Every year, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) goes around the six provinces of the Bicol region to deliver its annual accomplishment report. But the June 2, 2023…
Category: Editorial
On ensuring job security for LDRRMO personnel
With the provincial government’s inauguration of the warehouse and office building for use of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) last June 1, 2023, the chances of survival…
Abaca farmers need more than aid from the government
To most Catandunganons whose knowledge of the abaca industry is limited to the seemingly endless line of fiber drying along the highway in northern towns, the 12,000-plus individuals who consider…
Many eyes needed to oversee DPWH projects
Understandably, the members of the Provincial Project Monitoring Committee (PPMC) decried last week’s editorial of the Tribune on the findings of the body’s inspection of the now controversial Batalay seawall…
What’s the use of project monitoring committees?
About two decades ago, members of a project monitoring committee organized by the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) regional office underwent training on how to go about the project inspection.…
If you can’t take the heat….
The onset of summer and its accompanying heat that turns unbearable at time has prompted the Department of Education (DepEd) to remind heads of public and private schools nationwide that…
On surviving the next major earthquake
It began with a barely perceptible hum that a few seconds later grew into a gentle shaking that had residents rising to their feet and rushing outside. The magnitude 6.2…
Learn to swim and avoid doing anything stupid
Three years ago in 2020 as the pandemic began its rampage, 30 lives were lost in Catanduanes due to accidental drowning, the heaviest toll for the preventable event. Fortunately, the…
Observing the Holy Week with meaning
The Holy Week observance is generally the doldrums for the media, especially in rural areas where almost everything (except for religious events) come to a stop by Holy Wednesday. Malacanang’s…
Stealing to get rich, and even richer
What is happening at the DPWH Catanduanes District Engineering Office is just a reflection of what is wrong with local politics. For islanders who have followed the events in this…