Inauguration and oathtaking ceremony of newly elected Marinduque provincial officials on going. Photo courtesy: Carlo M. Manay
Author: Marinduque News
Seminar sa pag-aalaga ng tilapia, isinagawa sa Boac
Management techniques on tilapia culture training sponsored by Bureau of Fisheries in Aquatic Resources (BFAR) 4-B in coordination with provincial government and municipal agriculture office held today, June 29 at MAO Livelihood Center, Brgy. Tabi, Boac, Marinduque. Photo courtesy: Romy Pangilinan
Solmirano, ex-PDI bureau chief dies; 70
LEGAZPI CITY—Floreño Solmirano, former bureau chief of the Inquirer Southern Luzon, died of cardiac arrest on Monday night. He was 70. Solmirano, who started as an Inquirer correspondent in Bicol, was among the pioneers who set up in 1998 the bureau, which covers Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon), Mimaropa (Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon and Palawan) and Bicol regions. He served as its chief for 13 years until his retirement in 2011. After his stint in the Inquirer, Solmirano, a native of Marinduque province, served as bureau chief of the Philippine…
New DENR secretary brands open-pit mining as ‘madness’
The incoming Cabinet official in charge of Philippine mining has slammed the use of open pits to extract minerals, describing it as “madness” even to consider the method in the resource-rich country because of the environmental impact. The stance by Regina Lopez, an environmentalist who on Tuesday accepted President-elect Rodrigo Duterte’s offer to head the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, could set her on a collision course with the mining industry. “Open-pit mining as in the use of explosives is horrific for the environment. It’s a cheap way to…
Twenty One at the Tranquil Heart of the Philippines
Medyo matagal na rin akong di napadpad dito. It has been 21 years since we went there, back when I was still a kid. It was a different world—so laidback and so rural, that the city boy in me was quite shocked. We visited the once booming mines up in the mountains of Marinduque. It was like a small city on its own, has its own airport, a mountain with a blue pit below.