MANDAUE CITY, Cebu — The Mandaue City government has launched a web-based Multi-Hazard Early Warning System (MHEWS) aimed at strengthening disaster preparedness and improving emergency response. The system was formally introduced during a ceremony on Thursday, Feb.…
Mandaue City has begun livestreaming river conditions during weather disturbances to improve public access to real-time information and strengthen disaster preparedness. …
MANILA – Education Secretary Sonny Angara on Tuesday highlighted how the highest education budget in the country’s history signals support for the ongoing reforms in the Department of Education (DepEd). The Senate has reinforced a ₱1.044 trillion…
MANDAUE CITY, Cebu — No one is spared from disasters. Even animals suffer when disasters strike, thus the need to also consider them in every family’s disaster preparedness plans, said the Animal Kingdom Foundation, a non-profit organization…
LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu — The Lapu-Lapu City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CDRRMO) has introduced a mascot named “Opong Andam,” short for Opanganon Andam, as the city celebrates National Disaster Resilience Month 2024. This year’s celebration…
LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), through its Visayas Disaster Resource Center (VDRC), entered into a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with five non-government organizations that will provide volunteers to help in the…
It was my first, and I hope the last, time to get COVID, more than two years into the pandemic. I was going to title my column “To hell and back” but no, bad as it was,…
MANDAUE CITY, Philippines — The Mandaue City Police Office (MCPO) is conducting a five-day disaster preparedness, and search and rescue, and relief operation seminar among its members. The opening was conducted on Monday, Nov. 14, at their…
CEBU CITY, Philippines—To optimize response in times of any bombing incident here, various local government agencies participated in a Mass Casualty Management Simulation Exercise at the Cebu City Sports Center on Friday morning, August 5, 2022. Around…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CDRRMO) plans to focus on disaster prevention and mitigation in the barangays as part of Mayor Rama’s goal for his first 100 days. Harold…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama said the city needs drastic measures for disaster preparedness if it wishes to survive another typhoon as strong as Odette. In his report to the City Council during…
The year 2019 ended with many Cebuanos and fellow Filipinos reeling from the impacts of Typhoon Ursula, the 20th typhoon to enter the country. 2020 has just started. Yet, we are reminded abruptly and should be painfully…
