Batanes News August 2011

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Wars of ancient history were about possessions, territory, power, control, family, betrayal, lover's quarrel, politics and sometimes religion.

But we are in the Modern era and supposedly more educated and enlightened .

Think about this. Don't just brush off these questions.

  • Why is RELIGION still involved in WARS? Isn't religion supposed to be about PEACE?
  • Ask yourself; What religion always campaign to have its religious laws be accepted as government laws, always involved in wars and consistently causing WARS, yet insists that it's a religion of peace?

WHY??

There are only two kinds of people who teach tolerance:
  1. The Bullies. They want you to tolerate them so they can continue to maliciously deprive you. Do not believe these bullies teaching tolerance, saying that it’s the path to prevent hatred and prejudice.
  2. The victims who are waiting for the right moment to retaliate. They can’t win yet, so they tolerate.
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Oldest house in Ivana, Batanes

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Phivolcs: Magnitude-4.9 quake rocks Batanes

A magnitude-4.9 quake rocked Batanes in northern Philippines shortly after midnight Tuesday, but there was no initial report of damage or casualty.

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake was recorded at 12:15 a.m. Wednesday, and was tectonic in origin.

In its bulletin, Phivolcs said the quake’s epicenter was 147 km northwest of Basco, Batanes.

However, it did not immediately cite specific areas where the quake was felt.

Phivolcs said no damage or aftershock was expected from the quake.

BJMP joins dengue blood drive

The officers and personnel of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) have decided to do their part in helping people who have been victimized by the deadly dengue fever by donating their own blood.

BJMP Chief Director Rosendo M. Dial announced in a meeting that the jail bureau is ready to extend help to regions and provinces with high dengue cases through blood donation.

“The BJMP offers its blood to dengue patients especially in provinces under a state of calamity,” said Dial.

He said BJMP regional and field units in dengue-stricken provinces will be ordered to mount blood donation projects for victims within their respective areas.

Among the provinces recently put under a state of calamity due to dengue outbreaks are Iloilo City, La Union, Ilocos Sur, and Batanes.

The blood donation is in line with the directive earlier given by Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jesse M. Robredo for local government units to enforce environmental sanitation such as dredging of clogged canals, esteros and other waterways; pruning of thick bushes or tree branches; removing or draining receptacles containing stagnant water; and conducting massive information drive on environmental control of mosquito-breeding sites especially in endemic areas.

Six government agencies earlier joined hands last week to look for strategic and coordinated actions against the mosquito-borne viral disease which has killed at least 267 persons nationwide in the last seven months.

This developed after Robredo, Department of Health (DoH) Secretary Enrique Ona, Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Armin Luistro, Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Ramon Paje,

Department of Science and Technology (DoST) Secretary Mario Montejo, and Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Francis Tolentino signed the Memorandum of Agreement for an Inter-Agency Cooperation Strategy for Intensifying Anti-Dengue Drive in Barangay Bagbag, Novaliches, Quezon City.

Robredo said there is a need for inter-agency and inter-sectoral partnerships to implement a sustainable and wide-reaching campaign to prevent and control dengue.

“All concerned departments of the government are here today to take a stand and undertake strategies and concrete actions to address the prevalence of dengue,” he said.


‘Mina’ weakens as it moves away from Philippines

Typhoon “Mina” (International codename: Nanmadol) weakened slightly as it headed out of the Philippines, where 12 people were killed in its deadly onslaught across North Luzon last weekend, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Monday.

In its 11 a.m. bulletin, Pagasa said Mina’s maximum sustained winds was measured at 100 kilometers per hour as of 10 a.m. Monday, 10 kph slower than its strength at 4 a.m.

The storm, which was seen 320 km northwest of Batanes, was gusting at 130 kph and was moving northwest at 9 kph.

It is expected to be at 520 km northwest of Batanes by Tuesday, the weather agency said. Public Signal No. 1 remains over the Batanes Group of Islands.

Storm warnings elsewhere have been lowered.

Batanes to host National Museum branch

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

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.

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