SANTIAGO CITY—The veterinary office here has fortified its yearly anti-rabies campaign in all the 37 villages of the city as a preemptive move against attacks from rabies-infected dogs this summer.
AS a tropical country, the Philippines is acknowledged as an onion-growing state from Batanes up north to Mindanao down south. Because the versatile high-value crop could be grown all over the archipelago, many rice farmers have shifted to onion farming as they tried and proven that they earn more from cultivating the red bulb better known to Filipinos as sibuyas.
SANTIAGO CITY, Isabela–As temperatures rise here, so are prices of pork and beef being sold in the city’s wet market.
Story and photos By Leonardo Perante II
CABARROGUIS, Quirino—To support the government’s expanded National Greening Program and its effort in promoting bamboo production as a component in reducing carbon emissions, watershed rehabilitation and development of a resource-based livelihood option particularly within the Addalam River Basin, a seminar-workshop focused on bamboo production was held at the OceanaGold Sustainable Agro-forestry Inc. (Ogsai) demo farm and Training Center in Tucod village this town from November 27 to 29.
CABARROGUIS, Quirino—The OceanaGold Sustainable Agroforestry Inc.’s (Ogsai) 4.5-hectare central nursery and organic demonstration farm located uphill in Barangay Tucod here has recently been certified as an organic agriculture learning site by the Department of Agriculture (DA) Agricultural Training Institute in Region 2 or Cagayan Valley.
NOT much has been heard about the town “created from the ribs” of Bagabag, Nueva Vizcaya. It used to be a mere barrio of the town, up north, before Diadi was finally converted into an independent municipality.
Story and photos by Leonardo Perante II
Story and photos by Leonardo Perante II / Correspondent
JUST in time for school year 2017-2018, the construction of a three-story senior high-school (SHS) building at the Eastern Nueva Vizcaya National High School (ENVNHS) campus is now a reality. After one and a half years, the long wait is over.
Story and photos by Leonardo Perante II
Story and photos by Leonardo Perante II / Correspondent
Story and photos by Leonardo Perante II
DIDIPIO MINE, Nueva Vizcaya—With thousands of mining employees fed from breakfast to dinner, Australian mining firm OceanaGold (Philippines) Inc. (OGPI) has reaffirmed its support to the production of high-value crops in Barangay Didipio, home to its Didipio operation.
Story and photo by Leonardo Perante II
Story and photos by Leonardo Perante II | Correspondent
LONG before OceanaGold (Philippines) Inc. (OGPI) commenced full operation of its Didipio Mine three years ago, a series of social-development programs has been in existence, providing benefits to residents of the mining village.
FOR winning five prestigious awards from the recently concluded 63rd Annual National Mine Safety and Environment Conference held at Camp John Hay in Baguio City, OceanaGold (Philippines) Inc. (OGPI) remains one of the safest and environment-friendly mining companies in the country today.
IRONICALLY, it needed two devastating typhoons—Karen and Lawin—for people like us in the media to reach and cover Peñablanca, Cagayan, home of the famous Callao Caves located at the northern Sierra Madre mountain range. It was hardest-hit by Supertyphoon Lawin, since the powerful storm directly hit the riverside town located alongside the Pinacanauan River.
By Leonardo Perante II | Correspondent
ILAGAN CITY, Isabela—Right after Typhoon Karen (international code name Sarika) devastated Isabela with severe crop damage, another more disastrous typhoon called Lawin (international code name Haima) followed.
Story And Photo By Leonardo Perante | Correspondent
KASIBU, Nueva Vizcaya—As part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) and social development management program dubbed “We Care,” Australian mining firm OceanaGold (Philippines) Inc. (OGPI) recently donated P43 million for the construction of a three-story senior high-school building on the Eastern Nueva Vizcaya National High School (ENVNHS) campus in Barangay Didipio in this town.
