NIGHT OWL Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo Critics of the administration recently pointed out that over 180,000 families will be displaced in Metro Manila should the NLEX-SLEX Connector Road Project and the North-South Commuter Railway (NSCR) Project push through. This claim is fictitious, inaccurate, and...
NIGHT OWL Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo Lolit Solis could still remember how Pasig River looked like before it was polluted and pushed to its current state. During the time of President Ramon Magsaysay, it was a vibrant place of transportation and tourism. At ten years old, she would ride the ferry from...
NIGHT OWL Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo Whenever I go to UP Diliman to attend my evening classes at the UP College of Law, I would need to set aside at least 1 hour and 30 mins for travel from the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)’s Central Office in Port Area. When the NLEX Harbor Link...
NIGHT OWL Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo For 17 days, I travelled with 20 people from 14 different countries to five different states in America as part of the US Department of State’s International Visitors Leadership Program (IVLP). The first time I met them — we were at the lobby of DC Churchill...
NIGHT OWL Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo Under the administration of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, Department of Public Works and Highways Secretary Mark Villar noted that the agency has built a total of 3,945 km of roads. DPWH has widened 1,908 km of roads, built 328 kilometer of bypasses and diversion...
NIGHT OWL Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo According to the World Risk Report, inadequate and inefficient infrastructure and weak logistic networks significantly increase the risk for an extreme natural hazard to backslide into a disaster. Philippines lies along the Pacific Typhoon Belt and is within the...
NIGHT OWL Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo On September 3, I met 20 people from 14 different countries at the lobby of DC Churchill Hotel — a 112-year-old historic infrastructure which has come to be a landmark on Connecticut Avenue in Waswhington, DC. Apart from the 50-year elevator, the eight-story...
NIGHT OWL Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo Last week, I was invited to speak and award the Ten Outstanding Students of the Philippines-Calabarzon Regional Awardees. I could still remember how a few years back, we found ourselves sitting at the same chair, anxiously waiting for our name to be...
NIGHT OWL Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo Out of the 171 countries assessed in the 2016 World Risk Report, the Philippines ranked 3rd most exposed to natural hazards. According to PAGASA, the Philippines is visited by at least 20 tropical cyclones every year. Just last week, heavy rains brought about by...
NIGHT OWL Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported a year-on-year increase of 468,000 jobs generated in the construction sector based on a Labor Force Survey conducted by the Philippine Statistics Authority in April, 2018. DOLE Secretary Silvestre H. Bello III...
NIGHT OWL Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo When I was in high school, I watched “The Bucketlist” with two of my closest friends — Karen Jumarang and Chynna Cuna. It was a film staring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman about two terminally ill men on a road trip with a list of things to do before they...
NIGHT OWL Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo It was a Wednesday afternoon and we were about to discuss a case study on Ronald MacLean Abaroa — the first democratically elected mayor of La Paz in four decades. This was at a time when Bolivia was considered the poorest nation in South America and was suffering...
