Volunteers have started preparing relief packs for eventual distribution to typhoon victims. More hands are needed. The Cebu International Convention Center in Mandaue City was designated a food repacking hub for the region. Social Welfare Secretary Corazon…
The wide, popular reach of social networking sites was put to good use as local authorities utilized Facebook and Twitter in disseminating storm-related information the past few days. The municipal government of Medellin, one of the towns…
The management of Ceres Liner has cancelled its trips to northern Cebu beginning at 3 p.m yesterday. “Definitely there will be no trips tonight,” Zosimo Jumao-as Jr., head of operations of the North Bus Terminal, said. Affected…
The Cebu provincial government declared 15 towns in southern Cebu under a state of calamity after they were hit by typhoon Queenie last week. Damages done in the towns of Argao, Dalaguete, Alcoy, Boljoon, Oslob, Santander,…
Seven-year-old Jason Baldado was soundly asleep with his mother, Alona, inside their shanty in barangay Sto. Niño in Malabuyoc town, southern Cebu when heavy rains brought by tropical depression Queenie fell before dawn Thursday. Queenie, the 20th…
Tropical depression Queenie is expected to continue to batter the Visayas and Mindanao with heavy rain as it crosses the southern part of the country from Wednesday night up to today, the state weather bureau said. Northern…
Sen. Aquilino Pimentel III’s proposal for the Supreme Court to review a Local Government Code provision that allows local government units (LGUs) to extend cash assistance to judges in their jurisdiction may not be taken lightly…
A few days after the anniversary of supertyphoon Yolanda’s devastation of Central Visayas, Cabinet officils led by Interior and Local Governments Sec. Mar Roxas visited typhoon-hit Daanbantayan, northern Cebu at past, Thursday. Students and a few residents…
A relocation site in Sta. Fe town in Bantayan Island is using solar power to light up newly built housing units for supertyphoon Yolanda survivors. The 216 houses built by Habitat for Humanity are equipped with modular…
Martin and friends spring to action in northern Cebu 4 days after Yolanda struck Mitzee Martin of Labangon, Cebu City was busy with her graduate studies and at the same time preparing to take the Licensure Examination…
Recipients of Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) scholarship grant for typhoon surivors will finally graduate a year after supertyphoon Yolanda almost washed out their dreams away. Tesda Secretary Villanueva will be in Bogo and Medellin…
MORE FUNDS FOR CEBU The Department of Budget and Management yesterday announced the release of an additional P8 billion to fund the construction of permanent shelters for those left homeless by supertyphoon Yolanda. The amount which will…
