Renowned artist AG Saño and about 50 local volunteers collaborated on Sunday on a mural on the outside wall of a three-story building at the center of the city to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Tubbataha Reefs, the country’s largest marine protected area and a UN-inscribed World Heritage Site.
A new weather disturbance near Palawan is being monitored by the state weather bureau, while tropical depression “Dante” maintains its strength as it moves north-northeastward.
An intertropical convergence zone in Mindanao will bring rains in Palawan,Easterm Visayas and Mindanao, the state weather bureau said Wednesday.
The race is over for top posts in local elections in Palawan and in mayoral races in Los Baños town and Lucena City where prominent names such as Mitra, Genuino and Talaga got trounced.
The race is over for top posts in local elections in Palawan and in mayoral races in Los Baños town and Lucena City where prominent names such as Mitra, Genuino and Talaga got trounced. In Palawan, businessman Jose C. Alvarez (Nationalist People’s Coalition) is the new governor. He beat incumbent Governor Abraham Kahlil Mitra (Liberal [...]
Jose C. Alvarez’s proclamation as the next governor of Palawan snuffed incumbent Abraham Kahlil Mitra’s (LP) bid for a second term and underscored an almost total wipeout of the ruling party’s local bets in the province.
The wife of incumbent city mayor and independent senatorial candidate Edward Hagedorn has failed in her bid to take up the torch held by her clan for the past two decades, bowing to incumbent Vice Mayor Lucilo Bayron in the mayoral race here.
Polls have been so far peaceful on the tiny island of Pag-asa in Palawan, part of the disputed Spratly Islands in the West Philippine Sea.
The Western Command has deployed an additional contingent of Marines in the town of Bataraza following a still-unresolved shooting incident Friday, as tension continued to grip the Muslim-dominated town near the southern tip of Palawan.
Two person were killed, including a local municipal official, and at least six were reported wounded in a shootout late Friday night between supporters of two mayoral candidates in the southern municipality of Bataraza.
The confessed triggerman of slain Palawan broadcaster Dr. Gerry Ortega was found guilty Tuesday by the Puerto Princesa Regional Trial Court and sentenced to life imprisonment.
The Supreme Court has unseated Palawan Vice Governor Clara Espiritu-Reyes, wife of fugitive former Palawan Governor Mario Joel Reyes after it affirmed the Commission on Elections (Comelec) ruling that she misrepresented herself as resident of Palawan’s second district to qualify to run for public office.
A home-made bomb exploded Tuesday night near a private airport of the mining company Rio Tuba Nickel Corporation in Palawan’s southernmost town of Bataraza, about 225 kilometers from this city. No one was reported hurt.
