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DBM RELEASES IRA LEVEL FOR 2013
Sunday 29th of July 2012
TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, July 29 (PIA) -- Department of Budget and Management (DBM)-8 Director Imelda Laceras said that in the coming days, she will be attending the meetings of various Leagues of Municipal Mayors in Region 8 to personally distribute and discuss the Local Budget Call for FY 2013.
Director Laceras said Budget Secretary Florencio B. Abad has issued local budget emorandum (LBM) No. 66 dated July 2, 2012 regarding fiscal year (FY) 2013 internal revenue allotment (IRA) Level and other local budget preparation matters.
Abad said the memorandum informs local government units (LGUs) of the IRA level for FY 2013 based on the certificat...
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10Feb2012BORONGAN City, Eastern Samar, Feb 10 (PIA) -- Don't panic, keep calm. This was the advise of the Office of Civil Defense (OCD)-Regional Office 8, Tacloban city, Leyte, to the public during earthquakes. Director Rey Gozon of OCD said this on Thursday, during the weekly “Harampang” program of the Philippine Information Agency (PIA)-8 where he talked to media. According to him, people should not panic while a tremor is on-going because their decision-making is af...
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26Jun2012ORIGINAL: by: Flordelis E. Jackson NAVAL, Biliran, June 26 (PIA) -- “The 38th Nutrition Month celebration in July this year will focus on vegetables,” said Carina Santiago, Regional Nutrition Program Coordinator Region 8 during the Regional Nutrition Month 2012 Stakeholders Meeting held recently held at the Regional Development Council (RDC) conference room of the National Economic Development Authority Regional Office No. 8 at the Government Center in Candahug, Palo, Leyte. She said th...
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24Jun2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, June 24 (PIA) –--The 38th Nutrition Month in July of 2012 will focus on the importance of vegetables in the Filipino family’s diet. National Nutrition Council Regional Coordinator for Eastern Visayas Carina Santiago informed the Philippine Information Agency that the theme for this year’s celebration is "Pagkain ng Gulay Ugaliin, Araw-araw Itong Ihain!" Director Santiago said that the objectives of this year's celebration are to increase vegetable consumption as pa...
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02Dec2012This is the story of George C. Capillo of Barangay Buenavista, San Isidro, Northern Samar, a former overseas Filipino worker (OFW) who failed to find success abroad but found it back home. George, just like any other OFW, braved the loneliness of being away from his family dreaming to give a more comfortable life to his loved ones, said Patria Bigcas, chief of the Northern Samar Field Office of the Department of Labor and Industry in Eastern Visayas. For some time, George worked as a carpen...
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04Oct2012GOVERNMENT CENTER, Leyte, Oct 4 (PIA) -- The Eastern Visayas Regional Development Council (RDC) held the first Forum for Local Planners on September 26 and 27 at the latest landmark in the province, the Leyte Oriental Hotel. The forum, which aimed to jumpstart a regular engagement with the local planners of Eastern Visayas who serve as the technical arm of their respective Local Development Councils, was attended by the Provincial, City and Municipal Planning and Development Coordinators (PPDC/...
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01Oct2012This year’s Children’s Month celebration in October underscores the important role media plays in protecting the rights of children. Department of Social Welfare and Development Regional Director Leticia Diokno said that in celebrating the 20th Anniversary of National Children’s Month, the agencies and local government units are guided by the theme, "Bright Child ay Siguraduhin, Responsableng Pamamahayag ay Palaganapin!" The celebration, Diokno said, aims to promote and protect the physi...
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10Oct2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, October 10 (PIA) – Teenage pregnancy has increased by 65 per cent over a 10-year period from 2000-2010 despite the decline in teen marriages. The issue will be highlighted during the observance of the International Day of the Girl Child on Thursday October 11. Lead organizations are the United Nations Population Fund and Plan Philippines. “Teenage pregnancy is becoming an epidemic. And this is why I continue to say we are failing our young people. We all know that a y...
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27Feb2013TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb 27 (PIA) -- The Entrance and Promotional Examinations for police officers will be conducted on May 26, the National Police Commission 8 said in a statement. According to Paul Cinco, Napolcom-8 information officer, the schedule commences with the On-Line Examination Application Scheduling System (OLEASS) in its website at www.napolcom.gov.ph or at www.napolcom-online.com. For the PNP Entrance Examinations, Cinco said, on-line scheduling will start on March 4-15 while...
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26Sep2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Sept 25 (PIA) -- The Social Security System-Southern Leyte Branch announced this morning, September 25 the extension of Loan Condonation Program payments and application from individual members on October 1, 2012, which was previously set on September 30. SSS OIC- Maasin Branch William P. Penserga said that since September 30 falls on Sunday, SSS, a government-owned and controlled corporation extended it on Monday, the first of October. “Our office will be servi...
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19Mar2013MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Mar 19 (PIA) -- The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration in Region 8 (OWWA-8) announces the opening of application for Education for Development Scholarship Program (EDSP) and Overseas Filipino Workers – Dependent Scholarship Program (OFW-DSP) for the next school year 2013-2014. In a statement released by OWWA-8 through Al M. Peṅaflor, OWWA will award 100 scholarships to qualified dependents of OFW-members who will enroll in any four or five-year baccalaure...
