MANILA, May 29, 2009- The Church hierarchy's row with the city officials here intensified after a bishop warned to question before the court the legality of the continued operation of the Pandacan oil depot.

NAGA CITY, May 26 (PNA) -- Some 375 day care workers from the different towns in Camarines Sur attended last week the two-day Seminar-Workshop on Classroom Management in Day Care Centers and Orientation on the News Standards for Center-Based (ECCD) programs sponsored by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) at the Regent Hotel in here.

PILI CAMARINES SUR (27 May)-- ABOUT A HUNDRED fish-cage operators in nine barangays surrounding Lake Bato in this province is being planned for a rehab-assistance by the regional office of the Bureau of Fisheries And Aquatic Resources (BFAR) base here, after the said operators sustained big losses reaching P 11.714 million as a result of a "fish-kill" incident that affected more than 4,000 fish-cages and the loss of some 151,500 Tilapia-fish stocks.

SORSOGON CITY, May 26 (PNA) -- Apart from being an exciting attraction that placed a part of Sorsogon province on the map of leading tourist destinations, the whale sharks of Donsol town perhaps could take another heroic role by coming to the nearby Sorsogon Bay.

NAGA CITY (28 May)-- A TRAFFIC EXPERIMENTATION being implemented by the Robredo Administration's Public Safety Office (PSO) along Panganiban Drive, a major thoroughfare that led to the old Naga commercial district, has now become a major concern to many affected business establishments, whose owners are saying the "experimental traffic scheme" will only favor the newly opened "SM City Naga" once ratified as an ordinance.

Vanessa and Gadian provide two more reasons why the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) should be abrogated and the Balikatan joint US-Philippine military exercises stopped.

The merits of Brigada Eskwela, the just  concluded annual program of activities implemented by the Department of Education and is spearheaded by parent-volunteers, need to be extolled if only to draw more people in supporting it.

AFTER ALL THESE YEARS of being a Catholic, I was moved again to reflect on my allegiance to this faith after seeing the live-action version of Dan Brown's another controversial novel, Angels and Demons. No, it did not make me question or doubt my religion. But it led me to evaluate how this Church-and I, as its member-makes way in this contemporary world. I admit that Angels and Demons is not a very powerful story (albeit better than The Da Vinci Code); but I also believe that its job of mixing facts and fictive elements were done superbly. It possesses in itself many of the qualities of fiction, and among these is the capacity to lead readers to reflection.

Many have argued that the intent of the framers of our constitution, drawing from the long years of the Marcos dictatorship, is that there must only be one term for a person who gets elected president. However, intent does not matter if a provision bears no ambiguity or it is plainly clear.

WORKING PEOPLE usually look forward to a day off in which they would be away from the regular working schedule and be able to find time to rest and to have a respite from the more difficult and demanding tasks of daily life.