RESCUERS ended the search for a 12-year-old boy who fell off a deep cliff in northern Cebu last Saturday after the boy’s body was found in a riverbed in Sitio Lower Taloot Barangay Valencia, Carcar City, at…
A SEARCH is ongoing for an 11-year-old boy who went swimming at a waterfall in sitio Canbaliwan, barangay Valencia in Carcar City despite a downpour at 8 am last Saturday, July 2. Baltazar Tribunalo, chief of the…
THE chief of Capitol’s disaster risk reduction and management office warned tour guides, who continue their canyoneering activities in Alegria and Badian towns in southwestern Cebu, of harsher penalties if they continue to defy the temporary canyooneering…
PROVINCIAL Agriculturist Roldan Saragena proposed for the allocation of allowances to fish wardens, saying they deserve to receive incentives like barangay volunteer workers. Saragena said this was also proposed by Baltazar Tribunalo Jr., chief of the Provincial…
The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) yesterday emphasized the need for Cebu province to have a suitability map, which is another important tool to create an action plan that is disaster risk reduction and…
THE Cebu Provincial Rapid Assessment Team has blamed the intense heat and lack of water due to the El Niño phenomenon for the deaths, conflicts and health concerns in the province. In its assessment report as of…
WITH or without the green light from the Commission on Elections (Comelec), the Cebu provincial government will start next week the distribution of relief assistance to families affected by the El Niño phenomenon. As this developed, the…
No relief is in sight yet for mostly farmer residents of Cebu province hard hit by the long dry spell because the provincial government cannot offer them any kind of assistance without getting into trouble with the…
CROP damages worth P186 million were sustained by 22 towns in Cebu due to the dry spell, the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office said. PDRRMO chief Baltazar Tribunalo said results of their rapid assessment showed that…
MAYORS of Midwest Cebu were not alarmed by the haze caused by the Mount Kanlaon ash eruption on Tuesday. The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO), however, called on officials and residents of Tabuelan, Tuburan,…
The Cebu Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office (PDRRMO) will conduct more earthquake drills. PDRRMO chief Baltazar Tribunalo, Jr. said the exercises will be held at the Museo Sugbo, Cebu Cultural Center, bus terminals, and 16 district…
Water impounding facilities will be built in five Cebu towns by November this year, the Cebu Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) said. In yesterday’s Capitol press briefing, Provincial Engr. Hector Jamor said the towns…
