Israel’s ‘medical clown’ cheers up Bogo patients

Bjorn Abraham Tabanera 12/13/2013

Like his American counterpart Hunter Doherty “Patch” Adams, 37-year-old professional medical clown Moshe Twito provides entertainment to patients in his native Israel. Yesterday, the Israeli embassy tapped Twito’s services for the patients confined in the Cebu Provincial…

CDN reporter, correspondent win awards

Bjorn Abraham Tabanera 12/13/2013

AWARDS for best news and feature reporting in the print media were given yesterday to reporter Ador Vincent S. Mayol of Cebu Daily News in a ceremony that commended journalists in Cebu who “foster responsible and conflict-sensitive…

Teenage mom kills self after losing son, home

Bjorn Abraham Tabanera, Norman V. Mendoza 12/12/2013

A series of unfortunate events led an 18-year old mother to hang herself at a house she stayed in at Lapu-lapu City last Wednesday afternoon. Akiera Mae Patalinghug’s son died after a lingering illness before supertyphoon swept…

Bogo families hit by typhoon receive P10K cash aid

Bjorn Abraham Tabanera 12/12/2013

About 13 families in Bogo City who lost a loved one due to supertyphoon Yolanda were given cash assistance by the national government, Wednesday afternoon. Each family received P10,000 from the national government that was coursed through…

Medical clowns cheer up patients in Bogo City hospital

Bjorn Abraham Tabanera 12/11/2013

Patients of the Cebu Provincial Hospital in Bogo City, northern Cebu were surprised to see a tall man in a clown costume visiting the wards. Moshe Twito, an Israeli professional medical clown, donned blue and white striped…

Aussie ship delivers relief goods in Cebu

Bjorn Abraham Tabanera 12/02/2013

An amphibious Royal Australian navy ship docked in Cebu, Monday morning to help in the relief and recovery operation in typhoon-hit areas in northern Cebu. HMAS Tobruk carried 110 tons of humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR)…

Survivors volunteer in repacking center

Bjorn Abraham Tabanera 11/21/2013

The 21-year old Cedric Sanchez and his 35-year old uncle Sonny Castro were pulling and lifting sacks of rice at the national repacking center at the Cebu International Convention Center (CICC). Instead of resting comfortably in their…

Medellin mayor rants: Without classrooms, no classes to resume yet

Bjorn Abraham Tabanera 11/19/2013

What school resumption? The school, both private and public have been left in ruins by supertyphoon Yolanda so there no resumption of classes to talk of, a furious Medellin Mayor Ricky Ramirez said of the announcement by…

Fire hits 38 houses in Cebu City

Bjorn Abraham Tabanera 11/18/2013

(Third Update) Fire hits a residential area in barangay Basak San Nicolas, Cebu City. Cebu City Fire Department received the fire alarm at 1:43 p.m., Monday and was raised to general alarm. According to Cebu City Disaster…

CICC: See many volunteers but where are the trucks?

Apple Ta-as, Bjorn Abraham Tabanera 11/16/2013

The volunteers are plentiful. So are the relief goods. Now the problem is finding trucks to pull them out of the Cebu International Convention Center (CICC), which was converted into a 24-hour repacking center starting Thursday evening.…

24 / 7 Relief Center

Apple Ta-as, Bjorn Abraham Tabanera 11/15/2013

Sometimes she’d pause to pick up cans of sardines. From school, the kindergarten pupil came with her parents to the basement of the Cebu International Convention Center (CICC) in Mandaue City, where volunteers are joining a new…

Trader recounts ‘Yolanda’ experience

Bjorn Abraham Tabanera 11/15/2013

As he watched his daughter Katsy being interviewed by Anderson Cooper on CNN, 56-year-old businessman Peter Borromeo tried to connect the pieces of his harrowing encounter with super typhoon “Yolanda” (international name Haiyan). He thought “Yolanda” was…

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