Marvin Isidore "Sid" Macatol Weblog

Relief goods in the custody of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) allegedly gathered dust in four warehouses, one month after typhoon Ondoy. There was indignation about this in blogosphere lately. The October 29, 2009 post entitled " Aanhin pa ang damo kung patay na ang kabayo " at ellaganda.com lambasted DSWD for alleged hoarding of relief goods in DSWD warehouses. Overzealous people in Facebook and eGroups circulated the link to this post. But earlier, on October 26, 2009, DSWD Secretary Esperanza Cabral has already made a statement on these relief goods , admitting that the DSWD "warehouses are indeed full" but that this was . . . "inspite of the fact that we have distributed 500,000 food packs and 200,000 clothing packs as well as thousands of sacks of rice, blankets, beddings, and items of personal hygiene in the past almost 4 weeks." Let me say my piece.

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan—Angry mayors Monday called for the decommissioning of the San Roque Dam , fearing its location near a fault line raised the possibility that it could collapse during an earthquake and wipe out Pangasinan province. (Source: Inquirer.Net ) Mayors of Pangasinan actually thought it was cool to damn the San Roque dam. As an ordinary citizen who studied land and water resources engineering in college, I could not help but wonder how the San Roque dam was built in the first place . . .  if the mayors' claim was correct: that the dam was built on a fault line!