Flying kites near power lines may cause power outages and electrocution. This was the warning of the Visayan Electric Company, Inc. (VECO) to children and parents, especially since summer vacation has started. Although kite-flying is a summer…
When bureaucrats and elected officials argue over which projects should get implemented or not, it’s not them but the public whom they were supposed to serve that suffers the most from the fallout of their oftentimes unnecessary…
Power supply in the Visayas remains stable despite the yellow alert status raised by the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP). Rosette Martinez, NGCP-Visayas Public Affairs head, yesterday said that the supply from the Luzon grid…
Asingle grid would improve the stability of power supply and help boost investments in power plant projects in the Philippines by expanding market access to the entire Philippines. Lawyer Cynthia Alabanza, spokesperson and head of corporate communication…
32 years thereafter, the spirit of EDSA People Power lives on. True? Amid the continuing challenges to our freedoms and liberties, not a few would understandably sigh and disagree. Others are getting exasperated at the perceived indifference…
The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines is starting to implement the pre-construction stage of its P51.6-billion Mindanao-Visayas Interconnection project (MVIP) estimated to be completed by the year 2020. Ma. Rosette B. Martinez, regional corporate communications and…
The power outage experienced earlier today was traced to a balloon that got entangled with the primary line of the Visayan Electric Company (Veco) located along J. Tormis Street in Barangay Sambag 1, Cebu City. The…
A heavy downpour and power interruption were experienced while the Sinulog grand parade opening Mass was ongoing at the Cebu City Sports Center (CCSC). But the rain and technical difficulties did not stop Msgr. Roberto Alesna,…
John Ruskin considered Raphael’s Ansidei Madonna “one of the most perfect pictures of the world.” Raphael was in his early twenties when he did the painting, which Niccolò Ansidei had commissioned for a family chapel in honor…
WITH some power distributors in Cebu like the Visayan Electric Co. and Cebu Electric Cooperative 2 (Cebeco 2) announcing their plans to increase electricity rates next month, the Mactan Electric Co. (Meco) will also increase their…
ANOTHER power distributor in Cebu will increase its electricity rates next month to compensate for the expected increase in supply rates from power generators with the implementation of the first package of the government’s new tax reform…
A former congressman who is also a militant leader warned on Thursday that a road is now being paved for President Rodrigo Duterte’s “centralized power” as some government leaders floated the ideas of term extension and…
