Pasacao, Camarines Sur (June 3 2011) - The owner of ill-fated cargo vessel MV/STC Jeffrey Roy that sunk near a private port here after it caught fire Wednesday evening (June 1) has liability on the incident.
Legazpi City (June 2 2011) — Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Ramon Paje tells DENR employees in Bicol that the case of erring government employees caught in an entrapment operation by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in Baguio City should remind them that illegal acts shall not go unpunished.
Legazpi City (June 2, 2011) — Edilberto Matusalem, MVNP Protected Area Superintendent, bared that in May alone at least 5 local residents of barangay Fidel Sortida, Sto. Domingo Albay were apprehended by personnel of the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (PENRO) Albay for cutting of trees in prohibited areas.
Naga City (June 2 2011) - Three award-winning Bicol writers will launch a a book titled Sinaraysay: Halo-Halong Blog nin Buhay, a compilation of articles selected from the writers' columns in the Naga-based weekly newspaper, Bikol Reporter.
Naga City (June 1 2011) – In May 24, 2011, 4th district Representative Noli Fuentebella, true to his word, filed House Bill 4782 creating a new province, Nueva Camarines, out of the Partido (4th district) and Rinconada (5th district) areas of Camarines Sur.
Naga City (June 1 2011) – Today the Commission on Election (COMELEC) served to Siruma town Mayor Sandy Ondis an order annulling his proclamation as the winning mayoral candidate in the May 2010 elections.
Naga City (June 1 2011) - The random drug tests for employees, officials, policemen and barangay officials of this city shall start this month after the city council approved the budget for the said project.
Naga City (May 30 2011) - First, you must review the previous decisions of the Supreme Court on the conversion of sixteen (16) towns in various parts of the country to ensure that the move to convert Pili town into a city will not violate the High Court’s decisions.
Naga City (May 30 2011) - For all his national popularity and the “good performance” that President Aquino see in acting Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jesse Robredo, it may not be easy sailing for the secretary-nominee when the president puts up his appointment for confirmation at the Commission on Appointments (CA).
Naga City (May 30 2011) – Cause-oriented groups laud the Philippine National Police (PNP) for filing charges against a group of soldiers suspected of killing Elmer Estrellado, an activist and member of Bayan Muna.
Camp Elias Angeles, Pili Camarines Sur (May 30 2011) – A soldier who went home to visit his two-year-old son on his birthday and a civilian passenger caught in the crossfire were gunned-down by rebel-assassins inside a passenger jeepney in barangay Maycauyan, Irosin, Sorsogon, Philippine Army’s 903rd Brigade commander Col. Felix Castro reported to the 9th Infantry Division command base Saturday, May 28.
NAGA CITY (May 30, 2011) — The new manager of the Philippines National Railways (PNR) has announced the launching of the Manila-Bicol run on June 29 - one month earlier than scheduled - marking the start of the regular train trips from Manila to Naga City after successful test runs last year and in January and May this year.
He kept the Sabbath Day holy, and he said, in putting God first, everything fell into places. His story is yet another inspiring tale of unbending faith and hard work. Ramon Olalo Gonzales, 23, of Almojuela, Viga Catanduanes ranked 5th in the May 2011 Civil Engineer Board Examination...
Naga City (Updated May 28, 2011) – A Bicolana alumna of Ateneo de Naga University, deeply involved in literacy outreach program for native Aeta minorities, is one of the recipients of the National Outstanding Volunteer Award (NOVA) for Youth Category for 2010.
Gainza, Camarines Sur (May 26 2011) – Former Gainza town Mayor Romeo Guntang has urged his fellow-directors at the Camarines Sur Electric Cooperative I (CASURECO I) to rescind the cooperative’s meter reading contract with First King and Queen Electrical Supply because it is disadvantageous to CASURECO I.
Pili Camarines Sur (May 26, 2011) — National Food Authority (NFA) has given assurance the rice supply in Camarines Sur in the second quarter of 2011 is definitely sufficient.
Naga City (May 24, 2011)—“Let us wait for the bill before we talk about it!” This was the neutral stand of Minalabac Mayor Gil Basmayor regarding the proposed partitioning of Camarines Sur.
Naga City (May 26, 2011 5:00 A.M.) - Typhoon Chedeng might have just spared the country from its wrath as it now moves almost directly northward away from the Bikol region, even as it has been upgraded to a Category 4 typhoon with average center wind of 215 kph and gustiness up to 260 kph.
Naga City (May 25, 2011 7:00 P.M.) - As of 7:00 P.M. tonight, Chedeng (international name: Songda) moves north-northwestwardly at 13 kph towards northern Philippine Sea, as it becomes a Category 3 typhoon (in the Simpson Typhoon Scale) with peak wind velocity of 195 kph and gustiness up to 240 kph.
Naga City (May 25, 2011 8:00 A.M.) (UPDATE) - Storm Chedeng slows down anew as it gains more strength, making almost no upward progress for the last 6 hours - increasing the possibility of its early landfall within the Bicol mainland or Northern Samar.
Naga City (Mar 25, 2011 3:30 A.M.) - Chedeng has moved westerwardly, with occasional soutwesterwardly jogs, for the past few hours starting 8 P.M. Tuesday and has not returned to its original northwesterly path.
CADLAN, Pili, Camarines Sur, May 22 2011(PIA) -- Camarines Sur provincial government has recently created the Provincial AIDS Awareness, Prevention and Control Council to address the threat of AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome), envisioning a province free of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.
