Philip Cu Unjieng
It doesn’t take a genius to predict that several government corporations and agencies will still be suffering from downward-spiraling revenues and smaller earnings this 2021. If the COVID pandemic was hopefully seen as a flutter to 2020 targets, and much was made of buckling down and absorbing the blows in 2020, and that 2021 would see a steady climb back, those sort of prognostications have been thrown out with yesterday’s trash. For at least the first half of 2021 (just a month and a half away), the shadow of COVID and some form of quarantine will still be looming, affecting us all.
Published May 8, 2021, 11:49 PM
Good news to all Laguna and Batangas residents who are often displaced by typhoons and other extreme weather conditions.
The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) has provided P50 million each to the local government units of San Pablo City in Laguna and the town of Lobo in Batangas for the construction of their own Multi-Purpose Evacuation Center (MPEC).
PAGCOR President and COO Alfredo Lim (3rd from left) formally turns over to San Pablo City Mayor Loreto Amante (3rd from right) the P25 million check, representing the first tranche of the agency’s P50 million grant for the construction of a two-storey multi-purpose evacuation center in Barangay San Gregorio. With them are (from left) PAGCOR’s Asst. VP for Community Relations and Services Ramon Stephen Villaflor, PAGCOR Director Reynaldo Concordia and San Pablo City Vice Mayor Justin Colago. (Photo from PAGCOR)
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The state-run gaming agency has approved the funding for the construction of a Multi-Purpose Evacuation Center (MPEC) in these areas. Initially, PAGCOR released P25 million to each recipient local government unit (LGU) on Thursday, Feb. 11 so they jumpstart the construction of evacuation centers in their localities.
Using a P50 million-budget, each two-storey MPEC has provision for kitchen area, storage areas for relief goods, toilet and shower rooms for male and female, lactating rooms for nursing mothers, and a spacious badminton-court type area that may be used for sports events and other purposes when it is not being used as an evacuation site.