After suffering a narrow loss in the gubernatorial race, outgoing Dinagat Vice Gov. Geraldine “Jade” Ecleo hoped to be reconciled with her mother and siblings. What she got instead was a snub.
Storm signal No.1 was raised in parts of Luzon and Visayas as low pressure area located east of Surigao City intensified into tropical depression “Bising,” the state weather bureau said Friday night.
A countdown has been launched here in the run-up to the Dec. 21 “doomsday” prophecy—the day when the end of the world is supposed to come.
Angry at what they say are bureaucratic gridlock and anomalies that affect their mining jobs, about a thousand islanders last week stormed the regional office of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) here.
The island is red and almost barren, the sea encircling it not as generous as it was once due to overfishing and pervasive use of illegal fishing methods.
One person was killed when unidentified men robbed a jewelry shop in Surigao City, Surigao del Norte Saturday, according to a television report.
It was not going to be a typical flag ceremony on Monday morning at the provincial capitol.
Seven miners died while working inside a shaft in a small-scale mining area in Barangay Mat-i in Surigao City on Thursday, police said.
At least seven miners died of possible suffocation while working in a gold tunnel in Surigao City Thursday, police said Friday.
It seemed like it wasn’t going to be summer as I was still stuck in the university giving petition classes, attending planning workshops, and doing a lot of paperwork. On top of that, there’s the yearly art workshop I had to give at a gallery café and exhibits we had to mount.
About 83 families or 316 persons were displaced following an encounter between the military and communist rebels in Anomar village, Surigao City Sunday noon, the military said.
Armed rebels believed to be members of the New People’s Army burned heavy equipment in a quarry site in Surigao City early Thursday, a military spokesman said.
Three people were injured after a gas-fed soil sampling dryer exploded Thursday morning at a mining company in Surigao City, police said Friday.
