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Tacloban mayor: Nice ‘LENS ARTISTS’ if PN02oy visited organize 04s workshop www.kuwaittimes.net SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2014 Nothing to gain from debate: Erap Page 05 ‘Mar-made disaster’ MANILA: Sinisi ng oposisyong United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) si Department of Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas sa umano’y kapalpakan sa mga programa ng pamahalaan para sa mga biktima ng bagyong Yolanda na sumalanta sa Eastern Visayas noong Nobyembre ng nakaraang taon. Ayon rin sa UNA, sinubuan ni Roxas ng maling payo si Pangulong Aquino hinggil sa paggunita sa unang taon ng bagyong Yolanda. “Hindi si Roxas ang tao na dapat nagbibigay ng payo sa paggunita sa Yolanda. Isang bagay lang, ginugunita rin dito ang napakalaki niyang kapalpakan sa liderato at pangangasiwa sa krisis,” sabi ni UNA interim president Toby Tiangco. “Isang malaking trahedya ang kapalpakan na nangyari pagkatapos ng Yolanda. Binigyan si Roxas ng pagkakataon na magpakitang gilas pero nabisto ang kanyang kawalan ng pamumuno.”—PSN ‘No more power shortage in Mindanao in 2015’ DAVAO CITY: If President Benigno Aquino III is right, Mindanao will not experience any more massive power outages next year. Speaking at the Philippine Development Forum on Bangsamoro at the SMX Convention Center here last Thursday, President Aquino said Mindanao’s power generation capacity was on its way to full recovery and the island would attain power security ahead of MANILA: Filipino protesters covered with mud rally near Malacanang presidential palace in Manila yesterday. The mud protest denounces Luzon. Philippine President Aquino of alleged neglect for the need of victims of super typhoon Haiyan, who are until now suffering. —AFP He said based on the reports he got from government agencies, several major power plants will be operating in Mindanao in 2015, which will boost the Prayers, tears in Philippines one year after super typhoon region’s power generation capacity. These include the TACLOBAN: Survivors of the strongest typhoon ever The rebuilding effort has been painfully slow for miss you, son, I love you so much,” Crisostomo said. 300-megawatt coal-fired Therma South Energy Power to hit land wept at mass graves yesterday during cere- most survivors, with millions poorer and many danger- Using felt-tip pens, mourners wrote names of those Plant in Davao del Sur and the 200-MW Southern monies to mark one year since the storm devastated ously exposed to the next big storm as they still live in who died on the hundreds of white crosses planted on Mindanao Coal-Fired Power Plant in Sarangani. the central Philippines and condemned millions to shanty homes along coastal areas. parched earth in symbolic gestures as many of those “These two plants, among others, put us on track deeper poverty. In an outpouring of grief, thousands marched to buried there had not been identified. to have an energy surplus in Mindanao by 2015,” Super Typhoon Haiyan claimed more than 7,350 mass grave sites scattered across the typhoon zone on “I am looking for my brother, but his name is not Aquino said. The Aboitiz-owned Davao Light and lives as it swept in off the Pacific Ocean, with its record Saturday to offer flowers, light candles and say prayers. on the list of those buried here,” Elena Olendan, 50, Power Company said Davao City would have ade- winds and once-in-a-generation storm surges flatten- Josephine Crisostomo, 41, whose three children told AFP, her eyes welling with tears, as she wandered quate power supply when Therma South starts to ing entire towns. died during the storm, was among a big crowd at a around the grave site, about the size of six basketball operate in 2015. The company, the city’s sole power The typhoon tore across a corridor of islands where site on the outskirts of badly hit Tacloban city where courts. Olendan then found a cross at the far end of distributor, said it was also looking for additional about 14 million people lived in farming and fishing more than 2,000 people were buried. the mass grave and wrote her brother’s name, sources to ensure the stability of power supply communities that were already among the nation’s “I miss my children terribly, especially John Dave Antonio, on it. beyond 2015. —Inquirer.net poorest. who would have celebrated his birthday tomorrow... I Continued on Page 2 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2014 2 TACLOBAN: Residents and survivors visit the mass graves for victims during a memorial ceremony marking the first anniversary of Super Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as Yolanda, at a mass grave in the village of Vasper, Tacloban City, central Philippines yesterday. Survivors of the strongest typhoon ever to hit land descended on mass graves yesterday, to mark one year since the storm devastated the central Philippines and condemned millions to deeper poverty. Haiyan claimed more than 