Days before Kristine (international name: Trami) developed into a severe tropical storm, the Philippine Sea was warmer than usual. Under the warming climate, the typhoon-prone Bicol Region is more vulnerable with decimated forests. Both Camarines Sur and Albay saw a net loss of tree cover from 2000 to 2020, according to Global Forest Watch.
A pastor and a youth leader were arrested in early morning raids in Camarines Sur and Albay.
KMP is seeking urgent donations and support to aid farmers in need of immediate relief — rice, food, relief packs, hygiene kits, drinking water, clothes, sleeping kits, and medicines. A more long-term rehabilitation effort is also needed and farmers and fisherfolk will need seeds and seedlings, farm tools, farm animals, bancas and fishing equipment, and production subsidies.
Bicolanos strike against oil overpricing ahead of Mar 15 nationwide consumers’ protests (Photo courtesy of Arkibong Bayan)
Witnesses and evidences gathered by human rights and people’s organizations point to the military as the perpetrators in the abduction and killing of two Kabataan (Youth) Party-list poll watchers last May 15. BY ZOFIA LEAL Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 16 May 27-June 2, 2007 Last May 15, Ronilo Brezuela, 16 years old, and Roberto “Jun…