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09Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, February 10 (PIA) -- Even ordinary citizens can determine the intensity of the earthquake they are experiencing with the help of the Phivolcs Earthquake Intensity Scale (PEIS), Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) Director Renato U. Solidum Jr. said in a chance interaction. Dr. Solidum was a guests during the 25th Anniversary celebration of the Philippine Information Agency and it was at lunch when he obligingly answered the questions...
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27Mar2012CATARMAN, Northern Samar, March 27 (PIA) -- The Philippine Armed Forces through the 803rd Brigade based in Catarman, Northern Samar announces the recruitment for officer candidate course (OCC) or officer preparatory course (OPC) and be a candidate to be a military officers as 2nd Lieutenants. Applicants should at least meet the following qualifications: a natural born Filipino citizen, a baccalaureate degree holder, single, never been married and has no legal obligation to support a child at th...
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24Jan2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Jan 24 (PIA) -- NAPOLCOM will be implementing the on-line examination application scheduling system immediately, said NAPOLCOM information officer designate Paul E. Cinco. According to him, those who are interested to take the April 29, 2012 PNP Entrance and Promotional Examinations may now apply through the on-line examination application scheduling system for the period February 1-13, 2012. Cinco said that the applicant may log-on to NAPOL...
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04Sep2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Sept 4 (PIA) -- Since September 1, the Home Development Mutual Fund or Pag-IBIG Fund has started requiring its members to transact with Pag-IBIG using their Membership Identification (MID) numbers. Paulino C. Talacay, manager of Pag-IBIG Fund Tacloban branch, told the Philippine Information Agency that this is part of the Fund’s transition to an enhanced system that will make its services faster and more efficient for its members. Talacay said with this latest developme...
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31Jan2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb. 1 (PIA) -- In line with the government's continuous quest to improve the implementation of health care program to all the people all over the country, the Department of Health (DOH) through its representative in Southern Leyte conducted a Training of Trainers on Community Health Team (CHT) mobilization. The training was set in two batches, Dr. Lisa O. Rich from the Salvacion Oppus Yñiguez Memorial Provincial Hospital ...
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24Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 24 (PIA) –- The synchronized barangay assembly for the first semester of 2012 is set on March 31. DILG Regional Director Pedro Noval Jr., through DILG Information Officer Myles Colasito said that pursuant to Proclamation 260, dated September 30, 2011, the Barangay Assembly for the first semester of 2012 is set on March 31, 2012 as contained in DILG Memorandum Circular No. 2012-29 dated February 10, 2012. During the assembly, every barangay is directed to underta...
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27Sep2012TACLOBAN CITY, Sept 27 (PIA) -- The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) through its Science and Technology Information Institute (STII) in collaboration with the Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (PCHRD) launched an anti-dengue comics using the mother tongue in Eastern Visayas. Aristotle P. Carandang of DOST-STII said that the OL Trap comics written in Filipino and in various dialects including Ilocano, Pampango, Bicol, Waray-waray, Hiligaynon, and Cebuano were dist...
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15May2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, May 15 (PIA) -- The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) will see to it that private companies and government agencies engaged in manpower services such as janitorial and security personnel in behalf of a principal employer would follow the new regulation governing sub-contracting. Under Department Order No. 18-A series of 2011, subcontractors must pay DOLE P25,000 as registration fee and must have a substantial paid-up capital in the amount of P3 million, acco...
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05Feb2012BORONGAN City, Eastern Samar, Feb 5(PIA) –-- Director Renato Solidum, Philippine Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) chief, assured the public here, that no volcanic explosion is expected to happen, contrary to a text message that had been spreading early evening of February 4. Solidum clarified the message through Philippine Information Agency (PIA) regional director Olive Tiu who read the clarification over Radyo ng Bayan DYES early morning about the news scare. The full text of Phi...
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07Mar2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Mar. 7 (PIA) -- Graduation ceremonies for batch 2012 graduates will have an added feature, aside from the usual valedictory address and the message of the guest speaker. The school principal of the public elementary and high school must also deliver the State of the School Address (SOSA), said Genis Murallos, OIC-City Schools Division Superintendent of the Department of Education (DepEd) of this city. In a phone patch intervi...
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01Jan2013TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Jan. 1 (PIA8) -- PhilHealth defers until the end of 2013, the implementation of the increase in premium contributions of the individually paying, Overseas Workers and Employed Sector membership in the National Health Insurance Program. PhilHealth Eastern Visayas Vice President Walter Bacareza said that the PhilHealth Board through its Resolution No. 1677, series of 2012, authorized the deferment, in response to the public clamor for the reconsideration of the implementati...
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27Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb 27 (PIA) -- – The Philippine National Police regional office here is in need of Police Officer 1 (PO1) positions who want to be part of the police force, PNP-8 said in a press release. To encourage more applicants, PNP-8 through its Regional Police Community Relations Division Personnel headed by PSupt Lito T. Bigoy is conducting an information drive in selected colleges and universities in Eastern Visayas. PSupt Bigoy said that the recruitment for the rank ...
