Mandaue Council summons DPWH, contractor over riprap collapse in Maguikay

Mary Rose Sagarino 11/05/2024

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines — The Mandaue City Council is requesting the DPWH Sixth Engineering Office and ZLREJ Trading and Construction Corp. to appear at their next session on Monday to explain about the issues regarding the collapse…

Portion of P127M riprap collapses in Mandaue City

Mary Rose Sagarino 10/30/2024

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines — A portion of a riprap, which is part of a P127-million flood control project in Barangay Maguikay, Mandaue City, suddenly collapsed on Tuesday, October 29. The collapsed section of the riprap spans about…

Raymond Garcia vows justice for victims of collapsed riprap walls

Futch Anthony Inso, Pia Piquero 09/02/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Acting Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia has vowed to seek justice for the victims of the two separate riprap wall collapses in Cebu City on Sunday, September 1. The first incident happened in Brgy.…

Woman, 26, killed in another riprap wall collapse in Cebu City

Futch Anthony Inso 09/01/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines – A 26-year-old woman died after she was buried in rubbles from a riprap wall that collapsed in the mountain barangay of San Jose in Cebu City. The riprap belonged to a private entity…

17-year-old girl dies as riprap wall collapses in Brgy Tisa, Cebu City

Futch Anthony Inso 09/01/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines – A 17-year-old girl died after a riprap wall collapsed into their home in Sitio Gotchan Caduloy, Brgy. Tisa, Cebu City following an early morning landslide on Sunday, September 1. Harold Alcontin, head of…

Body found under rubble of collapsed seawall in Santander, Cebu

Emmariel Ares and Paul Lauro 09/22/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The body of a man was found under the rubble of a collapsed seawall in Barangay Liloan, Santander in southern Cebu on Thursday, September 21. Police Major Mariejin Calunod, chief of Santander Police…

Earthquake piles misery on war-ravaged Syrians in wintry north

Reuters 02/07/2023

JANDARIS, Syria — Wailing children, flattened buildings and hospitals full of bodies – a devastating earthquake on Monday looked painfully familiar for Syrian families and rescuers worn down by nearly 12 years of bombardment and displacement. The…

Maribago accident: Roof of new food park collapses; 9 injured

Doris C. Bongcac 02/06/2023

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu — At least nine persons were injured when the roof of a newly opened food park located in Sitio Bagumbayan 2 in Barangay Maribago, Lapu-Lapu City collapsed during the heavy downpour at about 9…

Woman in Danao City mine pit collapse found dead

Paul Lauro and Pegeen Maisie Sararaña 02/04/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines –As she would normally do every afternoon, Mejame Papaya, 46, went to the family-owned pigpen located not far from her house on Friday to tend to her pig. Suddenly, the ground underneath her collapsed,…

City dad calls for enhancement of barangays’ emergency response capabilities

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 12/08/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Councilor Jose Lorenzo Abellanosa has called for an assessment and reinforcement of ambulances and emergency equipment in barangays. The councilor, who delivered a privilege speech during the city council’s regular session…

Wawa Bridge collapse: ‘Overloading’ blamed

Allan M. Macatuno, Ray B. Zambrano 10/22/2022

BAYAMBANG, Pangasinan — Mayor Niña Jose-Quiambao of Bayambang town in Pangasinan province on Friday said two overloaded trucks caused the collapse of the Carlos P. Romulo Bridge (also known as Wawa Bridge) on Thursday afternoon, October 20.…

Declining, clashing, or rejuvenating?

Andrew Sheng - @inquirerdotnet 08/29/2022

We have been here before—catastrophe, carnage, collapse, climate calamities, war. This hottest summer of discontent is a prelude to a freezing winter of gas shortage, inflation, and more conflicts. As Europe, China, and parts of America are…

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