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10 Bicol Light Stations Not Operating Despite Over Supply of Spare Parts

A total of ten light stations (LS) in the six provinces of Region V (five) covered by the Bicol Coast Guard District are not operating, according to the agency's web…

September 20, 2011 / No Comment / Read More

Camarines Sur and Ilocos Norte Inks Sister Province Ties

Call it reciprocity. One good act in exchange for another. South meets north. Camarines Sur governor L-Ray Villafuerte signed a sister province ties with Ilocos Norte governor Imee Marcos…

September 15, 2011 / 3 Comments / Read More

Battle for Hearts and Minds Rages On Creation of Nueva Camarines

Even at the height of the religious Peñafrancia Traslacion last Friday, the battle for the hearts, minds, and political patronage of every Camarinesense rages on.…

September 11, 2011 / 1 Comment / Read More

Decapitating CamSur: The Continuing Saga on the Proposal to Create Nueva Camarines

We are having a good doze of information on the proposed creation of new (sic) province of Nueva Camarines, thanks to the gerrymandering ideas of some congressmen who may have…

August 10, 2011 / No Comment / Read More

IBON: President Cited Misleading and Faulty Rice Data in SONA

The data on rice production cited by Pres. Benigno Aquino III in his second SONA are among the faulty facts and figures. Says IBON Foundation.…

August 8, 2011 / 1 Comment / Read More

The Move to Partition Camarines Sur Into Two Provinces

How much of ground swell is (being) gathered by the proposal to carve out a new province from the current territorial jurisdiction of Camarines Sur? The exact and final answer…

July 4, 2011 / No Comment / Read More

Small Town Lottery Out, PCSO Loterya ng Bayan In

It seems there is no stopping the lottery numbers game in the country any time soon. For while the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) sealed the fate of small town…

April 27, 2011 / No Comment / Read More

Is PH’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program a Failure?

The Social Weather Station survey from March 4 to 7, from sample respondents of 1,200, revealed that 20.5 percent of respondents or about 4.1 million families say they went hungry…

April 11, 2011 / No Comment / Read More

A Sweeping Look at Mining in the Philippines

The prevailing Philippine mining laws grant the Department of Environment and Natural Resources the sole authority to approve large-scale mining. Neither the provincial or local governments enjoy the…

April 9, 2011 / No Comment / Read More