KASIBU, Nueva Vizcaya—In response to the call for comprehensive audits on all mining operations in the country, Australian mining company OceanaGold-Philippines Inc. (OGPI), which runs the Didipio Gold-Copper Project in this upland town, has expressed willingness to welcome the transparent audit by the national government that may cover technical, environmental and social development aspects of its mining operations.
SANTIAGO CITY—The 22-kilometer service-road network developed by Australian mining firm OceanaGold (Philippines) Inc. to and from its mine site in Didipio, Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya, through Cabarroguis, Quirino, is undergoing pavement construction, with sharp curves and slopes given top priority.
CABARROGUIS, Quirino—Hillside farmers in this gateway town to a gold-copper project operated by OceanaGold (Philippines) Inc. (OGPI) at the mining village of Didipio, Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya, are now into large-scale vegetable farming. What used to be idle contours have been converted into productive vegetable gardens planted with organically grown vegetables.
A LANDLOCKED province with a rolling terrain that straddles southern Cagayan Valley Region, Nueva Vizcaya is known for its ecotourism destinations, upland farms and rich natural resources blessed with premium mineral deposits.
IN the Philippines, a defendant whose case is still being heard in court but does not have enough money fails to post bail for his temporary liberty. Very often, he lands in jail. It is like the end of the world for a newcomer jailbird.
BOUND for an off-road trip to the highlands of Nueva Vizcaya one foggy Sunday morning onboard a 4×4 Nissan Navara with Nonie, a budding shutterbug, our punishing take-off from Santiago City on a pulverized road span undergoing reconstruction all the way through Cordon, Isabela, was a picture of staggering monstrous traffic jam on both directions.
IN the tiny village of Busilac at the capital town of Bayombong in Nueva Vizcaya, when one thinks of homemade fruit preserves, Cottage Fresh comes to mind.
By Leonardo Perante II / Correspondent
By Leonardo Perante II
A FEW hours before the live telecast of what is said to be the most celebrated fight of the century—Mayweather-Pacquiao showdown slated today at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas—BusinessMirror contributing photographer Suzanne June Perante has been preparing not her camera but an oven to bake her favorite Swiss roll and cheese buns as intended snacks while watching the long-awaited rumble on screen—a perfect time to share the products of her newly learned skills in baking breads and pastries.
SINCE she bagged the National Schools Press Conference 2011 photojournalism (English category) championship title in the Elementary Level, in Butuan City, budding shutterbug Suzanne June has been obsessed with taking photographs of birds.
WHAT used to be the biggest province up north covering a large portion of today’s Isabela province, Nueva Vizcaya was further sliced to give birth to the province of Quirino.
BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya —In an attempt to help rescue the ailing citrus industry in the mining town of Kasibu in this province, OceanaGold (Philippines) Inc. (OGPI), which operates the Didipio Mine, has recently organized a forum among local citrus farmers in the upland town.
ISABELA is blessed with water, a complementary natural resource through the Magat River Integrated Irrigation System (MARIIS) irrigating about 85,000 hectares of farm lands.
BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya—Her natural love for green environment made it easy for a science junior from the Nueva Vizcaya General Comprehensive High School in this capital town to win a poster-making contest showcasing a large-scale mining project during the recent “Celebrate Didipio!” festival.
After three decades of operation, the National Irrigation Administration-Magat River Integrated Irrigation System (NIA-MARIIS) Dam, which irrigates 83,000 hectares of farmlands in Isabela and Quirino provinces, will soon undergo optimization works. The irrigation dam is located just after the Magat hydroelectric plant operated by SN Aboitiz Power (Snap).
FROM love to other symbolic meanings of flowers based on shape and color, from roses to tulips—basically all of these blooms symbolize deep affection regardless of occasion.
KASIBU, Nueva Vizcaya—An Australian mining firm, which runs the Didipio Mine in this upland town, has commissioned the operation of a $6.1-million water-treatment facility at the project site.
IT was barely a decade ago when the chopper that covered my photo shoot over Honeymoon Island at the Pacific coast of Isabela province touched down in a school quadrangle in Roxas town.
