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…
Category: Editorial
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…
The noisy propaganda battle begins
As the Catanduanes Tribune observes the 44th anniversary of its founding by the late publisher Fredeswindo T. Gianan Sr., another event that could influence the course of the province’s history…
The house-to-house and online campaigns
In the near future, the Commission on Elections should consider lengthening the campaign period in local elections from the present 45 days to at least 60 days. The existing campaign…
Two letters, different results
Sometime last month, on different dates, the Tribune sent separate letters to the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (PENRO) and the Department of Education (DepEd) Division of Catanduanes requesting…
The Cua citizenship issue: politics as usual
As defined by the Commission on Elections, negative campaigning seeks to promote the defeat of a candidate. One can campaign against a candidate and tell others not to vote for…
COMELEC’s move vs. abuse of state resources
Somewhere in this issue is a list of presumed acts of vote-buying and vote-selling as provided under COMELEC Resolution No. 11104 which expanded the powers and functions of the Committee…
COMELEC’s Kontra-Bigay vs. vote-buying, vote-selling
It appears that the Commission on Elections is serious in going after vote-buyers, vote-sellers and incumbent officials abusing government resources for election purposes during the 2025 National and Local Elections.…