Mar S. Arguelles

LEGAZPI CITY---  Future mining exploration in Albay would be banned after  members of the  Sangguniang Panlalawigan  (SP) passed recently a resolution strongly opposing any mining activity in the entire  province.

LEGAZPI CITY, March 11 - The Albay Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC) issued Friday an advisory to coastal communities facing the Albay West coast and the eastern seaboard to be on alert for a possible tsunami event following an 8.9 magnitude earthquake that jolted Northern Japan.

LEGAZPI CITY, March 4 -- Veteran character actor Paquito Diaz died of pneumonia on Thursday evening at his home in barangay (village) Tagas, town in Daraga, Albay, his wife said on Friday. Diaz, 79, a well-known actor for his villain roles died at his residence two days after the hospital discharged him and allowed to return home and to recuperate.

LEGAZPI CITY, March 3 - Department of Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo on Thursday directed the Philippine National Police (PNP) in Bikol to conduct a thorough investigation into the killing of Elmer Estrellado, a suspected New People’s Army (NPA) leader, in a remote village of Bato town last Friday.

LEGAZPICITY, Feb. 24 -- Albay Governor Joey Salceda on Thursday urged Congress to pass a P750-million emergency supplemental budget to be used in repatriating overseas Filipino workers (OFW) caught in the armed conflict in four countries in the Middle East.

LEGAZPI CITY, Jan. 13 2011  - President Benigno Aquino III is set to arrive here on Friday to personally assess the damages wrought by floods and landslides caused by heavy rains that hit several towns of the province including this city, Albay Governor Joey Salceda said Thursday.

LEGAZPI CITY, Nov. 12  -- Mount Bulusan in Sorsogon province belched on Friday morning a voluminous ash plume 700 meters above its crater rim that drifted and covered villages in the southwest flank of the volcano, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said.

Legazpi City (11 June) -- Police chief General Jesus Verzosa said Sunday (June 6) that the Philippine National Police (PNP) will continue to issue permit to carry firearms to gun owners but the agency will ensure more stringent requirements to facilitate monitoring, control and misuse of the said permit.

Verzosa, speaking at the PNP's Legacy Run Program at the Camp Gen. Simeon Ola, stressed that there is a need to control the carrying of firearms among gun owners to avoid abuse.