CCLEX safety enhancements pushed after US bridge tragedy

Pia Piquero 03/28/2024

Cebu City, Philippines — In light of recent events, a call for increased CCLEX safety measures has been made to the Cebu Cordova Link Expressway Corporation (CCLEC) by a Cebu City legislator. Councilor Rey Gealon penned a…

P20 per kilo rice: Olango residents will be first in Lapu-Lapu to buy cheap priced rice

Futch Anthony Inso 11/29/2023

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu — Olango Island residents will be the first Lapu-Lapu City residents to get a chance to buy rice worth P20 a kilo starting December. Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Junard “Ahong” Chan said that they planned…

Sta. Rosa in Lapu-Lapu a step closer to drug-cleared barangay status – CLOSAP

Futch Anthony Inso 05/12/2023

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — Barangay Sta. Rosa in Olango Island, Lapu-Lapu City is now one step closer to being declared a drug-cleared barangay. This was after 97 barangay officials and employees of Sta. Rosa went negative in…

Maribago causeway: Pump boats plying Olango-Lapu-Lapu route can now use this alternative port

Futch Anthony Inso 02/17/2023

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — Pump boats traversing from or to Olango Island can now have an alternative port to dock or use in the main island of Lapu-Lapu with the completion and turnover of the Maribago Causeway…

100 Olango fishermen receive pump boats through soft loan from Japanese company

Futch Anthony Inso 02/09/2023

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — Some 100 fishermen from Barangay Sabang in Olango Island, Lapu-Lapu City received pump boats from a Japanese company on Thursday, February 9, 2023. The “Ahon Para sa Nayon” program was initiated by Impact…

Ahong wants entire Olango Island drug cleared in 2023

Futch Anthony Inso 11/11/2022

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — It may sound ambitious, but Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Junard “Ahong” Chan is hopeful that Olango Island would be drug-cleared next year. Olango island is composed of 11 barangays, namely: Baring, Caohagan, Pangan-an, Sta.…

Olango Island not yet ‘fully energized’ — MECO exec

Futch Anthony Inso 05/14/2022

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — Almost five months after Super Typhoon Odette hit Olango Island in Lapu-Lapu City, some areas of the island have not yet been energized. Engineer Gilbert Pagobo, general manager of Mactan Electric Company (MECO),…

Chan, Team Libre to start campaign in Olango 

Futch Anthony Inso 03/24/2022

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — The Team Libre of incumbent Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Junard “Ahong” Chan will kick-off their campaign in Olango Island on Friday, March 25, 2022, as the campaign period for local candidates starts. Chan, who…

Olango 50% energized, says MECO exec

Futch Anthony Inso 03/14/2022

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — The Mactan Electric Company (MECO) has already energized 50 percent of its consumers in mainland Olango after the devastation of super typhoon Odette in December 2021. This was confirmed by Engineer Gilbert Pagobo,…

Lapu-Lapu gov’t lights up more houses in Olango

Futch Anthony Inso 03/21/2021

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines- Another islet barangay of Olango Island in Lapu-Lapu City will have their light in their houses after 80 households in Barangay Caohagan received solar panel sets today, March 21, 2021. Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Junard…

Lapu-Lapu gov’t helps light up 560 Pangan-an homes

Futch Anthony Inso 03/15/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Residents of Barangay Panga-an, an islet barangay in Olango Island, Lapu-Lapu City will no longer spend the nights in darkness after the city government donated a solar panel set to each of the…

Olango brownouts solved with 2 new power plants set to go online

Futch Anthony Inso 02/27/2021

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — Residents in Olango Island, Lapu-Lapu City will no longer experience a daily rotational brownout, after the power supplier of Mactan Electric Company (MECO), Total Power, finished the construction and installation of two additional…

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