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06Jan2013TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Jan 6 (PIA) -- Early into the new year, the city government of Tacloban is hosting a Mega Jobs Fair to facilitate the employment, either local or overseas, of its job-seeking constituents. The Fair, which is the third to be hosted by the Tacloban will be on January 14, Monday, at the Balyuan Convention Center, a statement posted at the official website of the LGU, stated. Featuring professional and skilled-work job openings, the Jobs Fair will be participated by about 20 ...
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08Jun2012TACLOBAN CITY, LEYTE, June 8 (PIA) -- An elementary school teacher based in Tacloban City welcomed the latest development where the Mother Tongue-Based Multi Lingual Education program of the Department of Education (DepEd) will be implemented Lourdes Larraga who teaches first grade at the Remedios Trinidad Romualdez (RTR) Elementary School admits that using MTB-MLE has resulted to interactive discussions inside the classroom as pupils’ understanding of the lessons are easier now. Using the m...
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20Feb2012ORMOC CITY, Leyte, February 20 (PIA) -- It was a triumphant day for IBF Lightweight Champion Johriel Casimero when he was given a hero’s welcome by the City Government of Ormoc and his fellow Ormocanons upon his arrival at his hometown on February 15. After a motorcade around the city which was warmly welcomed by Ormocanons, Casimero paid a courtesy call to Ormoc City Mayor Eric Codilla. The mayor said that the city government will continue to provide “support to all const...
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14Sep2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Sept 14 (PIA) -- PhilHealth – Region 8 bagged the 2nd Galing-Likha Kalusugan Award, after its PhiHealthLINK program was chosen as one of the top three outstanding health innovations in the country. According to the award, PhilHealthLINK is an “important key not only in patient’s availment of hospital services but also in unlocking the financial flow of reimbursements to cash-starved public health facilities, thereby improving overall health system sustainability.” ...
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30Sep2012SAINT BERNARD, Southern Leyte, Sept 30 (PIA) -- Ambassador Guy Ledoux of the Delegation of the European Union to the Philippines commended the collaborative efforts of the local governments, NGOs, and the communities to help save lives and to lessen damages in times of disasters. The EU Ambassador made the pronouncement as guest speaker in the National Conference for Effective Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation Practices on September 28 at Saint Bernard, Southern Leyte. Th...
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18Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb 19 (PIA) -- The Department of Budget and Management expressed optimism that poor local government units will benefit from the “bottom up” budgeting that is being implemented in the 2013 budget preparation process. DBM-8 Regional Director Imelda Laceras said that the “bottom up” budgeting will focus on considering the priorities of 300 to 400 of the poorest municipalities nationwide. This budgeting strategy will benefit Eastern Visayas co...
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23Mar2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Mar. 23 (PIA) -- The Social Security System (SSS) will waive penalties from unpaid loans by delinquent individual member-borrowers. In a press release penned by SSS-Catbalogan branch head Niceta Carretas, starting April 2 until September 30 of this year under SSS Circular Number 2012-005, the agency will be condoning penalties of unpaid loans by member-borrowers that are subject to the conditions and requirements set. For the beneficiaries of deceased member-borrowers...
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07Oct2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Oct 7 (PIA) -- The Food and Nutrition Research Institute of the Department of Science and Technology called on businessmen and would-be entrepreneurs to adopt the FNRI-developed complementary food and nutrition technologies. Ma. Susana Encarnacion, FNRI’s senior science research specialist, made the call during the Nutricomnet media interaction held recently at the Philippine Information Agency-8. By adopting the FNRI-developed complementary food and nutrition technolog...
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16May2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, May 16 (PIA) -- The Department of Interior and Local Government Unit (DILG) through the provincial and municipal Interior Local Government Offices monitors and assists local government units (LGUs) in the enforcement of R.A. 9485, or the Anti-Red Tape Act. City Interior and Local Government Officer (CILGO), Nida de la Cruz of Borongan City said, this ARTA aims for the effective delivery of services to whosoever comes to any office in the municipal building. "With...
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06Sep2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Sept 6 (PIA) -- The Full Disclosure Policy (FDP) Program of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) is making local government executives more careful and judicious in spending government money. This was disclosed by DILG Samar provincial director Marilyn Saboy in an informal conversation with PIA before the start of the Samar Provincial Peace and Order Council (PPOC) meeting Wednesday. “This is a learning opportunity for LGUs, and when they do become ...
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07May2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, May 7 (PIA) -- The results of the 2010 Census of Population and Housing have revealed that the total population of Eastern Visayas is now 4,401,322 as of May 1, 2010. This figure is 13.6 higher than the count in 2010 of 3,610,355 persons, director Raul F. Dones of the National Statistics Office Region 8 said. Dones said that the census counts up to the barangay level were made official with the signing by President Benigno S. Aquino III of Proclamation No. 362 on March 30...
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03Sep2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Sept 3 (PIA) -- The city government of Maasin through the Sangguniang Panglungsod (SP) has approved the implementation of the Essential Health Care Program (EHCP) of the Department of Education (DepEd) in an ordinance numbered 2012-064. “The adaptation of the health program is for children enrolled in the public schools through the provision toothbrushes, fluoride toothpastes, and soaps,” said SP Secretary-Designate Emma P. Rojas. The program promotes proper h...
