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Larry Que, also known as Uktoy, (ca. 1963 – December 20, 2016), was a Filipino publisher and journalist for the Catanduanes News Now newspaper. He was killed two weeks after he had written an article linking government officials to a major drug seizure of methamphetamine, locally known as shabu, in the town of Virac in Catanduanes, Philippines.
Rodolfo was born in 1919 in Bato, Catanduanes, Philippines.He was a descendant of Don Juan Rodolfo of Almeria, Spain who went to the Philippines in the 18th century and married the daughter of Datu Bantog, who was then one of the Tribal Chieftains in Catanduanes, in order to put to a halt the hostilities between the natives and the Spaniards.
There were no deaths reported but damages were up to ₱105.8 million (US$2.18 million). [35] October 25–26, 2020: Typhoon Molave (Quinta) made three landfalls, affecting the Bicol Region, Southern Luzon and the island of Mindoro. The typhoon left 27 people dead and damages of ₱4.22 billion (US$87.1 million).
By evening, PAGASA raised the first Signal #4 tropical cyclone warning of the year in Catanduanes and the eastern portion of Camarines Sur, and in the northern portion of Albay a few hours later. [ 48 ] [ 49 ] By the end of the day, almost a million individuals were evacuated: 749,000 from Albay and 200,000 from Camarines Sur; this exceeded the ...
Poverty incidence of Catanduanes 10 20 30 40 50 2006 41.41 2009 29.10 2012 33.80 2015 43.36 2018 20.30 2021 16.80 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority The province recorded just a little −0.3 in the HDI National Average, although it has the highest HDI in the Bicol Region. The 2009 report of HDN (Human Development Network), which is a branch of the United Nations HDI (Human Development ...
The Philippines is a Typhoon (Tropical Cyclone)-prone country, with approximately 20 Tropical Cyclones entering its area of responsibility per year. Locally known generally as bagyo (), [3] typhoons regularly form in the Philippine Sea and less regularly, in the South China Sea, with the months of June to September being the most active, August being the month with the most activity.
The typhoon set a record in the country as the ninth-wettest tropical cyclone to hit the archipelago, which is both recorded at Virac, Catanduanes and Daet, Camarines Norte. [5] The station of the former reported nearly 880 millimetres (35 inches) of rain over September 1 and 2, while the latter at 595.9 millimetres (23.46 inches), respectively ...
A weather observatory in Catanduanes reported a gust of 259 km/h (161 mph). This makes it the typhoon with third-highest gust recorded in the Philippines. [9] Due to the high death toll and catastrophic damages, PAGASA officially retired the name Rosing from the rotating naming lists.