Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Brian Raymund Yamsuan (Facebook) Amid rising prices of rice, a neophyte congressman filed a bill that would brand as "economic sabotage" under certain circumstances the hoarding of rice and corn. Lodged before the House...
Families in Bicol region who have been affected by the ongoing unrest of Mayon Volcano continue to receive relief aid from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). (DSWD / MANILA BULLETIN) DSWD Assistant Secretary for Strategic Communications Romel Lopez, in a...
Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Brian Raymund Yamsuan (Facebook) A rookie solon has filed a measure that would waive the tuition for government employees aspiring to complete their Master’s Degrees in state universities and colleges (SUCs). Under...
LEGAZPI CITY, Albay – Over 500 families from three barangays benefited from free medical and dental services during the Tarabangan Caravan at Oro Site High School here on Thursday morning, August 24. Beneficiaries were from Barangays Peñaranda with more than 100 families, Orosite with...
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...
