MEDICAL MISSION IN CARAMOAN. Camarines Sur Governor LRay Villafuerte instructed Dr. Bernadette Carlos , chief of the PHO, to conduct a medical mission as part of the relief operation of a team that left for Caramoan last November 12, 2007 in order to personally assess the health conditions of the constituents who had been gravely affected by massive flooding and landslides. (In photos) Dr. Carlos is shown while conducting medical check-up and consultations on a long line of Caramoanons seeking medical attention. Adequate medicines were likewise given out to the beneficiaries during the mission. MMEC-TGomez/DanRey

THE COMMISSIONER AND THE GENERAL. Former Camarines Sur Congressman Jaime (James) Jacob (left), now Commissioner of the Presidential Anti-Graft Commission (PAGCI) recently addressed the PNP Regional Command Region 13 in Butuan City where the regional director is his Ateneo de Naga HS 72 classmate and namesake, Police Chief Superintendent Jaime Milla (right).

VIP FROM SOUTH AFRICA. Ambassador Pieter Vermaulen from South Africa and wife Christine, are welcomed by Naga City Hall officials led by, from left, Councilors Nathan Sergio, John Bongat, and, at extreme right, Bernadette Roco (top poto) during the breakfast meeting held at Villa Caceres Hotel hosted by the city government last Nov. 13. In the evening, the Metro Naga Chamber of Commerce and Industry treated the couple to dinner at the same hotel where they are shown (above photo) posing with the officers and members of the local business chamber. The ambassador and his wife are on familiarization tour of Bicol where they are looking at possible exchanges and partnership on trade, commerce, and tourism. ARVIN FAJARDO/MNCCI

NEW HOMES FOR TYPHOON VICTIMS. No more miserable shanties (left photos) for the province’s constituents who, in the aftermath of super typhoon Reming that struck almost a year now, were left cold and homeless because Camarines Sur Governor LRay Villafuerte, in partnership with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), launched the Core Shelter Assistance Program that sufficiently addresses the shelter needs of disaster victims like this newly built and sturdier residence (right photos) located in barangay Panagan, Tigaon. SNIEVES/DREYES-MMEC