Super typhoon “Egay” may have left the country last week but the devastation it left was continuously felt as two more fatalities were reported by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), which brought the death toll to 29 as of Friday, August 4. The NDRRMC said 14...
The Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey results released on Wednesday, Aug. 2 bared that more Filipinos families have experienced involuntary hunger at least once in the past three months. SWS said 10.4 percent of Filipino families experienced involuntary hunger, up from 9.8 percent in March. It...
For a group of education workers, the conduct of online classes instead of suspending classes during calamities supported by the Department of Education (DepEd) is “unrealistic and insensitive.” Classes in Isabelo Delos Reyes Elementary School in Manila were suspended due to heavy rains. (ALI...
A survey conducted by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) in the second quarter of 2023 bared that 70 percent of Filipinos closely followed the news about SIM registration, making it the most followed story among a list of 14 news events. This compares to 68 percent in the first quarter of 2023,...
ILOILO CITY – Intermittent heavy rainfall from typhoon “Egay” flooded 70 out of the 180 barangays here. RESCUERS evacuate an elderly woman from her flooded home in Iloilo City on Thursday, July 27. (Iloilo City DRRMO) Data from the Iloilo City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office...
TAYABAS CITY, Quezon – A farmer died and a barangay chairman was injured in a lightning strike in Barangay Ilayang Nangka, this city, on Tuesday afternoon, July 18. Tayabas police chief Police Lt. Col. Bonna Obmerga identified the fatality as Romeo Sayam, 30. Sayam was taken to the Tayabas...
ILOILO CITY – Monsoon rains enhanced by tropical cyclone “Dodong” have affected 21,464 people across Western Visayas region. According to the Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (RDRRMC)-6, affected persons were from 56 barangays in Antique, Guimaras, Iloilo, and Negros...
A survey conducted by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) revealed that nearly half of Filipinos know almost nothing or nothing at all about the Maharlika Wealth Fund (MWF), also known as the Maharlika Investment Fund. The results of the SWS survey, which was conducted from March 26 to 29, and...
The intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) and easterlies will continue to bring rain showers to some parts of the country in the next 24 hours, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said on Thursday, July 6. Scattered rain showers and...
The entire archipelago may experience partly cloudy to cloudy weather in the coming week, with the possibility of isolated afternoon or evening rain showers or thunderstorms, according to the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) in its weekly...
SAN NARCISO, Quezon – Two classrooms of the Abuyon National High School in Barangay Abuyon here caught fire after a lightning strike during a thunderstorm on Wednesday afternoon, June 28. Residents told police that it was raining at about 1 p.m. when a sharp lightning strike suddenly hit, followed...
Partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms will be experienced in Metro Manila and the rest of the country according to the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA). (MB Visual Content Group) Based on the latest weather...
