Typhoid hits 18 villages in Albay, 66 hospitalized
By Mar S. Arguelles
At least 66 residents have fallen ill of suspected typhoid fever in 18 villages in the town of Oas in Albay, the Provincial Health Office said Monday.
At least 66 residents have fallen ill of suspected typhoid fever in 18 villages in the town of Oas in Albay, the Provincial Health Office said Monday.
Albay province will host at least 10 of the 63 ministerial events of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit to be held in the country in 2015.
Disaster authorities in Albay and other Bicol provinces have been warned anew to brace themselves for floods, landslides and mudflow from Mt. Mayon with the onset of the rainy season.
Why rock the boat when it is sailing smoothly? A political science professor says this is not a good time for the opposition in Albay to compete with some incumbent candidates whose economic achievements are already “smoothly sailing” and have found themselves running without opponents.
Albay Gov. Joey Salceda on Thursday said the province will soon pass an ordinance that will make it unlawful to conduct trekking and mountaineering activities, including crater climbing, on active Mayon volcano.
What was meant to be a fun climb turned into a tragedy for 27 foreign mountaineers and their local guides when Mayon Volcano erupted on Tuesday and spewed hot rocks, killing five of them.
Leaders of the Pampanga Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PamCham) have endorsed the reelection bid of Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano to its 417 member-companies.
The ruling Liberal Party’s (LP) head in Bicol, Albay Gov. Joey Salceda, apparently wants to have his cake and eat it too, and the senatorial candidates on the administration Team PNoy who are struggling to break into the Top 12 in the polls don’t like it a bit.
Militant groups led by Karapatan-Albay and the Albay Electric Cooperative (ALECO) multi-sectoral stakeholders’ organization (AMSSO) staged a protest rally Monday morning opposing the planned privatization of the financially ill electric cooperative.
President Benigno Aquino III is funneling P20 billion into projects to be identified by mayors belonging to the country’s most indigent provinces as part of this administration’s bid to fast-track the escape of poor families from poverty.
By keeping the youth busy in school, the number of teenage pregnancies in Albay has dropped below the national average, according to Albay Gov. Joey Salceda.
Government search and rescue teams fished out the bodies of four persons who were killed when a boat, carrying mostly public school teachers, capsized off the waters of Bacacay, Albay, on Friday.
Government search-and-rescue teams rescued 21 people, mostly teachers, from a passenger boat that capsized in heavy seas off the town of Bacacay in Albay late Friday afternoon. At least four people, including the boat’s skipper, died in the accident and their bodies have been recovered, officials said Saturday.
