EDITORIAL: Looming Quid Pro Quo
Sometime in mid-November this year information circulated that the leadership of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Camarines Sur has opted...
Naga PNR Grand Station in Pili?
A year and a half or so ago, then DOTr for Rails USec Cesar Chavez together with then newly minted PNR GM Jun Magno hosted a “PNR...
Choy
(Another Nagueño of the old generation is gone. Feliciano “Choy” Ojeda was the last surviving member of the family of former Naga City...
Aro-Aldaw Pasko
Magpoon sa bulan sa Setyembre antes magtapos an Peñafrancia Fiesta nagtutugtog na an mga pamaskong kanta o christmas carols sa mga radyo...
Ringing in the New Year
Christmas season in the Philippines officially starts with the Simbang Gabi, the nine-day series of pre-dawn daily Masses celebrated by...
Epiphany in Lagonoy: The Nationalist
Church of Sts. Philip and James
History is never always the better judge. This was the lesson inside the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI). It was the eve of...
Rizal’s Death Commemoration
This coming December 30, the whole country will be celebrating the 123rd Death Commemoration of Dr. Jose P. Rizal. In Naga City, the...
Is Christmas for Children?
Since the last time that I noted the peculiar absence of juvenile carolers, I have been accosted by a couple of kids with improvised...
BECA prexy queries reporters for sources
NAGA CITY -- The president of the Bicol Electric Cooperatives Association, Inc. (BECA) has asked two reporters of this paper for the...
INDIGNATION RALLY
INDIGNATION RALLY. Policemen and Army soldiers condemn attacks by NPA rebels despite the holiday ceasefire agreement. The protest was...
THE WORD OF THE LORD
Gospel: Mt 2:13-15, 19-23 When the magi had departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take...
Reinventing the Belén
I stayed for three years in a parish in Rome while I was doing my Masters studies. There in that cozy community of Parroquia di Santa...
A Better New Year? Listen to Pope Francis
In speeches, Pope Francis has been known to be simple yet potently blunt as he brings doctrinal lingo into language we all understand....
St. Joseph Parish conducts tree planting
Some parishes spent their Christmas by preserving the common home through Tree Planting. Initiated by Caritas Caceres, headed by Fr Marc...
Open letter to Bicol Leaders and Politicians
This letter is triggered by repetitive comments of friends and constant travelers from Bicol to Manila about the never-ending road...
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