Price of sayote in Benguet plummets as low as P2 per kilo due to oversupply

Daphne Galvez - Inquirer.net 11/10/2019

MANILA, Philippines — The price of sayote in Benguet province has reportedly dropped to as low as P2 per kilo due to oversupply. In recent posts on social media, Tagani Philippines said that there is an “oversupply”…

Cotabato residents badly hit by quake find ways to get help

Germelina Lacorte - Philippine Daily Inquirer 11/09/2019

MAKILALA, COTABATO — Residents in Barangay Malasila here are worried that coursing aid and donations through the government would further leave them in the cold and limit their chances of surviving the series of quakes which had…

Truck carrying water for quake survivors crashes, kills helper, hurts driver

Abner Francisco - Inquirer Mindanao 11/05/2019

KIDAPAWAN CITY–A truck helper died while the driver was seriously wounded in an accident on  the way to deliver water for earthquake-hit residents in Makilala town, Cotabato province on Tuesday, Nov. 5 Police said the truck helper…

3.9-magnitude quake rocks Cotabato — Phivolcs

Consuelo Marquez - INQUIRER.net 11/03/2019

MANILA, Philippines — A 3.9 magnitude earthquake struck a Cotabato town on Sunday morning just days after a magnitude 6.5 quake that hit Mindanao, Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. Based on its initial earthquake…

Sandiganbayan suspends Siquijor provincial officials

Philippine Daily Inquirer 11/03/2019

MANILA, Philippines — The Sandiganbayan Fourth Division has ordered the 90-day preventive suspension of Orville Fua, Siquijor provincial board member, for graft over the allegedly irregular purchase of fertilizers in 2005. The antigraft court also suspended two…

Mindanao quake survivors grow desperate for aid

Edwin Fernandez, Eldie Aguirre, Germelina Lacorte, Williamor Magbanua 11/03/2019

MAKILALA, Cotabato, Philippines — Scores of villagers displaced by three recent earthquakes that struck Mindanao were growing desperate for help and have taken their appeal for aid to roadsides as the government and private groups struggled to…

Quiboloy: ‘I yelled at the Mindanao quake to stop, it did’

Daphne Galvez - Inquirer.net 11/01/2019

MANILA, Philippines — Pastor Apollo Quiboloy, the self-declared “Appointed Son of God”, has said that people should thank him for stopping Tuesday’s 6.6-magnitude earthquake, which rocked North Cotabato and nearby provinces. The powerful tremor left at least…

Somber mood in quake-hit Mindanao despite long holiday

Karlos Manlupig- Inquirer.net 11/01/2019

DAVAO CITY — Apart from being solemn, All Saints’ Day is somber in the quake-hit parts of Mindanao, which continue to be jolted by minor tremors. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology documented at least 69…

Where the earth shook and graves cracked open

Ryan Rosauro - Inquirer.net 11/01/2019

DAVAO CITY—On Tuesday morning, three villagers from Upper Bala in Magsaysay, Davao del Sur province, set out for the mountainside sitio of Labidangan to check on the water line to the community. As they reached the place,…

Signs of life buoy rescuers’ hope in collapsed Davao building

Karlos Manlupig- Inquirer.net 11/01/2019

DAVAO CITY—-Search and rescue teams are now clinging to signs of life in a collapsed condominium building here, their hopes buoyed by tapping sounds that officials wished were from survivors, according to Mayor Sara Duterte. One floor…

At least 1 dead, 43 injured after powerful Mindanao quake – NDRRMC

Frances Mangosing - Inquirer.net 10/29/2019

MANILA, Philippines — At least one person was reported dead while 43 others were injured after a magnitude 6.6 earthquake hjolted central Mindanao on Tuesday morning. Nestor Narciso, 66, a resident of Koronadal City, succumbed to massive…

Slain Clarin, Misamis Occidental mayor talked to Duterte 2 weeks before death

Divina M. Suson - Inquirer.net 10/26/2019

CLARIN, MISAMIS OCCIDENTAL –– Around two weeks ago, the late mayor David Navarro of this tiny rice-producing town in Misamis Occidental met with President Duterte in Manila to talk about his inclusion in the Palace’s narcolist. In…

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