Cebu Daily Newscast: Fast craft, cargo vessel figure in sea collision near Mactan bridge

CDN Digital 05/22/2023

Listen to Cebu Daily Newscast and get the latest stories in and around Cebu. Here’s what you need to know on Monday, May 22. Fast craft, cargo vessel figure in sea collision near Mactan bridge Several passengers…

35 injured in collision at Mactan Channel involving fast craft, cargo vessel

Morexette Marie Erram, Paul Lauro 05/22/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines – At least 35 passengers on board a fast craft were injured after they figured in a collision with a cargo vessel at sea on Sunday afternoon, May 21, 2023, here. The incident reportedly…

Troubled Japanese woman to get counseling from Mandaue’s Social Welfare Services

Mary Rose Sagarino 10/26/2021

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines — A 37-year-old Japanese woman and her Filipino husband will undergo counseling sessions at the Mandaue City Social Welfare Services (CSWS) to help them cope with the problems they are facing. This after the…

Netizens slam new traffic scheme near Mandaue-Mactan Bridge

Doris C. Bongcac 05/22/2021

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu, Philippines — Congestion greeted motorists on Friday, May 21, during the dry run for the implementation of a new traffic policy on roads in Barangay Looc that are located close to the Mandaue-Mactan Bridge.…

Mandaue cops seek public’s help to identify man found floating below Mandaue-Mactan bridge

Alven Marie A. Timtim and Paul Lauro 01/27/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Mandaue police are asking the public to help them identify the man who was found dead off the waters of Barangay Looc, Mandaue City, at around 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, January 26,…

PDRRMO’s Water Search and Rescue team to be deployed for fluvial procession

Rosalie Abatayo 01/16/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) will be sending out a water search and rescue (Wasar) team to the Sinulog fluvial procession this Saturday, January 18. PDRRMO Chief Neil Angelo…

‘No Swimming areas’ below Mandaue side of bridges will be strictly monitored to prevent drownings

Norman V. Mendoza 11/25/2019

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippipnes — Their will be strict monitoring of the “No Swimming” areas below the two Mandaue-Mactan bridges. Felix Suico, Mandaue City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office head, said this amid the latest drowning incident below…

Man jumps off Mandaue-Mactan bridge, survives

Alven Marie A. Timtim and Paul Lauro 08/26/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A 40-year-old man survived after jumping off the Old Mandaue-Mactan bridge in Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu at 2 p.m. today, August 26. The man was being treated at the hospital in Lapu-Lapu City where…

Habal-habal driver rescued after jumping off Mandaue-Mactan Bridge

Rosalie Abatayo 06/25/2019

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu—Believing that someone was tailing him and wanted him dead, a habal-habal (motorcycle taxi) driver jumped off from the Osmeña Bridge, or the first Mandaue-Mactan Bridge, past 10 p.m. on Monday, June 24, 2019. Mandaue City Police…

Bridge board seeks upgrade of CCTV in Mandaue-Mactan bridges

CNU Intern Leeian Galariana 06/14/2019

  CEBU CITY, Philippines — More advanced closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras, including ones that are capable of capturing plate numbers, are eyed to be installed in the two bridges connecting mainland Cebu and Mactan Island. In a…

4th Mandaue-Mactan bridge in the offing

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 05/23/2018

Plans for a fourth bridge connecting mainland Cebu to Mactan Island is now a step closer to implementation. A study team composed of local officials flew to Japan where they met with the Japan International Cooperation Agency…

Caveat emptor

Jobers R. Bersales 10/19/2016

Even as President Rodrigo Duterte hobnobs with the great Chinese “empire” albeit sans his appointed representative, the former president Fidel V. Ramos, we must also look to other possible allies as we seemingly veer away from the…

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