By Carolyn O. Arguillas on December 7 2012 12:24 pm
COMPOSTELA VALLEY, Compostela Valley Province (MindaNews/06 December) – Hundreds of residents displaced or rendered homeless by Typhoon Pablo have pitched makeshift tents on portions of the Compostela-Cateel highway, awaiting assistance,… »
By Keith Bacongco on December 6 2012 7:30 am
Residents carry an elderly across the muddy road in New Bataan, Compostela Valley on Wednesday (5 Dec 2012). Typhoon Pablo devastated the town, leaving 110 persons killed while hundreds more… »
By Mindanews on December 6 2012 4:31 am
Typhoon Pablo devastated several municipalities of Compostela Valley on Tuesday, leaving 316 persons killed and 462 others missing as of 10:30 a.m. Sunday, 9 December 2012, according to Comval Incident Command… »
By Keith Bacongco on December 6 2012 3:00 am
NEW BATAAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews / 5 Dec) – At least 110 persons died, 119 were initially recorded as injured and 243 more have been declared as missing a day… »
By Contributed Article on November 3 2012 1:20 pm
COMPOSTELA VALLEY PROVINCE—–The province being known of its initiated education interventions continuously supports the national goal of providing quality education to children. The distribution of arm chairs, teachers tables,… »
By Mindanews on March 23 2012 8:22 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/22 March) – Small-scale miners operating in Pantukan, Compostela Valley today said they will not give up the area to large-scale mining interests. In a statement issued at… »
By Keith Bacongco on January 15 2012 7:59 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/14 January) — On our second day of coverage of the landslide in Pantukan, Compostela Valley, we decided to take the Tibagon route because it was still 9:30a.m.… »
By Keith Bacongco on January 13 2012 6:40 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/12 January) – Ruby and I were supposed to finish editing the photos we took on the aftermath of Tropical Storm Sendong Cagayan de Oro City and Iligan… »
By Keith Bacongco on January 11 2012 7:30 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 January) – Convinced that chances of survival six days after the tragedy are slim, the Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (MDRRMC) of Pantukan in Compostela… »
By Keith Bacongco on January 10 2012 7:50 am
PANTUKAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/9 January) – Everything seems to be normal in the gold rush communities near the landslide site in Sitio Diat 1 in Barangay Napnapan as ball mill… »
By Keith Bacongco on January 9 2012 8:27 am
PANTUKAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/08 January) – Mayor Celso Sarenas defended his decision allowing people from other places to work in the gold rush sites, saying they were in dire need… »
By Ruby Thursday More on April 28 2011 7:39 am
Families and volunteers continue to dig through the mud in the hopes of finding survivors almost a week after a landslide hit the small-mining village of Panganason-B, Barangay Kingking in Pantukan town, Compostella… »
By Ruby Thursday More on April 28 2011 7:34 am
EVACUATION Reynaldo Vasquez, 43, dismantles the roof of his ball mill shop in Sitio Panganason-B, Barangay Kingking, Pantukan, Compostela Valley Province. Local authorities have declared the village as a danger… »
By Keith Bacongco on April 28 2011 7:28 am
PANTUKAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/27 Apr) – The Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction Council (MRRDC) on Wednesday said 60 of 112 houses have been voluntarily demolished by miners while the rest are still being razed down by the demolition team and local residents.
By Keith Bacongco on April 28 2011 7:17 am
PANTUKAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/27 Apr) – Five days after a landslide struck a gold mining site, 48-year-old Lolita Jostol believes that her son is still alive and may have hidden inside the tunnel after her other son survived the tragedy.
By Walter I. Balane on April 28 2011 7:09 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/27 Apr) – Former Bukidnon congressman Neric Acosta, who has been reported to be the next environment secretary, said the landslide in Pantukan, Compostela Valley is an eye-opener… »
By Keith Bacongco on April 27 2011 7:20 am
PANTUKAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/27 April) – Relatives and rescuers recovered on Tuesday five more bodies at the landslide site in Barangay Kingking here even if the local government has ordered… »
By Keith Bacongco on April 26 2011 6:13 am
PANTUKAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/25 April) – For many miners, dying in a disaster like a landslide is better than dying from hunger even if dozens of their colleagues had been buried alive in different gold mining sites. Even the miners at the landslide area in Barangay Kingking here admitted that several tunnels had collapsed in the past but most of them went unreported. Two years ago, 27 miners were killed when a chunk of a mountain in Sitio Magapispis, Barangay Boringot of this town fell into three bunkhouses.
By Joan Mae Soco-Bantayan on April 26 2011 6:03 am
DAVAOCITY (MindaNews/25 April) — The site in Sitio Panganason, Barangay Kingking in Pantukan, Compostela Valley where a landslide occurred Friday has been closed to human occupancy after the local government ordered Sunday the forced relocation within 48 hours of some 30 families living in the area.
By Keith Bacongco on April 25 2011 2:28 pm
GOLD-RUSH SITE An aerial photo of the miners’ shanties at Sitio Panganason in Barangay Kingking, Pantukan, Compostela Valley province. The provincial and municipal government have given the miners at least 30 days to… »
By Keith Bacongco on April 25 2011 8:28 am
PANTUKAN, Compostella Valley (MindaNews/24 April) — At least 30 families living near the landslide site in the small-scale gold mining area in Barangay Kingking have been given 48 hours starting Monday to relocate, as initial assessment shows another landslide could happen anytime, Local Governments Secretary Jessie Robredo told a press conference here Sunday afternoon.
By Ruby Thursday More on April 24 2011 7:39 am
SEARCHING. Miners dig through mud and debris near the opening of a tunnel buried by Friday dawn’s landslide in Sitio Panganason, Barangay Kingking, Pantukan town, Compostela Valley Province.As of 7:30 pm Saturday,… »
By Keith Bacongco on April 24 2011 7:38 am
LANDSLIDE SITE, Pantukan, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/24 April) – Two more bodies were found but not yet retrieved from the landslide site in Sitio Panganason, Barangay Kingking, bringing the death toll to three as of 5 a.m. Sunday. The official count of the Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (MDRRMC) is 3 dead, 13 rescued and 19 still missing, Major Jake Obligado, chief of the Civil-Military Operations of the 10th Infantry Division, said.
By Germelina Lacorte on December 10 2010 12:02 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/09 December) — Nabunturan, Compostela Valley’s capital town, is currently beefing up its ecotourism package to include the awesome stalactite and stalagmite caves in Laac and the staggering… »
