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Today’s Weather AS of 8 in the morning y e s t e rd a y, a Low Pressure Area (LPA) was estimated based on satellite and surface data at 860-kilometer East of General Santos City (5.8°N, 133.0°E)while wind convergence affecting Eastern Visayas. These weather systems will bring mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms over Visayas and Mindanao becoming cloudy with widespread rains over Eastern and Southern Mindanao which may trigger flashfloods and landslides. SOURCE : PAGASA
‘Sendong’ survivors to get housing assistance By ERIC B. APOLONIO of InterAksyon.com
VICE President and Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) chairperson Jejomar C. Binay ordered the National Housing Authority (NHA) to fast-track the provision of housing assistance to families affected by storm Sendong in Cagayan De Oro (CDO), Iligan, and Dumaguete. The NHA is coordinating with concerned local government units (LGUs) as well as other government and private sector organizations on plans to provide houses to affected families. Planning and
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Pag-asa keeps an eye on another LPA First typhoon will be named ‘Ambo’ • Weather bureau tells residents, fishermen in Southern Mindanao to be prepared By RUTCHIE CABAHUG-AGUHOB
THE government’s weather bureau is keeping a close eye on the new Low Pressure Area (LPA) and wind convergence that is affecting Southern Mindanao and eastern Visayas. In its weather advisory issued at 10 in the morning yesterday, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pag-asa) said the LPA was estimated ––based on satellite and surface data––at 860-kilometer East of General Santos City. If it will develop into a tropical depression, it will be the first typhoon to hit the country in 2012––and
will be named as “Typhoon Ambo,” said Pagasa Administrator Nathaniel Servando. These weather systems will bring mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms over Visayas and Mindanao becoming cloudy with widespread rains over Eastern and Southern Mindanao which may trigger flashfloods and landslides. On one hand, the Philip-
pine Coast Guard, District of Northern Mindanao (PCGDNM), has directed all its detachment commanders to take more proactive measures before the onset or during severe weather conditions. This was explained by Commodore Elson Hermogino, PCGDNM Commander, who said one of these measures include forewarning, notifying or recalling fishermen to return to base after a gale warning has been issued by the Pag-asa. “The PCGDNM is doing this, to ensure a high state of preparedness in its respective stations, detachments, operational units and
disaster response assets,” Hermogino said. He said the PCG detachments are always reminded to make sure that their stations, promptly initiate and encourage public information dissemination through the use of tri-media and the local government units (LGU’s) to warn the coastal residents and local fishermen. To prevent untoward incidents, all districts are advised to remind all the shipping agencies to strictly follow Headquarters PCG Memo 01-09 or the Guidelines on Movements of Motorboats/Vessels in the Absence of Weather Bulletin and HPCG SOP
No. 002-09 on the Interim Guidelines on PCG Alert Condition/Levels. Meanwhile, he said fishing boats and other small sea crafts have been advised not to venture out into the sea while larger vessels were alerted against big waves, after PAGASA issued Gale Warning No. 60, on Dec. 31, 2011. The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) in Northern Mindanao has warned the public and the local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Councils (DRRMC) concerned to take appropriate precautionary measures to help mitigate the effects of this weather system.
Illegal loggers to face ‘life imprisonment’ By JAZMIN S. CAMERO
THE House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading a bill imposing life imprisonment to people engaged in illegal logging in the country. House Bill 5485, authored by Rep. Rufus B. RodriSURVIVORS/p.4 guez (2nd District, Cagayan de Oro City) shall provide protection, rehabilitation and sustainable management of the country’s forests. BALITANG Under the proposed Sustainable Forest Management SPECIAL Act of 2011, harvesting, gathering or collecting timber or other forest products from any forestland with a market value of more than P500,000 and without authority from the Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) will be declared illegal punishable with life imprisonment. Rodriguez said any person who shall buy logs, flitches and lumber from economic saboteurs and use them in Flood victims who have taken temporary shelter at the provincial capitol grounds have government infrastructure projects will also get life been given notice that they will be removed from the premises by January 7. People who imprisonment. Under the bill, people who illegally acquired forest frequent the place have complained of stinky smell that now pervades in the area. Some
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