In the back page of this issue is an article on the results of the 2019 Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index (CMCI), which ranked the local government units in terms…
Tag: editorial
Wishing for a better year for a battered Catanduanes
We all have our wishes for the coming year. Our top three leaders – Governor Joseph Cua, Congressman Hector Sanchez and Partylist Rep. Jose Teves Jr. – expressed their desire…
Political will gets tested in the fight against ASF
“Importante kaan dai sinda magpalaog. Kadakol pa man ning source ning karne. Manok, karbaw, igwa pa man ning alternative. Su supply nita, ‘pag ‘yan talaga nahawaan, magiging zero ang population.”…
Lessons from Rolly and Task Force Kapatid
From the 80 percent originally targeted by the Department of Energy for the restoration of electricity in the province of Catanduanes, the First Catanduanes Electric Cooperative, Inc. (FICELCO) has now…
Post-typhoon business rivalries and politics
Last Monday morning, a chartered flight of Air Asia landed at Virac airport to deliver relief goods for three barangays in Virac. As to be expected, its spokesperson, reporter-turned-pilot Steve…
Christmas, and the run-up to 2022, is just a few weeks away
Christmas Day is just 23 days away. Majority of the island’s population may not have enough to cheer themselves up on what is supposed to be a day of joyous…
The logistics (and politics) of relief distribution
In the past weeks since three typhoons successively brought destruction and disrupted the lives of people in the Happy Island, Facebook comments on posts regarding the disaster response of the…
A necessary evil in any calamity’s wake
It is a reality that whenever a calamity occurs in a certain place in this disaster-prone country, the nation’s main media entities soon come flying in and with them publicity-hungry…
Safe rooms or houses for essential disaster workers
The management of the First Catanduanes Electric Cooperative, Inc. (FICELCO) came in for some pointed criticism from Congressman Hector Sanchez during the first post-disaster meeting at the office of Gov.…
𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝘃𝘀. 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀
Four years after the last supertyphoon, Nina in 2016 with her 250-kph winds, and the devastation wrought by last Sunday’s Rolly with 280-kph gusts, it is time to revisit what…