Escalante atols sa iyang mensahe ngadto kang Mayor Mike Rama. Gipangulohan ni Escalante, Mayor Rama, ug Lt Col. Jeffrex G. Molina sa Visayas Command sa Armed Forces of the Philippines ang paghalad og buwak sa mon umento ni Humabon sa Plaza Hamabar sa may dalan Mabi ni. Sa mensahe ni May or Rama atol sa maong kali hokan, gipahinumdom niya ang mga pulong ni George Santayana, nga usa ka pi losopo, magbabalak, ug ma nunuwat.“Those who can not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. We could imagine the story of Rajah Humabon. It took a while to have it unearthed and bring actual authentic prominence and that is a les son for all of us in this coun try,” pulong sa mayor. Si Vice Mayor Don don Hontiveros, chairman sa Cebu City Cultural and His torical Affairs Commission, niawhag sa katawhan
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nilang maduol ang commu nity guides," dugang niya. Gidapit ni Pesquera ang tanan, dili lamang mga lokal o langyaw nga mga turista, nga mosuway sa pil grimage tour ug mobisita sa kabukiran dinhi sa dak bayan karong umabot nga Semana "ISanta.would like to in vite my fellow Cebuanos to come and visit here in the highlands of Cebu City, es pecially in the north district, for the Lenten celebration. Naa gyud tay mga churches that they can visit, naa tay place for prayers, ug naa pud tay mga Stations of the Cross,” pulong niya. Karon ng Domingo ang Adlaw sa Lukay, nga maoy unang adlaw sa Sem ana Santa."Kinsa tong man gadyi ug moapil sa atoang Bisita Iglesia naa silay kasu royan diri sa atoang moun tain barangays," ingon ni Pesquera.“To the people out there from Luzon, other parts of the Visayas and Mindanao, as well as our foreigner friends, come and visit Cebu. We’re very much ready! Our hotels and restaurants, they are all ready, and we can assure that we follow health pro tocols," dugang niya.
“I urge everyone to learn as much as they can about our past and the lessons they afford us. And tell these stories proudly to the next generation,” nagkanayon siya Human sa pagha lad og mga buwak, usa ka military parade ang gipa higayon gikan sa dalan P. Burgos hangtod sa Plaza
nga mokat-on sa kaga hapon ug sa mga leksyon nga nahatag niini.
dakbayan adtuon sa mga turista ilabi na sa mga mag-pilgrimage tour. Matud ni Pesquera, dili lang unya ingon nga makasuroy ang mga turista sa maanindot nga mga sim bahan ug monasteryo apan malantaw ug maaninaw sab nila ang nindot nga ta lan-awon diha sa kabukiran. "Ato na siyang gi apil kay naay mga turista nga mangita gyud og pil grimage tour kay part na sa pagaingnon nga devotion nila so ato ning gibuhat, pulong niya.Karong adlawa, ang CCTC, kauban ang mga sa kop sa Cebu Association of Tour Guides, ni-dry run sa pilgrimageUnangtour. gibisita sa grupo ang kapilya ug mga balaang relikaryo sa Tabor Hills sa Barangay San Jose, diin nihalad sila ug santos nga misa. Gisunod day on pag-adto ang St. Mary Co-Redemptrix nga nahi mutang ra sab sa maong barangay.Sunod nga gibisita ang Adlaon Vacation Farm sa barangay Adlaon, dayon ang Our Lady of Manaoag Rosary Sanctuary, Chapel Garden and Museum, ug Calvary Mountain Hills nga may Station of the Cross sa Brgy. Sirao.Katambayayong sa CCTC ang mga opisyales ug kawani sa barangay nga gi paubos sa pagbansay kaba hin sa hustong pamatasan ug pag-atiman sa pangi nahanglan kung naay mga bisita. “Partners gyud nato mga barangay officials ang ilahang mga employ ees tungod kay like when people just come here and visit, naay times naa silay needs, where to go?” pu long sa konsehal.“Andalso, if ever they need the assistance from the police and from the barangay, dali kaay
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Humabon Day” karong adl awa, AbrilPulong7. ni Escalan te, ang marker usa unya ka pagtimaan nga sa kamahi nungdanon sa sa gibuhat ni Humabon pag-abi-abi sa mga bisitang Katsila niad tong 1521.
