A day before the expected landfall of Typhoon Odette on Thursday, preemptive evacuation in high-risk areas has started, National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) executive director Ricardo Jalad said on Wednesday. “Merong nang nagsagawa ng [preemptive] evacuation, may report kanina sa full council meeting ng NDRRMCC, [meron] na dito sa Region 6, Region 7, sa Caraga at saka Region 8, may mga local government units na nag-preemptive evacuation (There are now ongoing preemptive evacuations, per the full council report of the NDRRMC, there are now evacuations ongoing in Region 6, Region 7, in Caraga, and Region 8. There
Different local government units in Caraga Region on Wednesday started preemptive evacuations in high-risk areas ahead of the landfall of Typhoon Odette. In the province of Dinagat Islands, heavy rainfall has started to hit the different towns as of Wednesday afternoon. “Evacuations of residents in flood and landslide-prone areas have started in different towns. We are monitoring these preemptive evacuations now,” Vice Gov. Nilo Demerey Jr. told the Philippine News Agency. He added that there is no data so far as to the number of families and individuals being evacuated as of posting time. Demerey said the provincial government and
The Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) said the Performance Governance System (PGS) has been influential on the progress of its daily operations. This, as the OPAPP was conferred with the Silver Trailblazer Award for performance governance compliant during the Institute for Solidarity in Asia’s (ISA) virtual PGS Public Revalida on Wednesday. In his speech, Deputy Peace Adviser Undersecretary Isidro Purisima said the PGS pathway made them realize that “that an organization cannot remain static and must continue to evolve.” “This means that we have to learn to adapt to fast-changing realities on the ground. If
Improvements in the country’s healthcare system, among others, are expected to further solidify the domestic economy’s recovery and boost its capacity to hit the revised target of between 5 percent to 5.5 percent. In a virtual briefing on Wednesday, Department of Finance (DOF) Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said domestic output, which averaged at 4.9 percent in the first three quarters this year, “has exceeded our expectations in 2021.” “So there’s a greater likelihood that our full year growth will hit the revised target of our GDP (gross domestic product) growth ranging from 5 to 5.5 percent this year,” he said.
A pilot instructor died while his student was injured in a plane crash here on Wednesday. In a phone interview, Pangasinan Police Provincial Office information officer Lt. Col. Ferdinand de Asis identified the fatality as Capt. Daryl Uy while the pilot student as Caran France Kaura, 21, of Barangay Pagkakaisa, San Narciso in Quezon province. “At around 9:20 a.m. today, a two-seater training fixed-wing plane with body number RP-C8202, with markings ‘Fly Fast’, crashed into a fishpond along Sitio Paradise (in) Barangay Telbang, Alaminos City,” he said. The student pilot was immediately brought to the Western Pangasinan District Hospital by
The Supreme Court (SC) cleared a prosecutor sued for disbarment by a police officer for dismissing a drug case in 2012 for incomplete documentation. In a resolution released on December 3, the high court’s second division dismissed the case filed against lawyer Dorina A. Hernandez-Joya, adopting the recommendation of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines’ (IBP) Board of Governors. A complaint filed in November 2012 before the SC Office of the Bar Confidant by Alex A. Dela Cerna, then team leader of the Regional Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operation Task Group (AIDSOTG) of the Philippine National Police-Mimaropa, sought the disbarment as
