High-powered firearms seized in Masbate clash with NPA
By Connie Calipay LEGAZPI CITY --- Several high-powered firearms of the New People's Army (NPA) were recovered after an encounter early...
City lays out 2023 plan on new roads, parks
By Jason B. Neola IMAGINE a multimodal tree-lined road alongside the Bicol River where one can go biking or jogging safely early in the...


State university’s research on IP wins nat’l, international awards
By Sonny Malate GOA, Camarines Sur --- A research on indigenous people (IP) living in this town by a team from Partido State University...
NEA favors Albay Electric Coop conversion
By Manuel T Ugalde LEGAZPI CITY --- The National Electrification Administration was considering in principle the shifting of the problem...
Bicol’s calibrated swine repop nearing completion
By Lovella P. Guarin THREE months after the last active African Swine Fever (ASF) case in Bicol was contained, the Department of...


EDITORIAL: Capability versus Capacity
The recurring problems in governance, aside from centralized policies, is the lack of CAPACITY to analyse and make effective decisions by...


What is a Weather Disturbance?
Well, I looked it up and according to PAGASA, it is An area of low-pressure in which storm conditions occur. Let’s dissect that. It is...


Settling for the Shortcut
The recent call of DILG Secretary Benhur Abalos for the resignation of 955 Officers of the Philippine National Police, supposedly “to...


A perspective on angels and demons, Part 1 of 2
“Our Father, who art in Heaven… Creator of heaven and earth… Thy will be done… he descended into hell … He ascended to heaven and is...


Minsan Kaidto sa Kalye Lourdes
Dai ko nanggad nalilingawan an sakuyang buhay sa Kalye Lourdes, sarong sadit na kalye sa Pasay City na iyo an sakuyang inot na pig...


Sa Pagbasa an Pag-asa
Segun ki Gabby Bordado kadto kan siya pa an Senior Consigliori sa Naga City Hall dakul nang taon an naka-agui, nasa pagbasa an pag-asa....


Haikus Through the Years
Haiku is a short Japanese poem. Traditional Japanese haiku is about nature; it’s unrhymed consisting of 17 syllables arranged in three...


The Launch: Social Entrepreneurship Development Project
Last year, I wrote a series about MSMEs, micro-small and medium enterprises, and social enterprises. It was the period of re-opening, as...


Our Life’s Purpose
In ten years or so, I will be pushing fifty. I will be half a century old. Not yet a senior citizen though, but considerably old. Simply...















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