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Make sure your children are in a safe place when rains fall. This reminder from the head of operations of the Cebu City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council to parents and guardians of children came ahead…
At least five Cebuanos will have the privilege of sharing a meal with Pope Francis during his visit to Leyte province next year. They will be chosen from the poor who lost their loved ones during supertyphoon…
At least 50 people on pump boats and outrigger canoes yesterday celebrated Mass in the waters off Lawis Ledge in Talisay City where at least 116 people drowned after a cargo ship collided with a passenger ferry…
A day after President Benigno Aquino III attempted to weather a political storm faced by his administration due to the partially declared unconstitutional Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP), the strong Typhoon Rammasun devastated Albay, Quezon and Metro Manila.…
Cebu’s disaster czar yesterday reminded barangay captains to organize their own disaster risk reduction and management offices and start planning how to mitigate the effects of calamities in their resepective areas. Task Force Paglig-on chief Baltazar Tribunalo…
FOR Senate Majority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano, President Benigno Aquino III’s public outcry against the Supreme Court’s (SC) decision against the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) is a “healthy sign of democracy.” Cayetano, who was in Cebu City…
(Second update: 3:15 p.m.) Strong winds and heavy rains hit the northern towns of Cebu as typhoon Glenda headed to Manila from from east of Catarman in northern Samar where it was located at speeds of…
The Cebu City Council has another fiscalizing task at hand with Mayor Michael Rama’s submission of the proposed Supplemental Budget 2 for this year. The councilors should have learned by now to properly assess the proposal, instead…
No less than Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama minced no words by calling the chaotic traffic along the Banilad-Talamban corridor a disaster, a calamity. Living in one of the subdivisions near the University of San Carlos-Talamban Campus,…
Over a hundred families in barangay Paypay in Daanbantayan town will soon be going home to houses that are rated to withstand intensity 8 earthquakes and 275 kph winds. The construction of a disaster-proof community was formally…
The devastation caused by the Oct. 15 earthquake and the Nov. 8 supertyphoon Yolanda has driven the business community to appeal for greater public participation in the reconstruction of the damaged towns and cities. The Philippine Business…
Supertyphoon Haiyan or Yolanda showed the agonizingly obvious fact what we and the world knew: that our people and our institutions are painfully unprepared to meet the onslaught of disasters and climate change. That is the reason…
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