August 6, 2011
THE CHAIR OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA TODAY EXPRESSED HER SUPPORT TO PRESIDENT BENIGNO AQUINO III IN MEETING WITH MURAD EBRAHIM, CHAIR OF THE MORO ISLAMIC LIBERATION FRONT (MILF) IN TOKYO, JAPAN, TO PUSH FORWARD THE PEACE PROCESS BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT AND THE MUSLIM REBELS IN MINDANAO.
“The meet on the highest level on both sides has planted the trust and good faith so necessary for the peace process to prosper. This can only augur […]
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August 3, 2011
“LISTEN TO THE FACES” OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED LEAST TO CLIMATE CHANGE BUT ARE PAYING THE HIGHEST PRICE FOR IT.
This is the main message Senator Loren Legarda, chair of the Senate Committee on Climate Change, wanted to convey in coming up with a photo exhibit entitled Visage: Portraits of Filipinos Facing Climate Change, co-organized with Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities headed by Red Constantino.
In her message, Legarda explained that […]
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August 1, 2011
SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA HAS SPOKEN IN THE LIGHT OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS WHERE SEVERAL PERSONALITIES HAVE COME OUT IN THE OPEN TO TELL ALL ABOUT THE COMMISSION OF ELECTORAL FRAUD, PARTICULARLY THE SWITCHING OF CONGRESSIONAL COPIES OF THE ELECTION RETURNS (ERS) IN THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL AND VICE-PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS.
Loren said: “The ghosts of the 2004 elections are once again haunting us because there was no absolute closure in the protest I filed before the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET).”
Loren was referring […]
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July 27, 2011
SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA REITERATED HER CALL TO THE NATIONAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TO ENFORCE A HEIGHTENED LEVEL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, MANAGE RAPIDLY INCREASING EXPOSURE TO HAZARDS FROM URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND ENSURE EFFECTIVE COMMUNITY-BASED EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS, AS HEAVY RAINS BROUGHT BY TYPHOON JUANING POUNDED LUZON YESTERDAY.
“Although we tend to focus only on the big disasters – the mega typhoons and disastrous floods and landslides such as Tropical Storm Ondoy and Typhoon Pepeng in 2009 that killed nearly a thousand […]
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July 27, 2011
SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA TODAY WARNED LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES TO MAINTAIN STRICT VIGILANCE AS HEAVY RAINS CONTINUE TO POUR, LEADING TO THE NEAR SPILLING LEVEL OF SEVERAL DAMS IN THE COUNTRY.
Legarda cited an update from the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) that water levels at Ipo Dam and La Mesa Dam are 99.5m and 79.87m, respectively, as of July 27, 10:00 a.m..
The spilling levels of these dams are 100.2 and 80.15, respectively.
“We […]
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