WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Philippine Government Response Team reported to Secretary Alan Peter S. Cayetano that the remaining 23 Filipino nationals on the British Virgin Islands together with nine (9) and 17 kababayans from Anguilla and Sint Maarten, respectively, arrived safely in San Juan, Puerto Rico today, 18 September 2017. The repatriates from the three islands are housed in one hotel in San Juan, under the purview of the Government’s Response Team. A total of […]
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Category 5 Hurricane Irma batters Turks and Caicos islands
(Eagle News) — Category 5 Hurricane Irma, with winds of up to 290 kilometers per hour, battered Turks and Caicos islands on Thursday as people in the Caribbean and those in the hurricane’s path in the Southeastern United States started bracing themselves for what could be the strongest hurricane of their lives. Turks and Caicos is an archipelago of 40 low-lying coral islands in the Atlantic Oceaan, and is a British Overseas Territory southeast […]





