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The Payatas dumpsite, also known as the Payatas Controlled Disposal Facility (PCDF), is a former garbage dump in the barangay of the same name in Quezon City, Metro Manila, the Philippines. Originally established in the 1970s, [ 1 ] the former open dumpsite was home to scavengers who migrated to the area after the closure of the Smokey Mountain ...
No. Party-list Full name Nominees 1 4Ps [1]: Pagtibayin at Palaguin ang Pangkabuhayang Pilipino Marcelino Libanan (incumbent); Jonathan Clement Abalos II (incumbent)
The Drivers United for Mass Progress and Equal Rights – Philippines Taxi Drivers Association (DUMPER PTDA), [1] also known as the DUMPER Partylist is a political organization which has party-list representation in the House of Representatives of the Philippines.
The Priority Development Assistance Fund scam, also called the PDAF scam or the pork barrel scam, is a political scandal involving the alleged misuse by several members of the Congress of the Philippines of their Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF, popularly called "pork barrel"), a lump-sum discretionary fund granted to each member of Congress for spending on priority development ...
Party-list: Carlo Lisandro Gonzalez MARINO Party-list: Raul Tupas Nacionalista: Iloilo: 5th: Allan Ty LPGMA Party-list: Presley De Jesus PHILRECA Party-list: Adriano Ebcas AKO PADAYON Party-list: Maricel Natividad-Nagaño PRP: Nueva Ecija: 4th: Vicente Veloso III NUP: Leyte: 3rd: Members for the Minority Gabriel Bordado Jr. Liberal: Camarines ...
The dumpsite was reopened weeks later by then-Quezon City Mayor Ismael Mathay Jr. to avert an epidemic in the city due to uncollected garbage caused by the closure. [6]The landslide prompted the passage of Republic Act No. 9003 or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000, [7] which mandates the closure of open dumpsites in the Philippines by 2004 and controlled dumpsites by 2006.
The Philippine Statistics Authority (Filipino: Pangasiwaan ng Estadistika ng Pilipinas; PSA) is the central statistical authority of the Philippine government that collects, compiles, analyzes, and publishes statistical information on economic, social, demographic, political affairs, and general affairs of the people of the Philippines, as well as enforcing the civil registration functions in ...
She was awarded an MBE in 2006, and in 2012, she lived in the Philippines. [5] Projects have been enforced by the government and non-government organizations to allow urban resettlement sites for slum dwellers. [6] According to a UN-Habitat report, over 20 million people in the Philippines live in slums. [7]