For its customers adversely affected by recent typhoons, power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) indicated that the utility firm shall be extending “payment leeway” on the bills of its subscribers. “We will be very considerate to customers affected by these two successive...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) will make sure that the price freeze on some agricultural and fishery commodities is “strictly” observed in Luzon amid the declaration of state calamity in the region, which was badly battered by a series of typhoons. As this happens, the agency has also...
Miss Universe 2015 Pia Wurtzbach is appealing to her 11.5 million Instagram followers to help the victims of typhoons in several parts of the country. Pia made the appeal as she headed to Manila following weeks of vacation in London. Her full post on Instagram Nov. 14: "Our partner fishing...
Photos by ONE Championship Compared to the crises faced by the Philippines right now, Kevin Belingon's recent loss to Brazilian John Lineker in ONE Championship is just the tip of the iceberg. Team Lakay's Belingon assured the public in a Facebook post Saturday that the medical team had him cleared...
Quinta and Rolly's damage to agri sector now at P9B Rescuers evacuate residents from their flooded homes after Typhoon Vamco hit, in Marikina City, suburban Manila on November 12, 2020. (Photo by Ted ALJIBE / AFP) Thousands of farmers and fishermen in Quezon province and Bicol region are reeling...
The combined damage of Typhoon Quinta and Super Typhoon Rolly to the agriculture sector rose to nearly P8 billion, affecting 89,259 farmers and fisherfolk and 162,693 hectares of agricultural areas. The latest data from the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) Disaster Risk Reduction and Management...
The damage and losses that Typhoon Quinta and Super Typhoon Rolly incurred to the agriculture sector and to farmers should be way bigger than the government estimates, since the Department of Agriculture (DA) only looks at actual damages and not the consequential damages. Asis Perez,...
The agriculture sector may be severely battered by Typhoon Quinta and Super Typhoon Rolly, but the country is still seen to end the year with higher palay output of 20 million metric tons (MT). "We hope and pray that in the remaining eight weeks of the year, we will be spared from strong...
As the nation braced for Super Typhoon Rolly last weekend, GMA Network ensured the timely and comprehensive delivery of Serbisyong Totoo to the public – even amidst the pandemic – across all of its platforms. At the height of the super typhoon's onslaught last Sunday (November 1), GMA-7 and GMA...
Just due to Super Typhoon Rolly alone, the agriculture sector already incurred as much as P3 billion worth of damage and losses, bringing the sector's total damage in the span of two weeks to P6 billion. Based on the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council...
Agriculture, the country's most promising sector for this year, is now reeling from damage and losses nearly P5 billion after being hit by two strong typhoons in the span of two weeks. The latest data from the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (DRRM)...
San Miguel Corporation (SMC) is mobilizing its resources to quickly deliver much-needed food relief to the Bicol region and other provinces hit by super typhoon Rolly. SMC president and chief operating officer Ramon S. Ang SMC president and chief operating officer Ramon S. Ang said that the company...
