From LGU-Bulan PIO-Tonyboy G. Gilana
It is November 10. We all listened once more today to the news, hoping perhaps the contents and contexts more complete, perhaps more comprehensive. The air is still melancholic!
Yesterday, November 9, in early afternoon, we received calls of a tragedy, and we all tensely waited for the news. Everywhere, different versions [...]
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November 10, 2009
DAY OF MELANCHOLY
October 7, 2009
Bulan Observer Supports Swiss-Asian Chamber Of Commerce Task Force Asia
by jun asuncion
The devastation of typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng to the Philippines was unprecedented in scale and magnitude. The whole world was witness to this natural catastrophe and the drama of the Filipino people as they fought to survive. Videos and photos uploaded in internet platforms are documents of our suffering: A whole family on a [...]
October 4, 2009
SUPERTYPHOON PEPENG SPARES BULAN; BULANENO VOLUNTEERISM SURFACES ONCE MORE
Submitted on 2009/10/04 at 9:41am
PIO- Bulan
Bulan, Sorsogon, October 3, 2009, PIO-BULAN: Bulanenos heaved a very deep sigh of relief, and offered prayers of thanksgiving to God, after the Municipal Disaster Coordinating Council officially declared, in its October 2, 3:00 PM Advisory that the dangers and risks posed by Supertyphoon Pepeng to the town of Bulan [...]
May 25, 2009
The Way To Bulan Eco-Park
By: jun asuncion +* LGU- Bulan Mayor Helen De Castro and Tony Boy Gilana
We have taken all these photos by ourselves on that sultry summer morning last April 2009. As I was sorting out the photos for this documentary article, I realized that I couldn’t provide myself the necessary informative captions for each photo. So I called [...]
May 22, 2009
Sta. Remedios Charity Medical Clinic
By: Angelita de Guzman Kowalewsky
(click photo to enlarge)
COMPASSION, yes, it was compassion for the sick, the helpless and the vulnerable, that made all of these happen. Sta. Remedios is a small village located in the town of Bulan, Sorsogon, the southern province of Luzon islands in the Philippines. This is the village where I grew up [...]
May 15, 2009
Part II: The MDCC And The Bulan Rescue Team
The Municipal Disaster Coordinating Council or MDCC and the Bulan Rescue Team deserve once again the highest respect for their selfless efforts and efficient performance in saving the lives of many Bulaneños and of coordinating the whole disaster management at the height of typhoon Dante last May 1 and 2.
Under the leadership of Vice-mayor Gogola and the young and [...]
May 15, 2009
Part I: The Storm Dante- Images Of Survival
Tuloy Po or Please Come In is unmistakably Bulaneño hospitality…
Even when Bulan is under water brought about by the devastating typhoon Dante last May 1-2.
But who will come in, what kind of guests when pupils are on vacation and who will dare when it is flooded?
They are the guests- evacuees; children from Managanaga fleeing from [...]
April 19, 2009
Hostage Update: The Swiss Andreas Notter Released By Captors
Bulan Observer Quick Press
We are happy for the positive turn of events that led to freedom for the Swiss Andreas Notter. We also hope for the best for the remaining hostage Eugenio Vagni.
jun asuncion
Bulan Observer
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News from Swissinfo:
April 18, 2009 – 1:16 PM Swiss ICRC hostage is free
Islamic rebels in the Philippines have freed [...]
February 6, 2009
Senator Francis Escudero’s Senate Bill No. 1476
“AN ACT REQUIRING PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES TO SUBMIT A WRITTEN
PERMISSION OR WAIVER IN FAVOR OF THE OMBUDSMAN TO LOOK INTO
ALL DEPOSITS OF WHATEVER NATURE WITH BANKS OR BANKING
INSTITUTIONS BOTH WITHIN AND OUTSIDE THEPHlLIPPINES INCLUDING
INVESTMENT BONDS ISSUED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PHILIPPINES,
ITS POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS AND INSTRUMENTALITIES AND PROVIDING
PENALTIES THEREFOR.”
