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 of money to feed their families. Sarenas issued the statement
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/08 January) — Emergency? Dial 117! Bukidnon plans to operate a province-wide Emergency Dial 117, Ronelo Alvarez, provincial director of the Department of Interior and LocalGovernment announced during the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council’s regular meeting
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/08 January) — Five youth leaders from Zamboanga City have made it to the next batch of the five-week intensive training on peace and good governance in the US this summer, the Peace Advocates Zamboanga (PAZ) said in
ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanews/08 January) – Suspected Abu Sayyaf bandits yesterday destroyed a bridge in the hinterlands of Sulu with an improvised bomb. [] Lt. Col. Randolph Cabangbang, Western Mindanao Command (Wesmincom) spokesperson, said the bandits bombed the bridge in Barangay
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/08 January) – Police in North Cotabato confiscated around 6,000 board feet of illegally-cut logs and sliced lumber in a raid on several mini-sawmills located along the Rio Grande de Mindanao in Kabacan town on Friday. Supt. Alex
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/08 January) — I do not want to understand the tragic event of typhoon “Sendong” and other ecological disasters either as the will of God or as simply part of the fate of the Filipinos whose lives have always been punctuated by a struggle to survive the devastating plagues of nature. I firmly believe that the evils of ecological disaster could not purely be attributed to the natural consequences of our evolutionary world. They also have human causes which can be mitigated. Many of them are anthropogenic and human-induced factors which can be overcome.
