Search and rescue (SAR) operations in the waters off Burias Island of Masbate continued on Sunday but with no success in finding the remaining seven missing passengers of the ill-fated MV Lady of Mount Carmel.
Poor lashing of a bus onboard may have caused a ferry to tilt off balance and sink off Burias Island in Masbate province early Friday, killing two people and leaving four others missing.
Former Sorsogon Representative Jose Solis, 80, passed away here early Tuesday.
The government crime drive went full throttle in Masbate as the campaign for local positions began in the province notorious for election violence.
Some 55 members of the Naga City police force will be sent to Masbate as the Philippine National Police in Bicol organizes a task force to go after private armed groups (PAGS) that are expected to be used by politicians in the island-province in the May 2013 elections.
The Philippine Navy rescued 123 people from a motorboat that stalled amid foul weather off Burias Island in Masbate early Saturday.
At least 2,500 passengers were stranded in various ports across Bicol after storm signal number one brought on by tropical storm “Ofel” was raised over the region and the rest of Southern Luzon, the regional Office of Civil Defense (OCD) reported Thursday.
A magnitude 3.5 quake was recorded at 5:36 a.m. about 61 kilometers south and 85 degrees west of Naga City in Camarines Sur, while a 4.1 magnitude tremor was recorded at 1:38 a.m. some 24 kilometers south and 57 degrees east of Banton, Romblon, according to bulletins published at the website of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Siesmology (Phivolcs).
A four-hour brownout hit this city and the neighboring towns of Daraga, Camalig and Manito after a power line of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) broke down, a ranking official of the Albay Electric Cooperative (Aleco) said Wednesday.
The strong earthquake that shook the provinces of Samar and Leyte and Mindanao Friday night was also felt in parts of the Bicol, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said.
Two suspected rebels were killed in an encounter with Army soldiers at a remote village of Camalig town in Albay on Saturday.
Contaminated water killed three persons and struck ill dozens of other residents of several villages in two provinces where people relied heavily on deep wells for water.
LEGAZPI CITY—Two legislators and a former member of the House of Representatives are calling for a review of the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (Epira), particularly its “anticonsumer” provisions. Representatives Milagros “Mitos” Magsaysay of Zambales and Jack Enrile of Cagayan, and former Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri of Bukidnon said the Epira Law had not resulted [...]
