DOH to hire add’l personnel for EBMC on short-term contracts

Among those wanted for immediate hiring are those for the positions of Medical Specialist II (SG-23), Medical Officer II (SG-21), Nurse II (SG-15), Medical Technologist II (SG-15), Radiologic Technologist II (SG-15), Respiratory Therapist II (SG-14), Nursing Attendant II (SG-6) and Administrative Aide who will serve as ambulance driver (SG-4).

Catanduanes’ stranded Overseas Filipinos

This issue was among those discussed during the meeting last Monday (May 11, 2020) of the reorganized Emerging, Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases Provincial Task Force (EREID-PTF).

Gov’t giving private sector workers a hard time

Beginning the next issue, the Tribune will be back to its normal number of pages and print run, after being impacted by the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ).

No one charged for ECQ violations

A week after the spate of violations of the “no travel” policy and the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ), the Philippine National Police (PNP) in Catanduanes has yet to file a single criminal complaint against the alleged violators despite their reported serious intent to do so.

CSU Pres. Morales likely to serve out her term of office

The president of the Catanduanes State University, Dr. Minerva I. Morales, marked her 65th birthday on Good Friday, April 10, 2020, in the midst of her second term of office. Weeks before the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) went into effect, there was already speculation that the CSU president would retire from the post before this month. This reportedly prompted one presumptive candidate to begin counting her votes among the members of the Board of Regents.

A mixed message from PTF-EREID

Contrary to last week’s item in this column, Acting Gov. Shirley Abundo is not issuing an order taking over the facilities of the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA), which has denied requests to allow the use of its passenger terminals in Virac and San Andres as quarantine areas for arriving drivers and helpers.

IATF solves half of the task force’s problem

Two agencies which have come under fire from majority of members of the PTF-EREID due to their actions with regards to the island’s battle to keep the COVID-19 pandemic off its shores are the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) and the Department of Education (DepEd).

Ernesto Tabor’s credibility to be tested anew

In an impromptu press interview last week, shabu lab witness Ernesto “Entoy” Tabor Jr. had his credibility questioned by some members of the media, who were skeptical that he did not mention the alleged involvement of the congressman when he first executed his affidavit on the shabu lab operation.

Misplaced criticism vs. Baras LGU over GFH

Social media criticism of the administration of Baras Mayor Jose Paolo Teves III over the issue of the town’s non-inclusion in the list of 2019 Good Financial Housekeeping Passers appears to be misplaced.

A phone call from “Kumander Dante”

The rebel group, he said, wanted to talk to me. I wondered to him if I was really talking to the New People’s Army. He then handed over the phone to a man who claimed he was Kumander Dante and that he was with the committee.