LAPU-LAPU City Mayor Paz Radaza cautioned the barangay captains in a meeting yesterday morning to make the necessary preparations due to continuous rains and bad weather. She instructed those barangay captains whose barangays have flooding problems like…
As of 11 a.m., a backhoe continues to remove huge slabs of cement, which used to be part of a retaining wall along a highway in Sitio Garaje, Barangay Busay, Cebu City. A portion of the retaining…
Cagayan de Oro City was placed under state of calamity by local officials early yesterday after a massive flooding in the city spawned by two weather disturbances. “City council declared a state of calamity in Cagayan de…
While most were just about to start their week, “Inday Emyat” never got to start hers. What would have been a normal Monday for a little four-year-old girl who goes to day care, turned out to be…
At least 60 families were evacuated in different barangays in Mandaue City on Monday morning in the wake of heavy rains that triggered floods in some parts of Cebu. Mandaue City Mayor Gabriel Luis Quisimbing said he…
Classes were ordered suspended in Cebu province and Mandaue City on Monday following continuous rains affecting the entire province. Mandaue City Mayor Gabriel Luis Quisumbing posted at around 7 a.m. announcing his decision to suspend classes in…
Cebu will experience light to moderate rains on Monday because of existing low pressure area (LPA). “We have issued rainfall warning for the whole Cebu province today,” Vhan Singson, weather specialist of Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical…
Expect light to moderate rain showers to continue until Wednesday in Cebu with the low pressure area (LPA) still within the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR). Alfredo Quiblat, chief of Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services (Pagasa)…
Residents of Carmen town have been complaining about the floodwaters that remain even after the rain due to the presence of limestone near the town’s gym which blocks the water and prevents it from being drained by…
A 15-year-old girl drowned after being washed away by floodwaters due to heavy rains brought about by tropical cyclone ‘Auring’ in Barangay Landahan, Toledo City on Monday morning. Engineer Alexander Abella, disaster risk reduction management officer of…
(PART 1) Saving Mandaue City from floods and garbage It has been four months since the Mandaue City government decided to bring back the muscle of the city-wide prohibition of plastic bags in a bid to address the city’s…
This section of S. Osmeña Road in North Reclamation Area, Cebu City, which is located in front of the Cebu Daily News building, has no provision for a drainage after it was “improved” in 2015. Since then,…
