How Cobrador Island in Romblon province got its name wasn’t clear, but the villagers wouldn’t mind the question often asked of them. “No, there is no jueteng here,” they would answer.
Relatives of victims of MV Princess of the Stars, which sunk in June 2008 off the coast of Romblon and killed at least 800 passengers and crew, asked the Supreme Court to reverse a Court of Appeals ruling that cleared an executive of Sulpicio Lines from criminal liability.
Small things done are better than big things planned, a 34-year-old climate change activist believes.
The provincial government of Romblon on Thursday afternoon enforced a preemptive evacuation in at least six coastal and low-lying municipalities as the island-province braced for supertyphoon ‘Yolanda’.
