By H. Marcos C. Mordeno on December 31 2011 8:00 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/30 December) — As early as October 2010, the Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council in Northern Mindanao had warned of more floods until 2011. In a MindaNews report (October 16, 2011), Director Carmelito Lupo of the regional Office of Civil Defense was quoted to have said that the weak to moderate La Nina that started in July that year could further strengthen based on “statistical model forecasts.”
By Keith Bacongco on December 29 2011 7:37 am
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/28 Dec) – True or not, but some residents in the coastal barangay of Santiago here claim that almost every night, they are hearing voices crying for help… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on December 29 2011 5:32 am
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/28 Dec) – The city government of Iligan is eyeing to make use of lands owned by the National Steel Corporation (NSC) as relocation site for victims of… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on December 27 2011 11:26 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/27 December) – The death toll from typhoon Sendong’s “tsunami in reverse” in Northern Mindanao last week is the second highest in Mindanao in 35 years, second only… »
By Cong Corrales on December 27 2011 10:24 pm
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/27 December) — The city government recently received a Jesuit-owned land to serve as a relocation site for the victims of the flood brought by Tropical… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on December 26 2011 12:01 am
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/25 December) – The photograph of five-year old Maykaela P. Mansueto is just one among many posted on the walls of the Capin Funeral Homes in Camague, the… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on December 25 2011 8:47 pm
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/25 December) — They lost their little house by the river, they have been staying and sleeping under the flyover since Saturday, they have no money… »
By Mindanews on December 25 2011 8:11 am
As we approach Christmas week and the coming of the new year, may I propose a Family-Adopt-a-Family program. Families unaffected by the flood can invite to their homes an evacuee family, especially those that have lost their homes or loved ones, for a few days or for a Christmas meal to share the spirit of the season. May the new-born child in the manger fill us with the spirit of solidarity in moments of adversity and hope in the sharing of love and life with one another. “Make us know the shortness of our life that we may gain wisdom of heart” (Ps. 90).
By Sage Danielle Ilagan on December 25 2011 8:09 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/24 December) — After a ‘heart to heart’ talk with my DOD this afternoon when he came early from work, I discovered that we share a somewhat cynical… »
By Froilan Gallardo on December 25 2011 8:01 am
CAGAYAN DE ORO (MindaNews/24 December) — Amid the desperation and anxiety in the aftermath of the flood caused by Typhoon Sendong, the national government handed out Christmas packages containing beef… »
By Froilan Gallardo on December 25 2011 7:45 am
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/24 December) – Some churches in the city may not be able to hold Aguinaldo masses on Christmas Eve as these were converted into evacuation centers… »
By Bong S. Sarmiento on December 25 2011 3:48 am
MANILA (MindaNews/24 December) — The devastating flash floods that struck Northern Mindanao and killed at least 1,100 residents on December 17 can be repeated” in Southwestern Mindanao if the large-scale… »
By Mindanews on December 23 2011 11:09 pm
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/23 December) — President Benigno S. Aquino III has allocated P450 million for the core shelter program of Typhoon Sendong’s flashflood victims in Cagayan de Oro… »
By Keith Bacongco on December 23 2011 10:54 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/23 December) – Playing too much computer games makes some sense, sometimes. When I got a message from Maj. Jacob Obligado, chief of the 10th Civil Military Operations… »
By Ruby Thursday More on December 23 2011 10:54 am
Military’s M35 trucks neogotiate the national highway on Friday morning. The 25-vehicle convoy is carrying relief aid for victims of flashflood in cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan. MindaNews… »
By Contributor on December 23 2011 10:50 am
Philippine Army soldiers prepare to load relief goods for Iligan and Cagayan de Oro at Eastern Mindanao Command on Thursday evening, December 22, 2011. Photo Courtesy of 10th CMO Battalion… »
