Catanduanes was once a part of Albay. On October 26, 1945, it was emancipated from Albay and was declared an island-province by virtue of Commonwealth Act No. 687. Based on records, gubernatorial elections for Catanduanes started in 1948. According to Prof. Alex De Guzman, when the island was still in transition to becoming a full-pledge [...]
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Past governors of Bicol — Catanduanes
Posted in History, Politics, Prominent Bikolanos, tagged Bicol politics, Catanduanes, Governors, politicians, Politics on August 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Asuncions of Bulan, Sorsogon
Posted in History, Prominent Bikolanos, tagged Asuncion, Bulan, Sorsogon on August 5, 2010 | 4 Comments »
When I started my work on the Imperials of Albay, many encouraged me to write also on a number of local clans and families. These include the Maronillas who, apparently, are our distant relatives by affinity. But while research works like these are interesting, the availability of resources are not. But the members of the [...]
Ramon Santos and the Bikolano Martyrs of 1896
Posted in History, Prominent Bikolanos, tagged Albay, Governors, History, Ramon Santos on July 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
One of the highly commented articles here in Biklish is the Past Governors of Bicol (though that, actually, discusses only the governors of Albay). At the end of the article is a wish (or hope) that one day, we can come up also with the basic biographies of said governors. Luckily, we have Netizens and [...]
The Imperials in Bicol History (Last of the Series)
Posted in History, Prominent Bikolanos, tagged 2010 elections, Albay, Albay District, Bicol, Bicol politics, Bicolano Figures, Imperial, Imperials, Politics on July 13, 2010 | 9 Comments »
In the early part of 2008, I wrote a paper for the Institute for Popular Democracy (which I also presented in the PPSA) on the decline of the Imperials of Albay Province. The paper concludes that if the clan will not reinvent itself and if the members of the clan’s later generation will not step [...]
The Imperials in Bicol History (Part III)
Posted in History, Prominent Bikolanos, tagged Bicol History, Bicolano Figures, Comelec, Imperial, Imperials, Prominent Bicolanos on January 22, 2009 | 10 Comments »
[2G: The Generation ... con't] Seeing their cousins perform well in politics, the sons of David and Elias also tried to make their respective names in the province. The first of these is Felix, the son of Elias, who vied for a Congressional post in the Second District of Albay in 1919, and the other [...]
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