PNP intensifies rescue ops amid habagat onslaught
Police teams have rescued 180 individuals and supported 164 relief operations since the heavy rainfall began.
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Police teams have rescued 180 individuals and supported 164 relief operations since the heavy rainfall began.
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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Wednesday said the government’s efforts at flood control could not fully keep pace with the increasingly intense rainfall…
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Former soldier Orly Guteza has executed a new affidavit recanting his earlier statement that he delivered suitcases filled with cash to the residence of former…
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SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga — Flooding continued to affect 228 barangays in 16 localities in Pampanga with residents of some areas having to deal with waist to…
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Instead, the budget is kept voluminous and splits a single road repair project into a half-dozen items, maintenance here, rehabilitation there, flood control…
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As my vehicle struggled through the waist-deep flood, I found myself stuck in traffic for two hours on Visayas Avenue in Quezon City with the water continuing…
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PALO, Leyte — Construction of the P4.445-billion Tacloban-Palo Diversion Road and flood mitigation project is set to resume after work stalled amid the…
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The Philippines is currently experiencing the effects of the southwest monsoon, or habagat, with rain affecting parts of Luzon and the Visayas. As of 17…
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‘The ongoing oil crisis brought about by the war in the Middle East has shown how decades of underinvestment in road-based public transport and active…
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The proposed budget for 2027 allegedly contained a “uniform” P180-million lump-sum allocation for the establishment of evacuation centers across the country,…
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‘During the rainy season, houses are no longer flooded. Families who have been affected for a long time no longer need to worry.’
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Office of the Ombudsman investigators are considering adding four former bodyguards of ex-Representative Zaldy Co as co-respondents in a non-bailable plunder…
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A public that tracks the money before it disappears is harder to rob quietly than one that only asks questions once the floodwaters recede.
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The blueprint for saving lives was available, but it was set aside so a mafia of contractors and their patrons in government could carve up the budget like a…
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The developer still calls it resort-style living. There’s water everywhere. Venice with leptospirosis.
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The Office of the Ombudsman wants greater visibility over every stage of the 2027 budget process to ensure that the proposed P107 billion for flood control…
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Transport advocates urged President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Congress on Tuesday to restore funding for public transportation, walking and cycling…
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President Marcos does not have aby idea about the so-called Leadership Funds, or lump sums in the budget meant for pork barrel that former Public Works and…
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