MANILA, Philippines — “I will not lose hope,” Sen. Christopher “Bong” Go said in an interview last Wednesday, Nov. 25, in which he repeated his call for the passage of a measure he authored — Senate Bill No. 205 that will create the Department of Disaster Resilience (DDR).
A statement issued on Sunday quoted the rest of his statement, which was partly in Filipino: “I continue to make the call. Maybe, at the proper time, this [bill] will be passed because we really need a Cabinet-level secretary… so that coordination will be orderly and fast between the national government agencies and the local government offices.”
The proposed department, he said, would help prevent sign…
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