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Monday, October 31, 2016

Sunday, October 23, 2016

Sunday, October 23, 2016

Heaven's Care, Made in Marinduque

Something to be proud of. Did you know that these products were made in the island paradise of Marinduque? Yes, these were all produced by MarinduqueLand Corp., a company established in Pangi, Gasan, Marinduque in 2005 which primary goal is to uplift the livelihood of Marinduque Coconut Farmers.




They are producing Sweet Crystal Oil, Virgin Coconut Oil, Coco Rub and Heaven's Care VCO Soap.




Tagline: Let the sweet scent from Heaven Soothe your stress away.

10ml emergency bottle with soothing sweet menthol scent made from pure VCO and unadulterated essential oils like lemon oil, sweet orange oil, Elemi Oil and Peppermint Oil.

Uses and benefits: a) Eases muscle and joint pains b) Soothes head ache and mental exhaustion c) Enhances mood and c) Great antiseptic for insect bites





Try their products and visit their booth in the Mimaropa Naturally Agri-Trade and Tourism Fair 2016 at Megatrade Halls 1&2, SM Megamall, 5th Floor Building B, Mandaluyong City from Oct 19 to 23.


You may contact Archie Armada through 0908-425-8734 or 0906-395-6250 for more information.


About the MarinduqueLand

MarinduqueLand Corporation was established on May 2005 in Pangi, Gasan, Marinduque is owned and managed by Roel Sigue. The company's objective is to uplift the livelihood of Marinduque Coconut Farmers.

Thursday, October 13, 2016

Thursday, October 13, 2016

12 mangingisda, kulong dahil sa iligal na pangingisda sa Buenavista

BUENAVISTA, Marinduque – Sa kulungan ang bagsak ng 12 mangingisda matapos na mahuli ng mga otoridad na nagsasagawa ng iligal na pangingisda sa bayan ng Buenavista, lalawigan ng Marinduque nitong Martes, Oktubre 11.




Sa nakalap na impormasyon ng Marinduque News Online, nadakip ng pinagsanib na puwersa ng Buenavista PNP Maritime at bantay dagat ng Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) ang labindalawang katao na gumagamit ng dinamita habang nangingisda sa tapat ng karagatan ng Baywalk, Barangay Dos, Buenavista.


Ang mga mangingisdang nahuli ay nagmula pa at pawang naninirahan sa Barangay Barra, Lucena City.


Sa ngayon ay nakakulong na sa Buenavista Municipal Police Station ang mga suspek na nakatakdang sampahan ng karampatang kaso.







Photo courtesy: Paul Lasper

Monday, October 10, 2016

Monday, October 10, 2016

Gasan PNP conducts barangay visitation in Bangbang, Gasan


PO3 Chistopher S. Frianela, Invest PNCO/Pulis sa barangay (PSB) conducted barangay visitation and engaged dialogue with the members of Barangay Anti-Drug Abuse Council (BADAC) of Brgy. Bangbang, Gasan, Marinduque in coordination with Punong Barangay Reynaldo Maming. Topic discussed was about Anti-Illegal Drugs campaign plan of the PNP otherwise known as “Project Double Barrel”.





Photo by Gasan Police Community Relation (c) 2016

Sunday, October 9, 2016

Sunday, October 09, 2016

Awesome Shots That Reminds Our Childhood Taken In Libas, Buenavista

Sa muling pagyapak ni Leandre Guevara o kilala sa tawag na Mang Andres, isang fashion photographer, sa kanyang lupang sinilangan ay muli niyang nasaksihan ang simple, payak subalit payapa at tahimik na buhay-probinsya.


Sa kanyang pagbisita sa Barangay Libas, Bayan ng Buenavista, siya ay nagbalik-tanaw noong kanyang kamusmusan.

Halina’t ating balikan ang ating buhay-kabataan.





Photo by Leandre Guevarra (c) 2016
Sunday, October 09, 2016

Buenavista mayor, elected as LMP-Marinduque Chapter president

Buenavista Mayor Russel Madrigal had been elected as the newly president of the League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP) – Marinduque Chapter.


