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July 12, 2023 6:00 PM

Another five soldiers were critically wounded, and at least three militants were killed in retaliatory fire.

July 12, 2023 5:35 PM

Storm-0558 managed to forge authentication tokens needed to access e-mail accounts.

Transport groups are set to stage another strike starting on President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s second State of the Nation Address, this amid continuing uncertainty for drivers and operators regarding the state's public utility vehicle modernization program.

Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama issued executive order (EO) “Oplan Panindot sa Palibot” early this year. News? Mayor Rama also issued EO “Oplan Disiplina” last year.

The “Oplan Panindot sa Palibot” was launched with the city’s First Lady Malou Rama leading the beautification campaign. She was assisted by Arlie Gesta, head of the Cebu City Environment and Natural Resources Office (CCENRO).

The latest instruction of Mayor Rama, according to the Cebu City Public Information Office, is for the Prevention, Restoration, Order, Beautification and Enhancement (Probe) to intensify its effort in removing the tarpaulins of private companies that are attached to poles and displayed in other prohibited places. Mayor Rama was quoted saying he does not want thoroughfares to become an “advertisement territory.”

Well, let us hope that these two “Oplans” would not be plans only or mere rhetoric from city officials but would really be put into action. In fact, these plans should have been the primary tools in Mayor Rama’s Singapore-like dream for Cebu City because we all know that discipline is wanting among residents and transients. Instead of initially begging the city council for a billion budget for his Singapore-like vision, cleanliness should have been the bigger issue.

As to why these plans were not put into action early in the term of Mayor Rama is something that we could not comprehend. If my memory serves me right, the past and present city administrations have done many ways or enticements, so to speak, on how to reduce the waste and get the attention and help of the residents but these have not gained momentum.

If the city ordinances or the laws on sanitation are not strictly enforced and those who hold power shall not interfere with the enforcement, whoever sits in City Hall could not do anything no matter how aggressive the campaign may be.

Without the strict implementation of the city ordinances and laws, particularly on cleanliness, the environmental and sanitation laws, discipline among the city residents would be hard to attain. Discipline will be hard to impose even if reusable or recyclable garbage would be exchanged with money instead of goods.

The leaders of Singapore made a name for their tiny nation by using the strong arm of the law in imposing discipline among its citizens and especially on the tourists or transients. I am not suggesting that Mayor Rama whip with a rattan stick those who dirty the city, just like what the Singaporean officials did in the early years in order to improve their nation’s status.

We are one nation that is not wanting in laws. Wikipedia’s 2018 records show that we have 10,967 to 11,166 laws, including executive orders. What is missing in us is the love and pride for our country.

Republic Act 9003 or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000 is a comprehensive law aimed at improving the solid waste management of the country through a “systematic, ecological, solid waste management program.” Sadly, it was only good for a few years after its implementation. Under this law, the local government units (LGUs), including the barangays, could be held administratively and criminally liable if they fail to implement the rules and regulations in the management of solid wastes.

Cebu City and other LGUs have failed to implement the segregation of wastes, which is mandatory under RA 9003. Worse, the LGUs do not have a sanitary landfill as required by this law.

July 12, 2023 5:05 PM

Ruling “violated the principle of state consent”, Chinese Foreign Ministry says.

The two Germans were charged with murder of real estate broker Hans-Peter Mack after his body was found stuffed into a chest freezer in a home in Pattaya.

Prayuth Chan-ocha's nine years of authoritarian rule saw a sweeping crackdown on political dissent.

Tomorrow marks the sixth anniversary of Liu Xiaobo's death. The 2010 Nobel Peace laureate died from complications of liver cancer on July 13, 2017, in a hospital in Liaoning province while guarded by state security forces.

July 12, 2023 4:24 PM

Jasmine Loo is said to be a close associate of fugitive financier Jho Low.

July 12, 2023 3:35 PM

The restaurant in Sichuan got customers to wolf down 108 dumplings in the fastest time for a free meal.

One dissident at the time, the Vietnamese government is pursuing a campaign to systematically eliminate what's left of the country's human rights and democracy movement. By inexorably adding peaceful activists to the growing list of more than 150 Vietnamese political prisoners, Hanoi is violating international human

The last pending drug case against former Sen. Leila De Lima has been raffled off to a new court in Muntinlupa, after two judges inhibited from the proceedings in past weeks.

AN IMPROVED version of a rural health unit will soon rise in Carcar City to cater to the poor constituents in southern Cebu.

Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia, together with Senator Christopher “Bong” Go and Carcar City Mayor Patricio Barcenas, led the ceremonial groundbreaking of the Super Health Center on Wednesday, July 12, 2023.

The Super Health Center will have laboratory services, a pharmacy, birthing facilities, an outpatient center, dental service, a comprehensive PhilHealth outpatient department and other minor services.

“Senator Bong Go, ang imong mga proyekto kay mapahimuslan gyud sa atung mga ubos ug kabus nga mga ka-igsoonan, salamat kaayo,” Barcenas said in his speech live streamed through Sugbo News, the Capitol’s social media arm, on July 12.

(Senator Bong Go, your projects will surely benefit our underprivileged brethren, thank you very much)

“Gikan sa Malasakit (Center) karon naa nasad ta (Super) Health Center kay makatabang kini sa atung mga pobre nga molupyo sa atung syudad,” Barcenas added.

(From Malasakit, we now have Health Center that can help our poor constituents).

In his speech, Go said that the Super Health Center is a medium-type of Polyclinic, a facility that provides general and specialized treatment similar to a hospital.

“Mas gamay sa (Smaller than) ospital, mas daku sa (but bigger than a) rural health unit,” Go said, adding that this will help decongest the hospitals.

The project was first conceptualized in 2021 when Go observed that there was a need to improve the rural health units in fourth, fifth and sixth class municipalities while he was touring around the country.

“Ang mga buntis kay manganak nalang sa tricycle tungod sa kalayo sa ilahang mga ospital (Pregnant women deliver in tricycle due to the distance from the hospital). Kar

The culmination of the festival is greeting the "new" sun, which signifies the start of the new summer - and the new year!

Yakutian New Year

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