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Saturday, August 26, 2006 (Philippines)
| Volunteers of the Cash for Work program of the Petron Foundation and the social welfare department help clean up an area of oil sludge. (Contributed photo) |
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PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Friday declared the Guimaras oil spill as “a national calamity” and urged all Filipinos to cooperate in order to clean up the biggest and worst oil spill to affect the country so far.
“I am declaring the Guimaras oil spill as a national calamity that demands the cooperation and solidarity of all Filipinos. Let us do what has to be done first and deal with the blame later,” Arroyo said in her speech at the convention of the National Prosecutors’ League of the Philippines in Cebu City.
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2007 budget to fund Guimaras’ economic recovery, cleanup
CONGRESS will definitely provide enough funds in the proposed 2007 national budget for the environmental rehabilitation as well as the economic recovery of Guimaras province and other areas affected by the country’s worst oil spill disaster.
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Agriculture conducts bird flu preparedness workshop
IN LINE with the preparation for the possible entry of Avian Influenza (AI) or bird flu virus here in the Philippines, the Department of Agriculture Regional Field Unit (DA RFU) 6 held a two-day workshop among its personnel which aims to impart basic information about the disease and proper action on how to response if there will be suspected and/or identified positive cases.
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