With majority of the existing board of directors reelected, the Catanduanes Doctors Hospital, Inc. (CDHI) is looking forward to a fruitful year following a 55-percent increase in revenue for the…
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Abandoned bag yields P217-k in illegal drugs
Virac police probers are now checking CCTV footage along Imelda boulevard in Virac to find leads as to the identity of the person who abandoned a sling bag which later…
PNP: “Daddy” raped teener 160 times over eight years
A resident of San Miguel town was recently arraigned at the Regional Trial Court in Virac on charges that he sexually abused his own niece 160 times since she was…
P12.9-M in grants to 7 towns to reduce childhood stunting
Except for one, all seven municipalities which recently received a total of P12.9 million in grants under the first tranche of the Philippine Multisectoral Nutrition Project (PMNP) have the highest…
Cutting coco trees without permit lands 4 in trouble
For cutting coconut trees without securing a permit, three farmers and a laborer landed in jail last week following separate operations by the local police in Panganiban and Viga towns.…
CatSU teacher, 2 others arrested for separate sexual abuse charges
Three men, including a teacher of the Catanduanes State University, were apprehended by the Virac police on the same day last week on the basis of sexual abuse cases filed…
2nd incident in six months:
Police fires at defiant dynamite fisherman
A suspected illegal fisherman was wounded at sea off Palumbanes island off Caramoran last week after a police officer was forced to fire at him when the former tried to…
CA: No need to present informant as witness in buy-bust op hearing
There is no need for an informant in a buy-bust operation to testify during trial, the Court of Appeals ruled recently as it junked an appeal by a Virac resident…
For the six months of 2024:
Rape cases drop by a third but VAWC incidents surge by 157%
Incidents of rape reported to the Catanduanes police decreased by more than 30 percent in the first six months of 2024 but this favorable development was overshadowed by a huge,…
PICE Catanduanes Chapter marks 31st year, breaks ground for Calatagan school project
The Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers, Inc. (PICE) Catanduanes Chapter celebrated its 31st chartering anniversary last Sunday, July 21, 2024, breaking ground for its community extension projects at Calatagan Elementary…