At the turn of the year, news about a supposedly missing bride-to-be surfaced and filled the internet and our social networking sites. Purportedly, this bride-to-be went missing four (4) days…
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Harnessing the Tides: Capul Island’s Energy Innovation
Nestled in Northern Samar, Capul Island is set to provide an example of sustainable energy for its 12,323 residents with Southeast Asia’s first tidal power plant. This 1 MW project,…
Bryce McIntyre:
Riding the Waves: Can Catanduanes Harness Ocean Power to Solve Its Energy Problems?
The Land of the Howling Winds has long been defined by its relationship with the Western Pacific. Its rugged coastlines, battered by typhoons and nourished by abundant fisheries, now stand…
Sacerdos in Aeternum (a priest forever) | Rev. Fr. Rommel M. Arcilla:
The Gift Worth Giving
On the Feast of the Epiphany, we are drawn once again to a familiar and beautiful image: the Magi kneeling before the Child Jesus, offering Him gold, frankincense, and myrrh.…
NON EXCUSAT | Atty. Rene John M. Velasco:
FUGITIVE DISENTITLEMENT DOCTRINE
In this era, where evading arrest and fleeing to avoid prosecution had become a trend for suspected malefactors, the Honorable Supreme Court in a relatively recent case, laid down the…
Bryce McIntyre:
Catanduanes Economy in 2026: A Matter of Recovery and Renewal
As 2025 draws to a close, Catanduanes Province stands at a crossroads. Super Typhoon Uwan, which slammed the island in November, inflicted a staggering PHP5.74 billion in damages — devastating…
Sacerdos in Aeternum (a priest forever) | Rev. Fr. Rommel M. Arcilla:
The Light Still Shines
It is a strange and unsettling image: a King born in a manger. Stranger still when we realize that this King is the King of kings and the Son of…
Sacerdos in Aeternum (a priest forever) | Rev. Fr. Rommel M. Arcilla:
From Broken Names to Blessed Hope
At first glance, the Gospel we have just heard seems dry and uninspiring, a long list of names, difficult to pronounce, easy to ignore. Many of us are tempted to…
Bryce McIntyre:
Shadows Over the Island: Political Corruption at the Core of Catanduanes’ Power Crisis
The island’s primary power supplier, Sunwest Water and Electric Co. Inc., or SUWECO, is teetering on the brink of collapse, its operations hamstrung by frozen bank accounts and mounting debts.…
Sacerdos in Aeternum (a priest forever) | Rev. Fr. Rommel M. Arcilla:
The One
In the Gospel last Sunday, we meet John the Baptist not in the glory of the desert, not in the roar of the Jordan River, not in the power of…