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March 24th, 2011 03:48 PM #12
yeah prep ni Binay yan. lugi sya sa nasa senado especially with this coming impeachement trial. laking exposure sa mga senado at house prosecution yan.
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March 24th, 2011 05:16 PM #13
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March 24th, 2011 05:18 PM #14
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March 24th, 2011 05:20 PM #15
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March 24th, 2011 06:24 PM #16
Here's one reason:
Manila tenement residents to be relocated
By Jaymee T. Gamil
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 15:55:00 03/24/2011
Filed Under: Earthquake, Disasters (general), Safety of Citizens, Laws, Philippines - Metro
MANILA, Philippines—More than 80 families are set to be relocated from the National Housing Authority-run tenement houses in Manila, after inspections made by the Department of Public Works and Highways up to October last year confirmed the structural hazards of the buildings.
In fact, the Vitas Tenement Building in Tondo has been condemned for the past 10 years, and the situation has even worsened since then, Manila City Building Official engineer Melvin Balagot said.
Also up for relocation are the residents of the Punta, Sta. Ana, Tenement House, another long-condemned building that, nevertheless, houses around 1,000 families. The urgency of the relocation has been highlighted following the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
“The beams, walls, columns are cracked. The iron bar foundations are showing. Add to that, the places have become congested with families having around four to five members each,” he said of the seven-story Vitas Tenement, which houses 48 units on each floor.
Despite the safety hazards, out of the 300 families in Vitas, only 80 have volunteered to be relocated to a housing project in Towerville, San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan. Relocation will start next week, according to Balagot.
Most families have refused to make the move, not wanting to leave behind lives in Manila, or because of apprehensions the Bulacan resettlement site would be worse than their current situation, Balagot said.
“We understand it’s far, but they can’t gamble their safety. By law, they can’t really choose where they will be relocated, just as long as a relocation site is found for them. If they don’t want it, there might be forced evictions,” Balagot warned.
On Thursday, no less than Vice President Jejomar Binay visited the site to conduct a dialogue with the residents on the matter. Balagot said one suggestion was that the residents form a cooperative to procure a shuttle service between Bulacan and Manila.
No relocation site has been determined yet for the Punta, Sta. Ana, tenement residents. Dialogues have been ongoing with the families, Balagot said.
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March 24th, 2011 06:42 PM #18He knows how to project that he is doing his job and he is doing it to the right target market.
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March 24th, 2011 07:53 PM #19
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that may be, but we all got plastic, young and old. we asked the lto guy, "papel ba po, o...
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