Romualdez thanks colleagues for ‘continued compassion’; day of remembrance to be set by bill

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Tingog Sinirangan partylist Rep. Yedda Marie Romualdez thanked Wednesday her colleagues for approving on second reading a bill seeking to declare November 8 of every year as the

She branded Lower Chamber’s approval of House Bill No. 4960 as her colleagues’ “continued malasakit ” for the Yolanda victims

Under HB 4960, November 8 of every year shall be declared as a special non-working holiday in Tacloban City and the provinces of Leyte, Biliran, Southern Leyte, Northern Samar, Western Samar and Eastern Samar to commemorate the onslaught of Supertyphoon Yolanda . The Romualdezes noted that for the last three years, the city of Tacloban and the provinces of Leyte, Biliran, Southern Leyte, Northern Samar, Western and Eastern Samar have been observing an annual commemoration of Yolanda devastation through a local executive order.

On November 8, 2013, Super typhoon Yolanda heavily battered Eastern Visayas, killing 5, 982 people and affected 2.6 million families.

 

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