Marina chief says 62 died because boat ‘misloaded’
THE chief of the Maritime Maritime Industry Authority (Marina) on Thursday said the ill-fated MB Kim Nirvana-B, which left 62 people dead, was “misloaded” and not overloaded.
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THE chief of the Maritime Maritime Industry Authority (Marina) on Thursday said the ill-fated MB Kim Nirvana-B, which left 62 people dead, was “misloaded” and not overloaded.
LUCENA CITY—The Quezon provincial government gave a 6-wheeler water tank truck to the Quezon Metropolitan Water District (QMWD) on July 3 that will supply water to 42,000 users in this city, Tayabas and Pagbilao.
PRIVATE company Camp John Hay Development Corp. (CJHDevco) secured a respite in its tiff with a state-owned firm after the Court of Appeals (CA) issued an order preventing the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) from evicting CJHDevco from Camp John Hay, Baguio City.
THREE members of the New People’s Army (NPA) were killed on Wednesday in a firefight between rebels and soldiers in Quezon, the military has reported.
By Bong D. Fabe | Correspondent
By Marvyn N. Benaning / Correspondent
A KIDNAPPING suspect and seven members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) were arrested this week by soldiers manning a checkpoint in Marawi City, Lanao del Sur, but both the Moro group and the government wanted the Moro fighters released because of the peace talks.
OFFICIALS of at least 40 schools in Leyte that received laptop and desktop computers and other information-technology (IT) equipment lauded the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) and its movement partners for the different equipment turned over to them late last week.
ELEVEN noncombatants, two of them children, were wounded on Tuesday after a fragmentation grenade hurled by two men at a passing Army truck missed and instead landed near a group of bystanders in Sulu.
THE Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) will reproduce next year 10,000 geohazard maps as part of its ongoing mapping and assessment program.
ASSISTED by heavily armed policemen and soldiers, the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) on Friday forced its way to Hacienda Matias in San Francisco in Quezon’s Bondoc Peninsula, to reinstall 20 beneficiaries of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP).
By Ashley Manabat / Correspondent
FIVE Lopez Group companies have adopted 24 schools in the Visayas that were devastated by Supertyphoon Yolanda.
A CABINET member has expressed alarm over the rapid deforestation and the potential impact of climate change-triggered effects to communities in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR).
By Claudeth Mocon-Ciriaco / Correspondent
THE Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) has ordered three mining companies operating in Zambales to fast-track the rehabilitation of polluted water bodies, as well as farms and fishponds affected by their operations.
ASIDE from taking care of the peace and order situation in Davao City, tough-talking Mayor Rodrigo Duterte also makes it a point to provide for the welfare of the sick, particularly Davaoeños suffering from kidney failure.
AMID an international humanitarian crisis, particularly in Southeast Asia, members of a tribe in the Philippines have been in search for a new home that would welcome them like the seas of southern Mindanao once did. And after years of wandering, one group of Badjaos may have found a place like home in Quezon.
By Henry Empeño | Correspondent
By Jovee Marie N. dela Cruz
THE Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management (Psalm) Corp. is soliciting bids for the operation and maintenance service contract (OMSC) for the 650-megawatt (MW) Malaya Thermal Power Plant Complex (MTPP) in Malaya, Pililla, Rizal.
By Joey Pavia | Correspondent / Photos by Leo Villacarlos
By Estrella Torres | Photos by Rommel Natanauan DOT
Story and photos by Oliver Samson | Correspondent
OMBUDSMAN Conchita Carpio-Morales on Friday approved the filing of graft, usurpation of official functions charges against Zambales Gov. Hermogenes Ebdane Jr. in connection with a case filed against him and several other individuals by a mining company.
By Ashley Manabat / Correspondent
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