Mandaue ready to host Tacloban evacuees

Jucell Marie P. Cuyos 11/17/2013

MANDAUE City Hall has prepared the Barangay Banilad gymnasium as a temporary shelter for evacuees from Tacloban City who are scheduled to arrive today. Violeta Cavada, Mandaue City Hall’s Social Welfare and Services (CSWS) chief, said the…

‘We Are The World,’ Yolanda version

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 11/17/2013

Window We Are The World,” the 1985 charity anthem written by the late Michael Jackson for famine-ravaged Africa 28 years ago is enjoying a revival of sorts, thanks to creative netizens who updated the music video. Overlaid…

One-day leave for love of countrymen

Jucell Marie P. Cuyos 11/15/2013

Seven “umbrella girls” skipped a day’s work at the Mactan Island Golf Club skip to help pack relief goods at a gymnasium in the Benito Ebuen Airbase in Mactan. Marlyn Epe, 21, sat on the floor with…

24 / 7 Relief Center

Apple Ta-as, Bjorn Abraham Tabanera 11/15/2013

Sometimes she’d pause to pick up cans of sardines. From school, the kindergarten pupil came with her parents to the basement of the Cebu International Convention Center (CICC) in Mandaue City, where volunteers are joining a new…

Family who lost 11 kin in Palo now safe in Cebu

Bencyrus Ellorin 11/15/2013

The Sacred Heart Seminary which sustained major damage, with the roof of all buildings in the complex blown off and surrounding trees stripped leafless by Yolanda’s rampaging winds in the early morning hours of November 8 serves…

Consequences

Juan Mercado 11/15/2013

Viewpoint Are killer-typhoons like Yolanda/ Haiyan, unburied corpses to traumatized victims screaming to get out, the new “normal?” Confirmed storm deaths stood at 4,460 Friday — and climbing. More than 11.3 million people were affected nationwide The…

Leyte bishop likens Yoly to ‘angel of death’

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 11/15/2013

“The typhoon was really very strong. It was so unusual. When it hit Palo, it was like the angel of death. It looked like a white smoke that went inside every room, destroyed the doors, blew the…

Cebu City mounts aid mission

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/15/2013

A TEAM from Cebu City Hall went to towns in northern Cebu while another is leaving for Ormoc City today to extend help to people affected by supertyphoon Yolanda last week. The group brought relief goods and…

More aid flown in

Jucell Marie P. Cuyos 11/15/2013

AIR traffic in Cebu was at its heaviest yesterday as aircraft of various shapes and sizes continue to arrive to ferry tons of relief goods and aid workers on a mission to help victims of supertyphoon Yolanda.…

PBA dedicates opening to storm survivors

Brian J. Ochoa 11/15/2013

PBA COMMISSIONER Chito Salud said the league will be dedicating its opening ceremony for the upcoming Philippine Cup to the victims of supertyphoon “Yolanda.” The PBA will start its 39th season tomorrow with three games in three…

ALA pugs help in relief operations for Yolanda victims

Dale G. Rosal 11/15/2013

ALA BOXING Gym stalwarts Merlito “Tiger” Sabillo and Donnie “Ahas” Nietes on Wednesday led a group of ALA Boxing Gym boxers in helping relief efforts for the typhoon victims in the Visayas. The WBO minimumweight champion Sabillo…

Trader recounts ‘Yolanda’ experience

Bjorn Abraham Tabanera 11/15/2013

As he watched his daughter Katsy being interviewed by Anderson Cooper on CNN, 56-year-old businessman Peter Borromeo tried to connect the pieces of his harrowing encounter with super typhoon “Yolanda” (international name Haiyan). He thought “Yolanda” was…

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