Baras LGU is 1st town to achieve Zero Open Defecation (ZOD) status

The town of Baras has become the first local government unit in Catanduanes to eradicate the unhygienic practice of open defecation, after 15 of its 29 barangays attained Zero Open…

TESDA Prov’l Training Center inaugurated in Baras

More Catandunganons will have access to the services of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), with the inauguration of its Provincial Training Center last week in Baras town.…

One of three suspects in 2019 shooting convicted of homicide

The Regional Trial Court has found one of three Bato brothers guilty of homicide for the fatal shooting of a man asleep in his house in Agban, Baras in 2019.…

Police arrests San Andres’ Most Wanted, nabs Baras pusher

The Catanduanes police’s war on illegal drugs achieved yet another success with the arrest of a high-value target in Baras town who yielded P306,000 worth of shabu in a buy-bust…

Even if PAGASA, JICA agree on 2023 start:

Replacement of Baras Doppler radar system would take two years to finish

Negotiations are underway between representatives of the nation’s weather agency and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) over funding of the replacement of the Doppler radar station at Buenavista, Baras…