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MA Loterte

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  • Bicol U Now ISO-QMS Accredited (Bikol News)

    LEGAZPICITY, March 30 2011  — The Bicol University (BU) in Albay has become the first state-run university in the country which programs and courses all passed the international standard of managing a tertiary learning institution and offering academic service.

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  • Albay's Outstanding Educators, Students Feted (Bikol News)

    LEGAZPI CITY, Dec. 22 (PIA) — Educators and students who have shown exemplary performance in their respective fields manifesting the advancement of the education system in the province were cited in Albay’s Gawad Edukasyon awarding ceremonies Friday (December 17) held at the Albay Astrodome here

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  • Albay, DOST-Pagasa to Set Up Automatic Weather Station (Bikol News)

    Legazpi City (8 December) -- Mainstreaming climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction measure are gaining more grounds in the province of Albay following the joint undertaking of the national and local governments to establish an automatic weather station (AWS) in the first district of the province.

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  • Albayanos, Fil-Chi Communities Offer Holy Mass, Prayers for Hostage Victims (Bikol News)

    Legazpi City (27 August) -- The province of Albay has enjoined all sectors to support and pray for the victims of Monday's bloody hostage crisis.

    "In response to the hostage crisis, the Provincial Government of Albay, local Catholic Church, Filipino-Chinese community, Catholic schools, city government here and other local government units will hold simultaneous Mass Offering with special intentions for the Hong Kong nationals hostage victims, both for those who perished and survived," Albay Governor Joey Salceda said.

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  • Bikolano Whiz Kid Notches Gold Medal in Int'l Math Tourney (Bikol News)

    Legazpi City (18 August) -- Errol John Suarez of the Bicol University Integrated Laboratory School (BU-ILS)has notched one of the gold medals of the 136 medals and merit awards hauled by the Philippine team to the just concluded 2010 Singapore International Mathematics Competition (SIMC).

    Dr. Simon Chua, president of the Mathematics Trainers' Guild (MTG) Philippines and head of the country's delegation, said Suarez joined the team of young Filipino mathematicians who placed second overall to China which won a total of 282 medals in the 10-nation contest held August 6-10, 2010.

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  • JICA Grant to Albay Reaches P1.28 Billion (Bikol News)

    Legazpi City (11 August) -- Albay has received from Japanese government an additional grant of P944-million, now bringing to P1.284-billion the single-country total assistance intended for the establishment of calamity-control facilities in the province.

    Albay officials and representatives of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) had signed here Thursday (August 5) the memorandum of agreement (MOA) of some P944-million grant to be used in the construction of evacuation buildings and flood-forecasting facilities in the province's disaster-prone areas.

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  • DOH Declares Malaria Epidemic in Camarines Norte (Bikol News)

    Legazpi City (23 July) -- The Department of Health (DOH) in Bicol has declared a malaria epidemic in Camarines Norte after 182 residents of one town in the province were stricken by the mosquito-borne disease.

    Camilo Aquino, DOH Bicol Malaria Prevention and Control Program coordinator, bared Malaria cases were recorded in Jose Panganiban town, though the agency has declared an epidemic in the entire province to alert all local officials on the need to take immediate steps to prevent the spread of the disease.

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  • Second Pay Hike for State Workers Released (Bikol News)

    Legazpi City (9 July) -- All government workers are starting to receive their second tranche of salary increase under the Salary Standardization Law III effective June 24, 2010 pursuant to EO No.900 of the previous administration.

    Assistant Regional Director Angelita Cells of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) in Bikol has assured government workers in Region V that the corresponding cash requirement for their salary increase will be released as part of the cash program for the second half of the year.

    By: MA Loterte