Amoebiasis downs 67 in Tudela

Melissa Q. Cabahug 08/18/2015

Provincial health officials pointed to amoebiasis as having caused diarrhea to 67 persons in Tudela town, Camotes Island in northeast Cebu since Wednesday last week. James Cañete, sanitary inspector of the Provincial Health Office (PHO), said six…

4 kids confined after eating lechon

Melissa Q. Cabahug 08/14/2015

Four children in Tudela town, Camotes island were hospitalized after eating lechon or roasted pig whose meat may have been spoiled. The children, aged 3, 5 and 12, said the pork had an unpleasant smell and was…

Small but sustainable

Atty. Gloria Estenzo Ramos 08/10/2015

Hats off to the women in Sitio Kamanggahan in Barangay Guadalupe, Cebu City who are  among the growing number of citizens prioritizing ecological solid waste management (SWM) and small-scale and sustainable urban agriculture. Relying on their own…

Capitol food packs arrive in Pilar

Jhunnex Napallacan, Melissa Q. Cabahug 07/11/2015

Special permit for ro-ro  to ply Tudela-Pilar-Ormoc route Food packs arrived in Pilar, Camotes yesterday after the Maritime Industry Authority (Marina) issued a special permit for a bigger vessel, a roll-on, roll-off vessel, of Jomalia Shipping Corp.…

Pilar running out of supplies

Jhunnex Napallacan, Melissa Q. Cabahug, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 07/10/2015

BAD weather has isolated  the remote island towns of Camotes in northeaast Cebu. With boat trips cancelled, the town of Pilar and parts of Tudela are running out of food and other supplies, said officials. This has…

Yolanda projects hanging

Melissa Q. Cabahug 07/10/2015

Several government agencies have yet to start implementing projects for victims of supertyphoon Yolanda which struck the country in November 2013. Only 32 percent or 697 of the total 2,185 projects in northern Cebu were completed while…

Woman survived by clinging to buoy; 3rd diver found dead

Jhunnex Napallacan, Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Norman V. Mendoza 07/09/2015

A fisherman found female Korean diver Kim Eun clinging to a buoy near San Francisco town in Camotes Islands about two days after she and two other Korean divers went missing in Punta Engaño, Mactan. Korean Consul…

KOREAN DIVERS FOUND ALIVE

Jhunnex Napallacan, Norman V. Mendoza 07/08/2015

One still missing; two divers found drifting near Camotes Two of the three Korean divers who went missing off Punta Engaño, Lapu-Lapu City last Sunday were found alive near the shores of barangay Himensulan, San Francisco town…

Emotional reunion for survivors, families at Pilar, Camotes

Melissa Q. Cabahug 07/05/2015

Nearly three days after the tragedy, the survivors of the ill-fated MB Kim Nirvaba-B went home to Pilar Island, Camotes Cebu on board a BRP Batanes vessel Sunday morning. Forty-five of their families and friends who died…

Murder charges filed against banca owner, captain, crew

Jhunnex Napallacan 07/05/2015

Multiple murder charges were filed against the owner, the boat captain and 17 crewmen of the MB Kim Nirvana-B    for the deaths of 59 passengers in  Thursday’s sea mishap. “They were not careful, showing there was an…

Pilar survivors scared to ride vessel home

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Victor Anthony V. Silva 07/05/2015

SURVIVORS of the capsizing of the MB Kim Nirvana-B who were supposed to go home to Pilar, Camotes Island yesterday declined to do so after being traumatized by Thursday’s mishap. Pilar Major Jesus Fernandez said the survivors…

Aquino orders probe into capsizing of ferry

07/03/2015

President Benigno Aquino III has ordered a “thorough investigation” into the capsizing of a motorized banca off Ormoc City on Thursday, which killed at least 38 passengers. READ: 36 dead, 20 missing as banca capsizes off Ormoc…

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