CEBU CITY – Authorities have announced that all victims from the trash slide in Barangay Binaliw here have already been accounted for. But for the family of one of the victims, the search is not over yet. Relatives of chemical engineer Frederick Lee Deximo urged responders to continue the search...
CEBU CITY – More than five million people came to witness the Sinulog Grand Parade here on Sunday, Jan. 18. The Cebu City Disaster Risk and Reduction Management Office said the number of revelers peaked at 5.2 million late afternoon with spectators crowding the city’s major thoroughfares for...
BACOLOD CITY – MassKara Festival dancers performed during the Sinulog Festival in Cebu City on Sunday, Jan. 18. Dancers from Barangay Tangub, champion of last year 's MassKara Festival, performed during a parade at Fuente Osmeña Circle in Cebu City and at the Cebu City Sports Complex....
Senator Erwin Tulfo has joined calls to hold the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) accountable over the lack of strict oversight in the landfill collapse in Barangay Binaliw, Cebu City. Based on records from the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), the death toll has reached 36,...
CEBU CITY – Two major religious events held as part of the 461st Fiesta Senor here drew huge crowds on Saturday, Jan. 17. Even before sunrise, thousands of devotees from Cebu, Mandaue, and Lapu-Lapu cities gathered on the coastline to witness the fluvial procession in the Mactan Channel. The...
CEBU CITY – All is set for the Sinulog Grand Parade on Sunday, Jan. 18, but some are questioning if pushing through with the grand celebration is appropriate when some families are grieving following the deadly trash slide in a mountain barangay here. Reacting to some comments on social media,...
CEBU CITY – A liquor ban will be imposed a day before and during the Sinulog Grand Parade here. Cebu City Mayor Nestor Archival issued Executive Order (EO) No. 051 imposing a liquor ban within the 300-meter radius of the Sinulog Grand Parade routes. Under the EO, a liquor ban will be imposed from...
CEBU CITY – Heavy rains poured all day here on Friday, Jan. 16, but efforts to find missing victims at the collapsed dumpsite in Barangay Binaliw continued. Cebu City Councilor Dave Tumulak, chairman of the Cebu City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (CCDRRMC), said search and rescue...
CEBU CITY – The number of people who perished in the trash slide in a dumpsite in Barangay Binaliw here rose to 25 with the recovery of seven more fatalities on Thursday, Jan. 15. SFO3 Wendell Villanueva, information officer of the Cebu City Fire Department, said only 11 persons remained missing...
Tsuneishi Heavy Industries (Cebu) Inc., a joint venture between Japan’s Tsuneishi Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. and the Aboitiz Group, has delivered the world’s first methanol-powered Kamsarmax bulk carrier, a shift toward higher-value manufacturing in the Philippine maritime sector. The vessel, named...
CEBU CITY – Six more bodies were recovered from the collapsed dumpsite in Barangay Binaliw here on Wednesday, Jan. 14, raising the death toll in the trash slide to 19. All fatalities have been identified while rescuers are still searching for 17 missing. SFO3 Wendell Villanueva, information...
CEBU CITY – Packs of suspected shabu worth P54.4 million were seized from a man who was allegedly the leader of a drug syndicate operating in Central Visayas and Negros Oriental. The 47-year-old suspect, a certain Clifford, was arrested in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Tuyan, Naga City, Cebu...
