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Photo of First Scout Ranger Regiment rescue operation in San Miguel, Bulacan at the height of intense rains caused by Typhoon “Ompong (PIA file photo)
CALOOCAN CITY, Feb. 21 (PIA) The Climate Change Commission (CCC) renews call to strengthen the country’s science-based disaster risk reduction planning to reduce the irreversible impacts of climate change and to mitigate damage from floods, typhoons, and other natural disasters.
The Philippines was ranked fourth among countries most affected by extreme weather events from 2000-2019, according to Global Climate Risk Index 2021 by Germanwatch.
The ranking is said to be attributed to the aftermath of devastating typhoons over the last decades, including Typhoon Ondoy (2009), Typhoon Pablo (2012), Super Typhoon Yolanda (2013), and Typhoon Ompong (2018), which were responsible for the loss of thousands of lives, as well as the massive damage to agriculture and infrastructure. Another factor is the long process of recovering from
The actor was excited about it.
According to him, it’s the first time he returned to the scout ranger camp after training there a year ago.
“Good to be back,” he said.
Meanwhile, the official Instagram account of FSRR uploaded a series of photos taken during Matteo’s visit.
“2LT GUIDICELLI is an active member of the FSRR Multi-sector Advisory Board (MSAB) representing the youth sector. He is currently an active member of the Strategic Communications and Assessment and Review Committees,” they wrote as caption to the post.
Then they shared how in 2019, Matteo volunteered to join the Leadership Development Course (LDC) together with the 2nd Class Cadets of Philippine Military Academy (PMA Class 2020) and graduated with a “very satisfactory performance.”
Danny Lim: The West Pointer who rebelled against a system, then embraced it
Jan 6, 2021 12:47 PM PHT
This generation knows the late Danny Lim only as Metro Manila’s traffic chief, one of the retired generals appointed to a civilian post by President Rodrigo Duterte. He was much more than that.
From a family of bright kids in Solano, Nueva Vizcaya, Lim had always been ahead of the pack – whether in school or in the Armed Forces of the Philippines, which he joined in 1979 after finishing at the prestigious United States Military Academy at West Point. He spent his plebe year at the Philippine Military Academy, belonging to Class 1978, the power class under former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo who herself was their “adopted classmate.”