April rain

Raymund Fernandez 04/04/2017

Used to be, April was warm and sunny and rainless. April rain was not impossible. But it was a rarity, and always, it caught us by surprise. It was lovely this way. Warm sunny day when we…

Fusion, Sun & Rain take lead in A+E caging

Jonas N. Panerio 04/03/2017

FUSION and Sun and Rain zoomed to the top of the pack as they notched contrasting wins in the Architects + Engineers Basketball Assocation Davies Paints Cup 2017 last weekend at the University of San Carlos gym.…

Heavy rain causes flooding, traffic congestion in Metro Cebu

Doris C. Bongcac, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 04/03/2017

CEBU CITY–Early morning rains caused traffic congestion in major thoroughfares in the cities of Cebu, Mandaue and Lapu-Lapu on Monday. Knee-deep flood caused traffic to slow down in Mandaue City at the foot of the First Mandaue-Mactan…

Sun and Rain, Superdry Extreme score separate victories

Jonas N. Panerio 03/28/2017

SUN AND RAIN and Superdry Extreme had victorious debuts at the start of the Architects + Engineers Basketball Club Davies Paints Cup 2017 last weekend at the University of San Carlos gym. Sun and Rain beat Elastogel,…

8 vessels cancel trips out of Cebu over gale warning

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 02/16/2017

Eight inter-island vessels cancel their trips out of Cebu on Thursday morning due to the gale warning hoisted over the area. Apprentice Gerald Medina of Philippine Coast Guards (PCG) in Cebu said the vessels that cancelled their…

‘Bising’ to bring rain in Cebu

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 02/03/2017

A TROPICAL cyclone named Bising entered the country yesterday and is expected to bring light to moderate rain to Cebu, the Mactan office of the state weather bureau Pagasa said. “Initial forecast shows that this will not…

Relocation sites sought for families

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 02/01/2017

The Cebu City Council called on the National Housing Authority (NHA) to help identify relocation sites for residents in the mountain barangays of Sirao, Adlaon and Busay who were displaced by last month’s landslides. In a privilege…

DSWD delivers food packs to Cagayan de Oro

01/31/2017

TO augment the need for more food assistance to calamity victims in northern Mindanao, the Department of Social Welfare and Development in Central Visayas (DSWD-7) delivered 3,750 food packs to the DSWD Field Office X in Cagayan…

Worsening floods

Editorial 01/24/2017

It was no small coincidence that the floods and landslides in Metro Cebu and Cebu province occurred at the same time that a city in faraway northern Mindanao experienced its worst flooding since it went through the…

No entry to Sirao flower farms

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 01/19/2017

Tourists are no longer allowed to visit the flower farms at Sitio Tawagan in the mountain barangay of Sirao in Cebu City. During their meeting yesterday afternoon, the Cebu City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (CCDRRMC)…

LANDSLIDE ALERT

Inna Mejia, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 01/18/2017

Always be cautious when passing through mountain barangays in Cebu City. This was the advice of city officials following recent episodes of landslides in the hinterlands, the latest of which occurred at dawn yesterday in Sitio Garaje…

Mandaue evacuees allowed to return home

Nestle L. Semilla, Norman V. Mendoza 01/18/2017

Five hundred families that were evacuated to covered courts and schools in four barangays in Mandaue City after the Butuanon River overflowed last Monday had returned to their homes yesterday morning. Seventeen family evacuees from Riverside Barangay…

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