Looking for missing friends and family?

Marian Z. Codilla 11/12/2013

ARE you looking for family members or friends in disaster-stricken areas in the Visayas? There are online services worth trying. Google offers Person Finder Service specifically for supertyphoon Yolanda victims. While there are no guarantees of a…

Go ahead, donate

Ricky Poca 11/12/2013

Think Bits Last week’s typhoon Yolanda resulted in so much damage and casualties in the cities of Tacloban, Palo and Ormoc of Leyte and the northern towns of Cebu. It was reported that northern Cebu towns of…

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…

Major aid effort to help typhoon victims

11/10/2013

THE US and other governments and international agencies are mounting a major relief effort to help victims of supertyphoon Yolanda. Brian Goldbeck, the acting ambassador at the US Embassy in Manila, issued a disaster declaration to provide…

Pagkaluoy gyud sa taga-Tacloban

Lloyd Suarez 11/10/2013

Super Hirit Pwerteng paita gyud sa sitwasyon karon didto sa Tacloban, Leyte nga maoy na-grabehan sa bagyong Yolanda niadtong Biyernes sa buntag. Laming ihilak. Dinhi sa ato sa Sugbo sa northern Cebu, dunay 43 ka mga nangamatay…

Waiting for Yolanda

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 11/10/2013

Window I woke up early Saturday morning listening to the international cable news channel CNN for updates about the movement and the swath of destruction left by Super Typhoon Yolanda. The international name given by the World…

Veco: Almost done restoring power

Aileen Garcia-Yap, Doris C. Bongcac 11/10/2013

WITH power gradually being restored in Metro Cebu after supertyphoon ‘Yolanda’, the Visayan Electric Co. (Veco) is more than half way done. As of 9 p.m., the private utility reported it had restored 217 megawatts (MW) to…

‘Yolanda worse than Ruping’, Daanbantayan folk says

Peter L. Romanillos 11/09/2013

“Yolanda” (international name Haiyan) made its presence felt with heavy rains and gale-force winds that devastated Daanbantayan which is situated at the northernmost tip of Cebu province. It felled trees and houses and left thousands of residents…

Govt hampered in monitoring typhoon hit Visayas

Inquirer 11/09/2013

DOWNED communication lines in provinces hardest hit by super typhoon Yolanda had the national government grappling with piecemeal information as the year’s strongest typhoon barreled through Eastern and Central Visayas. “Our problem now is us not knowing…

Mandaue, Lapu to clear out coastal barangays

Jucell Marie P. Cuyos, Norman V. Mendoza 11/06/2013

The city governments of Mandaue and Lapu-Lapu ordered an evacuation of all residents in coastal barangays ahead of the predicted entry of typhoon “Yolanda” into the country. “Dili nata maghulat nga musaka ang tubig so dapat sila…

Superstorm On Its Way

Bencyrus Ellorin, Christine Emily L. Pantaleon, Fe Marie Dumaboc, Jhunnex Napallacan, Marian Z. Codilla, Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/06/2013

When “Yolanda” enters the Philippines , it may build up to a super typhoon as strong as Ruping, which pummeled Cebu in 1990 and last year’s Pablo, weathermen said. “Yolanda” will make landfall in Samar by Wednesday…

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