Bucaramanga on red alert amid flood fears
The Committee for Disaster Prevention and Treatment in the city of Bucaramanga, northeastern Colombia, has issued a severe flood warning following heavy rains in the region. Edgar Ragu, one of…
The Committee for Disaster Prevention and Treatment in the city of Bucaramanga, northeastern Colombia, has issued a severe flood warning following heavy rains in the region. Edgar Ragu, one of…
The Colombian government asked the country’s Congress for $3 billion after the Constitutional Court rejected an extended state of emergency that allowed the government to use special funds to help…
Colombia’s Constitutional Court has rejected an extension of a state of emergency, disallowing the government to use special funds for victims of last years floods According to the Court, the…
Colombians have been warned to brace for more torrential winter rain as the disastrous rainy season stretches on. President Juan Manuel Santos said that “unfortunately the La Niña phenomenon is…
A charity concert to be held in Bogota in May will raise money for victims affected by last year’s heavy winter rains, Caracol Radio reported on Wednesday. Organisers of the…
Coffee production in Colombia is up 44% in the first two months of 2011 compared to the same period in 2010, reports Caracol Radio. The manager of the Federation of Coffee Growers,…
The governor of the north Colombian Magdalena department says the Civil Defense agency has found “possible irregularities” on the part of the mayors who conducted the census of flood victims…
The director of Colombia’s disaster agency Civil Defense says that surveys listing the number of flood victims are inconsistent and occasionally wrong, El Espectador reported Tuesday. Major General Jairo Duban…
Colombia’s prosecutor general asks the Constitutional Court to make permanent two amendments to the constitution added in response to the disastrous rainy season in 2010, reports W Radio. The decrees…