3-week surveillance ends with NBI raid in Sta. Fe, Bantayan island; Swiss man ‘molested’ local boys

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 11/30/2014

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…

Bantayan survivors turn to loan sharks

Peter L. Romanillos 11/09/2014

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…

Yolanda survivors cry, shout, wait

Peter L. Romanillos 11/09/2014

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,…

Bantayan folk repair Yolanda-hit cemeteries

Peter L. Romanillos 11/03/2014

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 Ping Lacson hints resignation

Peter L. Romanillos 10/22/2014

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…

Classrooms, day care centers turned over in Daanbantayan, Bantayan

Peter L. Romanillos 10/21/2014

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…

Capitol OKs new Bantayan land use plan

Peter L. Romanillos 09/11/2014

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…

Dingdong proposed marriage twice to Marian

Maria Niza Mariñas, Orly J. Cajegas, Rob Gonzales 08/17/2014

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…

Relocation site assessed for families displaced by sinkhole

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 07/30/2014

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.…

Sinkhole found in Bantayan town

Edison Delos Angeles 07/26/2014

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…

DENR starts zoning survey of Bantayan

Victor Anthony V. Silva 07/25/2014

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…

Simala folk decry fencing of dock

Peter L. Romanillos 07/16/2014

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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