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…
Category: Editorial
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…
Starlink’s promise for isolated barangays
Last week, a youth group, Sinag Kabataan, successfully demonstrated that satellite internet service could end the isolation of far-flung areas, communications-wise, in the province of Catanduanes. Sinag President Fred Benedict…
How to remove a congressman…or not
In the front page of this newspaper is a question-and-answer feature by Manila-based lawyer Dexter Francisco on the recall and recall elections. Unfortunately, the veteran member of the bar, who…
Remembering the 2004 Verceles recall move
To the younger generation of voters, the petition for the recall of an elective official is an unfamiliar concept. But not to those who were already members of the electorate…
DPWH RD Eduarte should face the SP on the P2.1-B issue
Latest reports indicate that DPWH Catanduanes District Engineer Edy Ferdinand Joven, who went on 15-day leave for medical reasons, is not coming back to the island. A reliable source told…
DE Joven hides behind the FOI program
Section 7. The right of the people to information on matters of public concern shall be recognized. Access to official records, and to documents and papers pertaining to official acts,…
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…