DAVAO CITY – The Office of Civil Defense-Davao region (OCD-Davao) reported on Sunday, January 21, 14 deaths following the landslides triggered by recent heavy rainfall from the shear line that impacted several areas. In a progress report obtained from the OCD-Davao, 11 died in Barangay Mount...
DAVAO CITY – The Office of the Civil Defense-Davao region (OCD-Davao) reported that 45,000 families or 187,108 individuals in 95 barangays across the region were displaced by landslide and flash flood caused by the shear line weather system on Thursday, January 18. OCD logo (FB)...
Tingog Party-list conducts relief operations in one of the affected areas of the recent floods in the Davao region. (Speaker’s office) The House of Representatives is eyeing the release of some P35 million worth of financial aid to seven congressional districts...
DAVAO CITY – More than 2,000 families from Davao de Oro and Davao Oriental affected by flood received food and non-food assistance from two government agencies in the Davao region on Wednesday, January 17. The Coast Guard in Davao Oriental distributed 100 sacks of relief goods to hundreds of...
DAVAO CITY – The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR)-11 (Davao region) donated on Wednesday, January 17, a commercial fishing vessel and other fishing equipment worth around P8 million to a fisherfolk association in Mati City, Davao Oriental at the Mati City Fishport Complex. A...
DAVAO CITY – The Office of the Presidential Assistant for Mindanao-Eastern (OPAMINE) has sought to enhance and reinforce disaster preparedness in the Davao region to avoid future casualties. Presidential Assistant for Eastern Mindanao Leo Tereso Magno said he met Office of Civil Defense-11...
DAVAO CITY – Presidential Assistant for Eastern Mindanao Leo Tereso Magno met last week with the chief of the Philippine Army, Lt. Gen. Roy Galido, to outline security measures and additional initiatives tailored for the Davao region. Magno said these endeavors aim to enhance the overall...
Housing czar Secretary Jose Rizalino Acuzar has ordered the activation of emergency shelter clusters of the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) in Caraga and Davao regions to assist the victims of the 7.4 magnitude quake that hit Mindanao over the weekend. Acuzar said the...
DAVAO CITY – One person was killed and four were injured in Davao region in the magnitude-7.4 earthquake that rocked a wide swath of Mindanao on Saturday night, December 2. OFFICIALS inspect an infrastructure in Hinatuan, Surigao del Sur damaged by the magnitude-7.4 earthquake on Saturday...
DAVAO CITY – Several infrastructure, including schools, in the Davao region were damaged following a magnitude-6.8 earthquake on Friday, November 17. Karlo Alexie C. Puerto, information officer II of the Office of the Civil Defense-Davao, said that the Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and...
DAVAO CITY – A magnitude-7.2 earthquake rocked a large swath of Mindanao on Friday afternoon, November 17. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the epicenter of the 4:14 p.m. earthquake was 30 kilometers southwest of Sarangani, Davao Occidental. The tectonic quake had a...
DAVAO CITY – The provisional P1 jeepney fare increase effective last October 8 will not help alleviate the conditions of the Public Utility Jeepney (PUJ) drivers in the Philippines amid increasing cost of fuel, transport group Transmission-Piston said. Larry Arguilles, spokesperson for...
