The National Grid Corp. of the Philippines Friday said it has restored power supply to Mindanao areas affected by Typhoon “Pablo” following the completion of repair works on its transmission facilities.
There were no firecracker injuries in this city. There was a lot of noise—from the shrieks of children aboard a convoy of vehicles going round and round the village, to the wailing of sirens and ambulances, the clanging of metal against metal—as people went around banging pans and ladles and rhythmically honking cars and revving car engines, as the city greeted the New Year.
Electric cooperatives officials took turns, on Saturday, in criticizing the power industry’s big three – the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP), the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. (PSALM) and the National Power Corp. (NPC)—for their “sluggish response” in restoring full power supply in areas devastated by typhoon Pablo, particularly Compostela Valley, Davao Oriental, Surigao del Norte and Agusan del Sur.
At least 32 persons, six of them adults, were arrested by the police for violating the city’s firecrackers ban on Christmas Eve.
Mindanao farmers who lost their livelihood due to Typhoon Pablo will be receiving a total of P21 million in crop insurance to tide them over until the next cropping season, Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala announced here Friday.
A former policeman arrested in a drug buy-bust here on Wednesday night has turned out to be a prime suspect in the 2007 killing of a Commission on Elections officer in Manila.
Davao City is imposing a total gun ban for the whole month of August as the city celebrates its traditional Kadayawan festival.
The Department of Health’s regional office in Southern Mindanao has voiced concern over the sharp increase in dengue cases in Davao City, saying “it has become unmanageably high” with 2,447 cases from January to June 15 this year compared with 1,175 cases during the same period in 2011.
Some 60 families from the Sama tribe on the Island Garden City of Samal (Igacos) have been ordered by the local government to demolish their houses located within the 80-hectare shoreline of the island city’s three districts that have been categorized as “danger zones” under Republic Act 7279, or the Urban Development and Housing Act of 1992.
