Vote-buying via e-wallets will be closely watched, offenders face jail time

10/25/2023

MANILA, Philippines — Vote-buying through e-wallets and other digital payment platforms will be closely monitored by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the Commission on Elections (Comelec) with offenders facing possible jail time.…

PhilHealth enhances online payment for employers

PR 12/24/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines –The Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) enhances its online payment facility for employers, in partnership with MyEG Philippines Inc. (MyEG PH), with the addition of GCash, Maya (formerly PayMaya), and credit/debit cards as payment…

All 21 active cases in Daanbantayan are in Maya

Rosalie O. Abatayo 09/20/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The municipality of Daanbantayan logged four new cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on Sunday, September 20, 2020, raising the total number of active infections in the town to 21. In its…

18 brgys in Daanbantayan town now COVID-free

Doris C. Bongcac 09/19/2020

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu — Only two of the 20 barangays in Daanbantayan town have active cases of the coronavirus disease as of Friday, September 18. In an advisory, the municipal government said that the town’s active cases…

Cebu City brings relief goods, materials for roofs to typhoon victims in Daanbantayan

Rosalie O. Abatayo 12/29/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippine — While several homes in Daanbantayan town, northern Cebu, lost their roofs to the violent winds of Typhoon Ursula on Christmas eve, the city government of Cebu distributed 300 pieces of galvanized iron sheets…

Ursula forces 1,299 people in north Cebu to spend Christmas eve in evacuation centers

Rosalie Abatayo 12/25/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines— At least 322 families or 1,299 individuals from five towns in northern Cebu have spent Christmas eve in evacuation centers. The local disaster offices of the towns of Daanbantayan, Poro, San Francisco, Santa Fe,…

Fisherman drowns off Daanbantayan

Nestle L. Semilla 10/20/2016

A fisherman drowned gleaning for shellfish in Daanbantayan town, northern Cebu at Thursday dawn. Julius Regner, information officer of the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office (PDRRMO), said Jessie Estemar of Barangay Maya in Daanbantayan town was…

TWO YEARS AFTER YOLANDA

Marc Eric Cosep 12/29/2015

Simple noche buena for survivors Christmas will never be the same for us Yolanda survivor. Everything can change with a snap of one’s fingers.” This was how Marianita Seraspe described her Christmas after surviving Supertyphoon Yolanda two…

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