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ARMS CACHE. Several high-powered firearms of the New People's Army are recovered by government troops in a forested area of Barangay Calpi, Bulan, Sorsogon on Thursday (April 21, 2022). The arms cache was hidden inside two drums buried on the ground. (Photo courtesy of PRO-5) LEGAZPI CITY - Several high-powered firearms and ammunitionof the New People's Army (NPA) were recovered during joint operations of the Police Regional Office in Bicol (PRO-5) and the Philippine Army in a forested area of Barangay Calpi, Bulan, Sorsogon on Thursday. In a statement Friday, Maj. Malu Calubaquib, PRO...

LEGAZPI CITY-The Department of Agrarian Reform in Bicol (DAR-5) has conducted a validation and cleansing of its database on land acquisition and distribution to evaluate and identify deductible and unworkable landholdings. Gerard Buensalida, DAR Bicol spokesperson, in an interview on Friday, said the region still has 71,726 hectares of "undistributed" agricultural lands. Based on record, Camarines Sur has 25,391 hectares; Masbate 19,064 hectares; Sorsogon 11,198 hectares; Albay 9,702 hectares; Camarines Norte 6,298 hectares; and Catanduanes with 72.75 hectares. Buensalida said the va...

Sorsogon Gov. Francis Escudero (PNA file photo) LEGAZPI CITY - Sorsogon Gov. Francis Escudero, who is seeking a Senate comeback, on Tuesday urged the government to channel all revenues from taxes on fuel to a more substantial aid package for struggling households, instead of granting them a proposed monthly allowance. Escudero, in a statement, said Congress should pass a supplemental budget to ensure that revenue from the excise taxes, projected to reach PHP105.9 billion this year, would be used only for assistance to Filipinos most affected by oil price hikes. "Since the government does ...

MANILA - The Court of Appeals (CA) has reversed a ruling by a lower court in Rizal finding a lawyer and her client guilty of indirect contempt and ordered them to pay a PHP5,000 fine. In a decision dated March 22, the CA's Sixth Division dismissed the charge of indirect contempt initiated by Angono, Rizal Municipal Trial Court (MTC) against lawyer Fay Isaguierre Singson. MTC Judge Katherine Jambaro-Altubar had found Singson and her client Senior Fire Officer 3 (SFO3) Roberto Z. Tirona guilty of indirect contempt for a statement made in a motion filed before the court, where the lawyer soug...

(Photo courtesy of Philippine Navy) MANILA - The French Navy has expressed willingness to work with its Philippine counterparts at sea. "We are ready to work with your forces at sea. We need to protect, we need to defend the freedom of navigation including (on) the West Philippine Sea," said Rear Adm. Jean-Mathieu Rey, Joint Commander of the French Armed Forces in the Asia-Pacific (ALPACI), during his courtesy call on Philippine Navy (PN) chief, Vice Admiral Adeluis Bordado, on Monday. PN spokesperson Commander Benjo Negranza, in a statement, said Rey's visit is in line with the ...