With the issuance of the calendar of activities for the 2025 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections this December 1, barangay officials and those who seek to replace them should now…
Category: Editorial
The need to transform Catanduanes’ abaca industry
The celebration of the 9th Abaca Festival this week comes with a damper: abaca fiber production in the island has declined by 20 percent in the first quarter of 2025…
What happened?
Shell-shocked. Stunned. Devastated. These adjectives accurately describe campaign workers and supporters of the Cua political alliance after it became clear that their three standard bearers would lose their respective bids.…
A few suggestions to the Commission on Elections
Last Saturday, a helicopter conducted a flyover presumably over all towns of Catanduanes, as the Commission on Elections sought to reassure the electorate that it is in full control of…
Will the Kontra Bigay committee succeed this time?
With the midterm national and local elections just five days away, the usual rampant vote-buying has been happening since two weeks ago not only in Catanduanes but also in other…
Judge them by their actions, not by their promises
In 2023, during the deliberations on the 2024 General Appropriations Act, our honorable members of House of Representatives thought of another way to pad their undeclared income. Aside from their…
The better man to push the island’s vital projects
One of the questions propounded to participants in the recent 2025 Aratubangan debate concerned the proposed Friendship Bridge that would connect Catanduanes and Camarines Sur via an eight-kilometre bridge. As…
The “Aratubangan” debate
The first, and probably the only, debate for provincial candidates in the May 12, 2025 National and Local Elections has brought some clarity to the electorate as far as the…
CatSU’s heat index brouhaha
Just three hours after students heard it on a local radio station or saw a post on Facebook, the management of the Catanduanes State University revoked an announcement of an…
For a clean, safe and orderly local elections
Last March 23, 2025, the COMELEC’s First Division dismissed the disqualification petition filed by former Mayor Sinforoso M. Sarmiento Jr. against Governor Joseph C. Cua for a procedural lapse. According…