By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL MANICANI Island is a small fishing community in Guiuan, Eastern Samar, where Typhoon Yolanda (international name Haiyan) made its first landfall in 2013 and took away thousands of lives in a span of four hours. A trove of chromite and nickel ores, the 11.7 square-kilometer island of 3,000 people has attracted
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS HAS the government relinquished its duty of regulating the mining industry to the Catholic Church? That’s the question I asked Environment Secretary Ramon Paje when he said that Hinatuan Mining Corporation (HMC) has to get the approval of the church to their request to remove the 1.1 million
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS Photos by ACE ESMERALDA and ELLEN TORDESILLAS MANICANI today hardly bears signs of the havoc wrought by supertyphoon “Yolanda” (international name: Haiyan) a year ago. Color is back on this 11.7-square-kilometer island of 3,000 people in Guiuan, Eastern Samar, which was a harrowing picture of destruction only 12 months
