Municipal News

Mayor Amy Alvarez reportedly ordered the cancellation of town's planned activities in view of the national government's declaration of a “state of public health emergency” throughout the country.

The project was initiated by former 2nd district representative Erick Abueg and was funded for P3M.

In popular beaches like Long Beach, the locals have taken into account that marine turtles lay their eggs within the period from November until February.

Following the guidelines laid out by the Department of Education, school authorities said they have been regularly interviewing students to check for fever, coughing and other apparent symptoms of Covid-19 illness.

Paly Island, a remote barangay of about 3,000 residents which had long been supplying live grouper fish to China, has suddenly found its market closed.

The water system taps its source from the Ybayen Falls and will supply Barangays Aramaywan, Isugod, Maasin, Kalatagbak, Tabon and Alfonso XIII.

A group of local women there which had formed themselves into a cooperative engaged in seeweed farming share a view that their role as mothers has evolved.

Lemuel Mante, executive assistant 1 in the office of mayor Gerandy Danao of Narra, told Palawan News they are expecting Troyo to be repatriated this week

Echague said despite the slow-moving travel movement due to COVID-19, business owners in El Nido remain positive that everything will come to a good end eventually.

Formerly called "Emeg", which was derived from the word "Ameg" which means "a bit wet or moist", San Isidro is a former sitio of Brgy. New Agutaya founded by Bartolome Adion.

The festival commemorates the arrival of the original settlers who populated the town from the islands of Cuyo and Agutaya. It also recognizes the Tagbanua indigenous peoples (IPs), one of the oldest tribes in Palawan.

Fisherman Joseph Troyo was rescued on February 23 by patrolling Vietnamese authorities, according to Lemuel Mante, administrative assistant 1 in the office of Narra mayor Gerandy Danao.