Students of Bukidnon National High School-Kalasungay Annex in Malaybalay City go home after authorities suspended classes Tuesday in the elementary and high school levels in Bukidnon, one of 18 Mindanao provinces placed under Signal No. 1 due to tropical depression Crising. MindaNews photo by Walter Balane
Vehicles cross a flooded street in Butuan City as tropical depression Crising swept across Mindanao on Tuesday, Feb. 19. MindaNews photo by Erwin Mascarinas
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/19 February)—Castigating Environment Secretary Ramon Paje for flip-flopping on the agency’s decision to now give foreign-backed Sagittarius Mines, Inc. an environmental compliance certificate (ECC), South Cotabato Gov. Arthur Y. Pingoy Jr. said Tuesday the provincial government will not
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/19 February) — Navy personnel seized around 30,000 board feet of alleged illegally-cut lumber while being transported aboard a light cargo vessel off Sarangani Bay on Monday, an official said. Navy Lt. Felixberto Iral Jr., commander of
NABUNTURAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/19 February)– New Bataan town in Compostela Valley lacks areas safe for the relocation of its residents as shown by simulated inundation maps, town Mayor Lorenzo Balbin Jr. said last week. Citing the maps prepared by the
Resident of Rizal St in Maniki, Kapalong, Davao del Norte rolls up pants to cross the flooded street at 2 p.m. February 19. MindaNews photo courtesy of Cristine Diana Doronio Esparagoza
Unlike many residents living near Mandulog river in Iligan City who stayed home to keep watch as Tropical Depression Crising was nearing Mindanao, this fisher chose to cast his net in the hope of having a good catch. MindaNews photo by Violeta M. Gloria
Jeepney passes through flooded street in Corpus Christi Village, Iligan City as water from the creek overflowed Tuesday, February 19. Heavy raina brought about by Tropical Depression Crising poured from dawn to 8 a.m. Mindaey ws photo by Violeta M. Gloria/MindaNews
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/19 February) — Disaster management personnel in Region 12 are closely watching portions of this city and in 11 other localities in the region due to the possible occurrence of flashfloods and landslides in the wake of
With traffic aides absent during the strong rains brought by Tropical Depression Crising, it’s a free for all for buses and large trucks traversing a one-lane road repair area in Lopez Jaena, Misamis Occidental eearly morning Tuesday, 19 February. MindaNews
Rains affect Davao City the whole day on Monday, February 18 as Tropical Depression Crising approaches Mindanao. The rains continued on Tuesday. MindaNews Photo by Ruby Thursday More
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/19 February) – Eighteen of Mindanao’s 26 provinces have been placed under Public Storm Warning Signal 1 as of 5 a.m. Tuesday as tropical depression ‘Crising,’ continues to move closer to Mindanao. Six hours earlier, only14 provinces were
At 4:00 a.m. today, the center of Tropical Depression “CRISING” was estimated based on all available data at 310 km east of General Santos City (6.1°N, 128.2°E) with maximum sustained winds of 45 kph near the center. It is forecast
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/18 February) – Fourteen of Mindanao’s 26 provinces have been placed under public storm warning Signal Number 1 as of 11 p.m. Monday as tropical depression ‘Crising’ is fast nearing Mindanao. Earlier at 5:30 p.m, only four provinces
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/18 Feb) — No distribution list, no release of rice “kahit mag-rally pa sila” (even if they stage a rally). This was the message of Social Welfare Secretary Corazon “Dinky” Soliman to Barug Katawhan (People Rise Up), a
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/18 February) – The families of a soldier and a policeman held captive by the New People’s Army (NPA) in an undisclosed place in Southern Mindanao appealed Monday for a suspension of military offensives (Somo) for the immediate
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/18 February) – The faithful should vote in the May 13 polls based on “discernment” and not on who the clergy may tell them to choose, Malaybalay Bishop Jose A. Cabantan told MindaNews Monday. Cabantan said that consistent
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/18 February) – A bio-medical waste facility will be opened Thursday near the sanitary landfill in New Carmen, Magtuod. The 200-square meter pyroclave facility uses pyrolysis process, a technology that requires no burning with a temperature of 1,500
