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A member of the Philippine Coast Guard’s medical assistance response team helps a colleague to cross a flooded national highway in Botolan, Zambales, with very strong currents by holding on to a rope placed across the road so rescuers could access those who need to be evacuated. Two hundred families are in elementary schools in Porac and Bucao villages in Botolan while 1,548 families were in the gym at the Botolan town proper. Evacuation is ongoing at press time. Soldiers are also helping in the rescue efforts.
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Ipinakita ng mga tauhan ng Philippine Coast Guard sa pangunguna ni PCG Vice Admiral Wilfredo Tamayo ang kanilang mga kagamitan sa paghahanda sa nalalapit na tag-ulan sa kanilang headquarters sa Port Area, Maynila.
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Department of Transporation and Communications (DoTC) Secretary Jose ‘Ping’ P. De Jesus (at the rostum) leads the 109th founding anniversary celebration of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) at the PCG Heaquarters in Port Area, Manila, October 22, 2010. De Jesus cited the PCG for its sterling jo as the country’s sea guardian, notably in search and rescue, anti-piracy and poaching, smuggling, illegal fishing, and marine environmental protection. With him are PCG Commandant Admiral Wilfredo D. Tamayo, PCG chaplain Fr. Edmund Desierto (a PCG lieutenant commander), other PCG top brass, including Vice Admiral Ramon Liwag, Rear Admiral Edmund Tand, Commodores Lino Dabi, Enrico Efren Evangelista, Athelio Ybanez, and members of PCB Auxiliary squadrons, PCG officers’ wives association and stakeholders in the maritime, shipping and fishing industries.
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THE PHILIPPINE COAST GUARD (PCG) has sent “one billio thanks” to President Aquino for setting aside close to P3 Billion as the 2011 budget of what the PCG commandant acknowledged as “one of the world’s most over-challenged coast guards”
Admiral Wilfredo Tamayo, PCG Chief, said the P1 Billion increase in the agency’s budget (from P2 Billion this year) was a “big boost” to the Coast Guard.
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Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) Commandant Admiral Wilfredo D. Tamayo (right) hands over a copy of a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) of the joint campaign and operations of the PCG and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) against illegal drug trafficking aboard ships and in seaports or terminals Dionisio R. Santiago (left), PDEA Director General, in MoA signing rites held at the PDEA national headquarters in Quezon City.