LEGAZPI CITY, Albay – Construction of the Philippine Coast Guard Academy (PCGA) is set to start, Ako Bicol party-list Executive Director Alfredo Garbin announced Wednesday afternoon, August 23. Garbin said that the construction of the first-ever PCGA will start within this year in Cagraray,...
Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Brian Raymund Yamsuan (Facebook) Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Brian Raymund Yamsuan has belied claims that his proposal to establish a new Department of Corrections and Jail Management (DCJM) would just end up bloating the...
Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Jesus Crispin "Boying" Remulla (Facebook) Enterprising jail guards at the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa City enjoy a 10 to 20 percent cut from the financial support that inmates get from their relatives outside the facility. This was bared by...
(Unsplash) The appalling conditions inside the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) has convinced Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Brian Raymund Yamsuan to draft a measure that would create a "Department of Corrections". Yamsuan floated the idea for the new department during a recent House Committee on...
Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Brian Raymund Yamsuan (Facebook) Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Brian Raymund Yamsuan is calling for greater cooperation between the government and private sector to help make the proposed Philippine National Railways (PNR) South Long Haul Project a reality. "The Department...
(MANILA BULLETIN) Government savings could be tapped to fund the pension of military and uniformed personnel (MUP). Thus, said House Appropriations Committee Chairman Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co as the chamber scrambles to find a way to sustain the pension ahead of the deliberations on the...
Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co (Facebook) House Committee on Appropriations Chairman Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co has committed to help the chamber pass the nine remaining Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council (LEDAC) measures "I am fully committed to working hand-in-hand...
LEGAZPI CITY, Albay – The Bicol Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (RDRRMC) is on red alert status due to possible effects of tropical cyclone “Egay.” Gremil Naz, Office of the Civil Defense (OCD)-Bicol spokesperson, said all disaster response agencies in the region were...
Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Brian Yamsuan (Facebook) Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Brian Raymund Yamsuan has filed a measure that would slap hefty penalties against individuals found guilty of phishing and other forms of online fraud. The measure, House Bill (HB) No.7976, seeks to define economic...
Unfazed by the Commission on Audit (COA) findings, the Office of the Vice President (OVP) has continued to expand its social services by opening its 10th satellite office in Legazpi City, Albay. (2nd from left) Vice President Sara Duterte leads the opening of another satellite office in Legazpi...
LEGAZPI CITY – The nine fishermen, mostly from Mercedes town in Camarines Norte, who were reported missing since July 11 were found alive and rescued on Sunday afternoon, July 16. In an interview on Monday, July 17, Gremil Alexis Naz, Office of Civil Defense (OCD)-Bicol spokesperson, said the...
Willie Revillame (raising hand) and to his left, Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co (Facebook) If there's a will then there's a way to make evacuees in Albay happy despite being displaced from their homes for many weeks now. Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co took this thought literally as he...