Buenavista Mayor Russel Madrigal
The League of Municipalities of the Philippines or more simply the League of Municipalities or LMP is a formal organization of all the municipalities in the Philippines. Presently, sixty-eight municipalities are part of this organization including the towns of Boac, Buenavista, Gasan, Mogpog, Sta. Cruz and Torrijos.


Congratulations on your new endeavors, Mayor Madrigal!
Sunday, October 09, 2016

COA recommends LGU Boac Accounting Office as outstanding accounting unit


The Accounting Office of Boac was recently recommended by the Commission on Audit (COA) Central Office as outstanding.

As Outstanding Unit, the Accounting Unit of Boac, Marinduque will be be featured in the Newsletter of the Association of Government Accountants of the Philippines, (AGAP), Inc. which will be distributed in the convention-seminar to be held at the Aziza Paradise Hotel, Puerto Princesa City from October 21-24, 2015.

Thursday, October 6, 2016

Thursday, October 06, 2016

Ex-mayor Briones patay, sa banggaan ng motor at bus sa Torrijos

TORRIJOS, Marinduque – Idineklarang wala nang buhay si dating mayor at ngayo’y konsehal ng bayan ng Torrijos, Marinduque na si Coun. Gil Briones ito ay matapos na mabangga ang kanyang sinasakyang motor ng isang pampasaherong bus bandang alas-6:40 ngayong umaga, Oktubre 6, 2016.




Ayon sa panayam ng Marinduque News Online kay Police Inspector Mikhail Gennadi Valeroso, Officer in Charge ng Torrijos Municipal Police Station, nangyari ang insidente sa tapat ng sementeryo ng nasabing bayan.

Bumisita diumano ang ex-mayor sa puntod ng asawa nito at noong pauwi na sakay ng kanyang motor habang tinatahak ang paakyat na bahagi ng kalsada patungong national highway ay aksidenteng nabangga ito ng Jac Liner bus.

Sa kasalukuyan ay nasa kustodiya na ng Torrijos PNP ang driver ng naturang bus.






Photo courtesy: Jhay-Ar Laylay Flores II

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Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Tuesday, October 04, 2016

Boac PNP visits Barangay Bunganay, Boac

On October 4, 2016 at about 10:00 in the morning SPO1 Ferdinand J Buñag PCR PNCO together with SPO1 Nelson N. Ricohermoso, SPO2 Mario R Permejo and SPO1 Juanito P Ocampo conducted brgy visitation and information dissemination at Barangay Bunganay, Boac, Marinduque.



Photo courtesy: Boac Municipal Police Station
Tuesday, October 04, 2016

5 Best Sunrise and Sunset Shots in Marinduque

Nakakatuwang isipin na kapag namamasyal ako sa kahabaan ng Manila Bay, napadako sa Sky 100 ng Hongkong, napabisita sa El Nido, Palawan o dili kaya ay sa mga pook na mayroong karagatan at shoreline, pilit kong inaabangan ang pagsikat o paglubog ng araw. Kontodo effort sa pagkuha ng magandang larawan, tila ba kinabukasan, ito ay hindi ko na masisilayan. Subalit, sa likod ng aming tahanan sa hugis puso at paraisong isla ng Marinduque, ito ay aking abot tanaw.


Photo by Rigs Yutuc taken in Maniwaya Island, Sta. Cruz
Photo by Casa Marino taken in Mongpong Island, Sta. Cruz

Photo by Casa Marino taken in Mongpong Island, Sta. Cruz

Photo by Rafael Seno

Photo by Ivan Caballero Villegas in taken in Maniwaya Island, Sta. Cruz
Ayon sa isang Facebook post ni Rafael Seno "There is something about Marinduque that holds out attention. Every square inch enthralling, every second magical".
Tuesday, October 04, 2016

Marinduque, Seeks Environmental Justice 20 Years After Mining Disaster

In Philippines, Seeking Environmental Justice 20 Years After Mining Disaster
By Jason Strother, World

MARINDUQUE — Elisa Hernandez dips her yellow blouse into the Boac River’s rushing water and then slaps it up against the shoreline’s gray stones.


