Cebu company builds platform for emergency response, management

Max Limpag 11/01/2017

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…

Capitol to invest in rehab, emergency teams, early warning systems

Morexette B. Erram 09/27/2017

  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…

Spaces of emergence

JASON BAGUIA 09/15/2017

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…

Train teachers, parents, pupils proper emergency response

Futch Anthony Inso, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 07/19/2017

  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,…

City Hall mulls new 911 emergency hotline

Inna Gian Mejia 07/11/2017

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…

Barangay alarm for emergency

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 05/28/2017

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…

More convictions, not executions

Editorial 01/15/2017

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…

Governor holds emergency peace and order meeting

Nestle L. Semilla 11/07/2016

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…

Authorities appeal to pranksters: Stop calling to disrupt operations

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 09/06/2016

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,…

Capitol purchases speedboats for anti-illegal fishing and emergency response

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 08/19/2016

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…

‘IT’S LIFE OR DEATH FOR US’

Carmel Loise Matus, Nestle L. Semilla 07/23/2016

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…

Cebu towns get emergency relief backpacks

Victor Anthony V. Silva 12/19/2014

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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