CAMP ELIAS ANGELES, Pili, Camsur Oct 20, 2010  - One  NPA member lay dead and one firearm was seized in the fresh fighting between government forces and the NPA rebels in Sorsogon's election hotspots, a military official said today.

LtCol Santiago Enginco, Commander of the 49^th Infantry Battalion based in Sorsogon said that fresh fighting occurred in Sta Lourdes village of Barcelona town at 6:30am yesterday, October 20 (Wednesday).

CAMP ELIAS ANGELES, Pili, Camarines Sur, Oct. 18, 2010 - Two policemen were shot and killed by undetermined armed men in an ambush in an election hotspot town of Masbate today, a military report said.

LtCol Anthony Purugganan, Commander of the 9^th Infantry Battalion which has jurisdiction over Masbate Province said that the two policemen were on board a motorcycle when they were waylaid by unknown perpetrators numbering more or less 5 in Malamag village, Pio V Corpuz town at around 7:00am today.

LEGAZPI CITY, Oct. 15- The Provincial Disaster Coordinating Council of Albay has advised all disaster managers down to the villages to be very vigilant against lahar flash floods, mudflows, storm surges and landslides as rains brought by tropical storm Juan started to pour Friday noon.

Albay Governor Joey Salceda said "since the disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies and the respective rescue and response teams are in place, all we have to do is to pray the Oratio Imperata, a very powerful prayer, so that 'Juan' would spare the province as well as the country."

CAMP ELIAS ANGELES, Oct. 15,2010, Pili, Camsur - Fresh armed clashes erupt between government forces and the NPA rebels in Sorsogon's election hotspots, a military official said today.

LtCol Santiago Enginco, Commander of the 49^th Infantry Battalion based in Sorsogon said that fresh fighting occurred in Salvacion village, Magallanes town at 8:40am yesterday, October 14 (Thursday).

Naga City (14 Oct) - An alleged business partner of victims Eliseo and Angelina Saturno is now being tagged as the mastermind of the kidnapping of the Naga Coliseum contractor and his wife.

In a report by the Naga City Police Office, the two Saturnos were stated to have been abducted at gunpoint last October 10 by a group of six armed men at the Maharlika Highway in Sipocot, Camarines Sur.

LEGAZPI CITY (14 Oct) -A NEW PUBLIC WORKS director is due to assume his new post at the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) regional office in this city on Friday (October 15).

Current Public Works Director for Bikol, architect Danilo C. Manalang will be replaced by Engineer Danilo E. Dequito on the strength of Special Order no. 89 issued by DPWH Sec. Rogelio C. Singson dated Sept. 13, 2010, designating Dequito as Officer-in-Charge (OIC) Regional Director for DPWH Bicol.

LEGAZPI CITY, Oct. 12 -- Many Bikolanos welcomed the amnesty that President Benigno S. Aquino III granted to Senator Antonio Trillanes and the other soldiers involved in the Oakwood Mutiny in 2003, the Marine Standoff last Feb. 2006 and the Manila Peninsula Siege in Nov. 2007.

DARAGA, ALBAY (Oct 13) - COMMUNIST REBELS were suspected of being responsible for the slaying of a barangay councilor in Nabasan, Daraga, Albay at about 2:00 A.M on Monday (Oct.11) and the shooting at close range of the village official's wife, nephew, and his 19 years-old daughter while the latter were asleep.

PILI, Camarines Sur, Oct 13 -- Researchers of the Bicol Integrated Agricultural Research Center (BIARC) have developed an innovative, environment-friendly technology to convert sweet sorghum residues into bio-organic fertilizer, agriculture officials based here revealed on Wednesday.

Bio-organic fertilizer is the compost from any organic material that has undergone rapid decomposition through the action of introduced homogeneous microbial inoculants.

Aside from its steadfast campaign for quality education, the management of the University of Northeastern Philippines (UNEP) is also known for its staunch stand in protecting our environment. Just recently, UNEP's Association of Graduate Studies conducted an Integration Workshop concerning the Waras-Lalo Integrated Watershed Management Framework. The activity was held at Marioli's Resto and Grill at San Francisco, Iriga City.

NAGA CITY (Oct 16) -ONLY TEN of the 40 train coaches classified as "Electric Multiple Units" (EMUs) have been shipped to the country from the Transport Rolling Division of the East Japan Railway Company in Tokyo, as a donation to the Philippine National Railways  (PNR) under a program to rehabilitate the railways system in the country.

Sources here revealed that currently PNR is short of freight funds to pay for the shipment costs of the first batch of 40 units of coaches; supposedly, every train coach loaded for shipment in a cargo vessel costs P 3-Million.

CALABANGA, CAMARINES (Oct 12) - THIEVES EQUIPPED with a bolt-cutter, a sledge hammer, and chisels , bore a hole into the roofing  and passed through the ceiling of a rural  bank in this town carting some P 705, 000 in cash, the local police in this town reported on Monday (October 11).

Calabanga  Police Chief Insp. Elmer V. Mora said the management of the Peñafrancia Rural Bank branch had lapses on their part, by not heeding the police's recommendations after the first attempt by thieves occurred on the evening of October 9.