Aldy Plenos, 22, was heading for home already from three nights at out at sea around 7 a.m. on Tuesday when he tried to save an unidentified fisher whose outrigger boat was smashed by the strong winds and raging waves that had churned up Sarangani Bay.
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has been holding two Malaysian-flagged vessels and their crew since Wednesday for dumping coal wastes into the Sarangani Bay and for violating maritime laws.
KIAMBA, Sarangani—The owner of the Panamanian cargo ship MV Double Prosperity, which rammed into a coral colony near the shore of this town, have promised to pay an estimated P42 million in environmental damage that the incident caused. “The company will never run from its responsibility,” Pedrito Faytaren, lawyer for Yano Kaiun Co. Ltd. of [...]
