Fishing ban still stands for Calapan, six towns

CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro – A fishing ban still stands for this city and five other municipalities even as Governor Humerlito Dolor on Monday announced the lifting of fishing ban in selected towns here. Oriental Mindoro Gov. Humerlito Dolor on Monday announced the lifting of fishing ban in the towns of Baco, San Teodoro, Puerto […]

Students in oil spill-hit Mindoro town get cash aid

CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro – The local parish in Pola town, this province has announced that the first tranche of educational cash assistance from a humanitarian group had already been received by students whose families have been affected by the recent oil spill off the coast of Oriental Mindoro. Fr. Edwin Gariguez, director of the Diocesan […]

Oriental Mindoro fisherfolk to be trained in ‘farm tourism’

CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro – The Department of Tourism (DOT) has unveiled training opportunities for workers whose livelihoods were disrupted by a recent oil spill off the coast of Naujan town, which spread across at least nine other coastal municipalities in the province. In an interview on Tuesday, Edwin Martin, chief of the DOT’s Public Affairs […]