Responding to an official request from the Sangguniang Bayan of Panganiban, two agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) regional office met last week with about 20 victims of…
Month: August 2021
COVID-19 cases here could breach 1,000 mark this week
With 42 more coronavirus cases added in the second week of August, the province of Catanduanes could see the total number of COVID-19 infections exceed a thousand in the next…
CDHI launches Indigency Fund Program, Cat’nes Wellness Card
Moved by the plight of poor patients with unpaid hospital bills, the Catanduanes Doctors Hospital, Inc. (CDHI) last week launched its Indigency Fund Program to assist its indigent patients. In…
Islander in the City | Pablo A. Tariman:
SUSAN ROCES AT 80
A few days before her 80th birthday, Susan Roces.is still busy living her role as Lola Kap in FPJ’s Ang Probinsyano. In this scene, she is tearfully begging her grandson…
Virac tricycle driver 2nd suicide in August
A tricycle driver troubled by financial problems took his own life in Virac last week, becoming the second suicide in recent weeks in the province of Catanduanes. According to the…
Missing senior citizen drowns in San Andres
A 76-year old woman who went missing from her bedroom in the early morning of Aug. 11, 2021 was later found floating near the seashore of a neighboring village in…
1 killed, 2 hurt in SUWECO mishap
A construction worker was killed and two others were injured when a payloader of Sunwest Water & Electricity Co. (SUWECO) lost its brakes and crashed on the road in San…
EDITORIAL:
Of trusting too much and being true to one’s word
“If it is too good to be true….it is probably a fraud.” For victims who have lost thousands of their hard-earned money to operators of the cryptocurrency trading scam, the…
INSIDE PAGE | Fernan A. Gianan:
Missing snippets of local history
Sabotage is suspected to be the cause of fire that reduced nearly half a million pesos worth of plastic materials to ashes last Sunday before noon at a junkshop in…
ISIP-ISIPON TA | qui Tang Tacio:
Ihanda na ang mga putahe para sa 2022
Sa mga masunod na semana, titimplahon na an mga ihandang putahe nin mga politico sa daculang kapiyestahan sa Mayo nueve, dos mil veinte dos. Sa ngonian, pigasaro-saro na katipuna an…