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KY HALL, SM SEASIDE, Cebu City (April 7, 2022) –Technologies and facilities are available for the City Government to reduce the volume of waste it has to dump in landfills. This was learned when waste management solutions providers pre sented their capabilities to day, April 7, during the sec ond day of the Solid Waste Management Summit here. Emma Ramas, pres ident of Bio Nutrient Waste Management Inc., said the City Government can save a lot of money if it opt to compost the food waste it collects instead of bringing it to the landfill. “In third world countries, at least 50 per cent of solid waste gener ated is biodegradable,” she said in her online presenta tion. She mentioned the expense the City had to bear when it allocated last year around P400 mil lion in payment for the pri vate hauler that brings the city’s collected garbage to a landfill. The City likewise appropriated P300 million more to augment CEBU CITY (Abril 7, 2022) -- Pagbutang og historical marker sa monumento ni Rajah Humabon ipatigayon sa National Historical Com mission of the Philippines. Kini ang maayong balita nga gipadayag ni Dr. Rene Escalante, chairman sa NHCP ug executive director sa National Quincentennial Committee, atol sa seremo nyas pagsaulog sa “Rajah
“Cebu City can definitely do the same,” he said. Guun actually pi loted the same facility in Cebu City in 2015 but it was stopped after one year. When it decided to go com mercial, Guun chose Con solacion since there was no suitable area in Cebu City.
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Other participants during this afternoon’s panel discussion were rep resentatives from the World Bank, UN Habitat, and the Global Future Cities Pro gramme of the UK Govern ment.
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Junu Shrestha, World Bank-Kore senior environmental specialist, shared that one of their projects in the country in volved a study on waste from the Pasig River in Met ro Manila.They found out that majority of the waste in the river were different types of plastic materials.“Weassume that Cebu City, being an urban ized area as well, just like Metro Manila, will have a similar waste profile,” she said in her presentation via Zoom. In the same study, the World Bank also iden tified solid waste manage ment system gaps that contribute to problem on plastic wastes. These include: (1) limited to inef ficient waste collection; (2) limited materials recovery facilities (MRFs); (3) limited recycling facilities; (4) poor compliance with required segregation at source; and (5) inappropriate waste management practices.
KY HALL, SM SEASIDE, Cebu City (April 7, 2022) -- Waste-to-energy (WTE) technologies are among those being pushed by for eign development agencies to solve the garbage prob lems in the City and the rest of the country.Infact, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is already undertaking a study to improve the solid waste management system in the Philippines through the adoption of WTE technolo gies.
JICA Philippines has partnered with the Depart ment of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) – Environmental Manage ment Bureau (EMB) for the project.
“The purpose of the project is for the nation al government and the tar get local government units’ capacity for planning, eval uation, formulation, and supervision of WTE projects to be enhanced,” he said in his presentation over Zoom during theThesummit.study started in March 2019 and is set to be completed by December 2022.
Ramas said that if the city can only separate ly collect its food waste so that the segregated gar bage can brought to the right facility, this budget can be greatly reduced.
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Mayor Rama said he is willing to listen to all parties regarding the proj ect as he is yet to actually sign the InJVA. his keynote speech during the opening of the Solid Waste Manage ment Summit yesterday, the Mayor said he will only pursue envi ronmental projects as long as there is enough proof of it being advantageous and beneficial to the city.
Three target LGUs are also part of the study – Quezon City, Davao City, and CebuPerezCity.said
To address these, the World Bank suggested the following: (1) enhance ment of existing MRFs; (2) improvement of waste col lection; (3) establishment of centralized recyclable facilities; (4) establishment of barangay trading cen ters for plastics; and (5) in creased ecycling capacity, among others.
Bio Nutrient cur rently operates near the Inayawan landfill a composting facility in a 3,854-square-meter area that can process 60 tons of biodegradable food and market waste per day.
For his part, Takeshi Konishi, senior managing director of Guun Co., Ltd., shared that they are cur rently operating a waste plastic recycling facility in Tayud, Consolacion that can process 50 to 75 tons of plastic waste per day.
“This represents around one-third of these waste generated from the Metro Cebu area. Based on our research, around 210 to 220 tons of plastic waste are generated in Metro Cebu area per day,” he said. The facility accepts plastics, paper, cartons, Styrofoam and foam, and fabric. These are processed and converted to fluff fuel to be sold to cement com panies. Konishi said they have already partnered with Mandaue City since 2018. From a pilot of 10 baran gays, all of Mandaue City’s 27 barangays now bring their plastic waste to Guun’s facility.
The project was the subject of the 2022 CSO Waste Summit held in Cebu City last Tuesday, when ex perts warned that WTE fa cilities that use incineration are expected to produce toxic substances that, if not properly handled and dis posed, can cause environ mental and health hazards.
Christian Vic Pe rez, Program Officer of the Environment and Energy Section of JICA Philippines, shared this during the sec ond day of the 1st Cebu City Solid Waste Manage ment Summit held here.
JICA has already reviewed the three cities’ current plans in rela tion to WTE technologies, analyzed the waste flow in these localities, and have suggested key issues in for mulating WTE projects.
The study is a wel come development espe cially since the City Council recently authorized Mayor Mike Rama to sign, on be half of the City, a joint ven ture agreement (JVA) with New Sky Energy Philippines, Inc. for the establishment of a WTE facility.Afew city coun cilors and environmental groups have raised concern over the JVA, saying it could pose environmental threats and harm to public health.
