A total of 300 families residing in Barangay Tagburos, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan have benefited from the Disaster Resilience Caravan of the Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor (PCUP) on Tuesday, March 15. The Disaster Resilience Caravan, according to PCUP, was held as part of the...
The Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor (PCUP), as part of its goal to equip and help the urban poor, will implement a Disaster Resilience Caravan in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, it said on Monday, March 14. A pre-caravan meeting was also held by the Commission together with the local...
CEBU CITY--A district office of the Land Transportation Office-Central Visayas (LTO 7) in Ronda town, southern Cebu has been named as the Most Pandemic Resilient LTO Office in the Visayas. Mhike Jelord Rollo (3rd from left), officer-in-charge of the district office of the Land Transportation...
Human rights lawyer Jose Manuel 'Chel' Diokno expressed dismay on Saturday, Jan. 29, over the Bloomberg survey that ranked the Philippines at the bottom on coronavirus disease (COVID-19) resilience. Human rights lawyer Chel Diokno (Photo from Diokno’s campaign team) Diokno, a senatorial aspirant,...
Malacañang has urged financial and media company Bloomberg to look at a country's economic growth when measuring resilience as this was supposedly the best indicator of resilience amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles (Photo from The Cabinet Secretariat...
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go on Thursday said he supports President Duterte’s call to amend Republic Act No. 10121 or the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010 and streamline the government’s response to natural calamities. Go said it is more practical to amend the...
D.M. Consunji Inc. (DMCI), through the Philippine Disaster Resilience Foundation (PDRF), has provided logistical support to transport relief assistance to areas affected by Typhoon Odette. The leading engineering-based integrated construction company and PDRF’s member company shipped 90 gallons...
If the country intends to become more resilient to disasters, a serious improvement in its energy sectors is required, according to a consumer advocacy group. (Manila Bulletin file photo) This much needed boost would also help the Philippines recover from the pandemic, and take the country to a new...
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go on Wednesday renewed his push for the passage of bills that seek to improve the country’s resilience and capabilities to mitigate, respond to, and recover from natural disasters and calamities. Go made the call amid the massive devastation left behidn by Typhoon...
The government must address issues in its national vaccination program such as brand preference, vaccine hesitancy, access to vaccines in far-flung areas, lack of manpower, and other logistical problems, senatorial aspirant and human rights lawyer Chel Diokno said on Thursday, Dec. 2. Human rights...
House Majority Leader Martin Romualdez of Leyte and Tingog Partylist Rep. Yedda Marie Romualdez honored the brave early responders during the onslaught of Super Typhoon Yolanda that devastated Tacloban City and Eastern Visayas eight years ago. As the nation remembers the eight-year Yolanda...
The spokesperson of Vice President Leni Robredo on Sunday, October 31, said the administration should not be critical of the Bloomberg COVID Resilience Ranking of the best and worst places to be amid the pandemic. (Vice Presidential spokesman Barry Gutierrez/Facebook) The Philippines remained at...