A year ago, just as residents of the cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan were getting ready for Christmas, Tropical Storm “Sendong” swept through the region, sending flash floods and leaving 1,200 people dead.
The Aboitiz Group, led by the Aboitiz Foundation, is now accepting donations for areas in Mindanao that were hit by typhoon Pablo. Thousands of families in New Bataan, Compostela Valley, Bukidnon, Iligan, and Davao in Mindanao, and the cities of Dumaguete and Tanjay in Negros Oriental are still in need of help. The Aboitiz Group [...]
Police authorities here said Sunday they were still piecing together evidence to determine the motive and the identities of bombers in Saturday’s grenade attack that killed two people (not three as earlier reported) and wounded 36 others.
ILIGAN CITY—Graduation rites for at least 20 pupils of an elementary school in a village here would be postponed following the kidnapping of two of the children’s teachers, a city official said. The city school board decided to postpone graduation ceremonies for pupils of the Limonsodan Bayug Falls Elementary School in Barangay Rogongon here after [...]
Less than six weeks after killer floods swept away their slum homes along a Philippine river, Lydia Abulanda and her neighbours are rebuilding despite warnings disaster could strike again.
On what would have been the 79th birthday of former President Corazon Aquino, her son, now the President, spent the day rallying people, especially the victims of the most recent natural disaster in the country, to live the spirit of People Power.
Despite everything that has happened to this city, classes in the elementary and secondary levels in the local public schools have begun showing signs of returning to normalcy, educators said.
The search for people missing in the wake of the December 17 flash floods that swept through Cagayan de Oro City has ended and government operations have shifted to the rehabilitation of affected communities and residents, the authorities said Wednesday.
Public elementary and high schools in Cagayan de Oro and Iligan will open alternative lessons Tuesday in lieu of holding regular classes, Education Secretary Armin Luistro announced on Monday.
People find ways to do it especially in difficult times.
Astounded by the “tsunami” of water and mud that swept and killed more than 1,000 people in Cagayan de Oro and Iligan Cities last month, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile said yesterday he would ask the Senate energy committee to look into the possibility that the heavy flooding in the cities were caused by the [...]
Astounded by the volume of water and mud that swept and killed more than 1,000 people in Cagayan de Oro and Iligan cities in December, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile said on Sunday he would ask the Senate energy committee to look into the possibility that the heavy flooding in the cities were caused by the release of waters in government-run hydroelectric power plants there.
ILIGAN CITY—The city could economically recover from the devastation that Tropical Storm “Sendong” wrought on the local economy in about three months but the return to normal of residents’ lives would surely take longer than that, the city government said. Melvin Anggot, city information officer, said the city could quickly get back on its feet [...]
