Thousands flee homes

Apple Ta-as, Christine Emily L. Pantaleon, Doris C. Bongcac, Jhunnex Napallacan, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag, Peter L. Romanillos 11/07/2013

Thousands of people left their homes yesterday to seek shelter in evacuation centers as city and town governments enforced preemptive evacuation for those living in coastal, flood-prone and landslide-prone areas to keep them safe from supertyphoon Yolanda.…

Eye of Yolanda may hit north of Cebu

Bjorn Abraham Tabanera, Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Jucell Marie P. Cuyos, Marian Z. Codilla, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/07/2013

Crisil Tabanas, mother of one joins the public in panic shopping in one of the malls at the north reclamation area. She dumps diaper and milk to her grocery basket last night along with flashlight and batteries…

Coast Guard: Vessels to secure anchorage

Bencyrus Ellorin, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/07/2013

Remember Ruping. This was the message of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) to all shipowners, vessel and boat masters as they told them to make sure that their vessels are anchored securely by the time supertyphoon Yolanda…

‘Padre’ to be sworn in by Davide

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/06/2013

SUSPENDED priest and barangay Kawit chairman Oscar Banzon will be sworn in by Cebu Gov. Hilario Davide III in Medellin town, northern Cebu on Nov. 15. Banzon was elected barangay captain of Kawit and will assume his…

Aftershocks hamper start of church repairs

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag, Peter L. Romanillos 11/03/2013

Aside from cash donations, heavy equipment is needed to jump start the restoration work on the five churches felled by the Oct. 15 earthquake in Cebu. Architect Melva Java, who sits as a private sector representative in…

Poor families rely on gov’t aid to bury dead kin

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/03/2013

A “pauper’s burial” in Cebu City is not free but low-income families still have a government option for a decent funeral. Burial assistance from the city government of Cebu includes P8,000 for a casket and up to…

Stranger in the tomb

Christine Estrella, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/02/2013

With orchids in hand, 80-year-old Sylvia Sun visited Carreta Cemetery, the final resting place of her mother and son, on All Saints’ Day. She was in for a surprise. Someone else’s gravestone partly covered the front of…

Tomb Tales

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/01/2013

Asingle white rose and candle adorn each vault of the 47 unidentified victims of the Aug. 16 ship collision of MV St. Thomas Aquinas and a cargo vessel. “So far no families have visited since Thursday,” said…

Memories alive

Jucell Marie P. Cuyos, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag, Rose Ursabia 11/01/2013

Mystery of Claudia Zobel Flowers and blown-up news clippings filled the graveyard of Cebuana sexy star Claudia Zobel at the Queen City Memorial Garden in Cebu City today. When her body was exhumed in September, 29 years…

Cebuanos pay homage to the departed

Bjorn Abraham Tabanera, Jucell Marie P. Cuyos, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag, Rose Ursabia 11/01/2013

Reliving strong family ties is what drive thousands of Cebuanos to cemeteries to offer candles, flowers, prayers and to simply relive memories of the departed. Long lines have been observed since Thursday in Cebu’s bus terminals serving…

‘Easy money’ lure in cyberporn too much for Cordova folk

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 09/10/2013

DESPITE the spiritual seminars, the lure of “easy money” offered by cyber-pornography proves too irresistible to families in Cordova town. “Bisan gani adto sa Mactan Export Processing Zone (MEPZ) ma-apply kay dili man madawat kay way grado…

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