Cebu City to Send Notices to 17 Firms for Violating Rules During Sinulog Parade

The Cebu City Government will be sending “show-cause” notices to at least 17 business establishments along the Sinulog Grand Parade for violating the city’s policies last Sunday, an official said.

Cebu City Councilor Dave Tumulak, deputy mayor on police matters, said these establishments will be asked to explain their side.

Tumulak said one of the rules imposed by the city during the Sinulog Grand Parade was that business establishment should not use their parking spaces as an extension of their businesses.

Tumulak said they were prohibited from putting up tables outside their establishments, big speakers and blaring loud music as well as selling liquor within the route.

“If they are proven to have violated these policies, their businesses will be suspended for 30 days,” Tumulak said.

Tumulak said he would file a proposed ordinance to strictly and totally ban liquor along Gen. Maxilom Ave., Juana Osmeña St. and Ramos St. during the Sinulog.

Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmena has disapproved the business permit application of the restobar along Juana Osmeña Street, whose blaring music was turned off by the mayor himself because of rowdy post-Sinulog street partying.

Osmeña, accompanied by soldiers belonging to the Marine Brigade Reserve Battalion, went to Juana Osmeña St. near Baseline Sunday night after receiving reports that the crowd at Backflip Resto was becoming rowdy.

But Osmena said he received reports from the police that the establishment turned on its sound system after he left at around 11 p.m. Sunday. (PNA)LAP/EB/SSC