Meanwhile, Allan Ogoc of Calgreens, another solutions provider, said they proposed a state-of-the-art materials recovery facility (MRF) to the City Govern ment under a public-private partnershipPhasescheme.1of their proposal includes testab lishing the MRF, bringing in of collection trucks, and putting up of three transfer stations.Phase 2 of their proposal will include setting up a paper pulping facility, plastic processing facility, and tire and glass recycling facility.S
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“In the next years until 2021, based on my re cords, it reduced to more than 50 percent. In 2021, it was only 10,800 kilos of waste,” heAmongsaid. others, their plan included strict waste segregation and recycling of the materials for these to be used again or sold.
CEBU CITY (April 8, 2022) -- Master plans should be simple and implementable. Mayor Mike Rama made this remark when asked to comment on a news report PLAZA INDEPENDENCIA, Cebu City (Abril 9, 2022) -- Handoma ang “Araw ng Kagitingan” dili lang isip adlaw sa mga bayani ug sa mga beterano kundili isip adlaw sab sa bayanihong mga buhat sa yanong Pili pino. Kini maoy pahi numdom ni Leonardo F. Fa biano, pangulo sa Veter ans Federation of the Phil ippines, sa gihimong pag timaan karong adlawa sa ika-80 nga “Araw ng Kagit ingan” dinhi.“Today’s celebra tion of Araw ng Kagitingan, it is a day not only for he roes and veterans, it is a day for all Filipinos to re member why we are fight ing and a day for all of us to begin our journey of pro tecting this freedom and the freedom of many future generations,”“Arawnagkanayon.ngKagitin gan is a commemoration of acts of heroism, , patrio tism, dedication, sacrifice, that the National Economic and Development Author ity (NEDA) is preparing 13 sector-wide master plans in urban areas in the country, including Metro Cebu. “We’ve been hear ing a lot of plans. But plans will never be as meaningful if you do not act upon the plan. Let the plan be action able, let the plan be simple, brief, and clear so it can be implementable,” he said.
In a news report by Business Mirror, NEDA OIC-Undersecretary Jona than L. Uy said the plans are being created for emerging “megacities” in the Philip pines to help them adopt smart city principles. These aspects in clude urban mobility, nat ural and built environment, sustainable energy, and economicForcompetitiveness.CebuCity, NEDA said the focus is on personal safety and securi ty, and mobility. Uy pointed out Cebu’s worsening traf fic situation and the need for an effective mass trans port system here. This problem has prompted officials to pur sue an automated citywide traffic control system. The long-standing Cebu Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is also being worked on and is already in the imple mentationSoughtphase. for com ment on this, Mayor Rama said the BRT has been a project that he and his pre decessor pushed for during their previous terms. “Of course, that’s a project that I’ve been want ing to have it implement ed,” he said. Mayor Rama said he was told the BRT imple menting unit is now work ing on getting permits to have trees along Osmeña Blvd. earth-balled and transferred.
In a separate panel discussion, representatives from malls also presented their efforts to minimize their own solid waste generation. SM Seaside Assis tant Mall Manager Mark Magallanes said they have programs like “trash to cash” where they buy waste from people. They have also put up electronic waste bins in their malls for collected bro ken and unusable gadgets to be disposed properly.
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The mayor, though, said that he is willing to hear NEDA when it presents the results of the master plan for Cebu City
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PHOTO: Mayor Mike Rama leads the wreath-laying ceremony held at the Independencia for the
‘Abril 9 alang sab sa bayanihon nga yanong mga tawo’
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Huey Silo, CSR Manager of Robinsons Land Corp., said they implemented a strict segregation policy in the different sections and of fices across all their business es entities.
Metro Retail Stores Group Engineering Supervi sor Benjamin Sanchez said they already adopted a Sol id Waste Management Pro gram, with the objective to reduce their waste as early as 2014, when they had an aver age of 28,000 kilos of waste.
“So far, we have al ready collected 2,000 kilo grams of e-waste,” he said.
“It also part of our duty in the Cultural and His torical Affairs Commission to make sure the cruelty of war is drowned out by the bravery of men. Dili ang kapildihon ug pagkamatay ang angay mahinumduman sa ika-9 sa Abril apan ang kaisog sa atong mga bet erano ang angay mopan gibabaw,” dugang ni Bise Mayor Hontiveros.
Meantime, Mayor Rama ordered the immedi ate evacuation of residents whole lives could be in dan ger with the prevailing rains with which CDRRMO per sonnel cordoned off dwell ings with yellow barricade tapes.
– Mayor Mike Rama today ordered the evacuation of residents along waterways and coastal areas in the city as heavy rains continue. Rains fell since over the past two days from two interlocking weather sys tems, according to Renzo del Rosario, data analyst of the City Disaster Risk re duction and Management Office (CDRRMO).
