Settlers unfazed as repairs start on Mandaue-Mactan Bridge

Nestle L. Semilla 04/02/2016

REPAIRS on the Mandaue-Mactan Bridge resumed yesterday but the settlers living under the structure continued staying in the area unmindful of the potential risk of falling debris. Children are seen playing while their parents went about their…

Token assistance

04/01/2016

Today a lot of families living under the Mandaue-Mactan bridge will have to move out to give way to a contractor’s crew that will finally proceed with the long-delayed repairs on the structure in order to meet…

No place to go for families under Mandaue-Mactan bridge

Nestle L. Semilla 03/30/2016

TWO days before their eviction, families living under the Mandaue-Mactan Bridge have yet to find another place to live in. Evangeline Cañete, a 60-year-old barangay staffer, said she doesn’t want to leave the house where she was…

No Cebu-Mactan fastcraft, barge trips yet

Jhunnex Napallacan 03/28/2016

With only four more days before major repairs resume on the first Mandaue-Mactan Bridge, there are still no fastcraft or barge trips between Cebu and Mactan. As of yesterday, authorities were still looking for alternative wharves where…

Solar panels power bridge households

Nestle Semilla 03/01/2016

Their continued stay under the Mandaue-Mactan Bridge may be uncertain, but more than 10 families living in the Lapu-Lapu City side don’t have to rely on power lines for their power supply. Factory worker Rolando Navasca, whose…

Families to stay under bridge for now

Nestle L. Semilla 02/29/2016

THE Mandaue City government won’t drive out the families living under the Mandaue-Mactan Bridge on the Mandaue City side until they are given assistance by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH). “If that will be…

NO WAY

Nestle L. Semilla 02/27/2016

The families that have settled under the first Mandaue-Mactan Bridge have decided to leave their safety up to fate and will just pray that no accident will happen when the repair of the bridge will go full…

BRIDGE SETTLERS AT RISK

Nestle L. Semilla 02/26/2016

The long-delayed major repairs on the first Mandaue-Mactan Bridge will proceed this summer, whether the over 100 families living under it move out or not. Contractor  Jegma Construction and Development Corp. would have to provide safety measures…

No funds for bridge families -DPWH

Nestle L. Semilla 02/26/2016

The Mandaue City government will have to take care of families living under the old Mandaue-Mactan bridge who will be displaced during the repair of the bridge that connects Mactan Island from mainland Cebu. Engr. Renult Ricardo,…

Naval base to allow use of pier but wants plan

Carmel Loise Matus, Victor Anthony V. Silva 02/26/2016

The Naval Base Rafael Ramos (NBRR) is open to accommodating barges at their Capt. Veloso Pier in Barangay Looc, Lapu-Lapu City in order to ease the traffic congestion caused by the repairs on the Mandaue-Mactan Bridge. But…

Settlers want relocation site, not money

Nestle L. Semilla 02/26/2016

RATHER than be given money, residents living under the Mandaue-Mactan Bridge prefer to be relocated by the Lapu-Lapu City government. “Unsaon mana namo, ma’am, ang materiales kung walay kaugbukan nga luna? (What are we going to do…

Bridge repair to also displace 81 families in Lapu-Lapu City

Norman V. Mendoza 02/24/2016

More families will be losing their homes, this time in Lapu-Lapu City, when the repair of the Mandaue-Mactan Bridge will begin in earnest. At least 81 houses of informal settlers under the bridge in Barangay Pajo, Lapu-Lapu…

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