Malacañang should investigate the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) for granting a mining permit to Investwell Minerals Development Corp. even if it knew that the company had issues with the government.
Hope springs eternal even under the mine tailings. Levi Lalim, 55, fisherman and leader of his Paracale town’s Samahan ng mga Mangingilaw, is doing his best to save about 40 hectares of coral reef and mangrove forest submerged under red contaminated mud spewed out by mining facilities owned by three Chinese mining firms in Sitio (settlement) Pulangdaga in Barangay (village) Bagumbayan.
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) recorded a 5.1 magnitude earthquake located at 90 kilometers northeast of Jomalig, Quezon at 1:37 p.m. Wednesday.
The decomposing body of a man reported missing for almost a month was dug up last week in a pineapple plantation in Barangay Malangcao-Basud in Labo, Camarines Norte, police said.
The gold miner whom the group of Victor “Vic” Siman visited in Jose Panganiban, Camarines Norte, hours before a police-military team killed all 13 of them in Atimonan, Quezon province, 12 days ago has become a person of interest for the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR).
The gold rush mountain of Barangay Dumagmang in Labo, Camarines Norte, has attracted people from neighboring towns and provinces who are willing to risk life and limb for nuggets of gold.
Bishop Gilbert Garcera of the Diocese of Daet, the capital of Camarines Norte, believes overpopulation has been advantageous to the Philippines and to the world because it has increased the number of overseas workers and migrants who could send remittances back home while taking care of ageing people abroad and spreading the Christian faith.
An early morning fire gutted the 400-year-old church of Vinzons, Camarines Norte on Wednesday, the Philippine National Police (PNP) in the province said.
Three days before Christmas, Myra Lazado, 32, and her sickly daughter boarded a boat from Banocboc village in the Calaguas Group of Islands in Vinzons, Camarines Norte, to roam the streets of this capital town to ask for Christmas presents from anyone who could be generous enough.
Unabated diggings of crisscrossing tunnels by miners seeking gold ore deposits in Paracale, Labo and Jose Panganiban in Camarines Norte are invitations to major disasters during extreme weather conditions, said Gilbert Gonzales, regional executive director of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).
Three small-scale miners in Barangay (village) Palanas in Paracale, Camarines Norte died when the seaside pit where they were looking for gold ores collapsed Tuesday afternoon, the Philippine National Police said on Wednesday.
The absence of electricity in Sitio Patag of Barangay Cabatuhan of this town had deprived residents of what other townsfolk only kilometers away considered as part of their daily lives: Televisions, refrigerators and computers.
A 27-year-old man died after the motorcycle he was driving swerved right into a bus coming from the opposite lane early in the evening of Saturday in Barangay (village) Sto. Domingo in Vinzons town.
