Elmer James Bandol

LEGAZPI City, Sept. 26, 2010-Multi-stakeholders of the power cooperative here have approved a resolution mandating the Board of Directors (BOD) of the Albay Electric Cooperative (ALECO) to facilitate a special meeting of member-consumers on October 16 to come up with solutions that will bail out the ailing power facility

LEGAZPI City, Sept. 15, 2010-Militant groups have staged mass protests here opposing the power rate increase imposed by Albay Gov. Joey S. Salceda to consumers of Albay Electric Cooperative (ALECO).

LEGAZPI City, Sept. 12, 2010-The power cut off by the Philippine Electricity Market Corp. (PEMC) to the Albay Electric Cooperative (ALECO) on Sept. 12, was seen by its more than 200,000 member-consumers as a means to pave the way for the power rate hike and privatization of the sole power distribution in the province of Albay.

LEGAZPI CITY, June 20, 2009-Bishop Administrator Lucilo B. Quiambao has challenged all the priests to restrain from secularism, worldly sciences and preserve virtues most relevant to them during the high mass held yesterday at St. Gregory the Great Cathedral, here.

LEGAZPI CITY, May 17, 2009-Our Lady of Fatima Church known as Nuestra Señora de la Fatima, has etched a unique moniker "The Wedding Capital" in the diocese, following its decade foundation where Thanksgiving Mass was offered May 14, after a novenario and procession of the Blessed Virgin Mother held at Tahao Road, here.

LEGAZPI CITY--Masbate Bishop Joel Baylon has expressed concern over the outpouring sentiments of farmers and fisher folk staging a series of mass rally against the operations of Filminera Mining Corporation (FMC), an Australian-Canadian based mining firm that scheduled a full blast open pit mining in Aroroy town on March 20, 2009.

MASBATE CITY--Despite lavish comfort for the position given by the mining company as chaplain, Fr. Edgar Monforte has resigned and joined the protesting community against Filminera Mining Corporation-Central Gold Asia Ltd. (FMC-CGA) in Aroroy, Masbate.

This came amidst protests and mass rallies that started last March 14, 2009 and enjoined by the Church, non-government organizations, farmers, fisher folk and concerned inhabitants that the mining operations of the Australian- Canadian firm is expected to bring chaos and destructions more than economic benefits to their town...