This is so far the most [...]
January 13, 2009
The Margaja Problem And Political Ping-Pong In Bicol
In keeping with our task to focus on unresolved issues concerning our town Bulan, I gathered here some news articles related with the margaja mining along the coasts of Bulan and in other Sorsogon towns. These are not the latest news, but still maybe some of you haven’t read these yet. The purpose is to [...]
December 11, 2008
LMP CITES DE CASTRO AS AN OUTSTANDING MAYOR
Submitted on 2008/12/11 at 9:34am
Press Release
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
Local Government Unit of Bulan
Bulan, Sorsogon, November 21, 2008
The League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP) cited Mayor Helen C. De Castro of Bulan, Sorsogon as one of the Most Outstanding Mayors in the Philippines in the area of ecological protection during the League’s 2008 General Assembly at [...]
October 30, 2008
A Pair Of Shining Shoes Made In Marikina
You still remember that while the City Mayors (organizer of the World Mayor Award) was looking for the Top 11 Mayors around the world last 2007, we found our town Bulan wrestling with the Central Bus Terminal-or CBT Scandal. Whatever happened now to this CBT case, we are practically no longer interested with it as long as [...]
October 23, 2008
BULAN SENIOR CITIZENS CELEBRATE MONTH FOR ELDERLY
Press Release
By Tonyboy ( PIO, LGU-Bulan)
Bulan, Sorsogon – October is declared as the Month in honoring the Elderly, and the Bulan Senior Citizens, responding to the call for activeliness in community undertaking, came in big numbers representing various Senior Citizens’ groups.
The Office of the Senior Citizen Affairs (OSCA), headed by former Councilor Joe Tan, under [...]
August 21, 2008
THE ELUSIVE JUSTICE AFTER 25 YEARS!
August 21, 2008 at 2:55 pm ·
Or, the Prepared Speech That Was Never Read.
By attybenji
Ninoy Aquino said, “The Filipino is worth dying for.”
In retrospect, Twenty Five (25) years after Ninoy Aquino’s death, only his murderer, the alleged hired killer, Rolando Galman (RIP) and the other alleged conspirators, (mostly members of the defunct AVSECOM-MIA), now [...]
August 11, 2008
“Never To Own Anything That Is Not Ours”
Never to own anything that is not ours? A Confusian analect, Marxist’s dialectic or Nietzsche’s geneaology of morals? No, it’s from the mouth of a poor, malnourished Filipino boy, with barely nothing to put into his mouth but turned in a bag with P18,000.
Yes, I stumbled upon this old news and made me ponder upon this [...]
July 29, 2008
Mayor’s 2007 Report to the People of Bulan
Office of the Mayor, Bulan Sorsogon
July 29, 2008 at 8:30 am · Edit
Note to readers:
Published hereunder is the Mayor’s 2007 Report to the People of Bulan. To follow after this will be the Mayor’s First Semestral Report, January to June, 2008. Thank You
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Republic of the Philippines
MUNICIPALITY OF BULAN
SORSOGON
OFFICE OF THE MAYOR
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Second Term’s First Year-end [...]
February 15, 2008
Wanted: World Mayor 2008
Bulan Observer congratulates Lady Mayor Marides Fernando of Marikina City for being chosen one of the 50 Finalists for the World Mayor award 2008 out of the original 820 recommended candidates from all over the world. From these 50 Finalists, the World Mayor project, organized by City Mayors- an international network of professionals working together to [...]
December 21, 2007
Swiss Democracy- or the small difference
by jun asuncion, zürich (written last Dec.12,2007)Today the Swiss parliament elected their seven federal councillors. A woman politician won a seat unexpectedly in favor of a much controversial candidate from her own political party- the Schweizerische Volkspartei ( Swiss People’s Party) SVP . She was at this very moment not in Bundeshaus, Federal Building, but on a train heading to Bern, the [...]
