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Category: Editorial
Rain, rain, go away…
Into each life, some rain must fall. This idiom, made into a duet in 1944 by The Ink Spots featuring Bill Kenny, and Ella Fitzgerald, means that bad or unfortunate…
The Tribune’s battle goes to the Supreme Court
Last week, on the eve of the 60th birthday celebration of the Tribune publisher-editor, his counsel in the libel suit filed by SUWECO sent a copy of the Court of…
More action needed to prevent suicides
The suicide note that the 12-year-old boy sent as a cellphone message to his mother before he hanged himself last Sunday morning could have broken any cold-hearted parent. Thrice, the…
Who says the provincial government lacks funds?
Not a few eyebrows among the newspaper-reading public were raised when the Tribune reported that in 2021, the provincial government of Catanduanes had parked P242 million in time deposits in…
A wish for the New Year
As if the last two weeks of 2022 were not bad enough, with scores dead or missing due to floods and rough seas (including nine from Catandpuanes), the country suffered…
The ‘stranded’ Virac councilor’s issue: too hot to handle?
For months now, the Catanduanes Tribune has held back on publishing the news on the Civil Service Commission’s decision on the case of Ephraim Antonio Gianan, who was ‘stranded’ in…
Some good news this Christmas season
Except for the fuel price increase that was implemented this Dec. 20, some good news came for the inflation-hit Catandunganons this Christmas season. The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) provided the…
Msgr. Ping’s Christmas Cheers
The Tribune editorial takes a break from the usual to give space to the following contribution of one of the organizers of the island’s longest-running Christmas extravaganza: “A BRIEF…
A most welcome move from DPWH, but…
For most people, it has become second nature not to expect too much from the Department of Public Works and Highways, often tagged by surveys as the most corrupt government…