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02Feb2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Feb 2 (PIA) --The 8th Infantry Division, Philippine Army will be conducting a Registration of Candidate Soldiers on March 5, 2012, Monday at Camp Lukban, Barangay Maulong, Catbalogan City (Samar).Those interested to become soldiers are enjoined to bring the needed papers. Applicants must bring documents like a whole body picture (colored), bio-data with 2 x 2 ID picture, original copy of birth certificate with receipt, original copy of marriage contract of parent...
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24Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 24 (PIA) –- The Department of Interior and Local Government started the regional validation of the nominees for the Lupong Tagapamayapa Incentives Award (LTIA) for 2012 this week. According to DILG Information Officer Myles Colasito, DILG Assistant Regional Director Arnel M. Agabe led the Regional Assessment and Validation Team that visited Barangay Rawis in Calbayog City, one of the nominees last March 22. The team is also set to visit other regional finalists ...
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30Sep2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, Sept 30 (PIA) -- Illegally cut lumber measuring 1,528 board feet were recently confiscated at Barangay Siha, Borongan City in Eastern Samar by Borongan police. Police Director Manuel Cubillo said this is part of the sustained intensified campaign against illegal logging as directed by the new Police Regional Office 8 Director Elmer Soria. Cubillo cited the members of the Borongan City Police Station even as he encouraged the other police stations in the different ...
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04Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, February 4 (PIA) – In order to provide more personalized services to members at point of service, the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) will soon recruit and deploy around 600 registered nurses to government hospitals, nationwide. Miramar Palacio, information officer of PhilHealth Tacloban, informed that under the PhilHealth CARES (PhilHealth Customer Assistance, Relations and Empowerment Staff) project, nurses will be trained to help ...
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04Oct2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Oct. 4 (PIA) -- Almost P 700,000 in livelihood funds were turned over by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to the towns of Saint Bernard and Pintuyan, this province, to be used as capital for its entrepreneur-oriented informal sector constituents. The checks were given on Monday, October 1 at Robinson’s Tacloban by DOLE Assistant Regional Director Cyril Ticao as one of the highlights in the opening of the National Statistics Month celebration. Accor...
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02Jun2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, June 2 (PIA) -- The city government of Maasin was inducted into the Hall of Fame after winning three consecutive years of the Department of Health's (DOH) Red Orchid Awards 2012 for the effective implementation of the 100 percent tobacco-free environment in a ceremony held at the Philippine Trade Training Center in Pasay City, May 29. City Mayor Maloney Samaco during the regular “Maasin City in Action” program over radio station DyDM, Thursday, disclosed that th...
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05Jun2012TACLOBAN CITY, LEYTE, June 5 (PIA) -- The month of June is observed all over the country as National Kidney Month by virtue of Presidential Decree No. 184 issued by then-President Fidel V. Ramos in May of 1993. Leading the nationwide celebration is the National Kidney Institute which is determined to promote awareness and prevention of kidney diseases among Filipinos. In line with this year’s theme “Ikaw at Ako Panalo sa Malusog na Bato,” various activities are being prepared for the nat...
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26Sep2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Sept 26 (PIA) -- President Benigno S. Aquino III is scheduled to visit Isabel, the agro-industrial center in the province of Leyte and in the entire Eastern Visayas Region today. Isabel, a first-class municipality in Leyte, with a population of 38,486 people, is considered the most industrialized town in Eastern Visayas, being the site of Leyte Industrial Development Estate (LIDE). Some of the companies located here are the Philippine Phosphate (Philphos) Fertilizer Cor...
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30Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 30 (PIA) -- The Philippines has been declared by the Earth Hour organizers as a “Hero Country,” Atty. Gia Ibay, National Director of Earth Hour Philippines and World Wildlife Fund for Nature Philippines head for Climate Change and Energy Program, informed the participants of the DOE-WWF seminar on energy efficiency and conservation on March 27 at the Oriental Leyte Hotel in Palo, Leyte. Atty. Ibay said that that the Philippines has been rewarded as such for top...
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02Oct2012NAVAL, Biliran, Oct 2 (PIA) -- The top official of the Philippine National Police (PNP) in Eastern Visayas awarded medals to deserving police officers of the Biliran Provincial Police Office (BPPO). Police Chief Supt. Elmer Ragadio Soria, regional director of PNP-8, pinned the Medalya ng Papuri on Police Chief Insp. Roderico S. Lepasana, chief of police of Naval Police Station, for his achievement in the arrest of persons involved in the alleged illegal drug trade in the municipality of Naval. ...
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23Jun2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, June 23 (PIA) -- The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) said that at least 83 more local government units (LGUs) in Eastern Visayas have qualified to receive the agency’s Seal of Good Housekeeping. DILG Region 8 Director Pedro Noval informed that the said LGUs have been added in the first semester of this year in the list of recipients of the Seal of Good Housekeeping award from the DILG. This makes a total of 118 LGUs in the region that are fully ...
