No ‘Agta’ OK for Umiray bridge
By Delfin T. Mallari Jr.
A leader of the Agta tribe in the Sierra Madres in northern Quezon on Monday said the construction of a bridge that would link the province to Aurora had no permit from his community.
A leader of the Agta tribe in the Sierra Madres in northern Quezon on Monday said the construction of a bridge that would link the province to Aurora had no permit from his community.
Two villages in two different provinces in Southern Luzon are named after the same waterway that separates them: the Umiray River. Soon, a bridge costing nearly half a billion pesos to build will connect Barangay (village) Umiray in Dingalan town in Aurora province to Barangay Umiray in General Nakar town in Quezon province, according [...]
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