Shopping for donations? Check prevailing price list of DTI

Marian Z. Codilla 11/15/2013

For those who are planning to buy goods for their families, friends whow are victims of Typhoon Yolanda, you might want to check the prevailing price list in Cebu. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) implements…

Veco posts rotational brownouts list

Aileen Garcia-Yap, Chito O. Aragon, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/13/2013

THE Visayan Electric Co. (Veco) started posting lists of areas where rotational brownouts will occur starting yesterday. “The exact time and lengths of the interruption will depend on the available power,” Veco corporate communications manager Theresa Sederiosa…

Cebu City relief team to visit towns, Capitol sends gensets

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Peter L. Romanillos 11/13/2013

CEBU City Mayor Michael Rama will donate his P53,000 salary for this month to typhoon victims in northern Cebu and asked City Hall officials to donate some of their own. “It is important that we should be…

Ego in the year of living dangerously

Jobers R. Bersales 11/13/2013

Past Forward I write this piece as trucks from various companies are busy packing relief goods for the victims of supertyphoon Yolanda here at the Wrocklage Yard of the University of San Carlos (USC) Downtown Campus. There…

Medellin mayor warns about price hikes

Aileen Garcia-Yap 11/13/2013

After reports of overpriced construction materials and food items, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is now checking stores in Medellin and Daanbantayan to check if the price freeze imposed by the government has been violated. Price…

Cebu tourism stakeholders map plans to revive tourism in typhoon-hit areas

Aileen Garcia-Yap 11/13/2013

With at least three known tourism destinations in Cebu among the hardest hit by super typhoon Yolanda, tourism stakeholders initiated a dialogue with the local governments to map plans that would expedite recovery in these areas. Newly…

Refugees arrive in Cebu to flee misery in typhoon-hit Tacloban City

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/12/2013

When two Philippine Air Force C-130s arrived at the typhoon-wrecked Daniel Romualdez airport in Tacloban City just after dawn yesterday, more than 3,000 people who had camped out hoping to escape the devastation surged onto the tarmac…

Taclobanons desperate to go home

Doris C. Bongcac, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/12/2013

The days of agonizing over the fate of her family spurred 32-year-old call center agent Anjuli Lorraine Pido to ask Cebu City Hall’s help for him to go home to Tacloban City. “I haven’t heard from my…

Students power relief efforts

Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/12/2013

More than 100 students from all over Cebu City converged at the University of the Philippines (UP) Cebu Arts and Sciences building lobby yesterday to help pack relief goods intended for typhoon victims. Students of the University…

Davide: Cebu to remain under ‘state of calamity’

Jhunnex Napallacan 11/10/2013

CEBU will remain under a “state of calamity.” Cebu Gov. Hilario Davide III said this after visiting the northern towns of the province which were the hardest hit by supertyphoon Yolanda (international name Haiyan). Parts of Cebu…

PNP: 47 of 49 Central Visayas deaths in Cebu

Jucell Marie P. Cuyos 11/10/2013

Cebu registered the most number of casualties in Central Visayas in the wake of super typhoon Yolanda’s onslaught, the Police Regional Office (PRO-7) said yesterday. Supt. Renato Dugan, PRO-7 information officer, said 47 of the 49 casualties…

Cops affected by storm allowed to go home

Jucell Marie P. Cuyos 11/10/2013

All policemen assigned in northern Cebu are also victims of supertyphoon Yolanda (international name: Haiyan), Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO) director Senior Supt. Noel Gillamac has permitted them to return to their homes in order to attend…

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