The Chairman for the Emergency Department of the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC), Dr. Mari Leo Pataray discourages the public from using firecrackers and urge them to instead use alternative noisemakers, like “torotot,” which is safe…
Even if President Rodrigo Duterte already issued a directive banning the use, sale and distribution of firecrackers, Mandaue City Hall’s citywide ban on firecrackers is still laudable if only to emphasize and enforce the President’s order on…
WHILE there’s no firecracker ban in Lapu-Lapu City, Mayor Paz Radaza said she is reminding city residents to be extra cautious in using firecrackers to celebrate the holidays. Radaza ordered each barangays to submit a list…
WHILE Mandaue City has been declared as a no firecracker zone, Cebu City officials are not yet decided, but one official said a firecrackers ban is “ideal” to ensure safety during the holiday. According to Cebu City…
Quisumbing: Prohibition meant to prevent fires, injuries during holidays For over 50 years, it has been a tradition of the family of Chinese businessman Siam Sy to explode long stripes of firecrackers every Christmas and New Year’s…
THE Department of Labor and Employment in Central Visayas (DOLE-7) has issued an order to a firecracker factory in Lapu-Lapu City to immediately stop the production and selling of firecrackers. The stoppage order was issued after DOLE-7…
EXPENSIVE RENT Firecracker vendors stationed at the South Road Properties (SRP) complained that last year’s rent is the most expensive so far. “We were surprised after the bidding that the rent was pegged at P6,000, but after…
LABOR Secretary Silvestre Bello is pushing for the ban on firecrackers but not on pyrotechnics. Bello, who met with Vice Gov. Agnes Magpale yesterday, said he appealed to Health secretary Paulyn Jean Ubial on her proposal for…
FIRECRACKER-related injuries incurred in the aftermath of the New Year revelry in Central Visayas dropped by half last Dec. 31, the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7) said yesterday. From 67 cases in 2015, only 33…
Two men were killed in a gunfight between a man and a group in Barangay Central Poblacion, Naga City at around 10 p.m Saturday, or about two hours before celebrating the New Year. Dead on the spot…
GOVERNMENT-RUN hospitals across the country, including those in Cebu, have been placed on “Code White Alert” yesterday, the eve of the New Year’s day celebration. This means hospital staff are in place and ready to respond any…
As the clock winds down to New Year’s Day at midnight, we hope the local governments of Cebu will follow the directive of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) to monitor and crack down…
