Hard questions about LGUs’ nutrition programs

Every year, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) goes around the six provinces of the Bicol region to deliver its annual accomplishment report. But the June 2, 2023…

On ensuring job security for LDRRMO personnel

With the provincial government’s inauguration of the warehouse and office building for use of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) last June 1, 2023, the chances of survival…

If you can’t take the heat….

The onset of summer and its accompanying heat that turns unbearable at time has prompted the Department of Education (DepEd) to remind heads of public and private schools nationwide that…

On surviving the next major earthquake

It began with a barely perceptible hum that a few seconds later grew into a gentle shaking that had residents rising to their feet and rushing outside. The magnitude 6.2…

Learn to swim and avoid doing anything stupid

Three years ago in 2020 as the pandemic began its rampage, 30 lives were lost in Catanduanes due to accidental drowning, the heaviest toll for the preventable event. Fortunately, the…

Stealing to get rich, and even richer

What is happening at the DPWH Catanduanes District Engineering Office is just a reflection of what is wrong with local politics. For islanders who have followed the events in this…

Starlink’s promise for isolated barangays

Last week, a youth group, Sinag Kabataan, successfully demonstrated that satellite internet service could end the isolation of far-flung areas, communications-wise, in the province of Catanduanes. Sinag President Fred Benedict…

How to remove a congressman…or not

In the front page of this newspaper is a question-and-answer feature by Manila-based lawyer Dexter Francisco on the recall and recall elections. Unfortunately, the veteran member of the bar, who…

Remembering the 2004 Verceles recall move

To the younger generation of voters, the petition for the recall of an elective official is an unfamiliar concept. But not to those who were already members of the electorate…

DPWH RD Eduarte should face the SP on the P2.1-B issue

Latest reports indicate that DPWH Catanduanes District Engineer Edy Ferdinand Joven, who went on 15-day leave for medical reasons, is not coming back to the island. A reliable source told…