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Sonny Sales

Sonny Sales

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  • Death of a 13-year old boy blamed on teenage fraternity (Bikol News)

    SIPOCOT, Camarine Sur (Oct. 1, 2011) – A 13 year-old  elementary school pupil  from barangay Tara in this town was buried on Friday (Sept. 30) but the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) regional office may exhume the body to determine the cause of his death.

    Sipocot Municipal Police Station (MPS) under Police Chief Insp. Noel P. Aquino said Friday that fraternity hazing might have been the cause of the death of Marcian “Totoy” Abrasado, a Grade six pupil at the Tara Elementary School.

    By: Sonny Sales
  • Thousands of Bicol construction workers lose jobs (Bikol News)

    LEGAZPI CITY (Dec 18, 2011) – The government’s policy of witholding infrastructure spending has taken its toll on thousands of construction workers whose employers are highly dependent on government projects in the Bicol region.

    Elizabeth Del Castillo, owner of the Garcia Construction and concurrent vice-president of the Association of Bicol Contractors (ABC), said that 300 government-accredited contractors belonging to their organization that used to employ 6000 workers on aggregate have been forced to lay off 90 percent of their workforce because of scarcity of government infrastructure projects being implemented by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) .

    By: Sonny Sales
  • More resolutions filed to oppose HB 4820 (Bikol News)

    PROVINCIAL CAPITOL, Pili, Camarines Sur (Dec 10, 2011) – About 20 resolutions have been passed by different Provincial Boards all over the country in support of an initial resolution passed by the League of Vice-Governors of the Philippines that seek to defer the passage of House Bill 4820 (creating the new province of Nueva Camarines) and other similar bills

    This was revealed by Camarines Sur Vice-Governor Fortunato Peña, a staunch opponent of the  partition of the province, adding that the resolutions were already forwarded to the Senate committee on Local Government.

    By: Sonny Sales
  • Cache of guns, ammos seized in Pasacao, CAMSUR (Bikol News)

    NAGA CITY (Dec 10, 2011) – The Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 21 ordered this week the detention of three residents of the port town of Pasacao, Camarines Sur at the Tinangis Provincil Jail in Pili on charges of Illegal Possession of Firearms and Ammunition under Republic Act 8294

     A joint police-army team conducted an entrapment operation in Barangay Sta. Rosa Del Norte in the said town and recovered high-powered firearms and large quantity of ammunitions in possession of the suspects.

    By: Sonny Sales
  • Bank employees lose P1.7 million to armed robbers (Bikol News)

    NAGA CITY (Dec. 9, 2011) - “Riding in tandem” armed robbers struck again, taking away at gunpoint P1.7 million from 2 bank employees of Rural Bank of Peñafrancia in Calabanga, Camarines Sur who withdrew the money from a branch of Banco de Oro in Magsaysay Avenue,  Naga City.

    According to the Naga City Police Office, the armed robbers could have tailed the two employees and ambushed their service vehicle after they withdrew the money in a relatively isolated area along Liboton St., less than a kilometer away from Banco de Oro.

    By: Sonny Sales
  • Camarines Norte solon has 2,300 college scholars (Bikol News)

     

    DAET, Camarines Norte (Dec 8, 2011) - First  termer Camarines Norte 2nd district Representative Elmer Ellaga Panotes has 2,300 college scholars coming from 7 towns of his congressional district, including the capital town of Daet, Vinzons, Talisay, Mercedes, Basud, San Lorenzo Ruiz and San Vicente.

    Spokesperson, Marichu Avila, said  that the college scholars of the congressman have swelled to such big number because scholarship in college education is a priority of Congressman Panotes.

    By: Sonny Sales
  • Ad Congress income and expense report demanded (Bikol News)

    PROVINCIAL CAPITOL , Pili, Camarines Sur (Dec. 8, 2011) - Lone opposition  in the Camarines Sur, Sangguniang  Panlalawigan  (SP)  Board member  Charrie Fausto Pante urged the the Provincial government during a regular session of the provincial board Monday  (Dec.5) to report on the income  and expenditures of the recently concluded  Philippine Advertising  Congress  last Nov.16 to 19, held at the capitol  complex here.

    By: Sonny Sales
  • DENR-EMB serves desist order to Paracale mining firms (Bikol News)

    DAET, Camarines Norte (Nov. 27, 2011) – A Team of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Environmental Management Bureau (DENR - EMB) served Friday (Nov. 25) a Cease and Desist Order to three of the six mining firms in Paracale town in this province.

     The DENR-EMB  action is in response to a complaint filed by a fishermen organization, “Samahang Mangingisda ng Paracale,” that Mercury poisoning has contaminated the town’s fishing lanes and two major rivers...

    By: Sonny Sales