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27Sep2012SOUTHERN LEYTE, Sept 27 (PIA) -- The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration – 8 continues to implement the Skills for Employment Scholarship Program (SESP) in Eastern Visayas. Ryan Gabriel Arcenas from OWWA-8 said the SESP is a scholarship program for those land-based or sea-based OWWA member-overseas Filipino workers, their dependents, or beneficiaries. He said the program offers six-months vocational and a one-year technical course. “The qualified applicant for one-year technical cou...
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05Aug2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Aug 5 (PIA) -- Protective helmets of motorcycle riders should bear the Import Commodity Clearance (ICC) or Product Standards (PS) sticker, the Department of Trade and Industry in Leyte said. DTI-Leyte Director Desiderio P. Belas Jr. said motorcycle riders should present their helmets to DTI for verification if such are listed in the updated list of approved helmet brands with PS or ICC stickers. The inspection should likewise ensure that their helmets are still in good con...
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10Aug2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Aug 10 (PIA) –- The 3rd Chito S. Roño Literary Awards of the Northwest Samar State University is now accepting entries in poetry, short story and play/screenplay in Waray and Inabaknon languages, Harold L. Mercurio. Harold L. Mercurio, contest coordinator, said the contest is open to all writers from Eastern Visayas, those currently residing within the specified geographical area or those born in the region but has since migrated to another place or country. Mercutio s...
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14Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb 14 (PIA) -- Budget and Management Secretary Florencio “Butch” Abad said, in his recent visit here, that national government will begin instituting a “bottom-up” approach to the ongoing 2013 budget preparation process. This, he said, is in line with the present administration’s goal to reduce poverty and achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. Secretary Abad said that budget p...
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17Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb.17(PIA) -- A web-based system for monitoring and tracking agrarian related cases will soon enable litigants to inquire about the status of their cases, an agrarian official said. Director Eliasem Castillo of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) said the online Legal Case Monitoring System (LCMS) also help fast track the resolution of these cases. Under the project, all agrarian-related cases filed at the DAR Adjudication Board (DARAB) or at the Lega...
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09Dec2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Dec. 9 (PIA) -- The Department of Labor and Employment reminded employers to release the 13th month pay to their employers on or before December 24. DOLE Region 8 Director Exequiel Sarcauga issued the reminder in the recently-held Harampang ha PIA. “The 13th month pay is a core labor standard and the DOLE will not compromise on its payment by the employers to their workers,” Director Sarcauga said. Director Sarcauga explained that all businesses, regardless of the n...
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13Nov2012NAVAL, Biliran, Nov 13 (PIA) -- The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) announced the recruitment of additional drug enforcement officers who will help step-up the all-out campaign of the agency in containing the illegal drug activities in the country. Liza Fabi Baoy, information officer, PDEA Regional Office 8, said through email that the hiring of drug enforcement officers has already been given a go-signal by Arturo G. Cacdac Jr, the new PDEA director-general. Baoy said PDEA is hi...
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07May2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, May 7 (PIA) -- An exhibit and roadshow about the Philippine forests are set to open in Southern Leyte. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)-Forest Management Bureau, German Development Cooperation-Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, CoDe REDD Philippines and the provincial government of Southern Leyte will be opening the Color it REDD-Plus Roadshow and “The Philippine Forests: Before and What Now?” exhibits on May ...
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20Sep2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, Sept 20 (PIA) -- To address the threats posed by global crisis, the Climate Change Commission (CCC) identified 10 pilot local government units (LGUs) in the entire country for their project dubbed: Eco-town Framework Building Climate Resilient Communities. An ecotown is a municipality or group of municipalities located within and around the boundaries of critical key biodiversity areas at high risk to the effects of climate change based on climate scenarios done b...
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02Aug2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Aug 2 (PIA) -- The entry of another carrier in the area is a welcome development for Eastern Visayas. On Monday, the Tiger Airways which partnered with the South East Asian Airlines (SEAIR) December of 2010, made its maiden flight from Manila to Tacloban and vice versa. The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines-8 told the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) that Tiger Airways which is managed by SEAIR flies to Tacloban from Manila daily. “Tiger Airways arrives in...
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19Jun2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, June 19 (PIA) – The Department of Agriculture is slated to launch on July 5, 2012, the Matuwid na DAAN project, in response to the call for transparency in government transactions and as a manifestation of its desire to win back the trust and confidence of the Filipino people. DA Regional Executive Director Antonio Gerundio said that officials from the DA Central Office recently visited Eastern Visayas in order to introduce the new project to the DA Regional Field Unit 8 ...
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09Jun2012NAVAL, Biliran, June 9 (PIA) -- Philippine National Police (PNP), under director general Nicanor Bartolome, has embarked on Performance Governance System (GPS) where performance from the highest police officer to the lowest in rank is measured by a scorecard system. Police Chief Superintendent Vicente A. Loot, deputy regional director for administration of the Police Regional Office in Region 8 shared the new PNP thrust to the officers and men of the Biliran Provincial Police Office (BPPO) in t...
