Quakes jolt Bicol provinces
By Jonas Cabiles Soltes
Residents of Masbate City was jolted by an earthquake Thursday evening, the Philippine National Police (PNP) in the island-province said.
Residents of Masbate City was jolted by an earthquake Thursday evening, the Philippine National Police (PNP) in the island-province said.
Soldiers and policemen seized what officials said was an arms cache consisting of 13 guns, bullets and explosives in a remote village in Masbate City.
Residents of Masbate province felt an earthquake early Saturday evening, the Philippine National Police in the island province said.
The naming frenzy has only just begun. Soon the 3-kilometer boulevard that cuts across four populous villages and overlooks the Masbate Pass, where the plane carrying Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo crashed last Saturday, will be named Jesse M. Robredo Boulevard, Masbate City Mayor Socrates Tuason said on Friday.
Soon the three-kilometer boulevard that cuts across four populous villages and overlooks the Masbate Pass, where the plane carrying Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo crashed on August 16, will be known as Jesse M. Robredo Boulevard, Masbate City Mayor Socrates Tuason said on Friday.
Interior Secretary Jessie Robredo was on board a six-seater Piper Seneca with three others when the plane crashed in waters off Masbate late Saturday afternoon.
Four unidentified gunmen shot dead an employee of a power firm and wounded two others Tuesday evening in Barangay Estampar in Cataingan town, 60 kilometers southeast of Masbate City.
Don’t carry your gun in the Philippine “wild west” from April 9 to 14.
The water supply in Masbate City returned to normal after the main pipe of the Masbate-Mobo Water District (MMWD) that was busted by the magnitude 5.2 earthquake that rocked the city on Monday was fully repaired.
Windows were shattered, an abandoned building collapsed and people rushed out of homes, offices and schools in a scene a mayor likened to a street fiesta but with “everyone anxious and panicky” as a 5.2-magnitude quake struck Masbate City on Tuesday.
A bomb went off in the town proper of Batuan, Masbate, on Thursday, according to police on Saturday. Batuan, located on Ticao, one of the three main islands that compose Masbate province, is about an hour’s boat ride from Masbate City, the provincial capital.
After Rosana Cantre’s husband and daughter fell ill because of typhoid fever in September last year, she stopped fetching drinking water from an uphill well and started buying purified water although it meant a cut in the family’s monthly income of P5,000, mostly from his husband’s work in a nearby ice plant.
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.
