LEGAZPI CITY --- The former spokesman of the  Department of Public Works and Highway (DPWH) Bicol regional office here has questioned the P138.9 million payment made by the agency for unfinished projects involving the construction and improvemen of access road includin...

NAGA CITY --- Four family members from Lagonoy town in Camarines were  ordered to undergo swab test and home quarantine by the Naga City Health Emergency Response Task Force’s (HERTF) documentation and evaluation team after a discrepancy in the management of their 14-d...

VIRAC, Catanduanes --- Broadcast journalist Ramil D. Soliveres is set to file charges against Catanduanes board member Edwin Tanael for maligning him using government funds during the regular session of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) recently.

Soliveres said that on...

LEGAZPI CITY --- Five alleged notorious illegal drug pushers, including a town councilor, were arrested in separate drug stings on Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 3 and 4, in three Bicol provinces, a police report said.

Maj. Maria Luisa Calubaquib, Police Regional Office-5  s...

SIRUMA, Camarines Sur---The municipal police station (MPS) here has been placed on lockdown since July 29,  2020 after the entire police force consisting of 23 police personnel were ordered to undergo 14 days quarntine, after Bicol # 339, a suspect arrested on July 8 f...

NAGA CITY --- The Bicol Central Station (BCS) has clarified that the operation of  public utility buses with inter-regional routes  are still suspended due to the prevailing coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic, contrary to reports that bus trips from Bicol to Manil...

Camarines Sur Gov. Migz Villafuerte together with Provincial Administrator Luigi Villafuerte traveled to the Camarines Sur-Quezon provinces border to inspect the border control protocol being implemented in order to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in the province and re...

CITY Councilor Jose Perez (center) discusses with City Councilors Sonny Rañola (leftmost) and Miles Raquid-Arroyo the dynamics and provisions of the business stimulus program before the Sangguniang Panlungsod Committee on Trade, Investment and Economic Enterprises move...

LEGAZPI CITY --- Seventy one Returning Overseas Filipinos (ROFs) have arrived in Bicol on Monday, Aug. 3, bringing to 4,417  the total number of overseas returnees to the region,  the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA)-Bicol said.

Rowena Alzaga, OWWA-B...

SORSOGON CITY  ---    Two army troopers and a woman rebel were killed in a fierce gun battle between government forces and members of the New People’s Army (NPA) in a remote village of Daganas in Bulan, Sorsogon.

Killed in the firefight  on July 30, 2020 were...

LEGAZPI CITY --- A total of 130,384 Albayanos have received the second tranche of the government’s Social Amelioration Program (SAP) cash assistance, a regional social welfare official said on Monday, Aug. 3.

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-Bicol sp...

Graduates of the provincially-managed and operated quarantine facilities like this in Calabanga Infirmary are given an assortment of benefits after their mandatory 14 day quarantine upon testing positive for the dreaded COVID-19 virus.  Some were given P3,100.00 cash a...

Not everything is bleak in connection with the efforts against the coronavirus pandemic. There are silver linings. Prominent among the consoling factors is the very high rate of recoveries among those who have been tested positive of the dreaded disease in the Bicol re...

A couple of months ago, when enhanced community quarantine was eased to general community quarantine, then there were different variations of modified and extreme, the Filipino nation, despite scientific statistical analysis, had high hopes on the advent of some sort o...

Even as the pandemic rages on, museums all over the world are starting to collect artefacts and memorabilia that will reflect what the world has gone through – and still going through – during those days of lockdowns and quarantine.

When I came home from Manila last Ma...