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As coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases rise in the Visayas region, the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) has prepared a P42-million multipurpose cash grant (MPCG) to help 8,820 vulnerable families in Cebu, Lapu-Lapu – Cordova, Western Samar, and Leyte. PRC chairman and CEO, Senator Dick Gordon said the cash assistance will be directed to the most vulnerable. […]
Cebu and the Visayas islands have been named Top Island in Asia, leading three other Philippine islands in the Top 10 of the Condé Nast Traveler’s (CNT) 2020 Readers’ Choice Awards. Palawan, Siargao, and Boracay also made it to the Top 10 in Asia list, ranking fourth, fifth, and sixth, respectively, to give the Philippines […]
Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Roy Cimatu ordered that the operations of two dolomite mining firms in Alcoy, Cebu be suspended after an inspection conducted recently pending the results of investigation for alleged coral reef damage, water quality monitoring and ambient air quality monitoring. Cimatu suspended the quarry operations of the Dolomite Mining Corporation (DMC) […]
Mayor Michael Angelo Sestoso of the municipality of Alcoy in Cebu said dolomite has been quarried from his town for the past 39 years. As such, he said it is incorrect to say that dolomite was taken from the town just for the beautification of Manila Bay. Sestoso added he cannot recall any single environmental […]
San Miguel Corporation (SMC) said it has completed providing life insurance coverage to about 5,000 medical frontliners from 18 hospitals across Cebu, who are now insured for P2 million each. “We started this initiative several months ago, at the height of COVID-19 cases in Cebu, when our medical front liners there were really having a […]
Jesus Cortes now has a more compelling reason to expand his container vegetable garden. After winning the prize money of around P26,000, Cortes is now keen in growing a bigger garden at his house. He was one of the winners of the Cebu provincial government’s SugBusog (Sugbuanong Busog, Luwas ug Himsog), a food security program […]
Efforts to revive the heavily silted Mahiga River in Cebu province got a significant boost after the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) secured the commitment and support of 28 private companies and organizations through the agency’s Adopt-an-Estero/Waterbody Program. DENR Secretary Roy Cimatu, together with Mayors Edgardo Labella of Cebu City and Jonas Cortes […]
The provincial government of Cebu has recently reopened the tourism industry in the town of Oslob which marks the start of the gradual recovery of one of the hardest-hit industries by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Oslob is known as known as one of the areas in the country where tourists can engage in […]
The National Housing Authority (NHA) in Region 7 led the inauguration of 1,831 housing units for victims of Typhoon Yolanda in Cebu. In an online ceremony attended by Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles who also serves as Chairman of Task Force Yolanda or the Inter-agency Task Force for the Unified Implementation and Monitoring of Rehabilitation and […]
With Cebu being the new epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country, the Philippine Red Cross recently inaugurated its bio-molecular laboratory in Mandaue City. Senator Dick Gordon, PRC chairman and CEO, said the facility, equipped with four RT-polymerase chain reactions machines that are capable of running a combined total 4,000 tests per day, would […]