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…

State of calamity declared in Daanbantayan, Medellin

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 12/26/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines–The Municipal Council of Daanbantayan has declared a state of calamity following the destruction caused by Typhoon Ursula on Christmas Eve. At 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 26, 2019, the municipal council held a special…

Ursula leaves 1 dead, 1 missing in Cebu

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 12/26/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Jonthan Cangga was on his way home to his family in Sitio Kamansi, Barangay Tagonon in Danao City midnight of Christmas Day, December 25, 2019. He really wanted to go home to his…

Priest appeals for help to restore Daanbantayan church

Rosalie Abatayo 12/26/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines —The church still looks unscathe from the outside as it stood silent right there surrounded by uprooted trees and various debris. Inside the church is another story. It was like witnessing a repeat of…

Daanbantayan folks share Christmas Day experience amid Ursula’s wrath

Rosalie O. Abatayo 12/25/2019

DAANBANTAYAN, CEBU, Philippines — “Mura gyud mi og wala nagpasko (It seemed like we were not celebrating Christmas),” said Marivic Carboncillo as she recalled  the wrath of Typhoon Ursula on Christmas Eve. Carboncillo, 33, said the violent…

Palma calls for prayers, help for areas affected by Ursula

Rosalie O. Abatayo 12/25/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral was already full an hour before the Christmas Eve mass at 9 p.m. on Tuesday, December 24, 2019. Some even brought with them their own chairs as they arrived…

Ursula forces 1,299 people in north Cebu to spend Christmas eve in evacuation centers

Rosalie Abatayo 12/25/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines— At least 322 families or 1,299 individuals from five towns in northern Cebu have spent Christmas eve in evacuation centers. The local disaster offices of the towns of Daanbantayan, Poro, San Francisco, Santa Fe,…

Ursula damages Daanbantayan’s LDRRM office, causes power interruption in northern Cebu towns

Rosalie O. Abatayo 12/25/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines— Not even the Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office of the Municipality of Daanbantayan escaped the wrath of Typhoon Ursula.  As of 11 p.m., the Cebu Provincial DRRM Office reported that the Daanbantayan…

525 evacuees from Daanbantayan’s coastal areas to spend night inside high school building

Doris C. Bongcac 12/02/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines – At least 525 individuals coming from the coastal Sitios of Mahayahay, Danawan, and Mabuhay in Barangay Poblacion in Daanbantayan town were evacuated to a two-storey building at the Daanbantayan National High School as…

CA junks Ombud’s simple negligence ruling against former Daanbantayan Mayor Corro

Norman V. Mendoza 11/29/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Court of Appeals has completely exonerated Corro on the Ombudsman’s previous finding on him for simple negligence. The Office of the Ombudsman in its May 25, 2017 Joint Resolution found former Daanbantayan,…

Malou Loot on Duterte’s ambush statement: Let the President be

Rosalie Abatayo 09/18/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines— “Let us have peace.” This was the appeal of former Daanbantayan mayor Maria Luisa “Malou” Loot amidst the admission of President Rodrigo Duterte that he was behind the attempted ambush of then Mayor Vicente…

Millennials lead campaign to rid Daanbantayan seas from plastics, other wastes

Irene R. Sino Cruz 08/19/2019

CEBU CITY—A small group of millennials in Daanbantayan town in northern Cebu found a way to protect its ocean from the detrimental effect of plastics.  They produce Kandaya eco-pillows stuffed with sanitized shredded plastics. “Daanbantayan has an…

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