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Agusan casualties BUTUAN City – Four persons were reported dead while seven others are missing as a landslide hit one of the villages in Sibagat, Agusan del Sur at the height of the onslaught of Typhoon Odette Thursday. Rolando Buag, head of the town’s Emergency Operations Center, said in an interview Friday that a family, composed of 11 persons, was on its way to an evacuation center when hit by a landslide in Purok 3 in Barangay Kioya. “At the height of the heavy rains last Thursday, the family decided to proceed to an evacuation center but along the way was hit by a landslide,” Buag said.
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Delinquent coops THE Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation (PSALM) said it has been instructed by the Department of Finance (DoF) to stop taking on additional liabilities from delinquent electric cooperatives. “Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III said that PSALM should not incur more liabilities arising from nonpaying electric cooperatives. He stressed that PSALM’s mandate does not include subsidizing the energy requirements of ailing electric cooperatives,” PSALM said in a statement. Mr. Dominguez is the chairman of the PSALM Board of Directors, which is composed of the Secretaries of Energy, Budget and Management, Justice, and Trade and Industry, as well as the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) and the President of PSALM.
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Serbisyo caravan DAVAO City – Philippine Identification (PhilID) or the national ID registration was included in the recent “Serbisyo (Service) Caravan” initiated by the provincial government of Davao de Oro. Residents took advantage of the activity to register for the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys). “National ID registration was fit to be included in the Serbisyo Caravan so residents of the municipality would not go far and the registration was brought to them,” PhilSys said in a recent post, referring to the December 7 event.
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'ODETTE'S' WRATH. Residents make their way through a fallen electrical post on a major thoroughfare in Surigao City on Friday, a day after Typhon “Odette” made landfall. mindanews photo by ivy marie mangadlao
HEN people in most cities in Mindanao woke up in the aftermath of Typhoon Odette on December 17, they found they had neither mobile nor internet services in their gadgets and computers. This posed a major problem not only for LGUs and disaster response agencies unable to contact their personnel in the field, but perhaps even more to residents stressed out from their allnight vigil of the super typhoon as it wreaked destruction in its wake. Telecommunication and internet providers said they were working to restore services in the hard-hit areas, but gave no assurances as to when they can go back online. Globe Telecom said it had “started restoration efforts in areas where it is safe to do so.” Smart deployed emergency communication gear in Dinagat Islands, Surigao del Sur, Surigao del Norte, Bohol and Southern Leyte, while Dito Telecommunity said its services were also affected in Visayas and Mindanao. CONNECTED/PAGE 9
Humanitarian aid providers rush to Dinagat, Siargao, Surigao to bring relief goods By FROILAN GALLARDO, MindaNews
MILITARY authorities are being swamped with calls f rom humanitarian aid organizations for ships and planes that could deliver relief food and water to the typhoon-stricken Dinagat and Siargao islands, and the Surigao provinces in mainland Mindanao. Capt. Jonald Romoroso, spokesperson of the Butuanbased Army’s 402nd Infantry
Brigade said international aid agencies have asked them if there were available naval and air assets to bring food and water to these areas. Similar inquiries have also been received by the Army’s 4th Infantry Division in Cagayan de Oro according to their public affairs official, Maj. Francisco Garillo. “We are still waiting RELIEF/PAGE 9 CLEARING DEBRIS. A man, with saw in hand, helps in clearing out the debris amid the rubble of fallen houses in Surigao City on Friday, a day after Typhon “Odette” made landfall. mindanews photo by ivy marie mangadlao
Typhoon Odette leaves CDO, Iligan with zero casualty
TROPICAL storm Odette has left Cagayan de Oro and Iligan cities with zero casualty in its aftermath Friday, despite having a maximum sustained winds of 195 kph, and gustiness of up to 240 kph. During the online coronavirus disease 2019 briefer, Dr. Teodoro Yu Jr., medical officer of the City
Health Office took the time to thank the City Disaster Risk Reduction Management O f f i c e ( C DR R MO ) l e d by Nick Jabagat for its vigilant response and close coordination with rescuers and volunteers on the ground. Mayor Oscar Moreno said the local government was also thankful to partner organizations and agencies,
adding that despite the threat of property destruction and cost of lives, the unified team was able to survive. "The sun is up again, we are glad we can now look back at Odette, (we are) relieved and comforted with the thought we were spared," he said. M o r e n o , h o w e v e r, ZERO/PAGE 9
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