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The recently constructed 100-meter diversion road that reconnected the town proper to the mountain villages of Boljoon town in southeastern Cebu previously cut off by landslides was unpassable except to motorcycles yesterday. The incessant rains since Monday…
Due to the incessant landslides in a mountain village of the southeastern Cebu town of Boljoon, the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Central Visayas (DENR–7) recommended declaring the…
About 242 households that were displaced by a fire in Sitio Back Matimco, Barangay Subangdaku in Mandaue City last July 24 received their financial assistance yesterday morning. Of that number, 149 house owners received P10,000 cash each…
A LIGHTED candle left unattended, changed the lives of 1,355 people in Barangay Calamba in Cebu City. As 218 homes were devoured by fire at past noon last Monday, everyone tried to save whatever they could, furniture,…
Local officials of Clarin town in Bohol province have placed their town under state of calamity on Monday, two days after the encounter between government troops and members of the Abu Sayyaf Group. Mayor Rey Piezas said…
Cebu official says Crising was downgraded to LPA, so no state of calamity was declared This year’s Easter Sunday, despite its message of birth and renewal, had taken on a tragic turn in the island of Cebu…
AN earthquake- and typhoon-resilient concrete building in the Capitol compound will serve as the provincial government’s emergency operations center. Baltazar Tribunalo, chief of the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO), said the center will serve…
Tourists are no longer allowed to visit the flower farms at Sitio Tawagan in the mountain barangay of Sirao in Cebu City. During their meeting yesterday afternoon, the Cebu City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (CCDRRMC)…
Always be cautious when passing through mountain barangays in Cebu City. This was the advice of city officials following recent episodes of landslides in the hinterlands, the latest of which occurred at dawn yesterday in Sitio Garaje…
Janette Famador was still in her sari-sari store along the highway in the mountain barangay of Busay in Cebu City at 2 a.m. yesterday when she noticed small rocks rolling past the hillside. She said it has…
As of 11 a.m., a backhoe continues to remove huge slabs of cement, which used to be part of a retaining wall along a highway in Sitio Garaje, Barangay Busay, Cebu City. A portion of the retaining…
Cagayan de Oro City was placed under state of calamity by local officials early yesterday after a massive flooding in the city spawned by two weather disturbances. “City council declared a state of calamity in Cagayan de…
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