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The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) has the power to recommend to the President of the Philippines the declaration of a group of barangays, municipalities, cities, provinces, regions or the entire country under a state of calamity, and the lifting thereof, based on the criteria set by the NDRRMC.
July 16 – A state of calamity is declared in Maguindanao del Sur due to floods caused by the overflowing of the Rio Grande de Mindanao. [187] July 17 – A state of calamity is declared in Cavite City due to a massive fire that displaces 900 families in two barangays. [188] July 18 – A state of calamity is declared in Pikit, Cotabato due to ...
A state of calamity was also declared in Bataan on August 6. [30] Authorities estimated that around 350,000 people, including around 25,000 working in the fishing industry, were affected by the oil spill in Cavite, while daily economic losses in the province was estimated at nearly P18 million. [ 31 ]
The Acta de Tejeros was a document prepared on March 23, 1897 which proclaimed the events at the Tejeros Convention on March 22 to have been disorderly and tarnished by chicanery.
The Philippines was under a state of emergency, announced by presidential spokesperson Ignacio Bunye on the morning of February 24, 2006, by the virtue of Proclamation No. 1017. This occurred after the government claimed that it foiled an alleged coup d'état attempt against the rule of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo earlier that same day.
The Magdalo was a faction of the Katipunan (a Philippine revolutionary organization with the aim to gain independence from Spain during the Philippine Revolution) chapter in Cavite. It was named after Mary Magdalene , patroness of Kawit , Cavite .
On January 15, 2020, Cavite Governor Jonvic Remulla declared the province under a state of calamity. [98] A state of calamity was declared in the whole Calabarzon region via Proclamation No. 906 which was signed by President Rodrigo Duterte on February 21. The declaration is set to last for one year unless lifted. [99] [100] [101] [102]
In line with the public health emergency declaration, the department imposed a 60-day price freeze on basic commodities. [4] On March 16, the president signed Proclamation No. 929 declaring a state of calamity throughout the country for six months, bringing into effect the following: [5] price control of basic needs and commodities,