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Helping relatives in Leyte after Typhoon Yolanda devastated the province four years ago made IT professional Cloyd Dedicatoria realize how woefully unprepared the country was for dealing with widescale devastation and emergencies. Dedicatoria, founder and chief executive…
The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office (PDRRMO) will invest most of next year’s P181 million budget to hire quick responders for emergencies such as natural calamities. PDRRMO chief Baltazar Tribunalo said it is time to…
The health of the conversations in our public sphere can be assessed using two concepts formulated by critical discourse analyst Norman Fairclough: regulative practice and spaces of emergence. Regulative practice, as I wrote last week, refers to…
Training, not only for employees and officials of public schools, but also parents of students should be done on how to respond to emergencies like bomb threats. This was emphasized by Cebu City Councilor Dave Tumulak,…
THERE is a need to unify the number to call during emergencies by using the 911 emergency hotline. In a press conference yesterday, Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña noted that under the current setup, there are several…
Barangays should establish their own Barangay Alarm System to ensure efficient communications during disasters and emergencies. A resolution filed by Cebu City Councilor Jocelyn Pesquera, which was approved by the City Council last week, urged barangay officials…
A recent Pulse Asia survey which showed that eight out of 10 Filipinos approved of the Duterte administration’s campaign against criminality may either silence critics, question the survey results or determine why the bloody war against crime…
Cebu Gov. Hilario Davide III is presiding an emergency meeting of the Provincial Peace and Order Council to discuss the advisory of the United States Embassy in Manila that warned its citizens against traveling to southern Cebu…
The heightened police and military alert after the Davao City bombing last Friday had gotten many people vigilant; unfortunately, including eager pranksters actively jumping at every opportunity to play a joke. The pranks have caused undue alarm,…
The Cebu Provincial Government has acquired two brand new speedboats worth P3.5 million each. According to Julius Regner, information officer of the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO), one speedboat will be used by their…
Residents from the mountain barangays of Cebu City have to go through steep and rutted roads if they are to reach hospitals in the city’s center. Should the ambulances recalled by Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña be…
Emergency relief supplies in sturdy backpacks were turned over yesterday to 18 local government units (LGUs) at the Provincial Capitol. The orange backpacks were donated by the non-profit organization Direct Relief after the group saw that local…
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