Hundreds barricade street in Davao Oriental to demand rice
By Karlos Manlupig
At least a thousand persons barricaded Paylon Street here Tuesday morning, demanding the release of rice they accused Davao Oriental Gov. Corazon Malanyaon of hoarding.
At least a thousand persons barricaded Paylon Street here Tuesday morning, demanding the release of rice they accused Davao Oriental Gov. Corazon Malanyaon of hoarding.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in southern Mindanao has confirmed it stopped providing rice to Mati in Davao Oriental as early as two months ago.
People living in areas devastated by Typhoon “Pablo” in Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental will be casting their votes inside huge tents used as temporary learning spaces instead of classrooms, according to the Commission on Elections (Comelec).
The Public Attorney’s Office (PAO) on Thursday asked the Court of Appeals to reconsider its ruling absolving from criminal liability an executive of Sulpicio Lines.
The retrieval of bodies of victims of a landslide inside the geothermal complex of the Energy Development Corp. (EDC) in Kananga, Leyte, ended yesterday with the recovery of two more bodies, which brought to 14 the death toll in the accident.
Rescuers have recovered four more bodies at the landslide area inside the geothermal complex of the Energy Development Corp. (EDC) in Kananga town, Leyte.
The Leyte provincial government will investigate the cause of the landslide at a geothermal plant complex that killed seven workers, according to the province’s governor.
At least P16 billion is needed for typhoon-devastated Compostela Valley province to fully get back on its feet, officials said.
Classes in some elementary schools here were cut short on Monday afternoon after a 4.5-magnitude earthquake shook the city at 3:16 p.m.
President Benigno Aquino III has officially tapped Eduardo del Rosario to replace Benito Ramos, the media-savvy head of the Office of Civil Defense and the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.
Not only was it designed to protect and promote the reproductive health and rights of Filipinos, the Reproductive Health Law is also a good calamity risk reduction strategy, its principal author in the House of Representatives said on Monday.
Bicol disaster authorities here were on high alert for flash floods and landslides after moderate to heavy rains spawned by the prevailing tail end of the cold front (TECF) pelted the region from Thursday till Friday, a regional disaster official said.
Vice Gov. Jose Mayo Almario, his wife Nancy, his office staff and workers of the family-owned bakeshop had to unload the relief goods from the truck and bring these to a waiting bamboo raft.
