ARCHDIOCESE OF CEBU
Archbishop Jose Palma, also current head of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, said that it is human negligence in implementing infrastructure projects and the building code that must be blamed for the destruction left in Negros Occidental by the earthquake left on 6 February 2012. In a sense, had the government prevented substandard infrastructures in our roads and ensured compliance of the Building Code, the roads and bridges would have withstood the 5.9-strong quake, and the houses remained standing thereafter. [Read Report]
