(Philstar.com) – December 5, 2020 MANILA, Philippines — The destruction left by Typhoon Ulysses in its wake is now estimated to have cost over P19 billion in agriculture and infrastructure, latest data from the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council showed. The NDRRMC’s 24th situation report on the typhoon showed latest estimates as of 8…
By the Inquirer Staff /November 19, 2020 President Rodrigo Duterte has placed the entire island of Luzon under a state of calamity to enable the national and local governments deal faster with widespread devastation caused by three successive typhoons and respond quickly to pleas for help from residents whose lives have been upended by the…
FQ Corner – Rose Fres Fausto (Philstar.com) – November 18, 2020 Are you familiar with Ulysses? Not the typhoon that just devastated us, but the legendary Greek hero. His Greek name was Odysseus but he was known to the Romans as Ulysses. Ulysses was a man who thought like a behavioral scientist. He was the…
(Philstar.com) – November 14, 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Amid harrowing scenes of destruction on social media, over 150 students of Ateneo de Manila University vowed Saturday not to submit any academic requirements starting Wednesday, November 18, in protest of the national government’s response to the recent string of typhoons amid the coronavirus pandemic. Per The GUIDON,…
In a year of one landmark crisis after another, typhoon season in the Philippines in 2020 bids fair to be as hard and unprecedented. Seven weather disturbances have affected the country in only a month, three of which developed into severe storms with catastrophic results on the population. “Ulysses,” the latest monster storm, killed at…