The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) has again reminded all provincial, city and municipal governments to craft and implement measures to address the proliferation of mendicancy and…
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2024 DIVISION SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE RESULTS
Campus journalists of the Virac Pilot Elementary School (VPES) and the Catanduanes National High School (CNHS) topped the elementary and secondary levels of the recently concluded 2024 Division Schools Press…
British Red Cross, Bangladesh Red Crescent Society learns from PRC Catanduanes on livelihood program implementation
Ten officials of the British Red Cross and Bangladesh Red Crescent Society visited Catanduanes the other week to learn about the Philippine Red Cross Catanduanes Chapter’s implementation of its livelihood…
Wanted: 758 generous individuals for ALAY KAPWA’s Expanded Program
Caritas Virac Justice and Peace, Inc. is looking for 758 generous individuals who desire to be part of the Alay Kapwa’s Expanded Program aimed at raising funds for its various…
Suspect found guilty 23 years after hacking San Miguel farmer to death
A San Miguel resident has been found guilty of homicide more than two decades after fatally hacking a fellow farmer who had refused to lend money to him. Eddie Zarate…
2024 DIVISION SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE RESULTS
Campus journalists of the Virac Pilot Elementary School (VPES) and the Catanduanes National High School (CNHS) topped the elementary and secondary levels of the recently concluded 2024 Division Schools Press…
Seaborne patrol fires at illegal fishers from Tabaco
Two suspected illegal fishermen from Tabaco City were injured when police officers on a seaborne patrol fired at two of them near midnight of Friday off San Andres town when…
Bato lawyer appointed as DA Asst. Secretary
Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. last week named Bato-born lawyer Paz J. Benavidez II as the Assistant Secretary for Policy and Regulations in the latest senior leadership revamp in…
Drug den operators lose appeal, fined add’l P4.2-M
Two convicted drug den operators from Virac not only lost their bid to overturn the decision of the Regional Trial Court but one of them was burdened by the Court…
Baras fistfight leads to stabbing
A fisherman sent home earlier after a fistfight in a Baras coastal barangay returned for more and was instead stabbed in the back by his adversary last Saturday evening. The…