Those with Facebook accounts in Claveria, Masbate, reach their friends online only at night, when lampposts are lit from dusk ’til dawn in the quaint town proper that has suffered for years from little or no power supply.
The family of slain teacher Loida Pagatpat yesterday offered a P100,000 reward to anyone who could identify her killers, the Masbate police said.
The family of slain teacher Loida Pagatpat on Thursday offered a P100,000 reward to anyone who could identify her killers, police authorities in Masbate province said.
Two soldiers were wounded when suspected communist rebels attacked a Philippine Army team in Barangay (village) Daguit in Labo, Camarines Norte, about 30 km from the capital town Daet, early Thursday, an Army official said.
How many times can a poor family eat in a day in the fishing town of Placer in Masbate? The answer is blowing in the wind.
Four heavily-armed men robbed passengers of a bus traveling along the Maharlika Highway in Santa Elena town, Camarines Norte just before midnight Monday, the police said.
A day after two miners drowned in a seaside mining pit in Paracale town in this province, Governor Edgardo Tallado asked the police to shut down all illegal mining operations there amid some misgivings.
Two small-scale miners drowned early on Sunday after seawater rushed into a mining pit they dug close to the shore in the coastal village of Palanas in Paracale, Camarines Norte, where they had been mining for gold, the top police official in the northernmost province of Bicol region said.
A bomb went off in the town proper of Batuan, Masbate, on Thursday, according to police on Saturday. Batuan, located on Ticao, one of the three main islands that compose Masbate province, is about an hour’s boat ride from Masbate City, the provincial capital.
In this Year of the Water Dragon, Bicol is poised to take off. The optimism stems from the region’s economic growth in previous years as most of its provinces turned to tourism and services to boost their standings. Some, however, were hobbled by challenges brought about by high power costs.
Two barangay or municipal district officials and a companion traveling with them were shot dead while a fourth man on the same motorcycle escaped unscathed from the ambush early Tuesday evening in the town of Uson in Masbate, a police official said Wednesday.
After Rosana Cantre’s husband and daughter fell ill because of typhoid fever in September last year, she stopped fetching drinking water from an uphill well and started buying purified water although it meant a cut in the family’s monthly income of P5,000, mostly from his husband’s work in a nearby ice plant.
Police have arrested a man for illegally cutting a tree inside the protected Bicol National Park (BNP), which straddles the Camarines provinces, and just a kilometer away from the so-called Mother Tree, considered to be the oldest tree in the region.
