Camotes folks offer homes to tourists
By Carmel Loise MatusFor backpackers and budget-conscious individuals, who want to enjoy summer in Camotes Island, residents of San Francisco town now offers a home stay program for them to avail.
For backpackers and budget-conscious individuals, who want to enjoy summer in Camotes Island, residents of San Francisco town now offers a home stay program for them to avail.
Just like Cebu’s other small islands, Camotes Island relies on its Soli-Soli Festival to entice tourists and draw more investors to set up businesses in their area.
Two men were killed when a portion of a limestone quarry caved in and fell on them Friday morning in barangay Cagcagan, Poro town in Camotes Island, Cebu. Police identified the fatalities as Eliseo Tindog, 59, of sitio Tugas, Barangay Cagcagan, and Nandy Estrera, 30, of sitio Kapasanan, barangay San Jose. It took rescuers more [...]
Two persons were killed in a landslide on Friday morning while they were quarrying for limestone in Poro town, Camotes Island, northeast of Cebu, authorities said Saturday.

Two persons were killed in a landslide on Friday morning while quarrying for limestone in Poro town, Camotes Island, northeast of Cebu City.
When disaster strikes, they survive. Three Philippine local government units (LGUs)—Albay province, Makati City and San Francisco town on Camotes Island, Cebu—are on the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction’s (UNODRR) list of 29 model communities worldwide that are “exemplars in disaster risk management and reduction.”
AT least 1,000 residents in Poro, Camotes Island, Cebu are expected to benefit from the free medical and dental mission of the Rotary Club of Metro (RCMC) on May 19-20.
The municipality of Pilar in Camotes Island needs your help in winning an environment-themed contest that will showcase their ecology projects to the world.