Passengers stranded as ports cancelled trips due to Typhoon Basyang

Jessa Mae O. Sotto 02/12/2018

At least 334 passengers were left stranded in Cebu due to the Tropical Storm Basyang. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) has issued a gale warning, leaving at least 27 passenger vessels suspended in…

10 motorized boats ferry stranded passengers to Olango Island

Norman V. Mendoza 01/05/2018

Hundreds of passengers, who were stranded since Thursday (Jan. 4, 2018) at the Hilton wharf in Barangay Punta Engaño and Angasil wharf in Barangay Mactan in Lapu-Lapu City, were able to cross the Hilutungan Channel to Olango…

Stranded passengers in ports; Pagasa: Storm may affect Cebu

Jessa Mae O. Sotto, Rosalie Abatayo 12/30/2017

Rough seas force shipping firms to cancel trips; 789 stranded — Coast Guard With the state weather bureau advising the public about a possible tropical depression that would possibly affect Central Visayas and Cebu on New Year’s…

Tours in southern Cebu suspended due to ‘Vinta’

Morexette B. Erram 12/22/2017

The Provincial Tourism Office (PTO) has suspended all tourism activities in the south, from towns of Moalboal to Santander as Tropical Storm Vinta is expected to barrel the Visayas region today. Recent data from the Provincial Disaster…

More than 1K passengers stranded in Cebu ports

Jessa Mae O. Sotto 12/21/2017

The prospect of spending Christmas far from home filled Marlyn Agad with great dismay, as she heard the news that her trip to Hilongos, Leyte was cancelled yesterday as Tropical Storm Vinta made landfall. She was looking…

STRANDED IN CEBU

DORIS BONGCAC, Doris Mae C. Mondragon, Morexette Marie B. Erram, Steffi Kyle Nolido 12/14/2017

  Hundreds of passengers bound for Cebu’s northern tip and its neighboring island-provinces were left stranded after small seacrafts were prevented from leaving the ports of Cebu yesterday amid foul weather spawned by Tropical Storm Urduja. The…

‘Urduja’ intensifies, leaves 300 passengers stranded in Cebu

Morexette B. Erram 12/14/2017

  Close to 300 individuals were left stranded from several ports in Cebu province due to rough seas present in the Visayas region brought by Tropical Storm Urduja. Data from the Philippine Coast Guard – Cebu Station…

Bus operators allowed to pick up stranded commuters

Morexette B. Erram 12/02/2017

    Private bus operators were issued special permits to service routes outside of their own by the regional Land Transportation Franchising Regulatory Board in Central Visayas (LTFRB-7). Regional LTFRB-7 Director Ahmed Cuizon requested traffic enforcers in…

Cebu City gov’t to deploy buses for commuters stranded in the rain

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/31/2017

The Cebu City Hall will be deploying Kaoshiung buses in case people will get stranded in the heavy rains during the All Saints and All Souls’ Days. City Councilor Dave Tumulak said at least five buses will…

STRANDED IN CEBU

Agnes B. Alpuerto, Morexette Marie B. Erram 10/20/2017

After spending two months in Cebu as part of her internship program, tourism student Marisa Redoloza was excited to go back to her hometown in Naval, Leyte, yesterday. But the prevailing bad weather yesterday dampened her mood…

Passengers frustrated at slow rescue of stranded M/V Georich

Agnes B. Alpuerto, Nestle L. Semilla 09/07/2017

Some of the passengers of the stranded M/V Georich vessel expressed dismay after they have been made to wait for more than 10 hours now since the boat experienced engine failure off the coast of Dalaguete, Cebu…

Death toll in Japan floods rises to 15

AFP 07/08/2017

Tokyo — The death toll from heavy rains and flooding in southern Japan has risen to 15, media reported yesterday, as rescuers continued work to bring out isolated survivors. Raging rivers overflowing with water and mud have…

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