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Two sea disasters just a few days apart have claimed several lives.

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 The sinking of an Aleson Shipping Lines ferry off Basilan early Monday, January 26, is the shipping company's second major tragedy in less than three years.

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In the wake of successive natural disasters that exposed long-standing gaps in Cebu’s infrastructure and disaster preparedness, Governor Pamela Baricuatro is pushing to revive the Mega Cebu initiative.

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The Cebu provincial government is set to convene a meeting anchored on the Rapid Damage Assessment and Needs Analysis (RDANA) to evaluate the full impact of the twin disasters that battered the province last year and to map out recovery efforts moving forward.

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The year 2025 ends at midnight today, with a national debt of ?17.56 trillion, a population of 117,300,00 Filipinos and counting, more than one half of whom are very poor, with a nominal per capita income of only $4,350. Among the ASEAN 11, we are second to Indonesia in population, but we are only fourth in Agriculture GDP, fifth in industry GDP, and also fourth in service GDP.

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The Department of Education is working closely with the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) after back-to-back earthquakes in Cebu and Davao Oriental showed the need for data-driven decisions on suspending face-to-face classes.

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The Department of Education has set aside P4 million to supply disaster-hit schools with learning recovery kits that aim to replace learning materials destroyed by typhoons and floods.

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If the newly-appointed Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) head Dennis Francis Pastor is to be believed, the disaster response unit of the province is currently in a bad state and not disaster-ready.

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                    [Title] => EDITORIAL — Safety at sea not to be trifled with
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Two sea disasters just a few days apart have claimed several lives.

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 The sinking of an Aleson Shipping Lines ferry off Basilan early Monday, January 26, is the shipping company's second major tragedy in less than three years.

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In the wake of successive natural disasters that exposed long-standing gaps in Cebu’s infrastructure and disaster preparedness, Governor Pamela Baricuatro is pushing to revive the Mega Cebu initiative.

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The Cebu provincial government is set to convene a meeting anchored on the Rapid Damage Assessment and Needs Analysis (RDANA) to evaluate the full impact of the twin disasters that battered the province last year and to map out recovery efforts moving forward.

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The Department of Education is working closely with the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) after back-to-back earthquakes in Cebu and Davao Oriental showed the need for data-driven decisions on suspending face-to-face classes.

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The Department of Education has set aside P4 million to supply disaster-hit schools with learning recovery kits that aim to replace learning materials destroyed by typhoons and floods.

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If the newly-appointed Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) head Dennis Francis Pastor is to be believed, the disaster response unit of the province is currently in a bad state and not disaster-ready.

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