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The P500-million Bicol Mega Cold Storage Warehouse in Camarines Sur (CamSur) that President Marcos opened in a recent ceremonial switch-on is a “gamechanger” facility that is now one of the country’s biggest post-harvest complexes and which promises to transform the province into a premier agro-industrial food hub, according to CamSur Governor LRay Villafuerte. “This cold […]
Camarines Sur (CamSur) Governor LRay Villafuerte has thanked President Marcos and Secretary Vivencio Dizon of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) for their “quick action” on their commitment to accelerate and expand the sure-enough rehabilitation of the dilapidated Andaya Highway, which is the almost 93-kilometer (km) stretch of the Pan-Philippine Highway or Maharlika […]
Camarines Sur (CamSur) Governor LRay Villafuerte is looking forward to a bumper year of priority development projects not only in CamSur but elsewhere in the country as well, following the recent order by President Marcos on the quick release of much bigger Local Government Support Fund (LGSF) outlays to all local government units (LGUs), so they […]
Camarines Sur Governor LRay Villafuerte has welcomed a congressional investigation into the “chronic deterioration, alleged defective structural design, repeated ‘piecemeal’ rehabilitation and possible irregularities” in the funding and maintenance of the Andaya Highway, which is the portion of the over 3,000-kilometer (km) Maharlika Highway that passes through the province. Villafuerte said, “A full-blown House inquiry […]
Determined to bring essential healthcare services closer to families in the provinces, Senator Bong Go, Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, filed Senate Bill No. 1783 seeking to establish the Tigaon Mother and Child General Hospital in Tigaon, Camarines Sur—an urgent response to the town’s growing need for accessible maternal and child healthcare. […]
Camarines Sur Governor and National Unity Party (NUP) president LRay Villafuerte has hailed the fresh commitment of the Department of Transportation (DOTr) for longer runways at regional or alternative airports, so these landing strips can accommodate bigger aircraft, as part of long-term reforms to drastically slash airfare and entice a lot more tourists to see […]
The Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) has green-lighted an almost seven-hectare (ha) special economic zone (SEZ) at the CamSur Uptown in the Provincial Capitol complex in Pili, a development that Camarines Sur Gov. LRay Villafuerte believes will clear the way to an even larger stream of capital into one of the country’s premier investment hubs outside […]
Camarines Sur (CamSur) is set to become the home of the Philippines’ first Google Chromebook manufacturing facility, representing a major breakthrough in the Bicol region’s technology landscape. Announced in early January 2026 by Governor Luis Raymund “Lray” Villafuerte, this 5,000-square-meter landmark project of the Allied Corporation Asia Pacific aims to transform the province into a […]
Camarines Sur (CamSur) Governor and National Unity Party (NUP) president LRay Villafuerte is calling for a three-year P6 billion plan to accelerate the long-overdue modernization of the Naga Airport to sustain—and even boost—the momentum of CamSur as one of the country’s economic, investment and tourism frontrunners. Backdropped by the latest Department of Tourism (DOT) data […]
Camarines Sur Governor LRay Villafuerte is pressing for a full-blown investigation into the increasingly decrepit condition of the Andaya Highway, which is the Camarines Sur portion of the strategic Quirino Highway that connects Metro Manila to Bicol, the Visayas and Mindanao. Villafuerte said, “The seemingly benign neglect of the Andaya Highway in the past is […]