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Are you fond of street food like fried fish balls and seafood tempura? If so, chances are, you’ve tasted shark meat. A truck containing chopped bodies of at least 14 thresher sharks was apprehended Wednesday night in…
A female vendor holds up a juvenile shark, offering it for P200 in the wet market of Daanbantayan town, north Cebu. In the background, another female vendor walks by carrying a bamboo shark less than three feet…
Waves lap up on the beach of Marlin’s Beach Resort in scenic Sta. Fe, Bantayan Island, a major tourist destination in Cebu. Instead of a wide expanse of white sand, the front of the resort has a…
Several resorts in Sta.Fe , Bantayan Island are back in the shoreline, even those whose seawalls were demolished in 2010 by a court order for violating a 20-meter public easement. This is already known by the Department…
After typhoon Yolanda, a “no-build” zone is supposed to keep coastal families from rebuilding their homes 40 meters from the shoreline. But in Sta. Fe town, whose long shoreline of powdery white sand draws many tourists, several…
Bantayan Island, Cebu – When supertyphoon Yolanda struck last year, 25-year-old George Lawrence Pestaño Aloba said his personal safety was not his biggest concern. Aloba was more worried about the condition of his family’s life-size religious statues,…
Help is on the way for seaweed farmers and fisherfolks in northern Cebu four months after supertyphoon Yolanda swept away their aquatic farms and fishing gears. The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR)-7 turned over P33…
Try homestay in Sta. Fe and enjoy its beaches. This is Sta. Fe Mayor Jose Esgara’s advice to tourists visiting the town as most of its beach resorts damaged by typhoon Yolanda have yet to be rehabilitated.…
The continuing recovery of fishing communities in the towns of Bantayan in northern Cebu is a cause for rejoicing and a source of inspiration for everyone hit hard by supertyphoon Yolanda. It was always of utmost importance…
With chisel and hammer, American visitors Mike Herman and Eddie Leazer spent the morning helping repair a fisherman’s boat in barangay Okoy, Bantayan Island. The visitors were not ordinary tourists. The US Army Apache pilots had come…
I don’t know how to react, I am overwhelmed and just cried.” This is what Lilibeth Gidukos, a wife of a fisherman and a mother of seven children said after she lost everything in the horrifying…
For villages still without electric power, plastic bottles can be turned into household light bulbs. “Solar night lights,” a simple technology being promoted for calamity-hit communities, costs P550 to P600 to make, said Joel Villanueva, director-general of…
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