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21Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 21 (PIA) -- The Commission on Population (POPCOM), Regional Office 8, in coordination with the Department of Education, Region 8 - Bureau of Secondary Education, conducted the Regional Population Quiz (POPQUIZ) 2012, centered on the theme “Population, Health, Environment & Governance,” on March 17, 2012. This was reported by Melanie B. Chuca-Alberto of POPCOM 8, who said that the winners were: Elgie Nino P. Cartillo of the Le...
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05Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb 5 (PIA) –- Starting April up to September of this year, the Social Security System will implement a six-month loan condonation program for its members who have delinquent loans. This was disclosed by Lilibeth A. Cajucom of SSS Regional Office 8 manager during the recent episode of the Suruswerte ha PIA radio program. According to Cajucom, a member should have at least three monthly contributions within the last six months before...
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03Oct2012Contrary to prevailing belief among Filipinos, breast cancer is curable, but only if detected and treated at an early stage, the Department of Health (DOH) in Eastern Visayas said. This is the reason there is so much interest in breast cancer awareness that October of every year has been designated as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The World Health Organization (WHO) statistics showed that breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women at present, accounting for 16 percent of all for...
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04Feb2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb. 4 (PIA) -- Athletes from Leyte province hauled most of the gold medals in the 17) sporting events during the week-long conduct of the Eastern Visayas Regional Athletic Association (EVRAA) meet held here last week, making it the overall champion of the regional sportsfest. Out of 10 competing teams, Leyte garnered a total of 730.5 points -- 369 points from the elementary level, 361.5 points from the secondary level --&...
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07Oct2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Oct. 7 (PIA) -- Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Regional Director Exequiel Sarcauga advised proprietors of various business establishments here Thursday to explore all avenues at increasing production and sales, rather than pick on the latest wage order due for implementation on October 16. “The traditional notion in going into business was to have profit. But the new concept is to be in business to provide quality goods and services, satisfy customer...
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04Dec2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Dec. 4 (PIA) -- By all indications, super typhoon “Pablo” skirted this city and province, leaving only ordinary rains much like a low pressure area would bring sans strong winds. In its Severe Weather Bulletin number 7 issued 4 a.m. today, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) announced that Pablo has made landfall over Baganga, Davao Oriental, its eye located at 40 kilometers east of the eastern coast of Da...
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09Jun2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, June 8 (PIA) -- Pursuant to Special Orders 144 and 232 issued by Agrarian Reform Secretary Virgilio delos Reyes, 17 reassigned and newly designated officials were installed in the different Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) offices in Eastern Visayas. The implementation of said Special Orders was capped with Regional Director Eliasem Castillo of DAR Region 8 formally installing on Thursday, May 31, Lawyer Sheila Enciso, former Leyte Provincial Agrarian Reform Officer (PA...
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08Feb2012NAVAL, Biliran, Feb 8 (PIA) -- Every government employee, from the President to the lowliest rank and file are obliged to file their Statement of Assets, Liabilities, and Networth or SALN. But recent events have shown that the filling up of the form and information given have engendered more questions than clarifications.The Civil Service Commission in Eastern Visayas is set to conduct a one-day orientation workshop on the revised Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Networth or SALN. &nb...
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14Feb2012ORMOC CITY, Leyte, Feb 14 (PIA) -- The sugar planters in the Ormoc-Kananga Sugar District expressed their commitment to end child labor practice in the sugar industry. OIC regional director Exequiel Sarcauga and Virgilio Doroja Jr., information officer designate of DOLE-8 said that in the Resolution passed by members of the Ormoc–Kananga Mill District Development Council Foundation, Inc., it resolved to provide assistance in the implementation of Republic Act No. 9231 or th...
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23Mar2012NAVAL, Biliran, March 23 (PIA) -- Congressman Rogelio J. Espina of the lone district of Biliran jointly with Biliran Governor Gerardo J. Espina, Jr. formally launched during the Women's Summit on March 21, the health program for the underprivileged Biliranons dubbed, “Karamdaman Mo, Sagot Ko/E-Health Card” program was launched during the Women's Summit on March 21. The beneficiaries of the program, which are marginalized Biliranons, will be determined through the listing from the National H...
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21Nov2012CARIGARA, Leyte, November 21 (PIA) - The Road Board has included the Leyte Second Engineering District as pilot area for their community- based road maintenance program. This was learned from District Engineer Margarita Junia who said that the project will particularly cover road sections along the Palo-Carigara-Ormoc highway since it is the busiest network in the area. “Within the 45 kilometer area, we will identify five kilometers continuous section to put all the improvements that would ...
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25May2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, May 25 (PIA) -- Ten barangays from this city’s rural and urban communities got citations and cash prizes for zealously enforcing the anti-smoking ordinance of the city government in their own territories. For such a faithful enforcement, the 10 winners -- five each from the rural and urban areas -- were selected out of the 70 barangays comprising the city to receive the local version of the Red Orchid award. The awarding rites were held yesterday with Mayor ...
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08May2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, May 8 (PIA) -- The local government of Maydolong confirmed that 146 cases of suspected cases of typhoid fever are now under surveillance. Twenty of these cases have been brought to the provincial hospital due to high fever and diarrhea. The other patients are in their respective houses and are being closely monitored by local health workers. According to Henry Afable, Maydolong mayor, the affected individuals come from the seven poblacion barangays and barangay Ma...
