Technology vs COVID-19
FOR A MORE efficient contact tracing vis-à-vis the coronavirus disease cases, the city government of Iloilo will be using science and technology, specifically the...
Impactful weather forecasting
THE Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) must address barriers to access and utilization of its weather and climate information. Various studies...
The greater challenge
AREAS hit by floods – in Metro Manila and other parts of Luzon and the Visayas – due to recent successive typhoons face the...
National ID
ONE of the major causes of delays in the distribution of the Social Amelioration Program aid is the lack of identification cards among many...
Collaboration
SINCE the start of the community quarantine in March, the private sector has been extending support to the city government of Iloilo – in...
We’re prepared, but we can still do better
WE NEVER run out of storms, do we?
We have another one now – “Ulysses”, just days after “Quinta”, “Rolly”, “Siony” and “Tonyo”. Unwelcome visitors,...
‘New normal’ weather events
STRANDED commuters, long queues in public transport stations, students wading in flood waters, stalled cars, highways and streets inundated by flood waters, bancas in streets...
Lessons from ‘Yolanda’
WE DO NOT hope for more natural hazards to come, but that is already part of our lives. We only hope that when the...
Build back better
VERY few perhaps knew that Nov. 5, or three days ago, was World Tsunami Awareness Day. In 2015 the United Nations declared the day...
The right to breathe clean air
PROCLAMATION 1109 issued in 1997 declared November as “Clean Air Month”. Yes, we have a law ensuring clean air. Signed on June 23, 1999...