74% of Bicol’s folk jabbed vs Covid-19 –– DOH
By Keren Anne Bernadas Around 73.93 percent of Bicol’s target population are already vaccinated against Covid-19, according to the latest bulletin of the Department of Health-Center for Health Development (DOH-CHD). This equates to 3, 726, 976 Bicolanos who have received their first dose. Twinkle Lorilla, DOH-CHD nurse coordinator for Bicol, said the total Covid-19 vaccine doses administered have reached 7,004,538. Exactly 67.43 percent of the region’s 5,040,943 target indivi
GSIS grants P221 B loans to government workers
The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) has released a total of P221 billion in loans to 1.38 million active members and pensioners nationwide from January 2021 to May 15, 2022. “We rolled out several programs under our Ginhawa for All benefit bundles to extend financial assistance at a time when our members and pensioners needed it most. Alam namin na GSIS ang inaasahang mangalaga sa seguridad at kapakanan ng mga kawani ng gobyerno. Ang malaking responsibilidad na ito
SA LAOG NIN 18 BULAN: 1K NPA nagsuko sa Phil Army
Nagluluya na an fuersa kan Communist Party of the Philippines/New People’s Army (CPP/NPA) sa Bicol kasunod kan padagos na pagsuko kan mga rebelde asin kan saindang suportadores mantang base sa datus kan 9th Infantry Division kan Philippine Army igwa nang total na 1,013 nagsukong rebeldeng NPA, kabale na digdi an Militiang Bayan (MB) asin Sangay ng Partido sa Lokalidad (SPL). Si Army Major John Paul Belleza, jefe kan Public Affairs Office kan 9th ID na may base sa Camp Elias A
Baldemoro, bagong matukaw na City Administrator kan Naga
Si Consejal Elmer S. Baldemoro, paluwason na consejal kan 13th Sangguniang Panlungsod magpapadagos an serbisyo sa gobierno lokal kan Ciudad nin Naga bilang City Administrator, sa ika-duwang termino ni re-elected Mayor Nelson Legacion. Pataposon na sa ika-tolong termino an consejal sa Hunyo 30, 2022, siya an campaign manager kan Team Naga na liwat nangyari an ubos-kun ubos, gabos-kun gabos sa nagtapos na eleksyon lokal. Si Baldemoro, tinitiwalaan kan jefe ejecutivo kan saiyang
Mayoria kan masunod na SP kaalyado ni Luigi, Sal Jr.
An masunod na komposisyon kan Sangguniang Panlalawigan kan Camarines Sur mayoria kan mga ganador sa nagtapos na eleksyon kaalyado ninda Governor elect Luigi Villafuerte asin Vice Governor elect Sal Fortuno Jr. Parejong joven pa sinda Villafuerte na nag-eedad sana nin 24 anyos mantang si Fortuno nag-eedad na nin 32 anyos asin iyo an pinakaenot na matukaw na joven na presiding officer kan junta provincial. Sa sampolong mga ganador na vocal sa Camarines Sur pito an PDP-Laban na
SA MNWD: Binakal na mga lote ipabakal, dugang tarifa sa tubig ibasura
Kun nakatiwang-wang sana an binakal na milyones peso na lote dapat an solusyon contra sa propuestong ‘‘water rate increase’’ ipabakal an cantidad na Php28-M na lote sa Sitio Pagdahicon, Brgy Mabolo asin Php50-M na lote sa Brgy. Balatas sa Ciudad nin Naga. Ini an mga pahayag ni Consejal Vidal Castillo sa Bicol Mail sa rekomendasyon ni dating Board Chairman Emeterio ‘‘Boy’’ Aman kan Metropolitan Naga Water District (MNWD) asin kinumfirmar man ini kan director kan sinda maging b
Paghale kan red tagging gibohon bako sa taram
An Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) sa Bicol naglalaom sa tinaram kan bagong matukaw na National Security Adviser (NSA) Professor Clarita Carlos na hahalion niya an red tagging na nagdanay sa paluwason na administrasyon Presidente Rodrigo Duterte. Si James Casilihan, lider kan BAYAN nagpahayag na dapat gibohon ni Carlos an saiyang enot na pangako dawa dai pa natukaw sa posisyon asin naglalaom sinda na bako sanang sa taram. Nagkapera nang mga lider kan militanteng grupo na p
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4 Bikolanos named national artists
By Kristian S. Cordero Two days before the country’s celebration of Independence Day, the Cultural Center of the Philippines and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) through its chairman, Arsenio Lizaso named new eight National Artists as approved by outgoing president Rodrigo Roa Duterte. Of these eight national artists, four traces their origins and affections in Bikol, namely, Nora Cabaltera Villamayor aka as Nora Aunor of Iriga City, who is named as Na
DOH to build P10-M health center in Naga
By Jason B. Neola The Department of Health (DOH) is constructing a health center in Barangay Concepcion Pequeña, Naga City that will allow the government agency’s Health Facility Enhancement Program (HFEP) to work in the city. Called the Naga City Super Health Center (NCSHC), the project, once becomes operational, will provide all the basic health needs including specialized health services at the local level. HFEP aims to improve public health facilities across the country
190 farmers get lands from DAR
By Connie Calipay The Department of Agrarian Reform in Bicol (DAR) will distribute 303 hectares of an estate in Masbate province to 190 qualified agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) that include three former New People’s Army (NPA) rebels. In an interview on Thursday, Gerald Buensalida, DAR-5 spokesperson, said the land is a portion of the 1,372-hectare landholding formerly owned by Luis A. Yulo in Barangay Matagbac in Milagros town, of which 1,069 hectares were already dist
Bikol creatives pay tribute to Nat’l Artists
NEXUS By Dr. Jaya Jacobo THE ENTANGLEMENT BETWEEN BIKOL, the region, and Nora Aunor, the artist, habitually summons a disquisition on the origin of genius, the trajectory of its mediatization, and the genealogy of art-making itself. While rehearsing aspects of these temptations, this special issue of Bikol Studies categorically refuses to perpetuate a nostalgia of Nora, especially from Bikol itself. We decide against the predictability. Another project may have the ambition t
EDITORIAL: SSS Additional Pension Among Duterte’s Failures
Aware certainly that his six-year term has barely several days to expire, outgoing President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, assisted by his cabinet in full force, has been feverishly drumbeating his achievements, even labeling them as his legacies. Most prominently cited is his Build Build Build (BBB) program, which has nothing to trumpet about on at least two grounds. Funds for the purpose are drawn from loans obtained offshore and domestically. There is nothing outstanding about that
Oh, Power is Unstable
This has been going on for weeks now. Well, it’s actually some sort of a tradition in the nation. But it has been increasingly regular recently. In the midday, when the heat would reach its most painful peak, electricity would go out, cutting power supplied from the spinning blades of electric fans, air conditioning units, and the Internet service off computers utilized in different facets of societal functions. In a snap, clusters of communities are plunged into hellish hu
Notes from Bacolod and Other Places
We are in a cafe, one of the numerous eating places in Bacolod where cakes, cookies and pastries are bountiful. As usual, I request for sugar-free things, or “anything less sweet.” The first time I mentioned this, Tanya Lopez, Executive Director of the Negros Museum, had a classic response: “Sir Tito, you are in the wrong place.” Of course, I was in the wrong place. I was in Sugarlandia, a land where large tracts of land are devoted to sugarcane, where huge houses are in comp
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