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17May2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, May 17 (PIA) -- Members of the Board of Directors of electric cooperatives can enact policies or resolutions without fear of being overpowered by the National Electrification Administration (NEA), granting the move would be for the overall welfare of the cooperative, according to an expert on the power industry in the country. “The action of NEA was intended primarily as a safety net, so the Board will not be in cohort with the General Manager, or vice-versa, on...
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01Jun2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, May 31 (PIA) -- Private owners of at least 27 schools ordered closed by the Department of Education in Eastern Visayas must have now realized that government is serious in its effort to attain quality education for all. DepEd-8 cited failure to secure government permit as the reason for the 27 privately-owned schools to be inoperable this coming school year. The education department disclosed that as of May 18 the schools without permit are located in different province...
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06May2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, May 6 (PIA) -- The issue on the Quality Assurance Program of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) was tackled during the materials engineer meeting in Calbayog City recently. Material engineers came from all over Eastern Visayas from Leyte, Samar provinces, and Biliran. Material engineers design, produce, and evaluate materials and their usage. They bring valuable expertise in the industry materials. In a press statement released to local media, Nenita ...
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02Mar2013KANANGA, Leyte, March 2 (PIA) -- Five workers were confirmed dead while nine others remain missing after they were buried when a landslide occurred at the vicinity of the road leading to PAD 403 of the EDC Complex at Sitio Upper Mahiao, Barangay Lim-ao, Kananga, Leyte. Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council Chairman Rey Gozon, who immediately rushed to the scene of the accident, said the construction workers of First Balfur/Aradaza Corporation were working on a riprap or slope ...
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04Feb2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Feb 4 (PIA) -- The registration of agricultural workers in Samar is winding up in the bigger towns while those in smaller ones are over. This was disclosed by the National Statistics Office Romeo Gabatbat during the training of manual processor yesterday in Catbalogan City. Hired interviewers in Catbalogan, Calbayog, Sta Rita, Daram and Basey are still concluding up their listing activity, these are the bigger town in Samar with bigger population. These int...
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07Oct2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Oct. 7 (PIA) -- Out of 1,041 beneficiaries of the Special Program for Employment of Students (SPES) in this province, 906 vouchers were submitted to the regional office of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), while the other 135 claims still have pending documents at the local government unit levels. According to Fe Norma Valuis, DOLE provincial head, out of the 906 vouchers processed at the regional office, 904 of them were already issued checks, in wh...
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27Jan2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Jan 27 (PIA) -- In order to allay the fears of local government units (LGUs) regarding the increase in premium contribution rate starting this year, PhilHealth developed a new payment scheme that will make it easier for LGUs to renew their sponsorship of the indigent families’ coverage. Marimar Zabala, information officer of PhilHealth Tacloban, said that early this year, PhilHealth had increased its premium contribution from P1,200 to P2,400 per year....
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04Feb2012ORMOC CITY, Leyte, February 4 (PIA) -- The Leyte Geothermal Production Field (LGPF) and Green Core Geothermal, Inc. (GCGI) had been implementing various programs on pollution prevention and control, and on environmental protection and management. For these green initiatives, both were given the Philippine Environment Partnership Program (PEPP) seal of approval by the Department of Environment and Natral Resources (DENR). In particular, DENR recognized the green initiatives of LGPF...
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04Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb. 4 (PIA) -- Centered on the theme “Isulong Legal na Pag-aampon!” this year’s observance of ‘Adoption Consciousness Week’ will be on February 4-10, to be spearheaded by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Region 8 through its Regional Director Leticia Diokno. Vina P. Aquino of DSWD said that the celebration is observed by virtue of Proclamation Number 72, which declared every first Saturda...
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27Jul2012NAVAL, Biliran, July 27 (PIA) -- The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Land Transportation Office (LTO) in Biliran province are continuously conducting information dissemination campaign to the public on the salient features of the Helmet Law. Jorge D. Modesto, DTI-Biliran Senior Trade and Industry Development specialist and engineer, and Grace M. Carsido, LTO-Biliran provincial director, who were guests at the “Kapihan at Pulong-Pulong ng Bayan,” discussed important provision...
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12Sep2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Sept 12 (PIA) -- The Regional Information Communication Technology Committee (RICTC) of the Regional Development Council in Eastern Visayas is inviting participants to the Logo Design and Tagline Making Contest which runs from September 10 to October 1. RICTC is now known as Eastern Visayas Federation for IT (EVFIT) The purpose of this contest is to design a new logo that shall represent the EVFIT. The competition is open to the general public residing in Eastern Visaya...
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14Feb2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Feb 14 (PIA) --The United States Navy Hospital Ship (USNS) Mercy, one of America’s premier hospital ships is returning to the country to hold another mission in Calbayog City in June 2012. In a press conference at Ciriaco Hotel and Resort held recently, US Navy Lieutenant Commander Sonia Maria Lohmeyer said that the USNS Mercy will serve as the platform for up to 1,000 medical, engineering, technical, and administrative personnel, including several hu...
