Like a siren stranded at low tide in the Biliran Sea, Calubian calls. Her wail of helplessness echoes from the hills and plains of the land and back to the sea. Her cry for help permeates the consciousness night and day. Yet, she is barely heeded even as the mud of neglect has started to swallow her body and freeze over her heart and soul.

Calubian is small, tucked in the northernmost part of LeyteProvince. She is bounded by the Biliran Sea in the east and the Camotes Sea in the west. She is, thus, blessed with the beauty of the two seas. Her fertile land of rolling hills and plains gifts her with a multitudes of sustenance for her children. She is anointed with oil from the Tree of Life (coconut) that covers most of her land and for which bounty she has been named after, “Calubian” – a place where “lubi”, visayan word for the Tree of Life, abounds. Yet, Calubian remains stunted like a runt. Small, tucked in a corner of Leyte Province, away from the core of things, she has been largely ignored and untended, becoming stuck in the quagmire of neglect and underdevelopment for many years. Read More......