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'Probe illegal fishing in Olotayan'
(The Daily Guardian,August 19, 2013 , on page B2-B7)A barangay captain here will raise before the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) of Roxas the alleged illegal fishing activities in Brgy. Olotayan island. Manuel “Bongbong” Aninang said he will write a letter to Vice Mayor Ronnie ... -
Oil spill victims can't claim from IOPC Funds
(The Daily Guardian,August 19, 2013 , on page 2)Uncompensated victims of the 2006 oil spill in Guimaras can no longer claim from the International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds (IOPC Funds). This is based on the incident report posted on the official website of IOPC ... -
Administrator linked to illegal fishing in Olotayan
(The Daily Guardian,August 29, 2013 , on page B2)The city administrator here clarified some issues on the illegal gathering of sea cucumber in Brgy. Olotayan here. Gilbert Guarino-Tan said the issuance of mayor’s permit in the gathering of sea cucumbers was patterned ... -
Dakasi reopens but …
(The Daily Guardian,November 21, 2013 , on page 1-7)The Iloilo City government has allowed Dakasi Milk Tea House at Smallville Complex in Mandurriao to re-open but with strict conditions. City Hall required the company to submit milk tea products it intends to sell to ... -
Losses to 'Yolanda' in agri-fishery, infra P8.8 B
(The Daily Guardian,January 6, 2014 , on page B2)Some P8.865 billion worth of infrastructure projects and agricultural and fishery products have been destroyed and damaged by super typhoon "Yolanda" that hit Capiz and Visayas region in Nov. 8 last year. Final report from ... -
Another air quality test up in oil spill-hit Estancia
(The Daily Guardian,January 10, 2014 , on page 2-7)Iloilo Governor Arthur Defensor Sr. on Thursday asked experts to conduct another test to determine the air quality at the oil spill site in Brgy. Botongon, Estancia. Defensor said that inspectors from the Environmental ... -
Spill contractor told to hasten cleanup
(The Daily Guardian,January 14, 2014 , on page 2)The Iloilo provincial government told the contractor cleaning the oil spill in Estancia town to hasten its operations. Governor Arthur Defensor Sr. asked Nico Dadis, Kuan Yu Global Technologies Inc. operations manager, ... -
Fisherfolks seek ban exemption
(The Daily Guardian,January 14, 2014 , on page 1-7)TWO groups of small-scale fisherfolks want to be exempted from the ban on destructive fishing methods to help them recover from the effects of super typhoon Yolanda last year. In a letter dated Jan. 8, 2014, the Carlessanon ... -
200 Aklan employees to plant 8,000 mangroves
(The Daily Guardian,January 17, 2014 , on page B6)About 200 employees of the Provincial Capitol of Aklan will plant 8,000 mangrove propagules on January 22 at the Bakhawan Eco-Park in New Buswang here. Activity organizer Economic Enterprise Development Department (EEDD) ... -
'Kuan Yu used wrong spill cleanup strategy'
(The Daily Guardian,January 17, 2014 , on page 1-7)Private contractor Kuan Yu Global Technologies Inc. implemented an ineffective strategy in cleaning up the oil spill in Estancia, Iloilo. “Even from the start, Kuan Yu never really followed the recommended procedures,” ... -
Iloilo, Guimaras brace for oil spill
(The Daily Guardian,January 20, 2014 , on page 1-7)The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) and local disaster response officials are monitoring the Iloilo-Guimaras Strait for a possible oil spill from a cargo ship that sunk Sunday morning. Lt. Commander Dominador Senador III, ... -
Spill alert: Oil sheen spotted in Iloilo-Guimaras Strait
(The Daily Guardian,January 21, 2014 , on page 1-11)The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) in Western Visayas ordered the immediate refloating of a cargo vessel that sank in Iloilo Strait Sunday morning. This as Commodore Athelo Ybañez, PCG-Western Visayas commander, confirmed ... -
BFAR-6: Fishing ban in oil spill area remains
(The Daily Guardian,January 21, 2014 , on page 4)Fisherfolks in Estancia, particularly in oil Spill-stricken Botongon village, still cannot collect, consume and sell fish and other marine products in the affected area. Remia Aparri of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic ... -
Bunker oil reaches Guimaras mangrove
(The Daily Guardian,January 24, 2014 , on page 1-11)Bunker oil believed to be leaking from a sunken cargo ship in Iloilo-Guimaras Strait were found in a mangrove area in Jordan, Guimaras. A report from Task Force Sportivo said portions of the mangrove area in Brgy. Hoskyn, ... -
Guimaras fears algal bloom
(The Daily Guardian,January 28, 2014 , on page 1-10)The Guimaras provincial government demanded the owner of the sunken ship which triggered another oil spill in the island-province to immediately refloat the vessel. Engr. Raymund Moderes, head of the Guimaras Task Force ... -
'Fish kill' causes foul odor in village
(The Daily Guardian,February 11, 2014 , on page 2)Chemicals spewed by a plant in Pavia, Iloilo are believed to be the cause of the "fish kill" inside a drainage which resulted in foul odor disturbing the community. The foul odor from the drainage was the subject of ... -
DENR, PCG release pawikan to habitat
(The Daily Guardian,February 14, 2014 , on page B6-B7)The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)-6 and the Philippine Coast Guard-Iloilo released a green sea turtle back to its natural habitat recently. DENR-6 regional executive director Jim Sampulna and ... -
'FishR' to hasten help to fisherfolks
(The Daily Guardian,February 19, 2014 , on page 2-7)The Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR) eyes to register more or less 100,000 fisherfolks in Western Visayas under the National Program for Municipal Fisherfolk Registration (FishR). ... -
BFAR-6 sets priorities to protect marine resources
(The Daily Guardian,February 24, 2014 , on page B6)The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR)-6 disclosed its priority interventions to protect and enhance marine resources in Western Visayas. BFAR-6 regional director Drusila Esther Bayate said that for this year, ... -
Households pollute Iloilo River, creeks
(The Daily Guardian,March 4, 2014 , on page 1-7)The Iloilo City Environment and National Resources Office (City ENRO) said households are to be blamed for the pollution of the Iloilo River and two creeks. Engr. Noel Hechanova, City ENRO chief, said unclean and mismanaged ...