Bikol News

CAMP GEN. SIMEON OLA, LEGAZPI CITY (Sep 18, 2011) – After a firefight with the rebel, Philippine Army soldiers seized from communist rebels high-powered firearms, improvised explosive, wirings and detonating devices in sitio Padirao, barangay Quintina, San Pascual, Masbate on Friday (Sept. 16).

Today, the whole Kabikolan celebrates the feast of its mother, their ina, Our Lady of Peñafrancia. Today, we celebrate our 301st anniversary of our devotion to her. Today, we celebrate our personal love stories with her. She is the mother of God, the mother of Bikolanons, the mother of us all.

LAGONOY,CAMARINES SUR (Sep 15, 2011) - After three destructive fires in the last two years, Lagonoy town Mayor Delfin R. Pilapil Jr. is appealing to Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse M. Robredo, to provide his town at least one fire truck.

NAGA CITY (Sep. 10, 2011) –Thousands of pilgrims and devotes from all over Bicol converged in this city on Friday (Sept. 10) for the traditional “Traslacion Processional” a 19th century religious rite, which starts the 9-day celebration of the feast of Bicolandia’s patroness, the Virgen of Peñafrancia.

PILI CAMARINES SUR (Sep 2, 2011) - The campaign to oppose the splitting of Camarines Sur to form a new province of Nueva Camarines took place Tuesday (August 30) at the provincial capitol convention center with a show of force of more than 2000 people that included local government officials and residents mostly wearing yellow shirts.

NAGA CITY (August 28, 2011) - The local chapters of the transport group, Condor-Piston, is set to support a looming nationwide protest that aims to show the displeasure of the transport sector over the Aquino administration's failure to influence oil companies to sell their products at fair prices.

NAGA CITY (Aug. 29 2011) – The Camarines Sur Electric Cooperative (CASURECO) II has 3 new board members after a legally-challenged election was successfully held yesterday.

CAMP SIMEON OLA, LEGAZPI CITY (Aug 28, 2011) – With 10 more typhoons still expected to come to the country before year–end and heavy rains frequently occurring in the region, a ‘state of calamity’ is expected to drag on in some localities of Bicol.

LEGAZPI CITY, Aug. 23 (PIA) -- The Albay Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Council (PDRRMC) remains on heightened alert since Sunday this week in the wake of tropical depression Mina expected to bring widespread rains that may trigger flashfloods and landslides.

Literary critic and historian Paz Verdades Santos and poet Kristian Sendon Cordero are set to launch a new anthology of Bikol poems entitled Sagurong: 100 Na Rawitdawit Sa Manlain-lain na Bikol/The Bamboo Lifelines: 100 Poems in Bikol Languages on September 5

RAGAY Camarines Sur (Aug. 21, 2011) – Residents of this province are beginning to be puzzled by the frequent occurrence of tornadoes in the past months, with another tornado reportedly occurring in barangay GRS, Ragay town the other day

CAMP SIMEON OLA, Legazpi City (Aug 7, 2011) — One of the most wanted persons in Albay province was nabbed by operatives of the Albay Police Office aided by units of the Quezon City Police District Office.