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Batanes to host National Museum branch
- Source: http://www.philstar.com/nation/article.aspx?publicationSubCategoryId=67&articleId=721118
- By: www.philstar.com
- August 28, 2011-www.philstar.com
BASCO, Batanes, Philippines – A branch of the National Museum will soon rise in the 3.5-hectare former site of the old United States Coast Guard Station (USCG) in Barangay Imnajbu, 28 kilometers from here.
The museum, to be called the Batanes Branch Museum and Field Station of the National Museum of the Philippines, is the fruit of years of studies conducted by the National Museum.
Jeremy Barns, National Museum director, said, “Batanes is highly important to many of the Museum’s mandated areas of work, in cultural heritage and natural history.”
”It is not only clearly suitable, but also a priority for establishing a permanent presence of the National Museum by way of a branch museum and field station,” Barns added.
The ruins of the old USCG will be rehabilitated to provide exhibition, visitor and education spaces, apart from research facilities for the agency’s scientists and researchers to further extend the museum’s services to the province. It will also promote science, education and tourism.
The site consists of six one-story reinforced concrete buildings that were abandoned by the Americans after the Vietnam War.
An initial appropriation of P39 million is included in the proposed national budget of 2012 for the establishment of the museum.
In a briefing before a select group of Ivatans last week, Barns cited the need to house and exhibit properly the considerable number of archeological and anthropological artifacts they have assembled in the course of their study in the province.
Archeological artifacts include pottery dating from about 4,000 years ago, objects of Taiwan nephrite (jade), baked clay spindle whorls as old as 3,000 years and 2000 year-old burial jars.
Batanes fuel stock to last for only 12 days
- Source: http://www.philstar.com/nation/article.aspx?publicationSubCategoryId=67&articleId=720817
- By: Jack Castaño III
- August 27, 2011-www.philstar.com
BASCO, Batanes ,Philippines – The province’s stock of diesel fuel to run its generators that provide electricity is down to only 36,000 liters, enough to provide electricity for only 12 more days at a reduced operation of 10 hours a day.
Since a week ago, the operating hours of the National Power Corp. (Napocor) generators have been reduced to only 10 hours a day.
The generators are switched on at 12 noon and switched off at 10 p.m.
In the island municipalities of Sabtang and Itbayat, electricity is only available for only six hours a day.
The situation will last until Sept. 6, the run-out date the Napocor has given itself to operate its generators. That means, without additional fuel, the entire province will go into total darkness from that date.
While Napocor still has a balance of 100,000 liters from its first semester allocation of 800,000 liters, this has yet to be delivered from Manila.
However, the hauler cannot promise if he can deliver the stock by next week. The situation is compounded by the unpredictable weather this time of the year.
Sept. 6 is also the date set by Napocor for haulers to bid for the transport of the second semester supply of 800,000 liters. The winning bidder will also have to face the prospects of unpredictable weather.
Weather this time of the year is usually not calm as a consequence of the west monsoon and easterly winds that converge in extreme northern Luzon.