INQToday: Marcos vows to further improve DRR efforts after widespread flooding

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Marcos vows to further improve DRR efforts after widespread flooding

President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has vowed to further improve disaster risk reduction (DRR) efforts at the local and national levels after the country reeled from massive flooding caused by the recent spate of typhoons.

In a vlog posted on social media Friday, Marcos noted that millions of Filipinos have been affected while billions worth of damage were incurred by the infrastructure and agriculture sectors due to the recent onslaught of typhoons, which he said have been exacerbated by climate change.

Marcos says for dad to ‘truly RIP’, he must continue work he started

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said that for his late father to truly rest in peace, he must continue the work that his father, Ferdinand Marcos Sr., started.

In a speech following a Mass before his father’s grave at the Libingan ng mga Bayani in Taguig City on All Saints’ Day, Marcos said it won’t be enough to just wish rest in peace for his dad.

‘Pogo hub’ in Bataan seems into ‘black market banking’ – Paocc

The suspected Philippine offshore gaming operator (Pogo) hub in Bataan which government authorities recently raided appears to be engaged in “black market banking,” the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (Paocc) said Friday.

During a radio interview, Paocc spokesperson Director Winston Casio noted something “out of the ordinary” in the operation of Central One Bataan PH Incorporated, which is located t the Centro Park compound in Bagac.

Phivolcs detects ‘continuous degassing’ at Kanlaon Volcano

State seismologists reported on Friday “continuous degassing” at the Kanlaon Volcano summit crater.

“The ashing events were observed between 07:20 a.m. and 07:39 a.m. today and lasted nineteen minutes; no detectable seismic or infrasound signals were recorded,” the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said.

Marikina mayor: Syndicate may be behind dig up of remains in cemetery

Marikina City Mayor Marcelino Teodoro revealed Friday that a syndicate may be behind the illegal exhumation of remains in the Barangka Public Cemetery.

In a radio interview, Teodoro said that the cemetery’s administrator and several private individuals were conspiring to dig up the remains.