Ormoc City to receive P1 milion calamity aid from Cebu Province next week

Morexette B. Erram 12/12/2017

By next week, Ormoc City in Leyte is expected to receive the P1 million calamity aid from the Cebu Provincial Government after they suffered from a 5.8-magnitude earthquake last July. The Cebu Provincial Treasurer Emmanuel Guial told…

Boljoon’s diversion road to isolated villages passable only to motorcycles

Morexette Marie B. Erram 11/14/2017

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…

State of calamity in 6 barangays

Morexette Marie B. Erram 11/03/2017

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…

Mandaue fire victims receive calamity aid

Norman V. Mendoza 09/07/2017

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…

State of calamity declared in barangays razed by fire

Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Norman Mendoza, Patricia Erlaine N. Luardo, USJ-R Intern Rosalie O. Abatayo 07/25/2017

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,…

Town officials place Clarin under state of calamity

Nestle L. Semilla 04/24/2017

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…

Crising death toll now 10

Izobelle T. Pulgo, Nestle Semilla 04/17/2017

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…

Calamity resilient center at the Capitol

Izobelle T. Pulgo 02/14/2017

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…

No entry to Sirao flower farms

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 01/19/2017

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)…

LANDSLIDE ALERT

Inna Mejia, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 01/18/2017

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…

‘Like an earthquake’

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 01/18/2017

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…

Clearing operations continue in Busay

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 01/18/2017

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…

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