News in Pictures: November 25, 2023
Fleeing from Home
Rescuers on Wednesday begin to bring residents in the municipality of Catarman, the provincial capital of Northern Samar, out of their village, amid rising floodwaters since Sunday due to a low pressure area and shear line since early this week. Our Lady of the Annunciation Cathedral Parish Church has served as one of the evacuation centers in the municipality. Besides Eastern Visayas, Western Visayas, Bicol, Calabarzon and Caraga also experienced heavy rain, which affected more than 300,000 people from these regions.
Show on climate change impact
Students on Friday take a peak inside a tent at the People’s Museum of Climate Justice in Malate, Manila, which features photographs and other objects that serve to recount the stories of survivors who have dealt directly with the impact of climate change. The exhibit is organized by Greenpeace Philippines, together with communities from vulnerable areas in the country, such as Bohol, Metro Manila and Tacloban, where the exhibit was held early this month. The United Nations will hold its annual Climate Change Conference in Dubai beginning Nov. 30. President Marcos will attend that opening day and will discuss green projects with other countries.
Unlawful enterprise
Department Migrant of Workers (DMW) officer in charge Hans Leo Cacdac leads the closure of 11 Sea’s Immigration Services at Welcome Plaza Mall in Taft Avenue, Pasay City. The consultancy which supposedly offered jobs in Canada and Poland was found charging job applicants exorbitant fees as high as half a million pesos for processing their documents. The DMW also said the company had no license to operate.
Strong partnership
President Marcos talks with businessman Fernando Zobel de Ayala during the inauguration of Healthway Cancer Care Hospital in Taguig City on Friday. Mr. Marcos took the occasion to emphasize the government’s “strong partnership” with the private sector in strengthening the country’s health-care system and promised government-funded assistance to Filipinos seeking treatment in what he called the “first hospital in the Philippines dedicated to cancer care.”
Internal price check
An employee of a supermarket in Quezon City on Thursday checks prices of food items that sell the most before Christmas Eve preparations. Prices of these “noche buena” items, from ham to fruit cocktail to pasta and queso de bola, rose from 1 percent to 10 percent ahead of the holidays, according to a price guide released by the Department of Trade and Industry on Wednesday. An official of the department attributed the price increases to the rising cost of the packaging and distribution of those products, among other expenses.
Please come down
Two members of the Bureau of Fire Protection on Wednesday try to reach out to a man who had been staying more than 28 hours at the height of a 60-foot electric post at Tambuli Street corner J.P. Rizal Avenue in Barangay Calumpang, Marikina City, as they try to convince him to come down with them. The rescuers were accompanied by another man who identified himself as a relative. Power in the village had to be turned off during that incident, while some firetrucks and ambulances were on standby. After about 30 hours the man was brought down from the post.
