BPO company to help City set up crisis center

CEBU City will have its own 911 or rescue hotline soon, Mayor Michael Rama said yesterday.

The mayor recently met with representatives from a business process outsourcing company, which will provide the centralized command center at no cost to the City Government.

Some residents in Ronda barangay refuse to leave danger area

CAPITOL’s Engineering Office has yet to check the reported cracks in the mountains of Ronda, saying the issue is not their concern yet.

Provincial Engineer Eulogio Pelayre said the matter is the jurisdiction of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).

Cebu to have rainy days ahead: Pagasa

A LOW-pressure area in Mindanao will bring rains in Cebu in the next few days, the weather bureau said yesterday.

Quiley Torregoza, weather observer at Pagasa’s Mactan, Cebu station, advised residents in Cebu to stay alert against floods and landslides. He also advised fishermen not to venture into the rough seas.

Rama opposes undersea tunnel idea

ASIDE from businessmen and technical experts, Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama is also opposing the undersea tunnel proposed by Rep. Cutie del Mar (Cebu City, north district) through House Bill 192.

The proposal, which is now pending before the committee on public works and highways, provides for the construction of an undersea tunnel from Cebu City to Cordova and a...

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Limpag: Bootstrap new media

DURING the frenzied days leading to the initial launch of the project to data tag Cebu’s tourism and heritage sites using QR or quick response codes, it occurred to me to look into the possibility of geo-encoding articles and having these displayed automatically on a map.

Location data...

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Opinion

Editorial: To know is to love

BEING informed is romantic, too.

We must put a premium on getting accurate information to save and improve our lives. This is the valuable insight from Feb. 6, 2012, when a magnitude 6.9 earthquake and rumors of a tsunami spread panic among crowds in Cebu.

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Nancy denies dating Hayden

TELEVISION personality Nancy Castiglione denied dating Hayden Kho Jr. and said she has no idea why her name was being dragged in the latest issue between Hayden and Vicki Belo.

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Sports

Erco-A bags 2 titles

THE veterans of Erco-A FC bucked terrible playing conditions to defend their title in the 36 above category of the 9th Thirsty Cup Football Festival at the University of San Carlos-talamban Field.

Erco-A FC backed by Philippine Air Force players from the United Football League routed...

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2 abandoned babies at Asilo

THE Asilo de la Milagrosa, a licensed and accredited child-caring agency, is looking for the parents or relatives of the two babies who are currently under the agency’s care.

The concerned parents or relatives are advised to visit Asilo and look for social worker Gerald O. Ebanen from...

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Lifestyle

Costanilla: Calungsod and unpaid judges

MOVIE. We are behind the plan of Cebu Gov. Gwen Garcia and Ilocos Norte Gov. Imee Marcos to jointly produce a movie on the life of Blessed Pedro Calungsod, who will soon be beatified in Rome. Sounds exciting to us considering that, as historians tell us, the martyred youth was from Ginatilan,...

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