Mayor Rama took these tacts as #AgatonPH that intensified into a tropical storm off Leyte and Samar, coupled with the inter-trop ical convergence zone, con tinued to bring heavy rains to the city.Incessant heavy rains have loosened the earth in several hinterland sites, and raised cascading waters in rivers and creeks by two to three meters, report ed CDRRM office (CDRRMO) operations lead Kevin San chez. CDRRMO quick re sponse teams cleared debris from landslides and fallen trees, and monitored areas noted for flooding over ghe last 48 hours, he disclosed, adding that a team secured tonight the unstable fence in Sitio Sandayong near S. Ca bahug St. in Mabolo.
As the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Manage ment Council (CDRRMC) rec ommended, the Mayor also declared a State of Calamity. He asked the City Council to convene soon to act on it and allocate needed calamity funds.
The inter-tropical convergence zone (ITCZ) crosses over the city and the rest of central Philip pines while now a tropical depression hovers east off the Pacific, he explained. He disclosed that close to 500,000 barrels of rain per square kilometer got dumped over the city in 24 hours from 8:00 AM of April 7 that triggered red rainfall warnings on mobile phones by 1:00 AM of April 8. Reports had some parts of the city flooded, in cluding Sitio Sandayong in Mabolo near S. Cabahug St.
“We have just laid the wreath in honor of those who gave up their lives for the freedom of this nation--a sacrifice we and generations after us continue to enjoy the fruits of. Mapasalamaton kaayo ming tanan sa atong mga beterano, ang ilang pami lya nga naa karon, saludo kaayo mi,” pulong sa bise mayor.
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The Philippine At mospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) advised the public that the current weather condition may continue through the Holy Week.
Mayor Rama ad vised business processing and call center companies to provide transportation or se cure the accommodation of their employees if they must report forHework.advised the same and the colleges in F2F to continueFurthermore,online. while the city is already “gawas non,” he advised the citizens to “puyo lang usa ta ron” so they will not be inconve nienced nor disturb others. , service that have shaped and lead the basis for the present. Many of these acts of heroism and patriotism continue to be carried out every day by ordinary Filipi nos,” dugang niya. Sa iyang bahin, subling gisulti ni Mayor Mike Rama ang mga pu long nga gibungat sa pi losopo ug magbabalak nga si George“I’veSantayana.always been reminding everybody George Santayana, (his book) ‘The Life of Reason’ (published in) 1905. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to re peat it,” pulong niya. “Again I will high light, those who cannot re member the past are con demned to repeat it. We live only once, only once. Our forebears are gone and the youth is watching us, our children are observing us. If we fail what our veter ans fought for, then we are nothing,” dugang ni Mayor Rama. Sa pagtamod sa kasaulogan, usa ka sere monyas sa paghalad og buwak ang gipahigayon nga gipangulohan ni Mayor Rama ug Colonel Edgar G. Mangabay sa 7th Regional Community Defense Group sa Philippine Army. Si Vice Mayor Don don Hontiveros, kinsa mao sab ang chairman sa Cul tural and Historical Affairs Commission, nipadayag sa iyang pasalamat ug pag saludo sa sakripisyo nga gibuhat sa mga beterano.
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The mayor said he will hold an emergency meeting at 9:00 AM today to prepare for the possi ble hazards brought by the weather and discuss with utility service providers any interruption that might happen.
CITY HALL, Cebu City (April 10, 2022) – Mayor Mike Rama tonight declared no work in both government and private sectors tomor row, Monday, April 11, and no classes in colleges previ ously allowed to hold faceto-face classes.Anappropriate ex ecutive order will be issued first hour tomorrow, dis closed Eng’r. Suzanne O, Ar dosa, the acting city admin istrator.
Niingon siya nga bisan kung sakit ang pagh inumdom sa mga namatay ilabi na sa gitawag sa atong kasaysayan nga “Bataan Death March” buhaton kini aron hinumdoman og yuk boan ang pinakataas nga paagi sa pagsakripisyo al ang sa kaayohan sa atong nasud.
that Mayor Rama visited yesterday morning and called after CDRRMO chief Aderson Comar to check and assess the area. Comar told the PIO the waters rose up to 13-inches on the paved road above a waterway and chest-high in a lower area, and pushed back the fence above the dike by a foot from the road pavement. He noted that posts of some structures built in the area blocked the waterway. “These obstruct ed the cascading rainwaters that pushed away the earth under the cemented road creating a 9-feet cavity be neath it,” he said. He said the pave ment could collapse and that he would recommend the clearing of these posts and the fence to allow an unimpeded water flow.
MAYOR RAMA: ‘NO WORK, NO CLASSES,’ STATE OF CALAMITY IN CEBU CITY CEBU CITY (April 9, 2022)