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                    [ArticleID] => 909402
                    [Title] => Bodies of 5 Semirara workers located
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The bodies of five workers who went missing during a landslide at a mining site in Semirara, Antique were located yesterday morning, police said.

[DatePublished] => 2013-02-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1165072 [AuthorName] => Bebot Sison Jr. [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => http://imageshack.us/a/img717/1307/semirarathumb.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 908795 [Title] => Mar orders extra efforts for trapped miners in Antique [Summary] =>

Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas on Thursday ordered local officials in Antique province and in the municipality of Caluya to join the search and rescue operations for miners trapped in a coal mine hit by a landslide on Wednesday night.

[DatePublished] => 2013-02-14 16:30:12 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1262583 [AuthorName] => Dennis Carcamo [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 908757 [Title] => 4 coal miners dead, 6 missing in Antique landslide [Summary] =>

(UPDATE) Four workers have been pulled out dead from an open coal mining pit in Antique province that was hit by a landslide on Wednesday night. Rescue operations were ongoing for six more miners.

[DatePublished] => 2013-02-14 11:07:39 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1262583 [AuthorName] => Dennis Carcamo [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/3121/semirara.jpg ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 322388 [Title] => ‘Semirara rehab to take 10 years’ [Summary] => ILOILO CITY — Antique Gov. Salvacion Zaldivar-Perez said the rehabilitation of areas on Semirara Island affected by the massive oil spill could take 10 years, as she described the damage to be "very wide."

"We need professional cleaners, not just the residents," she said in a public affairs program.

Perez said the oil spill left Semirara residents with no means of livelihood since "their seaweed (farms) are all gone, so do the fishes."
[DatePublished] => 2006-02-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1711399 [AuthorName] => Ronilo Pamonag [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 321485 [Title] => Napocor spends P19M to clean up Semirara oil spill [Summary] => Semirara Island – The state-owned National Power Corp. (Napocor) has spent some P19 million for the clean up of the oil spill in this island last December, a ranking company official said.

In a visit to assess the progress of the clean-up operation in the area, Napocor president Cyril del Callar said the power firm will talk with the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), the main insurer of Napocor to collect the cost of oil spill damage.
[DatePublished] => 2006-02-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096364 [AuthorName] => Donnabelle L. Gatdula [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 320279 [Title] => House probe on Semirara oil spill urged [Summary] => The National Power Corp. (Napocor) is liable for the oil spill that has damaged seaweed farms and mangroves in Antique’s Semirara Island, Aklan Rep. Florencio Miraflores said.

According to Miraflores, a House inquiry is imperative to determine the extent of Napocor’s liability since it has been more than a month since the oil spill, which some authorities fear might reach Boracay Island, one of the country’s prime tourist destinations.
[DatePublished] => 2006-02-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096652 [AuthorName] => Delon Porcalla [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 105173 [Title] => Semirara folk poised to put up barricades to stop garbage trucks [Summary] => SEMIRARA ISLAND, Caluya, Antique — Residents of this island are up in arms against attempts to dump tons and tons of garbage from Metro Manila in their community.

The islanders were poised to put up barricades to disallow the passage of dump trucks loaded with stinking trash from the big city.

The dump trucks, owned by David M. Consunji Inc. (DMCI), were ferried to Semirara by three barges, two of them coming from Manila and one from Batangas City.
[DatePublished] => 2001-01-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1197707 [AuthorName] => by Leo Solinap [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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