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New Bataan: To relocate or not?
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 30 Jan) – The Regional Development Council (RDC) 11 discussed Tuesday whether or not to relocate the entire municipality of New Bataan in Compostela Valley (ComVal)… »
Include farmers’ subsistence loan in banana industry rehab fund–PBGEA
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/24 January)–The rehabilitation package to be loaned out to banana farmers in areas affected by typhoon Pablo should include funds for their subsistence, Stephen Antig, executive director of… »
Rampaging Waters
Residents of Barangay Andap in New Bataan, Compostela Valley cross the makeshift bamboo footbridge as the road leading to the town proper from the mountain village was blocked to direct… »
In New Bataan, the nightmare is far from over
NEW BATAAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/23 January) – Fifty-three-year-old farmer Clemente Dulce sat on a pew at the San Antonio de Padua parish late Tuesday afternoon, wondering if he would still… »
COMMENTARY: Hindsight: They could have been saved
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 23 Jan) – On Saturday, Mayor Darlene Antonino Custodio led city officials and families of fishermen in honoring those who perished and went missing during… »
Tribes hold ritual to end curse of ‘Pablo’, vow to protect environment
BARANGAY ANDAP, New Bataan, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/15 January) — Visualizing typhoon “Pablo” as a giant who cursed the people for failing to protect Nature, the Mandaya tribe performed Monday a… »
40 Days after Pablo in New Bataan
A girl lights a candle in Barangay Andap, New Bataan, Compostela valley in a spot where many lives perished when Typhoon Pablo struck Mindanao’s eastern seaboard on Dec. 4, 2012.… »
Loren: Geohazard maps should have been blown up, communicated properly
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/09 January) — Failing to communicate the geo-hazard maps and weather advisories to the provincial and municipal governments led to the tragedy that was Typhoon Pablo, Senator Loren… »
Learning Spaces
Tents from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) serve as temporary “learning spaces” at Cabinuangan Central Elementary School. Some of the province’s schools were destroyed when super typhoon Pablo hit… »
After Pablo, few pupils report to class
NEW BATAAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews / 4 Jan) – “I miss my pupils,” a teary-eyed Lilia dela Cruz said on Thursday, supposedly the first day of classes after the holidays,… »
School exec appeals for help for school children
NEW BATAAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews / 4 Jan) – A school official here has appealed on kind-hearted individuals to extend further help to the school children affected by Typhoon Pablo… »
In Cateel, typhoon survivors start anew, hope for prosperity
CATEEL, Davao Oriental (MindaNews / 4 Jan) – Resilience is eminent among town people as they slowly restore their lives back to normal from the devastations of typhoon “Pablo” and… »
A Month After Pablo
Laarni Escalon, 55, attends to her sari-sari store inside their temporary shelter within the New Bataan National High School grounds in Compostela Valley Province on Thursday 3 January 2012. Escalon,… »
“We don’t have to sit back and wait for the next storm”
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/01 January) – For a couple of years now, astrogeophysicist Fr. Daniel McNamara, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences of the Ateneo de Davao University, had… »
Baganga, Cateel, Boston not accessible (again) by land trip via Mati
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/01 January) – The three towns hardest hit by super typhoon Pablo – Baganga, Cateel and Boston – were already accessible by land travel via Mati, Davao Oriental… »
Baganga village bounces back
BAGANGA, Davao Oriental- Days after typhoon Pablo inundated their village, Barangay Ban-ao chair Mera Adlawan Ching thought the community and the life they knew would cease to exist. The National… »
In the town where ‘Pablo’ made landfall, children list wishes for 2013
BAGANGA, Davao Oriental (MindaNews/29 December)- The children here noisily flocked together on chairs or any flat surface to draw on pieces of white paper what they wanted for the coming… »