By Cong Corrales on December 23 2011 9:41 am
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/22 Dec) – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources’ Mining and Geosciences Bureau (MGB-10) has repeatedly issued warnings of landslides and floods to local government… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on December 23 2011 9:37 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/21 December) – Riverside barangays that bore the brunt of typhoon Sendong’s fury in Cagayan de Oro and Iligan cities early Saturday morning “stood no chance to the… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on December 23 2011 9:35 am
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/22 December) — Newly-assumed OIC ARMM Governor Mujiv Hataman is proceeding to Lanao del Sur Friday following claims by the provincial governor that “carabao logging” is to blame… »
By Walter I. Balane on December 23 2011 9:28 am
LIBORAN, Baungon, Bukidnon (MindaNews/22 Dec) – Farmer Reynor Doluna, 53, could still not accept that his namesake son is gone. Five days after it happened, his family is still at… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on December 23 2011 9:24 am
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/22 December) — The corpses of Sendong victims that were dumped in the city’s landfill in Cagayan de Oro City were transferred to a hangar in Lumbia airport… »
By Allen V. Estabillo on December 23 2011 9:16 am
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/22 Dec) – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved Thursday the immediate release of a US$3-million grant to augment the ongoing relief operations in several areas in… »
By Keith Bacongco on December 23 2011 9:02 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 Dec) – The Army’s 10th Infantry Division will transport on Friday, December 23, at least 21 truckloads of relief aid to the cities of Cagayan de Oro… »
By Mindanews on December 23 2011 9:00 am
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/22 Dec) – The provincial office of the Department Trade and Industry (DTI) has warned business establishments not to take advantage of the current situation by… »
By Mindanews on December 21 2011 11:30 pm
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/21 December) – The first truck carrying relief goods for the victims of Typhoon Sendong had left Wednesday for Cagayan de Oro City, Pedro Rufo Soliven, Zamboanga City… »
By Froilan Gallardo on December 21 2011 9:29 pm
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/21 December) — When she saw reporters coming to her house in Sitio Cala-cala, 57-year-old Corazon Daulong immediately flashed two coupon bond-sizes pictures of her six-year-old… »
By Mindanews on December 21 2011 9:12 pm
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/December 21, 2011)—The dumping of the bodies of those who drowned in the Cagayan de Oro City flash floods – 79 at the latest count of MindaNews… »
By H. Marcos C. Mordeno on December 21 2011 8:58 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/21 December) – Reporters, editors and photojournalists who cover tragic events – murders, wars, plane crashes or disasters – may not realize it, but in many instances they… »
By Walter I. Balane on December 21 2011 9:07 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/20 Dec) – The provincial government of Bukidnon today declared a state of calamity in the towns of Baungon, Libona, Manolo Fortich and Impasug-ong upon the recommendation of… »
By Mindanews on December 21 2011 9:00 am
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/20 Dec) – Responding to pleas for help, the provincial government of South Cotabato is sending P1.5 million worth of relief goods, mostly rice, and coffins to victims… »
By Darwin Wally T. Wee on December 21 2011 8:58 am
BEIJING (MindaNews/20 Dec) – Beijing said they are willing to provide humanitarian aid assistance to the disaster-hit areas in Northern Mindanao and parts of the Western Visayas, who are reeling… »
By Mindanews on December 21 2011 8:19 am
I woke up with a sense of panic when I heard the sudden impact of rampaging flood waters entering our room. I was even more shocked when I saw that it was coming from the airconditioner which was one foot feet from the floor. It was about 12:30 a.m. Immediately I woke up my wife Belle and grabbed my son, Kuya Danni, from his bed. I then ran to the room of my daughters, Ate Gabbi and Sammi, who were still asleep. The water inside the house was already knee-deep but it was rising so fast that all the things on the floor started floating and falling. The kids were shouting and I told them to keep silent.
