Bonifacio Adlawan, 54, admitted the difficulty of accepting that his wife, Carmelita, 48, could be among the hundreds who died during typhoon Pablo’s onslaught here last week.
A probe has found that toxic fumes were to blame for the deaths of nine people, including six members of the same family, in a well in eastern Algeria, the country’s APS news agency reported on Saturday.
THE Overseas Workers Welfare Administration in Central Visayas (OWWA-7) is accepting applications for the Congressional Migrant Workers Scholarship Program (CMWSP) for next school year.
Four Cebuano families were honored in a dinner last Friday night as part of the 75 Families of Distinction or “Pinanggang Banay’ng Sugbuanon” in Cebu City.
US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay –Relatives of victims of the September 11 attacks expressed hope Friday that the plot’s perpetrators would get the death penalty at a Guantanamo tribunal.
After marrying his live-in partner and mother of his one-year-old daughter, 21-year old Rey Evangelio won a house and lot.
About 200 more families will be given awards of distinction by the Cebu City Government during an Independence Day Ball in June.
SEVENTY-FIVE families who contributed to the city’s growth will be honored with the “Pinalanggang Sugbuanong Banay” or “Beloved Cebuano Family” award by the Cebu City government during the city’s 75th Charter Day celebration on Friday. The families were chosen for their achievements that brought pride and honor to the city and for being successful in [...]
Almost three months after Typhoon “Pedring” hit the country, 1,027 families in Navotas City who lost their houses have yet to be relocated. The affected families who used to live on houses built on stilts beside waterways until these were washed out by floodwaters have been seeking shelter at eight evacuation centers since September, Jayne [...]
There were a total of 18.45 million Filipino families in 2009, according to the latest Family Income and Expenditure Survey of the National Statistics Office. Of this figure, around 13 percent or 2.46 million families were based in the National Capital Region.—Schatzi Quodala, Inquirer Research
Under normal circumstances, 22-year-old Raymond Lumaley can hardly lift more than 10 kilos of rice. But when a fire hit his house before dawn Wednesday, he found the strength to carry his 74-year-old grandmother who weighed around 60 kilos down a flight of stairs and over a distance of more than 100 yards just to [...]
