More islands need help

Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/11/2014

Task Force Paglig-on chief Baltazar Tribunalo yesterday welcomed rehabilitation czar Panfilo Lacson’s admission that  Kinatarcan island in north Cebu was overlooked in the governnment’s Comprehensive Rehabilitation and Recovery Plan. He said it helps  focus attention on other…

Solar panels light up Yolanda housing site

Peter L. Romanillos 11/11/2014

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…

Lacson: I just discovered there is a tiny islet that has not been reached yet

Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/09/2014

‘ISLAND LEFT OUT’ An island inhabited by around 4,000 persons,  located in between the northern tip of the island of Cebu and Bantayan Island has been overlooked by the national government when they prepared the Comprehensive Rehabilitation…

Bantayan survivors turn to loan sharks

Peter L. Romanillos 11/09/2014

Sta. Fe, Bantayan Island—With government’s emergency shelter aid still unreleased a year after supertyphoon Yolanda (Haiyan), survivors in this town turned to loan sharks to fund the repair of their homes. Nearly half of the 5,000 affected…

New house built by fellow survivors

Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/09/2014

A year after they lost their home to supertyphoon Yolanda, a couple from San Remigio town in northern Cebu finally got a new roof over their head. The house of Ronald Mayol and Elizabeth Martunillas in barangay…

Weather resistant homes for Bogo City survivors

Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/09/2014

  When 44-year-old Lilia Tipait lost her seaside home in barangay Polambato, Bogo City to supertyphoon Yolanda last year, she almost lost all hope for a good future. “I was so devastated. I thought, perhaps, we won´t…

Riding out the storm

11/09/2014

Vice President Jejomar Binay’s refusal to appear in last Thursday’s Senate blue ribbon committee hearing may or may not plunge his popularity to record low levels. But it will send the wrong signal to the public which…

Celebration of life, tears, prayers, protests

11/09/2014

Survivors of supertyphoon Yolanda yesterday shed tears in celebration of life as they descended on mass graves to mark one year since the storm took away their loved ones and devastated much of  central Philippines. But even…

Barangay Tinago sets reunion for volunteers, donors on Nov. 13

Doris C. Bongcac 11/09/2014

Storm refuge in Cebu A playhouse will be set up again in barangay Tinago’s sports complex on Nov. 13 just like the one used for young evacuees of typhoon Yolanda a year ago. Tinago barangay captain Joel…

Yolanda survivors cry, shout, wait

Peter L. Romanillos 11/09/2014

Bantayan storm survivors seek strength, release of shelter aid Sta. Fe, Bantayan –  Bells pealed. Sirens and horn blasts filled the air in the early morning. At exactly 8 a.m., people gathered at the town plaza shouted,…

Some move on, others agonize

11/09/2014

Four months after she lost her husband and home to supertyphoon Yolanda’s fury, Agnes Bacsal gave birth to their sixth child — a sprightly boy, whose presence has eased the family’s pain. Other survivors, like fisherman Ben…

Remembering Yolanda

11/08/2014

It’s officially been a year since Yolanda barreled its way through most of Central Visayas including northern Cebu and devastated everything in its path, claiming thousands of lives, destroying  homes and sources of livelihood.  It drove home…

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