(Last of Two Parts) By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA Davao Today “We ran towards the mountains,” said Jocelyn Bocaron, who carried their four children including their youngest a one-year old infant to their safety amidst the wind. “The young coconut trees were not affected by the wind. We hid there until the strong winds subsided,” she said.
(First of Two Parts) By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA Davao Today “We have no food because there are no jobs here (because of Pablo). The government has only given three kilos, what saved us is our stored NFA rice. On our own we look for food,” Lorna Dolosa, a resident said.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today In a statement emailed on Wednesday and dated December 5, Ka Oris, spokesperson of NDFP-Mindanao said the ceasefire order given to the New People’s Army in the typhoon-hit areas is meant to “pave the way for a safe, unhampered and speedy rescue of victims, and to conduct a speedy and unhampered relief operations in the affected communities.”
By CHARISSE LISONDRA & MARIETA BASTE-HERNANI/Correspondents Davao Today Bernadita Guay said her husband now has almost lost the will to start back to square one. "Nadiscourage na gyud akong bana kung mag-uma pa ba kuno siya o dili na (My husband is at a loss whether he would go back to farming or not)," Guay said. Right now, she said, they are thinking of scraping gold dust from the riverside just to find money.
By AIDA TIZON/Correspondent Davao Today Julieta Nalam, a resident of sitio Haylo Highlander, said “Wala gyud mi naabtan og hinabang. Nag-linya mi dinhi sukad pa gahapon pero wala mi kadawat (No help has come our way. We’ve been waiting here since yesterday but we received nothing).”