A century after the 1918 Spanish Flu, the most recent coronavirus brought the whole world to its knees as it ate more than nine months of the year 2020 spent in home quarantines and social distancing. Palawan had managed to surf through the waves of occasional local transmission cases, now muddling through reopening its economic sectors in a careful balance between health and survival.
Narra town mayor Crispin Lumba, in a phone interview also on Tuesday morning, said that the victim, Atty. Eric Jay Magcamit, 36, was on his way to a hearing in Quezon town when he was flagged down by two unidentified suspects who fired upon him that resulted in his instantaneous death around seven o’clock in the morning.
The Provincial Board has requested the Legal Education Board (LEB) of the Palawan State University (PSU) School of Law to conduct a regular Philippine Law School Admission Test (PHILSAT) in Palawan.