Telcos score win in House OK’d bill allowing cell sites in villages

Miguel Camus 12/04/2021

The House of Representatives has approved a bill that will allow telecommunications providers and other information, communications and technology (ICT) companies to purchase or lease land in private residential villages to build cell sites and support infrastructure.…

Zero transmission in 41 Cebu City barangays

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 10/09/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Fewer barangays in Cebu City now have active cases of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) as the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) revealed on Friday, October 9, 2020, that only 39 out of the 80…

SM Foundation, Uniqlo send food packs to SM Cares villages

PR 04/06/2020

SM Foundation Inc together with Japanese clothing company Uniqlo, recently brought smiles to residents of SM Cares Villages when they distributed food packs to almost 900 families in Bogo City, in Cebu province, Concepcion in IloIlo, Ormoc…

Six-hour heavy rains flood villages, rice fields in Bohol

Inquirer.net 12/20/2018

Tagbilaran City— Some areas in Bohol province have been flooded due to six-hour heavy rains brought by low pressure area (LPA). Barangays Lobogon and Guinsularan in Duero town were flooded, according to Jeffrey Peligro, a Danao village…

Women’s fight for toilets in rural Pakistan villages

AFP 11/25/2018

For as long as she can remember, Ayeesha Siddiqua has fought her male relatives for access to toilets — but a sanitation drive by new premier Imran Khan could make life easier for women in patriarchal Pakistan.…

Iloilo town suspends classes in 16 villages after Army-NPA clash

Inquirer.net 09/10/2018

ILOILO CITY — The municipal government of Janiuay town in Iloilo on Monday suspended classes in 16 hinterland villages following an armed clash between government troops and suspected communist rebels. Janiuay Mayor Jose de Paula said he…

25 of 1,066 Cebu villages declared drug-cleared

Jessa Mae O. Sotto 05/10/2018

ONLY 25 out of the 1,066 barangays in Cebu province were officially declared “drug cleared” by a multi-agency oversight committee at the Capitol’s Social Hall Thursday, May 10. The committee is composed of officials of the Philippine…

5 Albuera, Leyte villages tagged poll hotspots

Inquirer.net 04/25/2018

TACLOBAN CITY – Five villages in the hometown of self-confessed drug lord Kerwin Espinosa in Albuera town, Leyte province, have been identified as possible hotspots for the May 14 barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections. One of…

Villages asked to secure schools

Futch Anthony Inso 04/08/2018

Education officials called on barangays to assign tanods in securing schools in light of last Friday afternoon’s fatal shooting of a woman during the graduation ceremonies of her child in Barangay Balao, Barili town in southern Cebu.…

Only 10 Cebu City villages have active anti-drug councils

Doris Mae Mondragon 03/14/2018

ONLY 10 out of 80 barangays in Cebu City have functioning Barangay Anti-Drug Abuse Councils (BADACs) since most of them are unaware about the council’s role in the war on drugs. “That’s why we have this Anti-Drug…

Don’t blame villages for failures, Bato told

Nestle L. Semilla 03/13/2018

OPLAN DOUBLE BARREL The Philippine National Police (PNP) leadership should not solely blame the barangays for whatever shortcomings were incurred in the government’s war against illegal drugs, a top anti-drug official in the province said yesterday. “I…

Mountain villages now have access to Poblacion proper

Morexette B. Erram 11/22/2017

BARANGAY lower BECERRIL The diversion road used as access to and from the mountain barangays and the Boljoon town proper has been passable for all types of vehicles since Saturday. But disaster officials of this fifth-class municipality,…

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