Preemptive evacuation in province’s high risk areas possible

Rosalie Abatayo 09/16/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines— The Cebu Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) has directed local DRRM offices in towns to conduct preemptive evacuation in high-risk areas while as rains brought by the surge of the southwest…

FACES OF CEBU: Rhee Telen Jr., giving LSIs a home away from home

Rosalie Abatayo 09/13/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Terminals are a familiar, yet not so pleasing, sight for Rhee Telen Jr. Telen, 27, spent the last 20 years in about 20 residences. He and his family moved from different towns and…

PDRRMO recommends placing Cebu Province under state of calamity

Delta Derycka C. Letigio 12/27/2019

MEDELLIN, Cebu, Philippines — The Cebu Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) will be recommending to the Provincial Board to declare a state of calamity in the entire province. This move happened after the respective…

Damage caused by dry spell in Cebu now at P43.97M

Futch Anthony Inso 04/11/2019

  Cebu City, Philippines – The El Niño has already damaged P43.970 million worth of crops and livestock in Cebu Province, the Cebu Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) reported. Rhee Telen, local DRRM officer…

Emergency responders for 2019 Sinulog Grand Parade ready

Rosalie O. Abatayo 01/10/2019

Cebu City, Philippines – The Cebu Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) will be deploying emergency responders from different local government units (LGUs) during the Sinulog Grand Parade on January 20. Raffy Luche, head of…

Capitol ready to extend aid to typhoon victims in Luzon

Morexette Erram, Victor Anthony V. Silva 12/26/2016

The Cebu provincial government is ready to extend relief assistance to storm-ravaged areas in Luzon, a Capitol official said. Baltazar Tribunalo Jr., head of the Cebu Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO), said they are…

Sunday rain brings flood in some metro areas

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 10/30/2016

AN almost 12 hours of heavy rain last Saturday evening until early Sunday morning resulted in flooding in some parts of Metro Cebu. Vhan Singson, weather specialist of Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) Mactan…

State of calamity declaration mulled

Morexette Erram, Nestle L. Semilla 10/12/2016

First it was the City of Cebu. Now comes the province. Capitol officials yesterday recommended the declaration of a state of calamity over rising dengue cases in the province. The recommendation to Governor Hilario Davide III, made…

Province on blue alert for Butchoy

Antonette Garciano 07/05/2016

The province is on “blue alert” as tropical storm “Butchoy (international name Nepartak) makes its presence felt in the country early Tuesday evening. Julius Regner, Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (PDRRMO) information officer, said the blue…

SHIP DAMAGED CORALS

Jhunnex Napallacan, Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 06/15/2016

MV Belle Rose hits 3 hectares of corals in Monad Shoal Officials of northern Cebu’s town of Daanbantayan will seek a still unspecified amount of compensation from the owners of the Panama-registered cargo vessel for the damage…

Newly elected mayors urged to retain disaster officers

Victor Anthony V. Silva 05/21/2016

REPLACING the existing disaster officers in the different cities and municipalities in Cebu once the newly elected mayors assume office after taking their oath on June 30 might spoil the gains of disaster preparedness from recent years.…

Capitol spends P20M for tanks, hoses for farmers

Victor Anthony V. Silva 08/18/2015

The Cebu provincial government only has P3.9 million left in its Quick Response Fund (QRF) as of yesterday, which constitutes 30 percent of its total P121 million Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM) fund for this year.…

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