By Cong Corrales on December 18 2012 8:25 am
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/17 December)—His limbs seemed to have atrophied with fear when he heard over the radio that a typhoon would pass the city again, on the same… »
By Bobby Timonera on December 16 2012 11:08 am
Members of the Iligan Medical Society release a night lantern at Mandulog Bridge dawn of Dec. 16, 2012, a year after Typhoon Sendong destroyed the bridge and wrought havoc in… »
By Froilan Gallardo on November 1 2012 9:35 pm
Friends have put up a makeshift altar at the residence of the Shottons in Sitio Cala-Cala, Barangay Tibasak, Cagayan de Oro, in memory of American Paul Shotton and his wife, Felina and all their… »
By Cong Corrales on September 17 2012 11:30 pm
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/17 September)— Official documents recently obtained from City Hall appear to bolster public perception that local officials had acted a little too late in taking steps… »
By Walter I. Balane on June 20 2012 8:05 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/19 June) – A total of P42.657 billion in projects have been lined up under the strategic action plan for rehabilitation efforts in the aftermath of floods brought… »
By Froilan Gallardo on March 28 2012 2:49 pm
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/27 March) – More than two months after he reprimanded them, Archbishop Antonio Ledesma said today his appeal to put an end on destructive hydraulic mining… »
By Erwin Mascariñas on March 11 2012 1:52 pm
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/10 March 2012) — Indigenous People (IP) of the Higaonon tribe from the 13 barangays here and tribal leaders of Bukidnon together with the Manobo tribe… »
By Froilan Gallardo on March 7 2012 11:54 pm
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/07 March) — An online group trying to gather enough signatures to recall Mayor Vicente Emano ended its campaign Tuesday after failing to get the signatures… »
By Cong Corrales on February 28 2012 6:53 am
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/27 February) — ”I remember feeling the hair at the back of my neck tingle when I heard what sounded like a wounded beast growling in… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on February 19 2012 9:53 am
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/18 February) — Talking about climate change is useless if there is no attitude change, Senator Teoffisto Guingona said in his opening address at the Mindanao… »
By Erwin Mascariñas on February 15 2012 1:21 pm
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/14 February) – More than 30 families temporarily housed in tents in relocation sites here went into panic when heavy rains caused flood in the relocation… »
By Froilan Gallardo on February 12 2012 9:15 pm
RECOVERY. Army soldiers unload cooking utensils for Typhoon Sendong survivors at the Xavier University Ecoville resettlement site in Barangay Lumbia in Cagayan de Oro City on Feb. 10, 2012. MindaNews… »
By Froilan Gallardo on February 6 2012 9:58 am
SHARED CLASSROOMS. Grade school students share a basketball court after storm Sendong destroyed their classrooms in Balulang Elementary School in Cagayan de Oro City on Feb. 5, 2012. MindaNews photo… »
By Bong S. Sarmiento on February 5 2012 9:17 am
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/04 Feb) — Even as donors’ aid comes in “trickles,” the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) raised to $39 million (around P1.7 billion)… »
By Cong Corrales on January 31 2012 7:51 am
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/30 January) —The legal counsel of the opposition politicians here who filed an administrative case against City Mayor Vicente Y. Emano last week, said his sources… »
By Froilan Gallardo on January 27 2012 8:41 am
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/26 January) – More than 7,000 residents here gathered on top of the Kagay-an Bridge Wednesday night lighting candles and listening to the tales of the… »
By Froilan Gallardo on January 27 2012 7:47 am
Students form a big “HEAL CDO” using candles on top of Kagay-an Bridge in Cagayan de Oro Wednesday night, Jan. 25, 2012, to mark the 40th day after storm Sendong… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on January 26 2012 7:22 am
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/25 January) – President Benigno S. Aquino III today told officials of the National Housing Authority (NHA) to finish all the houses for suvivors of floods brought by… »
By Mindanews on January 26 2012 7:15 am
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/25 January) – The Home Development Mutual Fund (HDMF) or Pag-IBIG Fund has declared a three month-moratorium on housing loan payments for its member-borrowers who were affected by… »
By Froilan Gallardo on January 25 2012 10:45 am
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/24 January) — President Benigno Aquino III will arrive here Wednesday morning (Jan. 25) to check on the rehabilitation and resettlement efforts for flood survivors, exactly… »
By Contributor on January 23 2012 9:28 am
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/22 January) — One month after the passage of Typhoon Sendong on Dec. 16-17, the city of Cagayan de Oro is slowly getting back on its feet. Nearly a third of the city’s population was severely affected by the flood waters. More than 10,000 families sought refuge in evacuation centers in public schools, barangay covered courts, and churches. Others stayed with relatives or friends. Out of the archdiocese’s 21 city parishes, 17 riverside parishes were extensively inundated. Hardest hit were the parishes in Macasandig, Balulang, Carmen, Cathedral, Consolacion, Puntod, RER, Kauswagan, Bulua and Canitoan.