By Toto Lozano on December 21 2011 1:00 am
FROM THE PEOPLE OF DAVAO CITY A convoy of trucks filled with relief goods from the city government of Davao make a stop at Barangay San Miguel, Manolo Fortich in… »
By Mindanews on December 21 2011 12:06 am
Soldiers prepare to bury cadavers of victims of Typhoon Sendong for a mass burial at a cemetery in Iligan City on Tuesday, December 21, 2011. Mindanews Photo by Charlie Saceda… »
By Froilan Gallardo on December 20 2011 10:59 pm
Air Force personnel unload a water purifier machine from a Philippine Air Force C-130 plane that arrived in Lumbia Airport, Cagayan de Oro City on Monday. Most of Cagayan de… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on December 20 2011 10:57 am
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/20 December) – Looking for your mother, father, wife, husband, daughter, son, brother, sister who have been missing since Saturday’s flashfloods? Go to the city’s dumpsite.… »
By Cong Corrales on December 20 2011 10:55 am
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/19 December) — An outpouring of outrage among netizens of the social networking site, Facebook, greeted the news that decomposing corpses of victims of Saturday’s flash… »
By Keith Bacongco on December 20 2011 6:00 am
View Typhoon Sendong in a larger map UPDATED: 6a.m. of December 21, 2011. NOTE: Figures on this map are based on the situation reports (sitreps) of the the National Disaster… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on December 20 2011 5:30 am
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/19 December) – As a journalist, I have covered so many tragedies in Mindanao: wars, floods, landslides, bombings, massacres, airplane crashes, etc.. I have cried with relatives of the dead and the missing but I was not prepared for what I saw at noon in the city’s landfill in Zayas, Barangay Carmen.
By H. Marcos C. Mordeno on December 20 2011 5:26 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/19 December) – A reader from Worcester, England, reacting to my December 17 column “The other culprit,” shared commonsensical ideas on how to mitigate, if not completely prevent,… »
By Walter I. Balane on December 20 2011 5:26 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/19 Dec) – Malaybalay Bishop Jose A. Cabantan cited “climate sins” as the root cause of the flashfloods experienced brought by typhoon Sendong in Northern Mindanao even as… »
By Froilan Gallardo on December 20 2011 5:25 am
Flood victims pick on donated dry clothes in Sitio Basak, Barangay Macasandig, Cagayan de Oro City after last Saturday’s flood that destroyed villages beside Cagayan de Oro River. MindaNews photo… »
By Mindanews on December 20 2011 5:24 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/19 Dec) – The Sangguniang Panlungsod of Davao City has unanimously approved an ordinance authorizing Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio to donate P3 million from the calamity fund for the… »
By Froilan Gallardo on December 20 2011 5:20 am
An aerial view of the devastation of the flood dawn last Satuday (Dec. 17, 2011) showed dump trucks buried in the mud like toys in Barangay Balulang in Cagayan de… »
By Toto Lozano on December 19 2011 7:01 pm
DUMPED.At least 30 cadavers were dumped at the Cagayan de Oro City landfill in Sitio Zayas, Barangay Carmen Sunday evening. Relatives gather Monday noon near where the bodies were dumped,… »
By Froilan Gallardo on December 19 2011 9:26 am
AFTERMATH. Survivors return to look for items to salvage from what used to be their homes in Sitio Basak, Barangay Macasandig on Sunday , Dec. 18. Basak is one of… »
By Froilan Gallardo on December 19 2011 9:24 am
WATER. Long queues of residents are a common sight in Cagayan de Oro City after the main distribution line was damaged in Saturday’s flooding. MindaNews photo by Froilan Gallardo |… »
By Walter I. Balane on December 19 2011 7:52 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/18 December) — Twenty persons were confirmed dead and 102 others remain missing in Baungon and Libona towns in Bukidnon, upstream of Cagayan de Oro River. Lezette Treseno,… »
By Cong Corrales on December 18 2011 6:32 pm
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/18 December) – Owners of parlors here have expressed concern over the lack of water and electricity as the bodies brought to them for embalming are… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on December 18 2011 6:30 pm
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/18 December) — Five-month old Kathleen crawled on a piece of carton, her bed for the night, at the gymnasium of the Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology… »
