Coin toss breaks tie in mayoral race in Oriental Mindoro town
By Madonna Virola
Heads, you win; tails, you lose.
Heads, you win; tails, you lose.
The Coast Guard in this city has responded to the call for help of a ferry boat that developed engine trouble more than an hour after sailing off from Batangas port Monday morning.
The practice of Mindoro women carrying oil lamps with lighted wicks flickering like fireflies as they send off their husbands in the cold early morning hours to fish out to the open sea became the inspiration for the official festival of Oriental Mindoro.
It took teacher Rosita Montajes a lot of courage to use a microphone in reading a story with illustrations flashed on a big screen. Montajes is a Mangyan of the subtribe Taubuhid. Montajes was substituting for a storyteller, an indigenous girl initially asked to join Inquirer’s Read-Along session that morning on August 25 but the [...]
Rival politicians in Occidental Mindoro exploit legal remedies after a court stopped the governor’s order to suspend the mayor and almost all other elected officials in San Jose town.
CALAPAN CITY—Pito, 21, who dropped out from his Grade 4 class, saw doors opened for him to complete his schooling at the Oriental Mindoro Provincial Jail. Over the last two years, Pito has obtained certificates of graduation in both elementary and high school levels under the Project Akap (Aksyon para sa Karunungan at Abilidad ng [...]
Aida Carculan pressed her stained right thumb on a certificate of live birth inside the municipal gymnasium at the boundary of Barangays Balao and Poblacion in Abra de Ilog town in Occidental Mindoro.
The Sablayan Port in Occidental Mindoro has been marred by a dispute since early this year after the municipal government of Sablayan took over the management of arrastre services from cargo handling operator Tamarao Arrastre and Stevedoring Inc. (TASI).
Instead of partying this Christmas, about 120 residents of Barangay Gutad here, led by their officials, decided to use their time to sandbag the portion of Bucayao-Panggalaan River that has threatened to overflow and create a new waterway leading to the populated area in the village.
Known to have lit up thousands of impoverished homes in Metro Manila, the innovative and ecofriendly “solar bulbs” or “solar light bottles” awed the revelers who flocked to Oriental Mindoro’s provincial capitol on December 1.
The police investigation of the burning of a Catholic-run radio station in San Jose, Occidental Mindoro, has been hampered by a reported conflict between seminarians and the bishop running the vicariate.
CITY OF CALAPAN—Police may need not go far in their search for the culprit behind the burning of a Church-run radio station in San Jose, Occidental Mindoro, as a suspect, according to a ranking police officer, could be a wolf in sheep’s clothing—a priest. Chief Supt. Artemio Hicban, regional director of the Mimaropa (Mindoro, Marinduque, [...]
A 105 mm bomb, described to be vintage but live, was recovered by police Friday morning near an oil depot in the coastal village of Lazareto in this city.
