Articles

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.

Manila Auxiliary Bishop Bernardino Cortez threatened of a "legal battle" in order to protect the health, security and environment of the residents in a crowded district in the city.

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.

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.

MANILA, May 20, 2009-An official of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) said that bishops are firm on their position not to favor the amendment of the Constitution.

Changing the Charter is not necessary in order to institute reforms in the country today.

"Ulitin ko lang po yung stand nila (na) hindi kinakailangan ang chacha upang baguhin ang ating bansa (at) ating mga tao," stated Msgr. Pedro Quitorio, Media Director of CBCP.

OCAMPO, CAMARINES SUR - Three long-time cattle rustlers finally fell to the folds of the law after they were nabbed by the local police with the help of local residents, who saw them loading two sacks of cattle meat in a tricycle at Barangay San Francisco in this municipality.

MANILA, May 19, 2009-The head of the Catholic bishops' leadership called on deposed President Joseph Estrada to retire from politics and give others a chance to lead the country.

Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) president Archbishop Angel Lagdameo said Estrada must give way to more capable candidates by not joining the presidential race in 2010.

Lagdameo was reacting to reports that Estrada can and may still run in next year's polls.

VATICAN, May 19, 2009-- The first social encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI, which will probably be called "Veritas in caritate" (Truth in Charity), appears as if it will see the light of day on June 29, the solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, a source from the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace informed CNA.

NAGA CITY-In the past, school buildings in Panicuason Elementary School by this time of the year had been repainted already. But now, barely three weeks before the opening of classes, classrooms in this school farthest from the city proper of Naga are yet to burn in colors to welcome giddy schoolchildren.

"We don't have enough school funds this year to shoulder the cost of repainting the classrooms," OIC school head Minette Mira told Vox Bikol on the first day of the yearly Brigada Eskwela.

PILI, Camarines Sur, May 18 -- A suspected New People's Army (NPA) leader was slain in a clash with government troopers in a remote village in Lagonoy town in Camarines Sur on Sunday, a Philippine Army officer said Monday.

Killed was only identified as Ka Elmer, an NPA leader in charge of the movements revolutionary taxation group operating in the fourth district of Camarines Sur.

PILI, CAMSUR-The Provincial Government of Camarines Sur in collaboration with the regional office  of  the  Department  of  Health  conducted  an  orientation  seminar on  Influenza A (H1N1) Tuesday, May  19   at  Regent Hotel  to  inform  and  educate  participants  on the  salient  points  of  this  virus  which  originated in Mexico  and  now inexorably spreading to different parts of the world.

The activity was spearheaded a composite team from the DOH regional office and personnel of Camarines Sur's Provincial Health Office.

The activity  was  fully  supported  by  Governor  LRay  Villafuerte  who considers the health  of  his  constituents  among the  priorities  of  his intensified social services programs.

NABUA, CAMARINES SUR - A LOCAL RESIDENT here, who were among three suspects in the slaying of a young nurse in Monterey Village, Naga City in August 20, 2008, was shot to death by a gunman inside her residence at Zone 6, Barangay Lourdes Young in this town, the local police reported to the police provincial office on last May 16.

The victim identified as Ruby Rosa Biares Alimagno was shot five times by a gunman using a Cal. 45 pistol, who was reportedly with two other suspects.

Reportedly, the Senate will be voting for the passage of the bill in a plenary session set before the end of the month, a mayor from Cam. Sur's first district revealed.

In the latest deliberation of the bill at the Senate Committee on Local Government, chaired by Senator Benigno "Nonoy" Aquino III, the Congressman's son, Camarines Sur Governor Luis Raymund Villafuerte had opposed the passage of the bill, citing a resolution passed by the Camarines Sur Sangguniang Panlalawigan and other resolutions allegedly by the Cam. Sur League of Municipalities and Barangay officials.