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PILI, Camarines Sur -- Government forces will embark on a renewed military offensive against communist rebels in an all out bid to end the four-decades old insurgency problem in Bikol by 2010, a ranking Army officer here said recently.

LEGAZPI CITY, June 17 - The Supreme Court's (SC) Justice on Wheels (JOW) has gained another milestone in bringing justice to inmates in Albay after it freed 84 of them at the Albay Provincial Jail and Legazpi City Jail recently.

Supreme Court Justice Reynato Puno over the weekend led court officials in bringing a JOW mobile court to this city to hear cases of detainees still languishing in provincial and city jails, awaiting court decisions.

The whole month of July, the Philippines celebrates the 31st National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation (NDPR) Month. Launching activities shall be held in various venues in Naga City on July 1, 2009-- the first time that NDPR launching events are held outside the National Capital Region.

Dr. Josephine Robredo-Bundoc, in-country Director at the Philippines Walking Free clinic and consultant at the UP-PGH Department of Rehabilitation Medicine is this year's Coordinator of the National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation Month. Dr. Bundoc is a native of Naga City and the younger sister of city mayor Jesse Robredo.

In the run-off to the 31st National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation (NDPAR) Month in July Dr. Josephine Robredo-Bundoc and company from the Walk Free Project and Physicians for Peace distributed and attached pre-fitted limb prostheses to amputees in Naga City.

The half-day event took place at the Naga City Civic Center last weekend.

Daet, Camarines Norte (16 June) -- The Police Provincial Office (PPO) of Camarines Norte launched Monday (June 8) the "Kalaswaan, Dapat I-ban" or campaign against pornography in front of the PPO headquarters here.

PSSupt. Emmanuel M. Talento, police provincial director here, said that the campaign against pornography will be done continuously to put a stop on the proliferation of pornographic materials, especially pirated VCDs and DVDs, in the entire province.

LEGAZPI CITY, June 18 --- Drinking liquor in street sidewalks and other public places will be a thing of the past in this premier city after the city legislative council is strongly bent on passing an ordinance to this effect.

Rollie Rosal city councilor and proponent of the ordinance said the proposed ordinance had been deliberated at the committee level and is scheduled for the third and final reading on Tuesday.

Highly acclaimed singers, dancers, band players and majorettes of the Performing Arts Group of the University of Northeastern Philippines wowed and captivated the shoppers at SM City Naga with its breathtaking performances during the mall's 2009 Independence Day celebrations.

We welcome the statement released by the Bicol Association of Catholic Schools or BACS regarding their opposition to the tradition of having a military parade during the week of the Novena to Our Lady of Peñafrancia. As all sectors are enjoined to re-examine the manner in which we celebrate INA's feast, the BACS' statement demonstrated the Catholic schools' efforts to participate in this call towards renewal.

June 5, 9:15 PM. There he is again! Back to Germany for the second time! Oh no, this is not Berlin, it is Dresden. Obama is not heading for Berlin in this visit. In fact he is not really into meeting anyone from Berlin. His concern is completely different.

On June 19, 2009, in line with the call of Archbishop Legaspi to discern concrete ways of enhancing our devotion to Ina to prepare for her 300^th anniversary, the Bicol Association of Catholic Schools issued a statement calling for the scrapping of the Military Parade during the Peñafrancia.

Naga is vanishing. It is vanishing fast. In the place of those that are quickly disappearing come forth places that I yet have to know. In fact, it can be said that while I mourn the disappearance of the city of my youth, some are finding spaces that fill their lives with meaning.

But for the moment, I search for those things that made this city for me and my remembrance.

. I SHALL BEGIN THIS wit h a period. Which is wrong. Very wrong. And you know that this—this—is even wrong.

In my column this week, allow me to present some data from a study I made on the relation of poverty and population in Masbate.

I WANT TO WRITE ABOUT a couple of things, about some thoughts that have been following me or have been nagging me to say something about them.

MANILA - The Filipino people's vote against the convening of a constituent assembly has been cast. Between 10,000 to 15,000 people joined the rally in Makati on June 10 to show their indignation over the railroading of House Resolution 1109, which provides for the convening of Congress into a constituent assembly with the Senate and House voting as one.

The anti-Charter change (Chacha) and anti-Arroyo forces had barely a week to mount the muscle-flexing protest action yesterday in Ayala Avenue, Makati City and in major urban centers nationwide. They achieved a big measure of success by gathering thousands in Makati and hundreds if not thousands more in various cities and big towns nationwide.