The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has already provided more than P1 million worth of relief assistance to flood victims in Oriental Mindoro. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) The DSWD reported this on Saturday, July 24, as it expressed readiness to augment the resources of the...
Travel Oriental Mindoro mobile application and website make travel easier and more convenient for tourists ALL IN ONE APP In an attempt to help the local tourism industry bounce back, the Provincial Government of Oriental Mindoro (PGOM) came up with a travel app. With all the travel restrictions...
A vacant lot abandoned by an Indigenous Peoples’ (IP) group in Oriental Mindoro is being transformed into a vegetable garden under the Department of Agrarian Reform’s (DAR) start-up farming project. IDLE NO MORE--A 5,000 -square meter vacant lot in Oriental Mindoro will be converted into a...
The Oriental Mindoro National High School (OMNHS) in Calapan City has emerged as grand champion in the virtual INTOC Global’s International Science Project Competition held from May 29 to June 5. (Photo from OMNHS) In a Facebook post, OMNHS school principal Nimrod F. Bantigue congratulated their...
The innovative aquaculture industry is on sight in the Mimaropa (Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon,Palawan) region as the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) continues implementing the Small Enterprise Technology Upgrading Program (SETUP) which seeks to assist micro, small and medium enterprises...
NIGHT OWL Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo Of all the places — Palawan is one of the most memorable. The first time I went there, my boat sank and for almost an hour — we clung to a bamboo pole in the middle of the sea to survive. Ten years have passed and yet — I couldn’t forget the fateful night in...
Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief General Debold Sinas should be investigated for allegedly violating COVID-19 protocols again, this time when he visited Oriental Mindoro last week. Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson, a former PNP chief, said it is only proper to investigate Sinas’ supposed...
Wilcon Depot, the country’s leading home improvement and construction supply retailer, successfully held a groundbreaking ceremony at Brgy. Puting Tubig, Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro last Jan. 29, 2021. The soon-to-rise Wilcon store will be the second retail outlet in the MIMAROPA region and...
Love and passion are the two things that spurred Ramona M. Pastor, owner of HN Organic Farm, to fully devote her time to farming after working in various fields abroad for over 10 years. It was in 2017 when Pastor decided to end her overseas employment in Singapore due to an eye injury and to...
San Miguel Corporation (SMC) is continuing its efforts to deliver food donations to thousands of families in some 22 provinces and cities ravaged by three sucessive super typhoons, with total donations reaching P15 million to date and rising. “We continue to get appeals for help from so many...
