The shores of Tayabas Bay in Sariaya town in Quezon have been called “haven of baby sea turtles” after Tuesday’s release of 92 Hawksbill sea turtles (Eretmochelys imbricate) in Barangay Guisguis.
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.
Trying to attract tourists to come over for a memorable experience, Iriga City has hitched a ride on the festival bandwagon rolling down in many localities all over the archipelago.
Businessmen wishing to cash in on Taal Volcano’s tourism market are asking the local government to put pressure on a tollway operator to rush a project to open a road exit to Balete town in this province.
Now 76, Archbishop Leonardo Z. Legaspi is one year past the mandatory retirement age for bishops. As of Wednesday, he is still clueless as to who the Vatican would name as his successor as bishop of the Archdiocese of Caceres, a post which he has served in the last 28 years.
A community-based group from a little-known poor municipality in Laguna may become the province’s official representative to a nationwide search for people or institutions that exemplify the works of national hero Jose Rizal.
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.
With over five hectares of green canopy rising and creeping above the shallow tidal flat, a mangrove plantation in Calabanga town in Camarines Sur has been attracting volunteers since 2009.
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.
Santa Cruz town saw more children devotees in its own version of the feast of the Sto. Niño on Jan. 15 compared to previous years.
While many of their peers are winding down a day in school, five school-aged children in Barangay Ambolong of Aroroy town, 32 kilometers from Masbate City, have been panning for gold for hours, not even sure if they can extract the precious mineral from the rocks they have carried from a hill at least a kilometer away.
Nearly a decade ago, pupils of Cagbalete I Annex Elementary School in Mauban town in Quezon had cursed bad weather for darkness would sweep their classrooms and make for dull learning.
A municipality in northern Quezon has found a way to shield handicraft producers, native wine makers and other local entrepreneurs from unscrupulous middlemen.