By Bobby Timonera on January 21 2012 6:06 pm
DOG THERAPY. Sendong child survivors get to walk with Nike, a 6-year-old Golden Retriever owned by Iligan dog enthusiast Gary Po, in a psychosocial intervention facilitated by the group Ginhawa… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on January 20 2012 11:45 am
IILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/19 January) – Officials here are demanding a probe on logging operations in the Lanao provinces which survivors of the flashfloods on December 16-17 blame for the massive… »
By Erwin Mascariñas on January 20 2012 11:39 am
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/19 January) — Environmental groups warn that Caraga region could be the next environmental disaster area after Cagayan de Oro and Iligan cities if the local government units… »
By Bobby Timonera on January 20 2012 11:09 am
HINATUAN, Surigao del Sur (MindaNews/19 January) – When the killer tropical storm “Sendong” hit landfall in the Philippines, it first battered the coastal municipality of Hinatuan in Surigao del Sur,… »
By Bobby Timonera on January 20 2012 8:22 am
Jose Plangganan was luckier than his neighbors whose houses (on the left side) in Barangay Talisay, Hinatuan, Surigao del Sur were totally destroyed by Sendong. He is doing repair work… »
By Cong Corrales on January 17 2012 8:08 am
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/16 January) — An irate village chief has “strongly advised” local counterparts of the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (Unicef) to file criminal cases against… »
By Karl M. Gaspar CSsR on January 16 2012 9:22 am
Rivers run through Iligan City, which is why its name is Iligan. The city’s linguistic origin is from the word ilig, which according to the Iliganons means to flow. There are… »
By Cong Corrales on January 15 2012 8:24 am
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/14 January) — A coalition of religious, nongovernment and civil society organizations today said they will advance “a bigger commitment to prevent more Sendongs by working… »
By Dr. Miriam Roxas-Timonera on January 10 2012 8:00 am
Children join a play and art therapy organized by the group called Ginhawa which provide psychosocial support for Sendong survivors temporarily housed at an evacuation center in Sta. Filomena, Iligan… »
By Cong Corrales on January 4 2012 8:32 am
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/3 Jan) – Health officials here are scrambling to get ahead of the water-borne disease as slowly but steadily fatalities of Leptospirosis continue to climb, most… »
By BenCyrus G. Ellorin on January 4 2012 8:15 am
SUBIC BAY FREEPORT (MindaNews/3 Jan) – The horrific impact of Sendong exposes not just the geo-hazards faced by the premier city of northern Mindanao but the deep social malaise relegated… »
By Cong Corrales on January 3 2012 8:37 am
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/2 Jan) – The principal of the school that has now become the most congested evacuation center in Barangay Carmen here said they will resume classes… »
By Cong Corrales on January 3 2012 8:36 am
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/2 Jan) – Environmental advocacy groups, civil society organizations, media organizations and individuals, enraged at the what they perceived as “gross negligence of duty” on the… »
By Froilan Gallardo on January 3 2012 12:10 am
A little girl sleeps on the hallway of the West City Central School in Barangay Carmen, Cagayan de Oro on January 2, 2012. Her family took temporary shelter in the… »
By Ruby Thursday More on January 2 2012 3:22 pm
Children play under the destroyed Old Mandulog Bridge in Barangay Hinaplanon, Iligan City on December 27, 2011, amid the pile of logs and debris brought by the December 16-17 flashfloods… »
By Keith Bacongco on January 2 2012 8:57 am
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/01 January) – From the Mandulog bridge along the Iligan-Cagayan de Oro highway, one can clearly see how the lethal combination of floodwaters, mud and logs rammed into… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on January 1 2012 2:40 pm
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/31 December) – Carpenter Fortunato Paradillo lost not only his house and all his belongings but also his address: Bayug Island, the village where he raised his family… »
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… »
