Family-owned lots are generally special to families for various reasons. Some prefer to keep their spaces private and personal, while others welcome visitors into them. The family that runs Anahaw Coconut Farm and Resort (ACFR) had initially kept their property for exclusive use before deciding to...
Police arrested an incumbent barangay captain in Batangas City for a case of frustrated murder four years ago. Nabbed was Edmar Rieta, barangay captain of San Agapito in Isla Verde. He was arrested at around 4 p.m. on Tuesday, July 5, when the local police served an arrest warrant against him...
CAMP GEN. VICENTE LIM, Calamba City, Laguna – Two men were killed while another was critically wounded in separate shooting incidents in Batangas and Quezon Tuesday, July 5. The Police Regional Office 4-A (PRO 4-A) identified the fatalities as Marco Ibañez, 45, of Sitio Tala, Barangay...
As part the Aboitiz Group’s Great Transformation, Aboitiz Construction is one of the first construction companies in the country that pursued the digitalization of its equipment on project sites. The construction works for the second phase of the LIMA Estate (LIMA) expansion is progressing...
BATANGAS -- A chief of police in a Batangas town died after the sport utility vehicle (SUV) he was driving smashed into a 10-wheeler truck in Barangay Tulo in Taal town early Wednesday morning, June 29. Major Amiel Bernardo Sanhi Jr., assigned at Lian Municipal Police Station, and a resident of...
BATANGAS CITY – A hollow block making livelihood program for communities affected by the eruption of Taal Volcano was launched by the Department of Science and Technology-Region 4-A (Calabarzon or the Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, and Quezon area) and Batangas Provincial Science and...
CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna – Police arrested Wednesday, June 22, an alleged hired killer in Barangay Mataas na Lupa, Lipa City, Batangas. Police Brig. Gen. Antonio Yarra, Police Regional Office 4-A director, identified the suspect as Alvin Buenavista, 25, of Tiaong, Quezon. Buenavista was a...
The Department of Transportation (DOTr) on Tuesday, June 14, inaugurated the P1.23 billion upgraded Integrated Passenger Terminal Building (PTB) of the Port of Batangas , Batangas City. The 15,000 square meter (sqm) PTB features fully air-conditioned lounges and Persons With Disability...
The mayor of Taal, Batangas has urged residents to drink bottled water for the meantime as the local government unit (LGU) is looking for an alternative source of potable water after their water supply was contaminated by arsenic. Taal Mayor Pong Mercado declared that 10 barangays in the...
There is not much mainstream fanfare for passion fruits ( Passiflora edulis ) here in the Philippines. The yellow variety the country has is sour and there is not much to eat on the fruit except its seedy pulp. But once upon a time, a booming industry that centered on this fruit thrived in Taysan,...
A basket of freshly harvested passion fruit. (Jerome Sagcal) Passion fruit ( Passiflora edulis ) is usually eaten by scooping out the pulp. The pulp, however, is only a small portion of the fruit, so most of the passion fruit is actually not used. The big remainder of the fruit is its flesh, which...
Several public buildings in Calatagan, Batangas sustained minor cracks after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake hit on Sunday morning, May 22. (Photo courtesy of Calatagn MDRRMO) Ronald Torres, chief of Calatagan municipal disaster risk reduction and management office (MDRRMO), said cracks were noted at...