Elisa Hernandez used to earn a living washing her community’s laundry 
The 73-year-old used to earn a living washing her whole community’s laundry this way. “We felt at home in this river ... It was so clean, we played in it and we used to catch a lot of fish here too,” she says.

But that all changed in March 1996, when a drainage pipe inside a copper mine burst about 20 kilometers upstream.

Millions of tons of toxic mine waste, including lead and arsenic, flooded into the river. At the time, it was the worst mining disaster in the history of Philippines. Many of the residents of the island province of Marinduque are farmers and fishermen. For Hernandez and thousands of others, the spill killed their main source of income, and they have never fully recovered.

“After the incident, I started to break out with skin diseases from the toxins in the water. I’m cured now but people no longer wanted me to wash their clothes in the river,” Hernandez says.

Hernandez was party to a decade-long lawsuit against Barrick Gold Corp, the Canadian firm that bought Placer Dome, the company that ran the Marcopper mine. The plaintiffs alleged the company polluted Marinduque’s land, waterways and poisoned its residents.

A judge in the United States dismissed the case last year on jurisdiction grounds. Despite the court verdict, the province isn’t giving up its fight, says Adeline Angeles, a local legislator and member of the Marinduque Council for Environmental Concerns, an organization that was part of the lawsuit.

Angeles says when mining began on her island in the 60s, people believed that it would make the province rich. “After decades of mining, Marinduque is one of the poorest provinces in the entire archipelago,” Angeles says. “Our waters are silted, the rivers cannot be used for irrigation and our farmers are poorer.”

The Canadian mining company Barrick Gold says $50 million in compensation has already been paid for the disaster. The Marinduque government says much of that was never received. Today, the Marcopper site sits abandoned.

It took some convincing and a generous fare to persuade a truck driver to take me into the site.

Heading up the rocky road, I sit in the back as we drive past armed guards. There’s an overgrown golf course here and even an airplane landing strip.


Protest in Manila against mining threats in 2015 - Photo: Gregorio B. Dantes Jr/Pacific Press/ZUMA
In the distance is a barren hilltop, which was Marcopper’s first open-pit mine.

We arrive at the second pit, which is filled up with metallic blue water and surrounded by a gravelly moonscape. In the Philippines, Marinduque has become the symbol of anti-mining activism. It’s a reminder of what can go wrong when foreign firms from wealthy nations operate virtually unchecked in the developing world.

Anti-mining advocates protest against what they say is the continued plundering of resources in the Philippines. They say foreign mining companies give little back to the communities they devastate. “Since the birth of the Philippines, foreign countries, foreign nationals or foreign corporations go here because of rich minerals,” says Camilo Manio of the anti-mining coalition Ayansa Tigil Mina group, saying that it started with Spain, then the U.S. and Japan. Now Chinese, Australian and Canadian firms all run mines here.

Citing government figures, Camilo says it’s a myth that mining makes the Philippines wealthier.

“Only 2% from mining industries was given to local governments,” Camilo says, adding that mining contributes less than 1% to the country's GDP.

The group is calling for a ban on foreign mining companies in the Philippines.

Roland De Jesus, a director of the Mines and Geoscience Bureau in Manila, says mining in the Philippines is safer now. As for Marinduque, he says, it’s not Manila’s responsibility to clean up the mess that a private company left behind. But he offers another solution. “One of the alternatives is to resume mining,” he says. According to De Jesus, “based on the actual production rate of the company when they suddenly stopped, they still have about 17 years of mine life.” He says that’s only an alternative if a company has the financial and technical capabilities to rehabilitate the damage caused by the previous operator.

De Jesus adds that a disaster like the one in Marinduque won’t happen again because new laws demand accountability for environmental damage. “I am confident we have a good mining law, one of the best in the world. Before there was a lack of transparency,” says De Jesus.

Angeles, the environmental advocate in Marinduque, says reopening that mine is an unacceptable option. “We cannot take another risk.” The island is now moving forward with launching a new lawsuit against the mining firm in Canada. But any compensation might not come soon enough.