About P9.5 million in emergency funding will be provided to the Eastern Bicol Medical Center (EBMC) in the remaining months of this year to be spent for supplies and medicines…
Month: October 2021
Cua vows to continue focus on social services, helping people
Citing his accomplishments and laying out his administration’s future agenda, Governor Joseph C. Cua has vowed to continue his focus on social services and other soft projects, with P189 million…
“Doc Germs” pushes biological control of abaca diseases in CatSU workshop
A scientist entrepreneur and inventor has claimed that the Abaca Bunchy Top Disease now ravaging plantations in Catanduanes can be solved within six months through the use of a natural…
DTI destroys P300K in uncertified products seized from local stores
More than P300,000 worth of uncertified products were destroyed and disposed of by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) last week following their confiscation from several local stores.DTI Catanduanes…
RTC junks drug rap vs. ex-CatSU instructor
A former instructor of the Catanduanes State University accused of possession of dangerous drugs last year is in the clear after the case was dismissed last week by the Regional…
ANALYSIS: IS AN ELECTION WITHOUT VOTE-BUYING A LOST CAUSE IN CATANDUANES?
By Bo Rodulfo Our brand of politics is unique.MONEY and a strong POLITICAL MACHINERY – two factors that are needed to win in our kind of election. It’s not either-or,…
TRIBUNE COLUMNIST IN BEST OF ASIAN POETRY 2021 ANTHOLOGY
Two poems of writer Pablo A. Tariman were accepted in The Best of Asian Poetry 2021 anthology to be launched in November 2021.Kitaab (Singapore) received submissions from Asian poets for…
DILG: Candidates risk disqualification if
they pay NPA’s “permit to campaign” fee
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) today warned all candidates running in the 2022 national and local elections not to pay extortion money or the so-called “permit…
Facts and the public’s trust in government
A week after a concerned citizen asked the Tribune to call the attention of authorities to the face-fo-face seminars and trainings for teachers being conducted by DepEd Catanduanes, 10 teachers…
10 teachers among 184 new COVID-19 cases
The number of new COVID-19 cases in Catanduanes rose to 184 during the past seven days, slightly higher than the 170 recorded during the Oct. 10-16, 2021 period.This total included…