(BusinessWorld) PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. on Tuesday said he would put the local disaster agency under his office to streamline the government’s calamity response.
“There has been a suggestion that has been going around for many years now that we will put the disaster response team, the national response team under the Office of the President,” he told a news briefing in Tacloban City in central Philippines, based on a transcript sent by the presidential palace.
“I think that we are headed in that direction because of the weather that we are suffering now [and] the effects of climate change,” he added.
The president made the remarks at an event commemorating the ninth anniversary of Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda), which killed more than 6,000 people and destroyed 90% of Tacloban and after Typhoon Nalgae (Paeng) killed at least 150 people. .. Read More