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April 12, 2011
NO JUETENG IN CEBU - says Bikolano Chief

“There is no jueteng or STL in Cebu or anywhere else in the Visayas. Almost everyone has a livelihood. If there are any illegal activities, they are the cockfighting at side streets and scattered masiao (local illegal numbers game) but these can easily be detected by police.” This was revealed yesterday in an exclusive interview with the Bikolano chief of police in Cebu Metro District P/Sr. Supt “Omar” Buenafe.

“There is no jueteng or STL in Cebu or anywhere else in the Visayas. Almost everyone has a livelihood. If there are any illegal activities, they are the cockfighting at side streets and scattered masiao (local illegal numbers game) but these can easily be detected by police.”

January 23, 2011
Religious Leaders Call for Mining Ban in Romblon

MANILA, Jan. 22, 2011—Local church leaders are calling for mining ban in the province of Romblon claiming that the industry destroys people’s lives and their relationship with one another, the environment and God.

MANILA, Jan. 22, 2011—Local church leaders are calling for mining ban in the province of Romblon claiming that the industry destroys people’s lives and their relationship with one another, the environment and God.

Msgr. Ernie Nonato V. Fetalino, HP, chairman of Romblon Ecumenical Forum Against Mining (REFAM) said that human beings are called to be stewards of the earth, and as such, should not abuse it.

November 6, 2010
Quake Jolts Bikol, Cebu City --Phivolcs

LEGAZPI CITY, Nov. 6 (PNA) - A magnitude 6 earthquake rocked Masbate, Sorsogon and Albay provinces as well as Cebu City early Saturday morning, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said.

November 1, 2010
3 Dead, 1 Wounded in Masbate Barangay Polls

CAMP ELIAS ANGELES, Pili, Camarines Sur (27 Oct)-THREE PERSONS died and another critically wounded in the latest incidents of political rivalry in the island province of Masbate, after Barangay and SK Elections were postponed for Tuesday (Oct. 26) with the late arrival of election ballots and paraphernalia prompting COMELEC to extend elections for another day.