Bikol News

TIWI, Albay (Oct 22, 2013) - A housewife who is now left with eleven father-less children accidentally killed her husband during a fatal quarrel over campaign materials...

 LEGAZPI CITY – Through the effort of the Provincial Government of Albay  and the Office of the Civil Defense (OCD) Regional office-5, an 80-member team called the “Bicol Humanitarian Mission” left for Bohol and Cebu to help the victims of the killer quake in various capacities.

Albay Governor Joey Sarte Salceda had ordered the Albay Public Safety and Emergency Management Office (APSEMO) to organize the humanitarian mission to help its sister province Bohol...

CAMP SIMEON OLA, LEGAZPI CITY – A new Police Regional director assumes command during a turn-over ceremonies held in this camp on Monday (Oct. 14), replacing Police Chief Supt.Clarence Villanueva Guinto who also retires from service that spanned thirty-three years.

Philippine National Police (PNP) Director General, Police Director General Alan M. Purisima, led the turn-over command rites on Monday afternoon that installed Police Chief Supt. Victor Pelota Deona as the new regional police director for Bicol...

RAGAY, Camarines Sur (Oct 11,2013) – Hundreds of supporters that include municipal and village officials from the first congressional of Camarines Sur held several rallies to give moral support to their beleaguered Congressman Rolando “Nonoy” Andaya who was Budget Secretary in the Arroyo administration and now co-accused of plunder over alleged misuse of the Malampaya fund...

NABUA,Camarines Sur (Oct 2, 2013) - Camarines Sur 5th District Congressman Salvio Fortuno has his hands full brokering an agreement between the mayors of Rinconada and power provider San Miguel Energy Corp. (SMEC) aiming to end the 3-day old power outage in the area serviced by the Camarines Sur Electric Cooperative III (CASURECO III).

Because of  unpaid arrears amounting to Php102 Million, SMEC cut off power supply to CASURECO III, plunging to darkness 66,000 consumers in 6 municipalities and 1 city on Monday (Sep. 30)...

PILI, Camarines Sur—Unlike in Naga City, residents of this capital town favor cutting hundreds of trees along their highway to pave the way for the four-lane road expansion project of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) .

At the conclusion of  public hearings with local stakeholders, Pili local government administrator Bernard E. Estadilla told newsmen on Friday (Sept.27) that no oppositions have emerged against the proposed highway expansion project to be implemented in the last quarter of the year covering villages of Palestina, Cadlan and San Jose -- all along the Maharlika highway...

An Profeta, the first ever Bikol translation of Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet will be launched on September 10, 2013, Arrupe Convention Center, Ateneo de Naga University  at 4:30pm. Translated by Fr. Wilmer S. Tria, one of the foremost translators in the region today, the project is accompanied by artworks done by Bernie Faustine Brijuega and book design by Pen Prestado. Both artists are new members of the Burikbutikan Artists Collective, a group of visual artists, writers and cultural workers in the region.

NAGA CITY -- The influential League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP), Camarines Sur chapter elected its new officers for 2013 to 2016 at the posh Villa Caceres Hotel here on Wednesday (August 28).

Tigaon town Mayor Arnulfo Bryan Fuentebella, son of former 4th District of Cam. Sur Congressman Arnulfo “Noli” Fuentebella, was elected President by a majority of 25 Mayors from a total of 35 towns and 1 component city of the province...

The National Youth Commission, as the voice and advocate of the youth, calls for the postponement of the SK Elections scheduled on October 2013.

The appeal to postpone the upcoming SK polls is to give ample time for our legislators to process the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) Reform and Empowerment Bill. According to NYC Commissioner Percival Cendaña, this reform is important to correct flaws and gaps in the SK before new officials are elected. He also emphasized that “if we are going to do it, we have to do it right. Dahil sa matuwid na daan, hindi dapat maiwanan ang pinakamalaking institusyon ng kabataan.”

NAGA CITY – As part of the activities to commemorate the first death anniversary of the late Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jesse Manalastas Robredo, his widow, Maria Lenora 'Leni' Gerona Robredo shall travel from Cebu City to Masbate, retracing the path of the tragic journey her husband took one year ago.

Mrs. Robredo, who is now the Congresswoman of the 3rd District of Camarines Sur, shall take off from Cebu City on the 15th of August and will visit the exact site, some 500-meters away from the Masbate City Airport at the coastal Barangay of Ibingay, where Robredo’s twine-engine Piper PA-34-200 Seneca aircraft crashed in the afternoon of August 18, 2012.

Leni Robredo told newsmen here “that she has been wanting to do the journey to thank the people of Masbate and to meet the family of the plane pilot, Jessup Bahinting, in Cebu City...”

rnment of Catanduanes, Green Philippines, Inc., and other partner institutions, will organize the 4th Philippine National Biodiversity Meeting (BIOME4) on October 20-22, 2013.

With the "Fostering Cooperation in Water Biodiversity Conservation in Marine and Freshwater Systems for Island Development,” BIOME4 is part of CSU’s commitment to the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) to promote and facilitate technical and scientific cooperation among the various stakeholders on biodiversity in the country, particularly in the rural areas...

TIGAON, CAMARINES SUR – Vice President Jejomar Binay came to this town to administer the Oaths of Office of three elected officials belonging to the influential Fuentebella clan of the Partido district of Camarines Sur province, joined by nine elected mayors of the district including other mayors belonging to the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC) in three other districts of the province.

In what is considered the most pompous oath-taking ceremony for newly elected officials held in the province after the May 2013 elections, President Binay primarily administered the oath Wednesday (July 3) to newly elected Congressman of the Partido district (C. Sur 4th district) Felix William B. Fuentebella who succeeded his father, outgoing Congressman Arnulfo “Noli” Fuentebella. The latter was the congressional representative of the district from 2005 to 2013.

Other Fuentebella clan members who took their oath before the Vice-President were re-elected Tigaon town Mayor Arnulfo Bryan B. Fuentebella and his mother, re-elected Sañgay town Mayor Evelyn Bukid Fuentebella.