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Elmer James Bandol

Elmer James Bandol

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Consumers Relieve ALECO Management Team (Bikol News)

LEGAZPI City (Oct. 20) - More than 100 member-consumers of Albay Electric Cooperative (ALECO) have unanimously voted for the relief of the power cooperative's management team in a special assembly held Oct. 16 at the Pastoral Center of St. Gregory the Great Cathedral.

By invoking their right to legislate as member-consumers under Article III Section 2 of ALECO by-laws the multi-stakeholders signed the call to relieve Engr. Alex Realoza, operation-in-charge, and his team for mismanagement of the cooperative.

The call for special assembly was submitted by the consumers last Oct. 2 to ALECO Board of Directors (B0D), with a copy furnished to National Electrification Administration (NEA). The consumers asked that effective solutions to the problem be explored. However, BOD and NEA ignored it.

By: Elmer James Bandol

ALECO Members to Mull Coop Crisis (Bikol News)

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

ALECO consumers asserted their right to call for a special assembly under Article 3, Section 2 of the cooperative by-laws to find a way out of the problems hounding the power cooperative.

By: Elmer James Bandol

Albay Public Protests Power Hike (Bikol News)

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).

Bayan Muna, Gabriela and Albay Consumers Watch (ACW) staged a picket at Peñaranda Park fronting Albay Capitol in protest of the P1.66 per kilowatt hour power hike which the power cooperative has passed on to more than 200,000 member-consumers.

By: Elmer James Bandol

Multi-Sectoral Groups Hit Privatization of Albay Power Coop (Bikol News)

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.

By: Elmer James Bandol

Albay Bishop Challenges Priests: Restrain Secularism (Bikol News, Church News)

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.

By: Elmer James Bandol

Wedding Capital of Legazpi Marks 10th Year (Bikol News)

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.

By: Elmer James Bandol

Masbate bishop backs farmers, fisherfolk vs mining in Aroroy town (Church News)

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.

By: Elmer James Bandol

Aroroy mining chaplain resigns (Bikol News)

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.

By: Elmer James Bandol