Lawyer-environmentalist Antonio Oposa tells news reporters in Cebu City how the blocking force to the oil slick will be done. (Sun.Star Cebu/Alex Badayos)
MANILA -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declared Friday the Guimaras oil spill as "a national calamity" and urged all Filipinos to cooperate in order to clean up the biggest and worst oil spill to affect the country so far.
"I am declaring the Guimaras oil spill as a national calamity that demands the cooperation and solidarity of all Filipinos. Let us do what has to be done first and deal with the blame later," Arroyo said in her speech at the convention of the National Prosecutors' League of the Philippines in Cebu City.
CEBU CITY -- The oil that reached Bantayan Island is "very manageable" and could already be "very diluted," the Office of the Civil Defense told a provincial disaster council meeting at the Cebu Capitol Friday.
DAVAO CITY -- Six persons, including a Japanese national, are in the custody of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) after they were accused of being behind a multi-million swindling operation involving the sale of a brand of food preservatives and fake dollars and peso bills.
ZAMBOANGA CITY -- Military offensive has been intensified in the Sulu hinterland with government forces stepping up their attack against the Abu Sayyaf group reportedly giving shelter to two Jemaah Islamiyah terrorists involved in the Bali bombings in Indonesia.
