Whose ‘human error’?

Segundo Eclar Romero - @inquirerdotnet 07/09/2021

The first and last time I took a C-130 plane was in 1999, when, as an official and faculty member of the National Defense College of the Philippines (NDCP), I joined a trip to Pag-asa Island arranged…

DSWD sends food packs for Lawin victims

Izobelle T. Pulgo, Nestle L. Semilla 10/21/2016

Capitol plans to deploy disaster team to help in relief efforts in northern Luzon The Department of Social Welfare and Development in Central Visayas (DSWD-7) sent 2,200 family food packs yesterday morning for distribution in areas in…

To climb the wall or the roof?

Jucell Marie P. Cuyos 11/17/2013

If not for typhoon Yolanda, the Diano family would still be in Tacloban City with their five children and a booming printing business. Wendell Diano, 33, arrived at the Mactan airbase on a C-130 flight with his…

Refugees arrive in Cebu to flee misery in typhoon-hit Tacloban City

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/12/2013

When two Philippine Air Force C-130s arrived at the typhoon-wrecked Daniel Romualdez airport in Tacloban City just after dawn yesterday, more than 3,000 people who had camped out hoping to escape the devastation surged onto the tarmac…

A day with dead bodies, people desperate to live

Lito M. Tecson 11/12/2013

AFTER covering the devastation caused by the Oct. 15 earthquake in Bohol and previous disasters like the sinking of the Princess of the Stars and the St Thomas Aquinas, I thought I’d seen it all. Then came…

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