The Department of Education (DepEd) needs P18 billion to repair, rehabilitate or reconstruct schools damaged during recent disasters or calamities that hit the country. Maguyep Integrated School in Sallapadan, Abra is among the schools damaged during the Abra quake. (Photo from DepEd) In a press...
TABUK CITY, Kalinga – This city has been placed under a state of calamity due to the increasing number of dengue cases. The City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council led by Mayor Darwin Estrañero made the declaration on Wednesday, August 3. Three patients here had already died...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) said Monday, August 1, that it will assist the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in the implementation of a price freeze for basic commodities in Abra province after it was rocked by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake and placed under a state of calamity last week....
Batangas 6th district Rep. Ralph Recto is worried that the available National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Fund (NDRRMF), otherwise known as the calamity fund, may be "insufficient for rehabilitation work". The damage caused by the July 27, 2022 earthquake in Abra "We are just in the...
We have been so focused on wearing a mask, washing our hands, keeping a social distance to prevent the spread of Covid. Many may have forgotten the other guidelines that should be followed at about this time of the year when the rains – and the mosquitoes carrying the dengue virus –come. In the...
THE African Swine Fever quarantine checkpoint in Barangay Licomo, Zamboanga City. (City Government of Zamboanga FB) ZAMBOANGA CITY (PNA) – The City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (CDRRMC) has recommended that this city be placed under a state of calamity due to the spread of...
ILOILO CITY – Antique is under a state of calamity due to the rising number of the mosquito-borne disease dengue. The Antique Provincial Board approved the proposal of the Antique Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (Antique PDRRMC) in a resolution passed Friday, July...
Makati CBD skyline The Department of Health (DOH) is currently cold on the idea of lifting the country’s state of calamity status due to Covid-19 pandemic as several factors need to be considered first. Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said that the lifting of the state of calamity is...
ILOILO CITY -- More than two weeks after the onslaught of tropical depression Agaton, the Iloilo province has been finally placed under a state of calamity. The Monfort Bridge that connects the towns of Dingle and San Enrique in Iloilo province collapsed after the flooding from tropical depression...
ILOILO CITY -- A state of calamity is being considered in the province of Iloilo owing to the multi-million peso damages caused by massive flooding during tropical depression Agaton. A bridge damaged by floodwaters during tropical depression Agaton in Dingle town, Iloilo province. (Photo courtesy...
ILOILO CITY – A state of calamity has finally been declared in Capiz province after almost a week of widespread flooding caused by rains from tropical depression Agaton paralyzed the area. An aerial view of the flood-hit Capiz province due to rains of tropical depression Agaton. (Photo courtesy...
ILOILO CITY -- Four towns and a component city in Iloilo province have been declared in a state of calamity due to the massive flood left by tropical storm ‘Agaton.’ A backhoe was used during rescue operations for residents affected by flood caused by rains from tropical depression Agaton in...
