A resident carries his son across a stream in Barangay Darong, Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur Tuesday, January 18. Flash floods Monday night swept away at least 100 houses in four villages in Barangay Darong, killing three persons. The flood
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
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.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/18 January) – From GRP-MILF to GPH-MILF. The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) will ask the government peace panel in the formal exploratory talks in early February to state “for the record,” that the new abbreviation, GPH (for
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/18 January) — A special team has been created to run after absentee local government officials, Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse M. Robredo announced during his visit to this city last week. Robredo warned of harsher penalties,
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/18 January) – Administration ally and former Sultan Kudarat Rep. Datu Pax Mangudadatu confirmed Tuesday his intention to seek the gubernatorial seat of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) if the regional elections would push through
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/18 January) — Competent, volunteer nurses working for free and new nursing graduates undergoing training to enter the profession are two separate issues that should be treated separately, an official of a government hospital here said. Dr. Leopoldo
ZAMBOANGA CITY (18 January) — Former Supreme Court Chief Justi ce Renato Puno recently raised a strong case for the revision of the 24-year old Philippine Constitution, particularly pushing for reforms in the provisions on the judiciary and elections. Coming
DARONG, Sta. Cruz (MindaNews/18 January) – Three persons were killed and three remain missing while at least a hundred huts were swept away by flash floods that struck early Monday evening, barangay officials said. Barangay councilor Eman Sinacan told MindaNews the floods caused a heavy traffic jam along an eight-kilometer stretch since Monday evening, leaving thousands of passengers stranded.
RESCUED. Rescuers help carry an elderly man across a stream in Barangay Darong, Sta.[] Cruz, Davao del Sur on Tuesday, January 18.[] Flash floods the night before swept away at least 100 huts in four villages, killing at least
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/17 January) — That the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, in an informal meeting in Kuala Lumpur in the presence of Malaysian third-person facilitator Datuk Othman, agreed to re-open
