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BEACH HOUSE ARREST Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) yesterday arrested a Swiss national in his rented beach house in Sta. Fe, Bantayan island where he allegedly molested young boys. Walter Hauck, 66, was the…
Sta. Fe, Bantayan Island—With government’s emergency shelter aid still unreleased a year after supertyphoon Yolanda (Haiyan), survivors in this town turned to loan sharks to fund the repair of their homes. Nearly half of the 5,000 affected…
Bantayan storm survivors seek strength, release of shelter aid Sta. Fe, Bantayan – Bells pealed. Sirens and horn blasts filled the air in the early morning. At exactly 8 a.m., people gathered at the town plaza shouted,…
When supertyphoon “Yolanda” (international name Haiyan) unleashed its fury in Bantayan Island and in parts of northern Cebu last year, it not only destroyed the homes of the living. It also damaged the homes of the dead.…
Rehabilitation czar Panfilo Lacson yesterday admitted that his frustration over the delay in government reconstruction efforts of Yolanda-stricken areas in the Visayas is driving him close to calling it quits. “There’s not a single day where I…
About 229 classrooms and daycare centers were turned over to towns hit by supertyphoon Yolanda in northern Cebu. Panfilo Lacson, Office of the Presidential Assistant for Rehabilitation and Recovery (OPARR) Secretary, witnessed the turn-over by the Ramon…
The initiative to make portions of Bantayan Island available for private ownership took another step forward yesterday with the approval of the island’s general land management plan by the Cebu Provincial Development Council (PDC). The PDC also…
It almost sounds like a publicity stunt when practically out of nowhere and three church visits after her audition for the role, Marian Rivera Gracia danced and charmed her way to be the Kapuso Network’s “Marimar,” the…
ENVIRONMENT officials are assessing the suitability of Kinatarkan Islet in Sta. Fe town, Bantayan Island, northern Cebu as a relocation site for families displaced by a sinkhole that formed in one of the town’s barangays last week.…
A sinkhole was found in sitio Dapdap, barangay Langub in Sta. Fe town Bantayan Island this morning. Mayor Jose Esgana has directed families living near the sinkhole to evacuate. The sitio has around 200 families. Esgana said…
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Central Visayas (DENR-7) has started to mark out boundaries of Bantayan Islands for possible alienable and disposable lands and protected areas. A 17-member team was sent to the island…
A group of residents has expressed alarm over the fencing of a stretch of shoreline in Sibonga town, southern Cebu. They said the fence made of cyclone wire has deprived fisherfolk of barangay Simala from safely docking…
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