News in Pictures: November 17, 2024

BEFORE THE SUPER STORM

Children play at the Ibalong Center for Recreation in Legazpi City where evacuation tents had been prepared in anticipation of the onslaught of Supertyphoon “Pepito” (international name: Manyi).

The storm made landfall in the island province of Catanduanes on Saturday night. Earlier that day, the government carried out a mass evacuation of almost half a million people in the Bicol and Eastern Visayas regions, as the supertyphoon, moving at 195 kilometers per hour (kph) with gusts of up to 240 kph, is expected to cause great damage on its northwestward path.

Pepito is expected to leave the Philippine area of responsibility by Monday.

LAST RESORT FOR MISSING

LAST RESORT FOR MISSING Relatives and lawyers of James Jazmines and Felix Salaveria Jr. petition the Supreme Court on Thursday to enjoin state authorities, beginning with President Marcos and Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin, to produce the disappeared activists.

Jazmines went missing in Tabaco City, Albay province, late August, and his friend Salaveria also disappeared just days after. According to human rights groups, at least 14 people have disappeared under the Marcos administration.

NEW LRT STOP

NEW LRT STOP Commuters ride the LRT at the new MIA station in Parañaque City, which President Marcos launched on Friday. The new stop is part of the train system’s Cavite Extension Phase 1 project expanding the LRT southward.

Mr. Marcos said the government will speed up its other railway initiatives, including the Metro Rail Transit Line 7 from Quezon City to Bulacan and the North-South Commuter Railway from Laguna to Tarlac.

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ROAD HAZARD

A sport utility vehicle causes traffic at Padre Burgos Avenue in Manila on Thursday morning after its driver fell asleep and crashed his car on the concrete barriers—a road hazard to motorists, no matter the circumstances of that accident.

ANGONO’S ‘GIANTS’

Paper-mache “higantes” (giants) stored at a covered court in Angono Municipal Cemetery are brought out in preparation for the municipality’s Higantes Grand Parade on Sunday, even amid a supertyphoon crossing Luzon.

The figures took months for their preparation in a town noted as a mecca of folk art.