In New Bataan, they buried the dead, finally, but temporarily
NEW BATAAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/28 December) –They finally buried the dead three weeks after super typhoon Pablo hit this town on December 4, but only temporarily. At the public cemetery… »
Barangay Andap survivors to visitors: ‘please be sensitive’
NEW BATAAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/28 Dec) — No, it has not reached the level of “disaster tourism” on the scale of post-hurricane Katrina New Orleans where guided bus tours are… »
Psychosocial Processing
A psychologist from the Center for Psychological Extension and Research Services (COPERS) of the Ateneo de Davao University interacts with one of the young survivors of Typhoon Pablo in New… »
Lingig: Typhoon Survivor
A resident carrying relief goods walks past houses damaged by Typhoon Pablo at Ugpason Beach, Barangay San Roque, in the town of Lingig, Surigao del Sur on Christmas Day. MindaNews… »
Precious Water
These boys brave the strong river currents just to bring drinking water from the town proper to Purok 8 in New Bataan, Compostela Valley province on Thursday. Purok 8 is… »
‘Pablo’ victim calls on ‘megastar’ Sharon Cuneta for help
TRENTO, Agusan del Sur (MindaNews/22 December)—A survivor of Typhoon Pablo here is wishing upon show business “megastar” Sharon Cuneta to help him rebuild their family’s shattered lives. “I hope Sharon… »
Back to Business
This barbershop within the public market of Montevista town, Compostela Valley Province is back to business on Wednesday, December 19, 2012, two weeks after Typhoon Pablo battered this town. Most… »
Bus firm cancels Xmas party, donates budget to ‘Pablo’ victims
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/18 December) – The Vallacar Transport Inc., which operates bus lines Bachelor Express and Rural Transport Mindanao Inc. (RTMI), called off the Christmas party for their 10,000 employees… »
Tents for students whose classrooms were destroyed by Pablo
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/16 December) — Students in elementary and high school whose classrooms were destroyed by Typhoon Pablo on December 4 will be holding classes in tents, soon, the Department… »
ADVOCACY MindaNOW: No crisis manager!
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/16 December) — With the situation getting worse everyday, handling the aftermath of Typhoon Pablo should be left in the hands of a competent crisis manager. Unfortunately, there… »
BISAG UNSA: Singil sa Kinaiyahan
DAKBAYAN SA DABAW (MindaNews/16 Disyembre) — Naningil na ang kinaiyahan,” komento ni Melot mahitungod sa paglampurnas sa Bagyong Pablo sa New Bataan, Compostela Valley. Wala pa gani mabalita nga grabe… »
It’s a ‘miracle,’ says lieutenant who survived Pablo
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/14 December)– “Miracle ang nangyari sa akin (What happened to me was a miracle),” Second Lieutenant Jose Enrico Nuas said of his harrowing experience while Typhoon Pablo battered… »
Envi group blames mining, logging for massive devastation of ‘Pablo’
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/ 9 December)–An environmental group has blamed large-scale mining and logging operations to the widespread destruction and deaths wrought by Typhoon Pablo in Compostela Valley (ComVal) and Davao… »
Rice shortage looms in ComVal’s remote Laak town
LAAK, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/ 9 December)– Rice shortage is looming in this remote town as Typhoon Pablo has devastated 2,000 hectares (ha) of rice fields in Barangay Kidawa, considered the… »
Sheer Size
A resident is dwarfed by a giant acacia tree felled by Typhoon Pablo at the roadside in Laak town in Compostela Valley Province on Dec. 8, 2012. MindaNews photo by… »
Typhoon Pablo Aftermath: Baganga
Typhoon Pablo almost wiped out the entire town of Baganga in Davao Oriental when it made landfall on December 4, 2012. As of 5 a.m. December 9, the National Disaster… »
Hundreds of New Bataan villagers still looking for missing kin feared buried in minefield, elsewhere
NEW BATAAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/8 December)– Carrying a food pack she just received from a government agency, Perlita Capinig reported to the local disaster desk that her 25-year old son… »
