President Marcos wants to revisit the Bicol River Basin Development Program, a project that started during his late father's administration MANILA, Philippines – Days after Severe Tropical Storm ...

T he unprecedented devastation caused by Severe Tropical Storm “Kristine” in Bicol has led President Marcos to consider revisiting the Bicol River Basin Development Program (BRBDP), which was ...

The civil works for the Bicol River Basin Development Program (BRBDP), a project which the Marcos administration plans to revisit, could restart 40 years after it was halted in 1986, the Department of ...

President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. ordered the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to implement the updated Bicol River Basin Master Plan to address the perennial flooding in the Bicol ...

MANILA, Philippines — President Marcos has ordered government agencies to properly implement the updated master plan for the ...

President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. on Saturday said he plans to revisit the Bicol River Basin Development Program (BRBDP), a project of his late father Ferdinand Marcos Sr. in 1973, following ...

Luis Raymund Villafuerte Jr. It is to be a multiyear fund that will finance mainly the revival of the Bicol River Basin Development Program (BRBDP), which President Marcos himself earlier prioritized ...

LEGAZPI CITY, Philippines—Half of the Bicol region is prone to floods and landslides, prompting the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) to warn people living low-lying villages, near river ...

At the briefing, some plans were discussed, but the main focus was the over 50-year-old Bicol River Basin Development Program (BRBDP). The BRBDP was initiated in the 1970s to focus on geography-based ...

IN the midst of the government’s reorganization, President Arroyo has created another office tasked to oversee the implementation of the $30-million Bicol River Basin and Watershed Management Project.

MANILA, Philippines — Local officials have been instructed to look into an old river basin project that could possibly help address flooding in the Bicol Region. President Ferdinand “Bongbong ...