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KIDAPAWAN CITY
(Sept. 12/NDBC) – About 270 families were affected by extra quick flash floods
that hit eight villages here Thursday night following an hour long heavy
downpour.

Nuangan river
overflowed and inundated all the villages on its path,” Psalmer Bernalte, city
chief of disaster risk reduction management council told DXND Radyo Bida
Kidapawan.

He said the
rainfall was unusual that the city Call 911, Kidapawan City’s emergency response
unit, recorded a 40 mm per hour rainfall beginning at 8 p.m.

WEATHER BULLETIN NUMBER ONE

TROPICAL CYCLONE ALERTand TROPICAL DEPRESSION LUIS”

ISSUED AT 5and00 AM, 12 SEPTEMBER 2014

(Valid for broadcast until the next bulletin to be issued at 11
AM today)

THE TROPICAL DEPRESSION EAST OF VISAYAS HAS ENTERED THE
PHILIPPINE AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY (PAR) AND WAS NAMED LUIS.”Eye/centerand

At 4and00 AM today, the center of Tropical Depression

LUIS” was estimated based on all available data at

1,050 km East of Virac, Catanduanes (14.0

°N,

135.0°E).

KIDAPAWAN CITY (Sept. 11/NDBC) -- An hour long heavy down pour flooded houses near rivers and creeks here Thursday night.Among the flooded areas was the staff house and vicinity of Radio Station DXND following heavy downpour that started at about9 p.m.Hospital beds, oxygen tanks, garbage, cellophaneand other debris litter the rear portion of DXND compound.Rains have slowed down and the water along a creek have receded, DXND reported.Reports have it that other low lying areas and houses near rivers and creeks also experienced flash floods.

KIDAPAWAN CITY (Sept. 11/NDBC) — In the 28th years of existence ofthe University of Southern Mindanao (USM) College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM), it failed only onceto surpass the national passing rate, a USM official today said.Dr. Emerlie Okit, college ofveterinary medicine dean, told Radyo Bida Kidapawan, the DVM only failed once, in 1999,in beating national passing rate.It has been always on top 5 as far as passing rate was concerned, Okit said.

KIDAPAWAN CITY (Sept.

(UPDATED)COTABATO CITY
(Sept. 11/NDBC) – Hoursafter
the draft Bangsamoro Basic Law was submitted by Malacanang to Congress,
renegade Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) tried anew but failed to take over Army detachments in the borders of Maguindanao and North Cotabato.As a result, two soldiers were killed and six others wounded, according to Maj. Gen. Edmundo Pangilinan.Pangilinan, chief of the 6th Infantry Division, said more than 10 BIFF members were killed, four of the dead were recovered by local officials.BIFF, armed with assault rifles and rifle

MLANG, North
Cotabato (Sept. 11/NDBC) – Residents of Mlang and North Cotabato who wish to work
abroad, here’s good news for you.

A Manila-based
recruitment agency has prepared a total of 1,337 jobs in Saudi Arabia, from
carpenters, plumbers, electricians, engineers, bus and truck drivers to heavy
equipment operators and mechanics, coming from the province and Davao City.

COTABATO CITY (Sept. 10/NDBC) -- Atleast 800 families or about 4,000 individuals have been affected by floods that hit a remote barangay in Sultan Kudarat province Monday night, the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.Workers of themunicipal disaster relief team of a coastal town in Sultan Kudarat province are busy attending to the needs of families displaced by recent floods,The flooding occurred at 9 p.m.

COTABATO CITY (Sept.10/NDBC) -- Officials of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao are confident of the enactment as is” of the draft Basic Bangsamoro Law (BBL) which Malacañang officially endorsed to Congress on Wednesday.ARMM Gov. Mujiv Hataman and his regional secretaries, who witnessed President Benigno Aquino III’s turnover of the draft BBL to Senate President Franklin Drilon and House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte, Jr.

The submission of the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law to the leaders of the Philippine Congress today, 10 September 2014, brings us to the next, crucial stage in our roadmap to the Bangsamoro political entityand the formal legislative process. The proposed BBL has transposed into legal form and further elaborated on the various annexes -- notably the Wealth-sharing and Power-sharing Annexes -- to the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB). It builds on the foundation provided by the past organic acts on the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).