LEGAZPI CITY, Albay – Seventeen persons were injured in a collision between a passenger jeepney and a mixer truck in Barangay San Vicente, Castilla town, Sorsogon province on Sunday morning, October 13. Police Lt. Col. Malu Calubaquib, Police Regional Office-5 spokesperson, said the...
LEGAZPI CITY, Albay – The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency seized suspected shabu valued at P90 million during an interdiction operation at Matnog Port in Matnog town, Sorsogon province on Saturday night, September 28. AUTHORITIES conduct an inventory on Sunday morning, September 29, of...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has admonished the provincial officials of Sorsogon in the distribution in 2023 of P37.7 million worth of relief goods which were not adequately supported with documents or promptly reported. In its 2023 audit report, the COA said the provincial government's failure to...
LEGAZPI CITY, Albay – A high-ranking New People's Army (NPA) leader was killed in an encounter with the military in Juban town, Sorsogon province on Tuesday morning, July 2. AN ancestral house in Juban, Sorsogon. (Wikipedia) The 9th Infantry Division (ID) identified the slain communist fighter as...
LEGAZPI CITY, Albay – The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) launched the eGov PH super app and eLGU system in Sorsogon on Tuesday, June 18. THE eGov PH super app is launched in Sorsogon on June 18. (Nino Luces) The eGov PH is a mobile application that...
LEGAZPI CITY, Albay – Authorities seized 2.1 kilos of suspected shabu valued at P14.2 million in a buy-bust operation in Baranggay Hidhid, Matnog, Sorsogon on Saturday afternoon, March 23. TWO suspected drug pushers were nabbed and shabu valued at P14.2 million was seized in Sorsogon...
LEGAZPI CITY, Albay – Former Sorsogon Gov. Raul Lee passed away on Saturday morning, Jan. 13, at the Sorsogon Provincial Hospital in Sorsogon City, Sorsogon. He was 83. LEE (FB) His son, former Sorsogon Gov. Robert "Bobet" Lee Rodrigueza, said that his father had been sickly due to old age....
LEGAZPI CITY, Albay – Police arrested a drug pusher and seized suspected shabu worth P442,000 in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Cota na Daco in Gubat, Sorsogon on Saturday, November 11. POLICE arrest a high-value drug pusher and seize suspected shabu valued at P442,000 in a buy-bust operation...
LEGAZPI CITY, Albay – A fire hit a cargo vessel docked at the port of Castilla in Sorsogon on All Souls’ Day. The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said MV Ken was hit by the fire at around 11 a.m. in the vicinity waters of the Castilla anchorage area in Barangay Poblacion. WATCH:...
LEGAZPI CITY, Albay – Police killed a robbery-holdup suspect in a hot-pursuit operation on Wednesday afternoon, August 23, in Prieto Diaz town, Sorsogon province. Police Lt. Col. Malu Calubaquib, Police Regional Office-5 (Bicol) spokesperson, identified the fatality as Roderick Bufete Cruz of...
By Poch Eulalia A sense of wonder took over me when I arrived at the Bicol International Airport in Daraga. Peering out of the airport’s windows, I saw trees that stretched out over to the mountains and livestock roaming about widespread fields of green. There was no smog in the air and the...
From left: KFC Business Development Department Director, Jun Cruz; KFC General Manager, Jojo Marcelo; KFC Area Coach, George Dato; and SM Assistant Mall Manager, Rachel Oda. KFC is serving its world-famous OG fried chicken to more areas in Sorsogon with the opening of its branch at the ground floor...
