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…
Local officials in Cebu should prepare for a supertyphoon in the same magnitude as Yolanda (Haiyan). “You know that there will be another disaster. You don’t know when it will happen but you know it will happen.…
Last week, the National Economic Development Authority (Neda) listed Cebu as among the 10 provinces that have experienced substantial economic growth in the past few years. That same Neda report, however, also disclosed that the poor in…
Two fires broke out in Cebu City despite a heavy downpour brought by tropical storm Basyang last Friday evening. The first fire broke out at 11:12 p.m. in sitio Panchang, barangay Inayawan. The fire originated in the…
Close to 700 families residing in coastal barangays and landslide-prone areas in Cebu were evacuated hours before tropical storm Basyang brought rains and strong winds Friday night. While no storm surges were reported in Cebu coasts, Neil…
With two major calamities hitting the country in the last quarter of last year, architects and engineers see the need to build structures that can withstand disasters of epic proportions. In a forum organized by the Ramon…
The vice mayor of one of Cebu’s smallest towns will meet with Cebu mayors o help map out a disaster risk management and action plan for the province. “What happened in 2013 and the past years may…
The struggle isn’t over yet for 6-year-old Mary Irene Simbajon and her 2-year-old brother Matthew Justin, who spent Christmas in the hospital for treatment of severe burns on their arms, and legs. They survived the Dec. 14…
