Balloting could start only early afternoon in Bugasong town in Antique after hundreds of official ballots for the municipality was inadvertently switched with those of Odiongan town in Romblon.
A dismissed Antique provincial official, who has been on hunger strike to protest his non-reinstatement, was hospitalized on Monday after complaining of dizziness in the capital town of San Jose.
A man was killed, while over 30 people were injured when their bus fell from a bridge in Antique early Friday, police said.
Five fishermen on board a motorboat that had been missing in Antique since Sunday were rescued off Palawan on Wednesday evening, according to the Coast Guard.
Miner Adrian Cilmar is in a dilemma: Will he go back to work or not? Cilmar was still contemplating after surviving the massive collapse of a wall portion in the open mine pit that killed five of his coworkers at Semirara Mining Corp. (SMC) on Semirara Island in Antique. Five others remained missing.
Lalaine Planca is grappling with her grief. “I have lost two already and that’s too much,” she said.
Retrieval operations for five more missing miners from the landslide at a mining pit in Antique were temporarily called off due to bad weather, police said.
It is the second mining disaster to occur in the country in seven months, putting the local mining industry under siege, but investors do not expect a prolonged suspension of operations of Semirara Mining Corp.’s Panian open-pit coal mine in Antique, given that the disaster was “not environmental” in nature.
The bodies of a still undetermined number of miners trapped when a mining pit in Antique collapsed Wednesday have been found, but they have yet to be retrieved after operations were halted because of the stench, police said.
The miners were having coffee near the end of their break around midnight on Wednesday when they noticed that earth was coming loose on the western wall of the coal mine pit.
People of Pandan town in Antique province might have read their way into history. At least 10,000 of them, mostly elementary and high school students, formed a line along the 16-kilometer stretch of the national highway and held a simultaneous “read-aloud” of the same story to mark National Reading Day on Nov. 27.
Moderate earthquakes hit the provinces of Antique and Surigao del Norte early Tuesday, but with no immediate damages recorded.
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