Palma lauds youth participants in local World Youth Day

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 04/13/2014

Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma thanked the 343 participants from calamity stricken areas in Bohol and northern Cebu for attending the local World Youth Day last Saturday. In his message, Palma described the youth as the present and…

Damage beneath the sea

04/07/2014

Yolanda’s infrastructure damage wasn’t just visible on land. Under the sea, a still unmeasured devastation in coral reefs tells us that a second look is needed to calibrate the task of  recovery ahead. A decline in fish…

Businessmen seek greater public participation in rebuilding effort

Aileen Garcia-Yap 03/25/2014

The devastation caused by the Oct. 15 earthquake and the Nov. 8 supertyphoon Yolanda has driven the business community to appeal for greater public participation in the reconstruction of the damaged towns and cities. The Philippine Business…

Yolanda survivors bid SRP tent city goodbye

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 03/22/2014

  The tent city that was home for 54 families from Eastern Visayas  who were  displaced by supertyphoon Yolanda  will fold up tomorrow, more than four months after the world’s strongest  storm to hit land devastated the…

At 60, lola looks forward to teaching in high school

Carine M. Asutilla 03/21/2014

Perpetua Cañete is enjoying her last few days in college by doing her teaching assignments in Liloan National High School. The 60-year-old Cañete is one of 37 graduating students of La Consolacion College in Liloan town. She…

North Cebu fishers get P33M in aid

Peter L. Romanillos 03/20/2014

Help is on the way for seaweed farmers and fisherfolks in northern Cebu four months after supertyphoon Yolanda swept away their aquatic farms and fishing gears. The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR)-7 turned over P33…

Critique of relief work

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 03/17/2014

Oxfam, for the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief, an independent group of 17 nongovernment organizations (NGOs) based in Oxford, Great Britain does not usually criticize governments in areas where it is engaged in humanitarian work. However, there…

Palace bats for gender equality

Inquirer 03/10/2014

In observance of International Women’s Day, an aide to President Aquino promised Saturday that his administration would strengthen measures to combat violence against women and provide more opportunities for gender equality and empowerment. Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma…

Officials urged to prepare for Yolanda-like typhoons

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 03/02/2014

Local officials in Cebu should prepare for a supertyphoon in the same magnitude as Yolanda (Haiyan). “You know that there will be another disaster. You don’t know when it will happen but you know it will happen.…

President blows top when asked on slow pace of recovery in northern Cebu

Inquirer, Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag, Peter L. Romanillos 02/26/2014

Expect heads to roll in the coming days as the President’s patience is wearing thin over the seemingly disjointed efforts, particularly at the local level, to help victims of disasters since December 2012. President Aquino yesterday appealed…

Pioneer initiates Yolanda rebuilding efforts

PR 02/26/2014

LAST December, the management of Pioneer Group decided to forego its traditional Christmas party celebration to contribute more sufficiently to rebuilding efforts in typhoon Yolanda-affected areas. The Christmas party fund was pooled with donations from colleagues, individuals…

A question of coordination

02/19/2014

The answer to the question of quickly rehabilitating the northern Cebu towns lashed by supertyphoon Yolanda rests not on the local, provincial or national government alone. Quick rehabilitation is a matter of coordination between the three levels…

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