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Coast Guard wants sunken cargo vessel removed from Boracay waters
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) – Caticlan office has urged the owner of LCT Bato Twin to immediately salvage the ill-fated cargo vessel. It sank on Nov. 4 near Boracay Island and remains a potential threat to traversing ...
- November 26, 2018
Volunteers tapped to help save to boracay environment
Environmental volunteers have been tapped by the Philippine National Police (PNP) to protect the welfare of this popular tourist island. Chief Superintendent Rhodel Sermonia, Acting director of Police Community Relations ...
- November 2, 2018
Six rescued from distressed fishing boat off Aklan waters
Six residents of Caluya, Antique were rescued from a distressed fishing boat while they were traveling home off Aklan waters. The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) identified the rescued passengers as 22-year-old Victor Domingo, ...
- April 12, 2019
Aklan solon pushes for fisheries center
Rep. Carlito Marquez is pushing for the creation of a center for fisheries and aquatic resources training, development and production in the province. The congressman filed House Bill 3063, which also seeks to promote ...
- September 2, 2016
Senate OKs bill creating Aklan fisheries center
The Senate in third and final reading unanimously approved the measure seeking to establish a fisheries and aquatic resources training, development and product center in the province. The chamber approved on June 3, 2019 ...
- June 25, 2019
Boracay rehab '50-60 percent complete'
The rehabilitation of this famed island resort is about “50- to 60-percent” complete more than two months into its half-year closure, according to Environment secretary Roy Cimatu. He assured that the inter-agency task ...
- July 20, 2018
1,300 Boracay residents, displaced workers get P19.9-M livelihood aid
A total of 1,323 island closure-affected individuals availed themselves of the P19.9-million livelihood assistance program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). DSWD acting secretary Virginia Nazzarea ...
- June 2, 2018
'Help displaced Boracay residents'
Vice Mayor Abram Sualog appeals to the inter-agency group tasked to restore Boracay to find a relocation site for displaced island residents. Sualog was referring to locals whose houses were built on Boracay’s wetlands and ...
- April 16, 2018
WV coastal waters free from red tide
The coastal waters of Western Visayas are free from the red tide toxin, according to the latest Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) bulletin. The BFAR shellfish bulletin No. 34 showed that the coastal waters ...
- October 16, 2017
DSWD: Aid distribution for displaced Boracay workers never stopped
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) did not stop releasing transportation and meal assistance to displaced workers in this island resort.
DSWD regional director Rebecca Geamala said this as she denied ...
- May 8, 2018