Only one member of the fragmented but still influential Villafuerte clan of Camarines Sur made it in Monday’s elections, and the youngest at that, trouncing his own grandfather in the province’s gubernatorial race.
Four months after a bidding was held for the Bicol International Airport construction in Daraga, Albay, the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) has yet to award the contract for the project.
The regional office of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) tagged police as the top human rights violator in Bicol although the number of cases of rights violations in the region dropped.
Bicol received P6.6 billion this year to carry out vital infrastructure projects to boost the region’s economic growth, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) said.
Residents of Masbate City was jolted by an earthquake Thursday evening, the Philippine National Police (PNP) in the island-province said.
Continuous rains brought on by tropical depression ‘Quinta’ since Wednesday submerged in flood water practically the whole of downtown Legazpi City early on Thursday and several villages in the Albay towns of Polangui, Oas, Libon and Malinao.
Bicol disaster authorities here are on high alert for flash floods and landslides as moderate to heavy rains, spawned by the prevailing Tail End of the Cold Front (TECF), have been pelting the region since Thursday, a regional disaster official said.
Disaster authorities in Bicol are on heightened alert and getting ready with their disaster contingency plan as Typhoon Bopha is expected to enter the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) either Sunday evening or early morning Monday.
“The most important thing we learned is quality,” declares Andres Dacullo in Bicolano. The fisherman from Barangay Putsan in the municipality of Tiwi, Albay, is talking about tuna, an important marine resource in these rich fishing grounds, and how he and his fellow fishermen have learned that it’s not about how many fish you catch but how good a fish is.
Labor and social welfare authorities expressed alarm over the increasing number of child laborers in Bicol after a study showed that an estimated 300,000 children in the region are engaged in hazardous work, an official of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said Thursday.
Lawyer Maria Leonor Gerona-Robredo, wife of the late Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo, withdrew her acceptance of nomination as presiding judge in Bicol.
NAGA CITY—Amid a slight rain on Saturday, thousands paid homage to Our Lady of Peñafrancia, fondly called “Ina,” in a fluvial procession that culminated the weeklong feast in honor of Bicol’s beloved patroness. The image of Ina wound through three major streets from Naga Metropolitan Cathedral to Naga River in Barangay Tabuco where the [...]
A magnitude 3.5 quake was recorded at 5:36 a.m. about 61 kilometers south and 85 degrees west of Naga City in Camarines Sur, while a 4.1 magnitude tremor was recorded at 1:38 a.m. some 24 kilometers south and 57 degrees east of Banton, Romblon, according to bulletins published at the website of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Siesmology (Phivolcs).
