Number of displaced families up – DSWD

Jessa Mae O. Sotto, Rosalie Abatayo, USJ-R Intern Zena Magto 09/27/2018

The number of displaced families has now reached 1,716 a week since a massive landslide hit Barangays Tinaan and Naalad in Naga City, records provided by the Department of Social Welfare and Development in Central Visayas (DSWD-7)…

Veco gives aid to displaced Naga residents

PR 09/27/2018

True to its commitment to helping the communities where it operates, the Visayan Electric Company (Veco) rushed to provide assistance to the City of Naga as well as the residents who were displaced by the landslide last…

Displaced workers can avail of emergency loans at Cebu SSS offices

Futch Anthony Inso 05/04/2018

Boracay closure MORE than 11,000 potential member-borrowers of the state-run Social Security System, who were affected by the closure of Boracay Island, can avail of an emergency loan in Cebu City. This developed after the SSS opened…

DOLE to assist displaced Boracay workers find new jobs

Jessa Mae O. Sotto and Futch Anthony Inso 04/28/2018

ERVIN Canlas, 26, left the famous tourist destination Boracay Island in Aklan last Wednesday (April 25) with a heavy heart. The six-month closure of the island for rehabilitation gave him no choice but to return to his…

Cebu City Government distributes subsidy to displaced students after abandoning city-owned condo

Doris Mae Mondragon 03/27/2018

At least 196 students from the mountain barangays received P6,000 each as rental subsidy from the city government today. The recipients were among the students who vacated the five-storey Cebu City Hillyland Dormitory in June last year.…

400 FAMILIES DISPLACED

Benjie B. Talisic, Fe Marie D. Dumaboc 01/14/2018

PASIL FIRE Ingracia Gabison, 70, was on the rooftop of her employer’s three-storey apartment when she saw a massive fire eating away the neighbors’ homes. Gabison, the househelper of Ingrid Maranga, did not want to leave believing…

DOLE offers livelihood programs for displaced Metro workers

Jessa Mae O. Sotto 01/07/2018

THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE-7) will meet with the management of Metro Ayala today to discuss the situation of the more than 500 employees displaced by the fire at Metro Ayala. DOLE-7 Director Cyril Ticao…

13 homes razed; 200 people displaced

Benjie B. Talisic, Morexette B. Erram 10/07/2017

QUIOT FIRE At least 100 families or 200 individuals were displaced after an early afternoon fire razed 13 houses and gutted six other homes. Senior Fire Officer Ariel Balajadia, fire investigator of the Cebu City Bureau of…

160 employees displaced

Jhunnex Napallacan 08/07/2017

Japanese company claims to have suffered from financial difficulties A locator of the Mactan Economic Zone (MEZ) 1 closed shop on Saturday leaving at least 160 of their employees jobless. The management of Cebu Nisico Corporation (CNC)…

Nine families displaced by fire

Norman V. Mendoza 07/31/2017

Two houses owned by one family were destroyed by fire at Sitio Sector 1 Barangay Pagsabungan, Mandaue City at past 1 pm Monday. Rosalia Berdegar, who owns the houses occupied by eight tenants, said one of them…

Whirlwind destroys homes, displaces Danao families

Doris C. Bongcac, Inna Gian Mejia, Nestle L. Semillla 06/06/2017

Hundreds of families were displaced as strong winds, which they described as a “tornado”, tore through 16 houses and damaged 60 more in Barangays Suba and Taytay in Danao City at past 8 p.m. last Monday. One…

MAO BA?

06/02/2017

AND WHY NOT? The arrival in Cebu City yesterday of at least 14 families, or 62 internally displaced persons, who escaped from the raging gun battle in Marawi City between state troops and the Maute-IS terror group,…

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