The Liberal Party’s endeavor to become the ruling party for the 2016 presidential elections is going to be a much longer and harder journey, as far as Central and Northern Luzon are concerned.
The ballots have been counted in many provinces, giving fresh mandate to new leaders by July.
It’s all systems go for the elections in Central Luzon, the third vote-rich region in the country, but it’s up to the 3,756 local candidates and 5.8 million voters to make the polls safe and fair, officials said.
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has advised more than 2,000 foresters and upland farmers in Central Luzon to help protect the region’s 589,945 hectares of forests from wildfires this summer.
Central Luzon provinces are expected to experience hotter temperatures in 2020, a government hydrologist told village leaders on Friday, citing projections by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration.
As projected by business and political leaders in central and northern Luzon at the start of 2012, the regions’ economies showed improvement with more commercial activities in the provinces.
Where the police apparently fear to tread, a nongovernmental group is stepping in to disprove the claim of lawmen that “jueteng” no longer exists in Pampanga—and stamp out the illegal numbers racket.
Central Luzon bore the brunt of Typhoon “Gener” and heavy monsoon rains early this month, which resulted in agricultural losses estimated at P1.18 billion in 27 provinces in Luzon and the Visayas, according to the Department of Agriculture (DA).
President Benigno Aquino III’s inspection of the floodplains of Central Luzon on Friday brought a ray of hope into the bleak lives of victims of the weeklong monsoon rains and floods who took refuge in evacuation centers in Tarlac, Pampanga and Bulacan provinces.
It was clear to observers that President Benigno Aquino’s inspection of the flood plains of Central Luzon on Friday had cheered up residents who took refuge in the evacuation centers of Tarlac, Pampanga and Bulacan because of the week-long monsoon rains and floods.
President Benigno Aquino III on Friday inspected the flooded plains of four provinces in Central Luzon, revisiting decades-old plans to build a multipurpose dam after observing that 25 percent of the villages in Tarlac, his home province, was flooded because of this week’s torrential monsoon rains.
Amid brief bursts of rainfall, floodwaters on Wednesday started to subside, albeit slowly, in most areas in Central Luzon but kept on rising in towns surrounding Laguna de Bay south of Metro Manila.
At least 10 persons were killed from heavy rains spawned by southwest monsoon in Central Luzon, regional police said Wednesday.
