PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III and his Cabinet should be held accountable for their refusal to allot funds for disaster preparedness in the 2011 calamity fund. A party-list lawmaker issued this statement after tropical storm Sendong (international codename: Washi) killed a thousand people in Mindanao, destroyed houses and contaminated water supplies, among others. Kabataan party-list Representative [...]

MANILA (Updated) — President Benigno Aquino III declared Tuesday a national state of calamity after Tropical Storm Sendong killed hundreds, damaged houses, roads, and bridges, and left many homeless in Northern Mindanao. The President made the announcement during his visit in Cagayan de Oro City, one of the areas badly-hit by the storm that killed [...]