Parts of the country are warned against heavy rains and thunderstorms which may trigger flash floods and landslides on Saturday due to tropical depression Dante, the state weather bureau said.
After four months of allegedly unrealized promises, residents of Casiguran, Aurora province, decided they have had enough and marched back to Manila.
President Benigno Aquino III has extended for another two or three months a weeklong review of the Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport Authority (Apeco), an official of the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) said on Friday.
With only about 150 kilometers left in their journey, more than 100 farmers, fishermen and indigenous peoples who have been marching from Casiguran, Aurora, since Nov. 24, are hoping to meet President Benigno Aquino to plead for his help to save their land and livelihood from an economic zone.
Exhausted but determined, 120 farmers, fishermen and Agta villagers marched for the eighth day in protest of the creation of a 12,923-hectare economic zone that they said would displace some 3,000 families in Casiguran, Aurora.
MANILA, Philippines—President Aquino’s order imposing a moratorium on the cutting of timber may have gone unnoticed in Casiguran, Aurora. Local officials of Casiguran are furious that a logging company got away with harvesting and transporting “freshly cut’’ undocumented logs with the aid of Department of Environment and Natural Resources personnel despite the moratorium. The officials [...]
