Albay

The cause is sea surface temperatures rising from the central Pacific Ocean, bringing about changes in waves, warmer, higher, causing a scarcity of rainfall that eventually produces drought and higher temperatures.

Already, parts of the Philippines are feeling the effects of this El Niño, Carino, Albay, Camarines Norte, and Sur, Catanduanes, Eastern, and Western Samar, and Leyte.

Their rainfall is below normal and temperatures for this time of year are higher than usual.

These high temperatures can actually enhance the monsoon, which they seem to have done along with the Habagat wine this year, particularly in western Luzon.

Police say two gunmen on a motorcycle fired multiple shots at Loterte on 12 October at his bakery.

The attack happened in the village of San Roque in Daraga within Albay Province.

Loterte anchored Rabas kun Rabas for RBN News television and was an independent producer for DWIZ FM radio.

He died after being rushed to a local hospital.

Police Regional Office Five has formed a special task force to uncover the motive, though the attackers remain unidentified.

The Albay chapter of the Association of Broadcasters of the Philippines condemned the murder, stressing that violence against media professionals cannot be tolerated.

Ricky Bautista, a veteran journalist with the Media Citizen Council, demanded immediate arrests, urging law enforcement to step up or step aside.

The Albay Press Club echoed demands for justice.

DPWH probes Pampanga river wall collapse.

The Department of Public Works and Highways, DPWH, is investigating the collapse of a riverbank protection structure in Pampanga barely two years after it was built, as it accelerates work on two long-delayed bridges in the province and Albay.

Public Works Secretary Vince Dizon said over the week that they will summon the contractor's representatives for a joint investigation with provincial and local government officials following the collapse in Barangay San Mateo, Arayat, which could threaten nearby homes along the Pampanga River.

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has ordered the contractor held accountable if investigators find that the sheet piles used in the project failed to meet the dimensions specified in the approved plans.

Dizon has ordered construction accelerated in line with Marcos' directive to finish stalled infrastructure projects and ensure that taxpayer-funded facilities are put to public use.

Once operational, the bridge is expected to ease traffic for motorists traveling through Arayat and neighboring provinces.

In Daraga, Albay, construction of the Kilacao-Binitayan Bridge is nearing completion after remaining stalled for fifteen years.

A local news report placed the project's estimated cost at around P250 million.

Like its better-known relative, the edible banana, Musa paradisiaca, the stem of the plant is formed by the leaf stalks, in the center of which again is the blossom stem.

The finest growth is obtained by the volcanic and rainy districts of the Philippines, more particularly in Camarines Sur, Albay, Samar, Leyte, Marinduque, Cebu, and in some of the small neighboring islands, as well as the Negros and Mindanao.

The valuable hemp fiber is found in the petioles, from which it is taken before the plant has borne fruit, as otherwise the fibers lose inelasticity and luster.

In two or three years the plant has usually attained such growth that it can be cut down and leaves removed, the green epidermis stripped from the stem, and either the last strips torn off lengthwise or the petiole separated singly, and the inner membrane with the pulpy portion of the plant removed.

The former, quote, Inspector General de Montes, end quote, Don Jose Centeno and Don Antonio Hernandez are deserving of special mention for their work in this direction.

Coal is probably spread over the whole archipelago.

It was first discovered in 1827 in the island of Cebu, then in Negros and Mindanao, on the island of Luzon, in Camarines and Albay, and in many other islands.

The wealth thus appears almost inexhaustible.