BETTER DAYS It has been over a month since the MT Princess Empress sunk off Oriental Mindoro, causing a massive oil spill that has reached parts of Batangas, Palawan and Antique. Around 9,400 liters of oily water and 3,514 sacks of oil-contaminated materials have been collected from the oil spill...
The Office of the Vice President (OVP) has distributed relief goods to residents of Verde Island, who were affected by the Oriental Mindoro oil spill. In a statement, the OVP-Disaster Operations Center (OVP-DOC), with the help of the Batangas Provincial Government, Batangas Vice Governor’s Office,...
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) provided food assistance to families from Oriental Mindoro, Palawan, Batangas, and Antique affected by the oil spill from the sunken MT Princess Empress. In a statement on Friday, March 31, PRC said that about 400 individuals from the municipalities of Pola and...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), local government units, and the private sector have so far provided over P76-million worth of food and non-food assistance to the victims of the oil spill in Oriental Mindoro on Feb. 28. Based on the report of the DSWD’s Disaster Response...
ILOILO CITY – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-6 (Western Visayas) has extended P42.78 million in aid to residents affected by the oil slick in an island town in Antique province. Claud Jan Marquez of the DSWD-6 Disaster Response Management Section said the assistance for...
POLA, Oriental Mindoro (AFP) – A crab covered in oil creeps across the sand as fishermen wearing white protective suits, rubber gloves, and respirator masks scrape toxic sludge from the rocks along the shore. A CRAB is covered with oil on a beach in Pola, Oriental Mindoro, one of the areas...
Close to 400,000 liters of industrial oil remain intact inside the ill-fated MT Princess Empress which sank off the waters of Naujan, Oriental Mindoro exactly a month ago, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) disclosed on Tuesday, March 28. PCG spokesperson Rear Admiral Armand Balilo said the estimate...
Today marks one month of the oil spill disaster and it seems that the worst is far from over. M/T Princess Empress, carrying about 800,000 liters of industrial fuel oil, capsized off Naujan in Oriental Mindoro last Feb. 28, 2023. Spilling thick oil into the sea, it was a tragic disaster that...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) provided cash-for-work assistance to some 19,000 residents affected by the oil spill from a fuel tanker that sank off Oriental Mindoro last Feb. 28. As of March 27, 19,895 individuals in Oriental Mindoro and Antique benefitted from the...
The office of House Speaker Martin Romualdez has donated a calamity fund worth P500,000 each to Oriental Mindoro's 1st district and Davao de Oro's 1st district. This was learned by the Manila Bulletin Sunday, March 26 even as the Speaker’s office also facilitated the distribution of targeted...
BATANGAS – The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG)-Batangas released a maritime advisory allowing the resumption of leisure activities along coastal waters of Verde Island on Saturday, March 25. The advisory released at around 8 a.m. on March 25 cited the prompt response of the PCG, local government...
CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro – The United States Coast Guard cited the Philippine Coast Guard for its unique handling of the oil slick off the coast of this province. Stacy Crecy, leader of the US Coast Guard Pacific Strike Team, said the PCG was very well-organized due to its unique method of...
