Seniors in Toledo City brave Seniang to get cash assistance

Rene Alima 12/30/2014

Senior citizens in Toledo City did not mind the dangers from the typhoon signal number 2 in southern Cebu yesterday as they flocked to their respective barangay treasurer’s office to claim their P2,500 cash gift. Mayor John…

No sign of wreck; ‘Plane may be at the bottom of the sea’

AP 12/30/2014

SURABAYA, Indonesia  — An Indonesian helicopter searching for the missing AirAsia jetliner saw two oily spots in the water Monday, and an Australian search plane spotted objects elsewhere in the Java Sea, but it was too early…

Storm hit southern Cebu feels earthquake

Marian Z. Codilla 12/29/2014

An earthquake was felt at around 5:30 p.m. Monday in storm-hit southern towns of Cebu. According to Robinson Jorgio of Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs), the earthquake was tectonic in origin. Magnitude 6.5 was recorded…

Pagasa raises flood, landslide warnings as Seniang crosses Central Visayas

Bencyrus Ellorin 12/29/2014

Seniang caused floods, destroying infrastructure in northeastern and northern Mindanao As tropical storm Seniang traversed the Bohol Sea yesterday afternoon, the state weather bureau raised the flood alert level in  Bohol, Southern Leyte and Leyte to red,…

Brownouts hit southern Cebu towns as ‘Seniang’ maintains strength

12/29/2014

Families living in coastal barangays of Sibonga and other southern towns in Cebu were moved to various evacuation sites as power interruption hit the southern towns of Cebu including Sibonga and Boljoon. Signal number 2 was hoisted…

Bigger budget for Rama

12/29/2014

The P13.4 billion budget approved by the Cebu City Council in a special session last week is  larger than the P5 billion-plus budget it approved for the Rama administration this year. It  fell short of the P18.9…

Still, a hopeful nation

Atty. Gloria Estenzo Ramos 12/29/2014

We are now in the throes of preparing for the New Year celebration. The question that comes to the mind is: Are we facing 2015 with glee or with trepidation? Thankfully, just like the past years, many…

Newsprint ‘parol’

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 12/29/2014

They almost gave up on  joining the Cebu Daily News Christmas Decor Making Contest. Most of the students were evacuees affected by typhoon Ruby which struck Dec. 6. Then they thought about how a lantern should symbolize…

Authorities look for ‘financiers’ of deadly Danao pit

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 12/29/2014

Probers are still looking for evidence that may  link  treasure hunting to last Friday’s accident in an excavation that claimed four lives in sitio Pasil, barangay Maslog in Danao City. PO3 Marlon Remollo, investigator of the Danao…

‘Children at risk’ get help

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 12/29/2014

Ray, 13,  dreams of becoming a pilot. This is  his  only wish every Christmas. “Pagbata pa nako, basta makakita gani kog eroplano molabay sa panganod, ingnon gyud nako ako mama nga gusto ko magpilot (Since I was…

Last storm of the year to affect south Cebu

Doris C. Bongcac, Edison Delos Angeles, Inquirer, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 12/29/2014

26 vessels grounded in Cebu port   Thousands of holiday travelers were stranded in  Cebu yesterday as the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) suspended sea travel to areas in the Visayas and Mindanao placed  under public storm warning…

‘Seniang’ delays reunions with family

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 12/29/2014

Enriquita Fernandez, 44, has not spent Christmas and New Year with her parents in Inopacan, Leyte province  for 12 years, so she was  excited about going home for the celebration this month. She ended up sitting on…

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