By ACE R. MORANDANTE
Davao Today
“We really want to educate the people about climate change, to offer explanation why the province was badly devastated by typhoon Pablo when this was not the case before” — Penelope Palma Gil, program head of Tulong Kabataan-Southern Mindanao.
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
The Freshmax Trading Company has now closed its facilities affecting a total of 200 workers who, mostly, have been working for at least five years. It just posted a memo that, Roto, another company, would be taking over.
By IRENE V. DAGUDOG
Davao Today
“Naningkamot gyud mi nga makatabang sa mga panginahanglan sa mga biktima ug naningkamot mi nga matagaan silag tingog sa ilang mga nasinati sa baha” — Sister Noemi Degala, secretary general of Balsa Mindanao
By KENETTE JEAN I. MILLONDAGA
Davao Today
“If we are going to look at the best disaster preparedness model, medical teams should be in place, including doctors, medical supplies as well as the health facilities” – Doctor Jean Lindo, Kalikasan Partylist
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
Emmanuel Jaldon of the Disaster Risk and Reduction Management Office said there were a total of 12,565 affected families with 39,582 dependents.
By ACE R. MORANDANTE, JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA & MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
The continuous light to moderate rains yesterday caused the alarming rise of water levels in the city. “It’s just too many water in the river,” said Emmanuel Jaldon, chief of the City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council and Central 911 in an afternoon press briefing, January 20.
By KENETTE JEAN I. MILLONDAGA
Davao Today
Clad in their traditional garb as they joined some 5,000 people from the different towns of Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental, they asked, where is the government? And where is its promise of genuine relief and rehabilitation?
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
In a forecast released by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) at 5AM today, Mindanao island will continue to experience cloudy skies with moderate to heavy rainshowers and thunderstorms which could lead to the said calamities.
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
As Pablo already claimed the lives of 990 individuals and damaged over PHP 21 billion in agriculture and infrastructure in the Davao region alone, Panalipdan said it is not enough to just give relief goods and help for the rebuilding of lives of affected people in Southern Mindanao. “We must also demand for justice and exact accountability from companies and government that plundered environmental resources with impunity,” Francis Morales, Panalipdan’s secretary general said.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
The ceasefire coverage, Rigoberto F. Sanchez, spokesman of the NPA’s Merardo Arce Command-Southern Mindanao Regional Operations Command said, is extended to other parts of their regional jurisdiction which are not directly hit by typhoon Pablo to help address the said crisis especially in the more than 24 towns in Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental where over 33 percent of its “revolutionary forces” live and over a million of peasants, workers, lumads and ordinary poor are affected.
