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Flor Arrozal, executive director of the Mt. Pinatubo Project Management Office (MPPMO), said 40,000 more families want to move into resettlement sites where 49,611 other families have found permanent homes. 


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"There is no politics here that’s why not a single politician has been invited," Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) assistant secretary Deinrado Dimalibot told 1,184 family heads who attended the ceremony at the gymnasium of the Bulaon resettlement here.


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At a forum gathering residents from resettlement sites in Central Luzon, chairman Michael Defensor of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council said Reyes is indeed a possible choice for president if Mrs. Arroyo keeps her word not to run.


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Engineer Wilson Musngi, of the Pinatubo Project Management Office (PPMO), the forerunner of the defunct Mt. Pinatubo Commission, admitted to The STAR that the concrete floors of the 608 housing units have cracked and sunk since monsoon rains battered Central Luzon last July 6.       


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"We have tried all within our resources to wind up our work but we need more time," said Flor Arrozal, administrative services director of the MPC task force.


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Agency handling Pinatubo resettlements dissolved

By Ding Cervantes | August 28, 2005 - 12:00am

CLARK FIELD, Pampanga — Confusion now besets 16 resettlement sites across Central Luzon, where some 46,000 families displaced by the 1991 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo now live, after the Pinatubo Project Management...

Nation

40,000 more Central Luzon families want to be resettled

By Ding Cervantes | January 16, 2005 - 12:00am

CLARK FIELD, Pampanga — The number of Mt. Pinatubo-displaced families has ballooned by 40,000 more after President Arroyo declared two years ago that they were entitled to free house-and-lot packages in resettlement...

Nation

GMA shies away from TCT distribution to resettlers

By Ding Cervantes | April 29, 2004 - 12:00am

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga — In an apparent move to avoid charges of politicking, President Arroyo kept her distance from the distribution last Monday of 3,716 transfer certificates of title (TCTs) to families...

Nation

Defense chief kicks off presidential campaign?

By Ding Cervantes | May 29, 2003 - 12:00am

CLARK FIELD, Pampanga — Defense Secretary Angelo Reyes is among those being eyed by President Arroyo to be the administration standard-bearer in the elections next year. At a forum gathering residents from...

Headlines

Resettlement houses of 608 Pampanga families crumbling

By Ding Cervantes | July 26, 2002 - 12:00am

MAGALANG, Pampanga — After years of languishing in evacuation centers and finally finding refuge in resettlement sites, at least 608 families have again abandoned their government-built homes which have started...

Nation

Fate of Pinatubo evacuees hangs as MPC task force is dismantled

By Ding Cervantes | March 27, 2001 - 12:00am

MABALACAT, Pampanga – The fate of 4,653 lahar-displaced families still in evacuation centers in Central Luzon is now uncertain as the remaining task force of the...

Nation