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...
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...
BACOLOD CITY – The Police Regional Office-Negros Island Region (PRO-NIR) deployed 150 policemen to Cebu City on Wednesday, Jan. 14, to augment security for the Sinulog Festival. They are composed of 100 personnel from the Negros Oriental Police Provincial Office and 50 from the Siquijor Police...
CEBU CITY – The death toll in the collapsed dumpsite in Barangay Binaliw here increased to 13 as two more fatalities were recovered on Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 13. SFO3 Wendell Villanueva, information officer of the Cebu City Fire Department, said rescuers are still searching for 23 persons...
Senator Imee Marcos has filed a resolution seeking to conduct an inquiry in aid of legislation into the compliance of sanitary landfills with the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000, as well as other applicable laws. This was after the deadly collapse of the Binaliw Sanitary Landfill in...
CEBU CITY – Nine bodies have been recovered from the collapsed building that was buried by a pile of garbage when a dumpsite caved in last week in Barangay Binaliw here. Councilor Dave Tumulak, chairman of the City Council Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Committee, said the last fatality...
The Philippine Navy (PN) on Monday said the Naval Forces Central (NFC), the naval command responsible for Visayas, has deployed a search, rescue, and retrieval (SRR) team to help in the ongoing rescue mission following the landslide at the landfill in Barangay Binaliw in Cebu City last Jan. 8. In a...
Rescuers detected signs of life in an avalanche of garbage that killed at least four workers and left more than 30 others missing Thursday in Cebu City landfill and plan to intensify search efforts, an official said Saturday. Twelve workers have been rescued with injuries from the huge mound of...
