09 March 2010
LIBON, Albay – Army troopers collared a communist rebel amazon after a brief firefight at a hinterland village in here, a Philippine Army spokesman said. The Army soldiers captured Jinky Martinez, a member of the New People’s Army (NPA) of the Larangan 77 Guerilla Front operating in the third district of Albay. Army Maj. Harold Cabunoc, Bicol [...]
09 March 2010
DAET, Camarines Norte – Daet Mayor Tito S. Sarion and Mandaluyong City Mayor Benhur Abalos recently signed a memorandum of sisterhood agreement between their local government units. Daet local officials led by Sarion were overwhelmed when the city government of Mandaluyong welcomed them with confetti, music and dances depicting both places’ culture and tradition. The famous [...]
09 March 2010
LEGAZPI CITY– Albay’s youth ambassador on climate change has brought another honor to the province after she was proclaimed as this year’s Binibining Pilipinas Universe. The 21-year-old Maria Venus Raj is five feet and nine inches tall and hails from Bato, Camarines Sur. She graduated with honors (Cum Laude) from Bicol University with a degree in [...]
07 March 2010
CAMP ELIAS ANGELES, Pili, Camarines Sur – Suspected communist rebels gunned down a local candidate on Thursday for refusing to pay the permit to win/permit to campaign (PTW/PTC) fees the rebels were demanding, a military report said on Friday. Killed was Ponciano Numeron, 50, of Barangay San Antonio, Pasacao town in Camarines Sur, who was a [...]
06 March 2010
NAGA CITY – Police foiled a bombing attempt in Masbate what could have been an election-related violence in the island province. Reports reaching the PNP National Operations Center in Camp Crame from the PNP-AFP Joint Special Task Force Masbate disclosed that police and military security forces defused an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted at the driveway [...]
05 March 2010
LEGAZPI CITY -The Albay Provincial Disaster Coordinating Council (PDCC) has shifted its disaster strategy from response to risk reduction following the lowering of the alert level in Mayon Volcano from two to one. The risk reduction strategy ceters on the full relocation of households still living in the 6- kilometer permanent danger zone (PDZ). Albay Gov. Joey [...]
05 March 2010
NAGA CITY – At least 400 soldiers will be deployed around Bicol Region to help in the internal security operations campaign and election duties, an Army officer said. Major Harold M. Cabunoc, 9th Infantry Division spokesperson, said that the newly enlisted soldiers will be equally distributed to all brigades and battalions in the various provinces covering [...]
04 March 2010
SORSOGON CITY – Halos ay dalawang araw ding naging alerto ang mga Sorsoganon partikular ang mga nakatira malalapit sa baybaying dagat kaugnay ng ipinalabas na tsunami alert ng Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology noong nakaraang Sabado ng gabi. Matatandaang nagpalabas ang Phivolcs ng tsunami alert sa halos ay labingsiyam na mga lalawigan sa buong bansa [...]
03 March 2010
LEGAZPI CITY – Army troopers killed a communist rebel during a clash in a remote village in Ligao, a Philippine Army spokesman said. A 15 man Army soldiers engaged a 12-member band of New People’s Army(NPA) rebels in a 10-minute firefight in barangay Balanac this city at about 12:50 p.m. Monday. Lieutenant John Oberio, commanding officer of [...]
03 March 2010
VIRAC, Catanduanes – The communist rebel movement in Catanduanes generated from its extortion activities P1.1 million last year and is making more this year from “permit-to-campaign, permit-to-win (PTC-PTW)” fees being demanded from local candidates, the Philippine Army (PA) revealed here. From a candidate for congressman of the lone district of the province alone, the New People’s [...]
01 March 2010
LEGAZPI CITY – Albay Governor Joey Salceda lamented the poor performance of high schools in the 2009 National Achievement Test (NAT) result. “Then low performance could be attributed to poor teaching method and system in the secondary schools,” Salceda said. The cut-off has been retained at 70 percent, although it was originally designed to be upscaled to [...]
26 February 2010
LEGAZPI CITY -The Regional Development Council (RDC) here expressed dismay over the inability of the state forces to curb the rising political violence and the deteriorating peace and order situation in Masbate. Albay Gov. Joey Salceda, RDC chair, in a full council meeting on Wednesday quoting the Philippine National [...]
26 February 2010
NAGA CITY – The Social Security System (SSS) released a total of P3.95 billion for various benefits of members in Luzon from January to November last year, which was nine percent more than the P3.64 billion released for the same period in 2008, a top official said. SSS executive vice president Horacio Templo said retirement, which [...]
25 February 2010
MANILA – President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo kicked off her tour of the Central Philippines Tourism super region yesterday (February 22, 2010) with a visit to the municipality of Donsol in Sorsogon that has been cashing in on the development of world-class tourist destinations in the Bicol Region. Bicol is part of Tourism Central Philippines super region, one [...]
25 February 2010
LEGAZPI CITY – Mayor Gerome Alcantara of Donsol, Sorsogon has appealed for presidential intervention to stop the rampant illegal trawling within the territorial water jurisdiction of this whale shark capital as well as in Masbate area. Alcantara told the Philippines News Agency that illegal trawling within the area continues to operate despite several attempts made by [...]
24 February 2010
LEGAZPI CITY – Regional Development Council (RDC) chairman and Albay Governor Joey Salceda has expressed alarm over the continuous occurrence of election-related violence in the island province of Masbate. “What is happening in Masbate, the present political situation in this province is our concern in the RDC because we share the same responsibility,” Salceda told members [...]
23 February 2010
SORSOGON CITY- As the El Niño phenomenon prevailing in some parts of the country ravages agricultural crops, a Cebu-based fertilizer manufacturer has came up with a product that could help plants withstand water shortage due to the dry spell. In a statement recently released here, Amebocyte Cell Company, Inc. (ACCI), manufacturer of Vegegrow Organic Plant Food [...]
23 February 2010
LEGAZPI CITY – Members of Task Force Masbate (TFM) has arrested a man and seized from him a number of assault rifles and a hand gun at his home in a village in Milagros town in the island province of Masbate. Arrested was Cristito Bulandra, a native of Barangay Jamorawon, Milagros, Masbate. Armed with a search warrant [...]
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