NAGA CITY -- For having been found violating the provisions of a city ordinance disallowing internet cafes from admitting students to play Internet video games during school hours for the third time, the Cyberberks On Line St along Peñafrancia Avenue here was padlocked by members of the Public Safety Office headed by PSO Executive Officer Lito del Rosario last January 8, 2008.

Caption: PSO Executive Director Lito del Rosario warns students at play about a city ordinance regulating Internet cafes. RANDY VILLAFLOR

        The city ordinance, otherwise known as Ordinance No. 2002-009, strictly prohibits owners of Internet cafes from admitting students during schools hours to play computer games.

Caption: Members of Naga Public Service Office close an Internet game shop along Peñafrancia Avenue for allowing students to play computer games during class hours. RANDY VILLAFLOR

        At least four more Internet cafes located near schools were given warning of eminent closure after they were found to have violated the same offense for the second time following lightning raids by the city’s PSO operatives last January 8 and 14, this year.

        They were first given warnings during the first wave of raids last July 2007.

        During the same raids, 14 more Internet cafes, most of which were located along school zones near the Ateneo, USI, UNC and the so-called college belt along Peñafrancia Avenue, were given stern warnings for violating for the first time the ordinance regulating Internet and computer houses in the city.