Tough Times Ahead

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Some foreign and local financial analysts said that the country’s economy is in for a hard drive in the next two or three years. The assessment is correct amid reports of destructive floods and devastation brought about by slew of recent typhoons and massive...

2020 Census of Population and Housing (CPH)

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           By the time our crusading newspaper hits the streets or reaches the hands of our precious readers, the Philippine Statistics Auhority (PSA) must have started conducting its 2020 “Census of Population and Housing (CPH).          The 2020 CPH, the country’s 15th census of population...

Dr. Freddie T. Bernal: CatSU’s Officer-in-Charge

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With sense of pride and higher expectations, my colleagues and I in the print and broadcast media in Bicol Peryodiko and BPTV online News Live, join the academic community and allied sectors in welcoming Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Bicol regional director Dr. Freddie...

Will Blended Learning classes start on August 24?

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              Recently, the Department of Education in the province headed by Catanduanes Division Superintendent Dr. Danilo Despi stood pat on its decision not to extend the use of public schools as quarantine facilities beyond July 31, 2020.              With this ultimatum, Municipal chief executives had...

Is there local transmission in Islang Kayganda?

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The alarming spike of coronavirus positive cases from 13 to 16 patients couple of weeks ago were attributed to returnee-LSIs and ROFs and, as expected, this brought home anxieties and worries from residents in barangays where the positive patients reside.             So far as of...

Soon LCC will rise in Pandan

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             For the first time and sooner than expected, the Liberty Commercial Center (LCC) will open its branch in the province and guess where? Virac? Nyet. Pandan, yes!             The location of new business hub is right smack in the poblacion specifically in Pandan del...

Covid-19: Nostradamus Prophecy?

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            The other week, a good friend of mine---Manding Delluza--- sent me a very significant trivia-cum-update about this life-threatening covid-19 pandemic scourge engulfing the whole world.             It is a serious matter sent via messenger in that it revealed an ancient prophecy by an extraordinary prophet in the person...

Localized Community Quarantine

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              The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. It was a pandemic never before seen. Statistics bares it all: (1) It left about 4,200 people dead; (2) Had infected more than 118,000 others worldwide as the number of cases of cases outside China, the epicenter...

Ethics and Justice

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            With authority and conviction, Scientology religion founder. L. Ron Hubbard, writes “Since time immemorial, people have preached the necessity to live by the tenets of honesty, compassion and decency—that integrity is the only foundation upon which our life itself is built. But no matter how well Man...

New Beginnings, New Opportunities ...

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            Indeed, Taal’s devastations were overwhelming and encompassing. Time and again, it has been proven that whenever disasters happen in the country, social infrastructure including electricity shuts down for days or months, depending on the nature of the disaster and where it struck.             Right now, those who live...