Flanked by this year’s winners of Miss Bicolandia 2022
As a pageant fan for a very long time, I now consider it a huge privilege to always be asked to be a part of the judging panel in some of the country’s top beauty pageants. The very first pageant that trusted me enough to make a judge for i
RIVER PROCESSION.Brig. Gen. Rudolph Dimas (right), director of the Police Regional Office 5, leads the police personnel deployed in Naga City to ensure public safety during the Penafrancia Festivalfluvial procession on Saturday (Sept. 17, 2022). The festivity is considered the biggest religious event in Bicol and is celebrated yearly to honor the feast day of Our Lady of Penafrancia, patroness of the region.(Photo courtesy of PRO-5) LEGAZPI CITY- The more than one-week Penafrancia Festival celebration in Naga City, Camarines Sur was generally peaceful and successful, with the solemnity of the religious event preserved even if it was participated in by huge crowds of Marian devotees, the Police Regional Office in Bicol Region (PRO-5) said Monday. Brig. Gen. Rudolph Dimas, PRO-5 director, said nearly half a million people joined and witnessed the main highlight of the event, which was the fluvial procession along Naga River, held on Saturday. The other main events held were the Miss Bico
Four hundred volunteers from the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) Camarines Sur Chapter were dispatched to the recently concluded Our Lady of Peñafrancia Festival in Naga City, Camarines Sur.
Philippine Red Cross
The volunteers set up first aid stations and welfare desks at 24 different locations to
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Since he took over as the National Director and owner of the country’s Miss World franchise in 2017, Arnold Vegafria (more popularly known by his initials, ALV) has been thrown in the pageant spotlight as one of its major movers and players. Initially known in the enter