Firecracker zones will help deter disasters

Morexette Marie B. Erram and Jessa Mae O. Sotto 12/30/2018

LIGHTING firecrackers should be done away from residential areas in order to prevent disasters, such as fires, from happening. This is the reason why government officials from Cebu and Lapu-Lapu cities are urging their respective constituents who…

MGB presents critical zones to Naga city gov’t

Rosalie O. Abatayo 10/01/2018

The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) Central Office team has submitted to the Naga City government the delineation of the critical zones surrounding the ground zero of the landslide in Sitio Sindulan, Barangay Tinaan. The local government…

MGB presents critical zones to Naga city gov’t

Rosalie O. Abatayo 10/01/2018

The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) Central Office team has submitted to the Naga City government the delineation of the critical zones surrounding the ground zero of the landslide in Sitio Sindulan, Barangay Tinaan. The local government…

Once more for easement zones

Editorial 04/08/2018

Cebu Vice Gov. Agnes Magpale expressed hope that other local governments throughout Cebu would imitate Oslob Mayor Jose Tumulak Jr. who announced a weeklong closure of the shores of Sumilon Island for cleanup purposes. The island will…

Clergy told: Leave comfort zones, reach out to poor

Futch Anthony Inso 12/31/2017

CEBU Archbishop Jose Palma has encouraged members of the clergy to go out from their comfort zones and reach out to the less fortunate people. Palma said in press briefing on Dec. 28, that this would also…

Location of firecracker zones, fireworks display zones in Mandaue and Lapu-Lapu

Norman V. Mendoza 12/31/2017

The Lapu-Lapu and Mandaue City Police offices released the lists of firecracker zones and fireworks display zones in their respective barangays. LAPU-LAPU CITY Barangay Agus identified seven Community Fireworks Display Areas namely: – Sitio Proper, in front…

Discipline zones

Editorial 12/11/2017

We hope that the ongoing clearing operations of sidewalks as part of setting up so-called discipline zones will be sustained and even expanded to include all the urban areas in Cebu City. We say urban areas because…

Cebu City to designate firecracker zones

Doris Mae C. Mondragon 12/03/2017

The Cebu City government will designate firecracker zones, according to Councilor Dave Tumulak, the city’s deputy mayor on police matters. “Under the executive order signed by the President regulating the use of firecrackers, we need to look…

City Hall starts setting up ‘discipline zones’

Morexette B. Erram 12/02/2017

  CEBU City Hall officials, personnel and police reminded sidewalk vendors along Osmeña Boulevard to move out starting next Monday as part of efforts to set up “discipline zones” along sidewalks. Police personnel of the Fuente police…

Co-op intervention needed in conflict zones

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 10/02/2017

October is Co-operative Month and cooperatives are stepping up to raise their visibility as a way of bringing attention to the human development work that some 20,000 cooperatives are doing through eight million members across the archipelago.…

Monday’s rain flood three zones, relocation site in Mandaue City

Norman V. Mendoza 09/19/2017

LAST Monday’s rain flooded three zones or sitios in Barangay Pakna-an with more than a thousand homes in ankle-deep floodwater after the Butuanon River overflowed in the evening. At the 6.5-hectare relocation site in Barangay Pakna-an, 40-year-old…

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