kang bagyong nina nauyag harong ni huwan wasak bilog na harong caipuhan nyang matuwangan kaya binale sya sa listahan piniktyuran pati su dapang harong habang ga halat ning relief naghinguhang…
Month: November 2020
How long is temporary?
Baging pinarid na kan duwang bagyong uminagi an isyu sa food poisoning na ikinaospital nin sobrang sanggatos katawong nakidapit sa defuntong ama ni Gob Boboy Cua. Maguiromdoman na nangyari an…
A question for supporters of privatization
The twice-weekly flights of Cebu Pacific Airways, using the ATR jetprop, will reportedly resume on Dec. 2, 2020, instead of Nov. 30 as it is the last day of the…
The logistics (and politics) of relief distribution
In the past weeks since three typhoons successively brought destruction and disrupted the lives of people in the Happy Island, Facebook comments on posts regarding the disaster response of the…
Surviving Typhoons in Catanduanes
When I was young, we survived very strong Typhoons like in 1961 in Pandan, Catanduanes., na ikan kaibahan na ‘storm surge’ of about 4meters high! After the bagyo, its fiesta–daming…
SSS sets guidelines for calamity assistance in Bicol
LEGAZPI CITY (PIA) – Members and pensioners of the Social Security Systems (SSS) in provinces declared under state of calamity in the Bicol region can receive financial assistance to help…
Const’n worker arrested in Albay wanted for murder in Catanduanes
Personnel from four police units in Albay and Catanduanes last week apprehended a construction worker in Manito, Albay who, along with two others, has been charged with murder in 2016.…
JERICHO ROSALES IN REAL LIFE ROLE
by Pablo A. Tariman Bicolano actor Jericho Rosales reprised his real life Typhoon Ondoy role in 2009 when he (along with wife Kim Jones) picked up his surfboard to…
ISABELA AND CAGAYAN IN MY MIND
“Ang Cagayan ngayon ay parang Pacific Ocean. Lahat ng mga munisipyo na tabi ng Cagayan River ay baha ngayon,” Col. Ascio Macalan of the Cagayan Provincial Risk Reduction and Management…
Man drowns in Oco river
Barangay officials last week found the body of a man who apparently drowned in Oco river after going there to catch fish a day earlier. A report from the Viga…