Seeking to avert sinking into dire financial straits, the First Catanduanes Electric Cooperative, Inc. (FICELCO) has secured permission from the provincial government for its personnel to resume monthly meter reading and collection schedules, as long as bill payments will be on a voluntary basis.
Month: April 2020
Power bill subsidy only for those that consume 20-kWh or less
The Board of Directors of the First Catanduanes Electric Cooperative, Inc. (FICELCO) is considering the grant of a power bill subsidy to all residential consumers, instead of just the so-called “lifeline” users, or those that consume 20 kilowatt-hours per month or less.
Stranded OFWs waiting for gov’t to send them home
Such is the case for Abelardo T. Brizo, a welder from barangay Inalmasinan, Caramoran, who contacted the Tribune last Friday after spending 22 days in quarantine at a hotel in Pasay City.
Contact tracing to identify persons exposed to island’s 1st COVID-19 case
In a hastily-called press conference at the provincial capitol held April 19, 2020, the acting chief executive disclosed that she received the bad news on Bicol’s 25th confirmed coronavirus case directly from Department of Health (DOH) Regional Director Dr. Ernie Vera.
COVID-19 TESTING ISAGAWA SA BAWAT PAMILYA
Miyembro ng Valenzuela City Epidemiology Unit gumawa ng bahay-bahay na covid-19 testing. Ito marahil ang pinakatamang dapat ginagawa ng mga taga-DOH para malaman kung sinu-sino at kung ilan sa bawat pamilya ang may tama.
Holy Week on Lockdown Status
The Holy Week celebration this year is so different from all the celebrations we had in the past years. Churches are closed due to the lock down status in our country because of this Covid-19 pandemic. As a result, celebrations were done on private by priests with some ministers only and people can only watch inside their homes via live streaming or through some TV networks airing the Holy Week celebrations in some churches in the mainland.
Haen an price freeze?
Duwang semana na sana, matapos na an quarantine, kung dae na magbago an isip kan gobyerno ni Pay Digong. An desisyon madepende sa pagheling kan DOH kung an mga kaso nin COVID-19 sa Luzon gahababa na lamang o gahalangkaw pa.
CSU Pres. Morales likely to serve out her term of office
The president of the Catanduanes State University, Dr. Minerva I. Morales, marked her 65th birthday on Good Friday, April 10, 2020, in the midst of her second term of office. Weeks before the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) went into effect, there was already speculation that the CSU president would retire from the post before this month. This reportedly prompted one presumptive candidate to begin counting her votes among the members of the Board of Regents.
Silence and darkness in the war against COVID-19
Take some time to read the following excerpt from an opinion piece in a recent issue of the Daily Mirror, a national daily tabloid in the United Kingdom: “Without journalism, coronavirus would kill more people. Take a moment to think about what the world would be without us.” For a government to order its constituents to stay at home, it needed the media to communicate to the nation the seriousness of the message.