CEBUANO duathlete Joland Olmilla won’t be suiting up in today’s 11th San Francisco Camotes Cross-Country Mountain Bike Challenge after suffering a bruised right hand last Thursday. The 23-year old Olmilla of Cabancalan, Mandaue told CDN that he…
A 17-year-old girl left her hometown on Camotes Island, northeast of here, last month after an uncle told her that a job with bigger pay was waiting for her in Manila. But Carla (not her real name)…
No regrets for rescue, says chief mate; banca crew released without charges After losing his right foot trying to rescue passengers of a capsized motorbanca, chief mate Rudyard Payusan is uncertain about his future. But Payusan,…
A group of residents from San Francisco town, Camotes Islands yesterday filed a complaint against their local officials in relation to the alleged anomalous distribution of the Emergency Shelter Assistance (ESA). The complainants claimed that the respondents…
A 52-year old man from Tudela, Camotes chained himself to the Capitol flagpole past 9 a.m. today. Ervin Oliveros, who has been driving for CTC taxi for just 10 days, took off his sandals and sat on…
A passenger vessel from the Camotes Islands, Cebu yesterday stalled in the water about 5.4 nautical miles from its destination in Ormoc City, Leyte. All 99 passengers of Jomalia Shipping Lines were safely transferred to Oceanjet 3,…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
