ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/07 February) – The local government is sending half a million pesos worth of relief goods to the island province of Sulu where thousands of people were displaced by floods spawned by torrential rains last week. In an emergency session Monday, the city council granted the request of the City Disaster Risk Reduction [...]

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/06 February) – The death toll from the floods and landslides in four Mindanao regions from January 31 to February has risen to 21,  bringing to 54 the total since January 1, records from the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) show. The LPA “brought widespread rains over Visayas and Mindanao [...]

SANTIAGO, Agusan del Norte (MindaNews/02 February) – The highway is now a virtual sea. Hundreds of commuters between Agusan del Norte and Surigao del Norte were stranded Wednesday when the waters of Lake Mainit overflowed into the highway, rendering portions of the highway impassable.

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/21 Jan) ¬– A total of 810 families were rendered homeless as P850 million worth of infrastructure and crops were damaged due to the continuous heavy rains that caused floods in the Davao Region, according to the Office of Civil Defense (OCD). Barangay Darong in Sta. Cruz town sustained the most damage with [...]

DARONG, Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur (MindaNews/19 January) – Workers from the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) had cleared the highway here of mud and debris carried along by floodwaters last Monday night that spilled over the road stranding vehicles and hundreds of commuters. DPWH engineer Nonito Capacio said three backhoes and several [...]

Mindanews Photo by Froilan GallardoDAVAO CITY (MindaNews/19 January)—The municipal council of Santa Cruz, Davao del Sur today declared its flood-stricken barangay Darong under a state of calamity to expedite the release of P2.38 million in calamity fund for the 4,060 people affected. Santa Cruz municipal councilor Lolita Legaspi said the council passed the resolution noontime [...]

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/18 January) – More than half of the city’s 26 villages are reportedly prone to heavy flooding once the sporadic heavy rains in the area brought about by the ongoing La Niña phenomenon intensifies in the coming weeks, an official of the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (CDRRMC) warned. Ephraim [...]

DARONG, Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur (MindaNews/18 January) — “My house is gone. All of the houses of my neighbors are gone, too. Nothing is left in Sitio Guava,” 62-year-old Erlinda Sanchez said, as she narrated what happened Monday night. “I was carrying my four-year-old grandson, Lawrence, when my house collapsed under my feet,” she [...]