7,350 lives as it swept in off the Pacific Ocean, with its record winds and once-in-a-generation storm surges flattening entire towns. —AFP photos delayed by problems in finding new land that is safe and suitable Prayers, tears in ... for 205,000 new homes. Across the typhoon-hit islands, schools, health centres, gymna- Continued from Page 1 siums and other important community buildings are also yet to The Philippines is a mainly Catholic country and many people be rebuilt or repaired. In a speech at the typhoon-hit town of in the typhoon zones, as well as across the nation, attended spe- Guiuan on Friday, Aquino defended the pace of the reconstruc- cial church services. tion and recovery programme, saying he was determined to At the Tacloban grave site, white doves and balloons were ensure it was carried out correctly rather than rushing. released after a bishop gave a mass. “Curse me, criticise me but I believe I must do the right thing,” Tacloban city mayor Alfred Romualdez, who attended the cere- Aquino said. mony, said Saturday’s solemn rites gave the survivors an opportuni- “I am impatient like everyone else but I have to stress that we ty to let emotions come out. “It’s bittersweet because while they sur- can’t rebuild haphazardly. We have to build back better... let’s get vived, they lost their loved ones, their livelihood and their homes. it right the first time and the benefits should be permanent.” Now is really the time for them to grieve,” Romualdez told AFP. And while millions are enduring Haiyan-exacerbated poverty, there has been some remarkable progress from a year ago, partly Slow pace due to international aid agencies pumping hundreds of millions The build-up to the anniversary had focused renewed atten- of dollars into the region. tion on the pace of the reconstruction effort, with President Some of the big successes of the campaign have been the Benigno Aquino’s government criticised by many for a perceived restoration of electricity within a few months, quick replanting of lack of urgency. rice crops and sanitation programmes that prevented major out- Roughly one million people need to be moved away from TACLOBAN: A woman grieves in front of crosses during breaks of killer diseases. coastal areas that are deemed vulnerable to storm surges, accord- a memorial ceremony marking the first anniversary of Tacloban, home to 240,000 people, again resembles many oth- ing to a 160-billion-peso ($3.6-billion) government master plan for Super Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as Yolanda, at a er chaotic Philippine cities, with traffic jams, busy market stalls rebuilding the typhoon zones. mass grave in the village of Vasper, Tacloban City, cen- and packed shopping malls. —AFP However those plans have already fallen behind schedule, tral Philippines yesterday. Tacloban mayor: Nice if PNoy visited TACLOBAN City, Philippines: City Instead of Tacloban City, Aquino visit- dents of Tacloban who are still missing. Mayor Alfred Romualdez on Saturday ed Guiuan town, where Yolanda made “It’s important that we put a memori- said that it would have been nice if lanfall on November 8 last year. al here because many of the families did President Benigno Aquino III also visited Other top officials including Sen. not just lose one family member... some the city, which was worst-hit in Visayas Bongbong Marcos, Ilocos Norte Rep. of them even lost 15,” he said.”They nev- by Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) last Imelda Marcos and Leyte Rep. er had time to mourn their dead year. Ferdinand Martin Romualdez joined the because they were busy reconstructing “I leave it up to the President ... tao na hundreds of Tacloban City residents in their lives.” TACLOBAN: Philippine former first lady Imelda Marcos (R) and lang ang maghusga diyan on how they remembering their dead during simple Local officials at the memorial told her son Bong Bong Marcos (2nd L, in white) attend a mass for feel about it, but as far as I’m concerned rites at the Holy Cross Memorial at the reporters that last November 1, those victims during a memorial ceremony marking the first anniver- it would [have been] nice if he visited Holy Cross Memorial in Barangay who lost relatives from the onslaught of sary of Super Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as Yolanda, at a also places that he has not yet visited so Basper. super typhoon went to the memorial mass grave in the village of Vasper, Tacloban City, central that he can see what’s going on there,” Mayor Romualdez said that the cere- and started marking white crosses with Philippines yesterday. —AFP Romualdez said. mony is also for the more than 600 resi- names. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2014 4 ‘LENS ARTISTS’ organizes workshop KUWAIT: The ‘LENS ARTISTS’ a group of Pinoy photographers, organized on Friday ‘ Skin Retouching & Remasking Workshop’ held at Starbucks Cafe, Kuwait City.

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