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MANDAUE CITY, Philippines – Mandaue City celebrated CDRRMO Day on May 2 by showcasing the capabilities of Purok-Based Emergency Response Teams’ in responding to emergencies. The activity held at the city hall grounds highlighted the purok teams’…
MANDAUE CITY, Philippines – Mandaue City is capacitating its puroks in the city’s different barangays to empower them to respond to alarms. Mandaue City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CDRRMO) head Buddy Alain Ybañez said…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Minglanilla town Mayor Elanito Peña has ordered a community lockdown in three puroks or sitios in Barangay Tunghaan as the town logs its second coronavirus disease case this Thursday, April 30, 2020. The…
CEBU CITY, Philippines – A Wednesday afternoon fire damaged a house made of light materials in Sitio Purok Sampaguita, Barangay Looc, Lapu-Lapu City. Fire Officer 3 (FO3) Johnmer Lesiges of the Lapu-Lapu City Fire Department said that…
Governor Hilario Davide III reaffirmed the Cebu Provincial government’s commitment to enhance and promote the purok system in the province during the second year of Mega Cebu’s Purok Talks earlier this month. Davide delivered his welcome address…
THE provincial government is stepping up its campaign to mobilize barangays in towns and cities of Cebu to adopt the “purok (neighborhood/zone)” system to deal with natural and man-made calamities. Baltazar Tribunalo Jr., head of the Provincial…
It is quite timely for the Cebu provincial government to push through with the institutionalization of the purok system similar to the Bohol province model; but they need not look farther than San Francisco town on Camotes…
I spent my weekend on the island towns of Camotes, the place where my maternal grandparents came from, but the trip was not meant for vacation or some sort of a reunion. I was brought back to…
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