More mental health experts needed

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/14/2013

THE Philippine Mental Health Association (PMHA) Cebu chapter is inviting more mental health experts to conduct stress debriefing for typhoon victims in northern Cebu and other affected families in eastern Visayas. “The reactions that we see from…

World Aid In Cebu

AP, Inquirer, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/14/2013

Help continues to arrive. The US Navy yesterday said its aircraft carrier, the USS George Washington, is in the Philippines to join the massive international effort to help victims of supertyphoon “Yolanda,” who are mostly in Eastern…

Base infirmary seeks help

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/13/2013

Along with medical volunteers, donations of medicines are welcome in the Benito Ebuen Air Base in Mactan where hundreds of survivors of supertyphoon Yolanda have been flown in from Eastern Visayas since Friday. Capt. Michael S. Ching,…

Veco posts rotational brownouts list

Aileen Garcia-Yap, Chito O. Aragon, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/13/2013

THE Visayan Electric Co. (Veco) started posting lists of areas where rotational brownouts will occur starting yesterday. “The exact time and lengths of the interruption will depend on the available power,” Veco corporate communications manager Theresa Sederiosa…

Refugees arrive in Cebu to flee misery in typhoon-hit Tacloban City

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/12/2013

When two Philippine Air Force C-130s arrived at the typhoon-wrecked Daniel Romualdez airport in Tacloban City just after dawn yesterday, more than 3,000 people who had camped out hoping to escape the devastation surged onto the tarmac…

List of fatalities in Cebu

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag, Peter L. Romanillos 11/11/2013

(SECOND UPDATE) Here are the list of fatalities recorded by the Cebu Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council and Police Regional Office-7 (Central Visayas). Sogod Jen Arnado Nila Sultones Balamban Mario Sorila Tabogon Eusebia Flores Bogo…

‘Tacloban in bad shape; bodies lie on the street’

Apple Ta-as, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/10/2013

“Masamang-masama (terrible),” Interior and Local Governments Secretary Mar Roxas told President Aquino by phone yesterday. Roxas described conditions in Tacloban City, said to be the hardest hit by supertyphoon Yolanda. He said corpses could be seen on…

Classes suspended in 13 northern Cebu towns

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/09/2013

Classes in all levels in 13 towns in northern Cebu that bore the full brunt of supertyphoon Yolanda’s fury will be suspended from Nov. 11 to 15. Among the towns hardest hit were: Sogod, Borbon, Tabogon, Medellin,…

Most ships spared due to advance warning

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/09/2013

THE advance warning for vessels to seek shelter in safe areas due to typhoon Yolanda greatly reduced the number of accidents at sea, maritime authorities said yesterday. All vessels in Central Visayas except those whose destinations are…

Strong winds, big waves run ship, barges aground

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/08/2013

A container ship ran aground while docking off in Talisay City due to strong winds and big waves caused by supertyphoon Yolanda at 10 a.m. yesterday. Commodore William Melad of the Philippine Coast Guard-Central Visayas said a…

Yolanda batters northern Cebu, power cut off, trees and lines toppled

Apple Ta-as, Christine Emily L. Pantaleon, Gabriel C. Bonjoc, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag, Peter L. Romanillos 11/08/2013

Roofs were torn off and parked vehicles and motorcycles were dragged several meters away as super typhoon “Yolanda” barreled its way through Daanbantayan town, northern Cebu. Packing winds of 215 kph, Yolanda made its third landfall in…

100-K housed in evac centers

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/07/2013

THERE were 118,997 evacuees who were housed in 766 evacuation centers in Central Visayas, the Police Regional Office (PRO-7) said. Supt. Renato Dugan, PRO-7 information officer, said they came out with these initial figures since their monitoring…

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