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19Apr2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, April 19 (PIA) -- Having a transparent conduct in practically all aspects of operation is now the common practice of the Department of Public Works and Highways – Southern Leyte Engineering District (DPWH-SLED). This was emphasized by District Engr. Carlos Veloso in a press conference with local media held at Agas-Agas, Sogod, recently. For one thing, Veloso cited the monthly interaction of his office with members of the local media as a way of sharing updates ...
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27Jan2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Jan 27 (PIA) -- At least five million LGU-sponsored underprivileged families whose health insurance coverage expired last December 31, 2011 can still avail of the health care benefits from PhilHealth-accredited facilities until March 31, 2012. Marimar Zabala, PhilHealth Tacloban information officer, said that this was announced by PhilHealth president and CEO Dr. Eduardo P. Banzon who said the extended validity period will not entail any additional cost to the spon...
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30May2012NAVAL, Biliran, May 30 (PIA) -- The provincial office of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Biliran province deferred and suspended the processing of all requests and applications for tree cutting permits effective on May 21, 2012. Dr. Urbano B. Doydora, OIC-PENRO, DENR-Biliran cited DENR Memorandum dated April 30, 2012 issued by DENR Undersecretary Analiza Rebuelta-Teh as the basis for the deferment and suspension in the processing of all requests and applications ...
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01Oct2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Oct 1 (PIA) -- The United Nations General Assembly in December of 1985 designated the first Monday of October of every year as World Habitat Day. For this year, World Habitat Day is observed on October 1 with the theme, “Changing Cities, Building Opportunities.” Under the theme, the UN Habitat underscores the need to plan cities better because unplanned growth of cities leads to chaotic development and urban sprawl, the UN-Habitat Executive Director Joan Clos said in ...
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01Mar2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, March 1 (PIA) – Calbayog folks may now choose between sea and air transport to bring them to Cebu City. With the first Cebu-Calbayog flight from Cebu to Calbayog and vice versa, Calbayognons and other Samarnons may now enjoy air travel with the first Eagle Trans Asia Airways (ETA) flight via a 29- seater aircraft on March 5, 2012. In a press conference held on Thursday at Ciriaco Hotel and Resort, Calbayog City, Philippine Ambassador to Papua New Guinea ...
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22Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 22 (PIA) -- The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Region 8 has led the Knowledge Management Audit of the Multi-Stakeholders Advisory Committee (MSAC) for Local Governance Regional Resource Center (LGRRC) on Wednesday, March 21. In his presentation, Joel C. Cruz, LGRRC program coordinator, said that the audit is a qualitative but sound and evidence-based evaluation of the organization, community or network’s knowledge management health. ...
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29Jan2012PALO, Leyte, Jan. 29 (PIA) -- The Philippine National Police (PNP) in Eastern Visayas launched the new Crime Incident Reporting System, also known as the “e-Blotter” system, at the Leyte Police Provincial Office, Tacloban City Police Office and at the Ormoc City Police Office. PNP Region 8 Director Arnold Revilla said that the three police offices are the pilot areas in Region 8 for the e-Blotter system which is one of PNP Chief Nicanor Bartolome’s top programs geared ...
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07Oct2012SOGOD, Southern Leyte, Oct 7 (PIA) -- The Department of Agriculture (DA) in Eastern Visayas is encouraging corn farmers to become agri-entrepreneurs. The DA in the region recently hosted a one-day Agri-business Marketing and Investment Forum for Corn attended by corn farmers, local government officials, and other stakeholders. The Forum which was held at the Villa Catalina Manor in Sogod, Southern Leyte, envisioned the transformation of farmers into agri-entrepreneurs who know what and where t...
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17May2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, May 17 (PIA) -- So far, the island municipality of Limasawa has been declared the latest marine protected area (MPA) in the province. According to Lydia Montabon of the Community Environment and Natural Resources Office – Maasin (CENRO- Maasin) secretary and PAWCZMS staff, the Limasawa Marine Protected Area has been considered the youngest among the marine protected areas established in the province. “Limasawa Marine Protected Area is our 'baby' MPA since it ...
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27Mar2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, March 27 (PIA) -- The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) urges everyone to attend the synchronized barangay assembly on March 31 in their own barangays. Ivo Allan Ty of DILG said the people should actively participate to be informed on what the barangay officials are doing. “The usual concerns regarding poor attendance and failure of barangay officials to present the financial report still mar the barangay assemblies,” said Ty. Catbalogan City Bara...
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19Sep2012TACLOBAN CIT,Y Leyte, Sept 19 (PIA) -- The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) Regional Welfare Office-8 director reiterated the Agency’s call for nominees to the search for 2012 Model OFW Family. Norma C. Del Rosario, OWWA director, made the call as the September 21 deadline for submission of nominations is nearing. “The deadline for submission of nominations with documentation in Region 8 will be on September 21, while the schedule for the MOFYA 2012 Regional Awarding is on O...
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12May2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, May 12, (PIA) -–The Commission on Audit in Eastern Visayas has urged local government units (LGUs) to insure their properties after they have discovered that some LGUs have failed to have their properties insured. COA in Eastern Visayas has disclosed that some LGUs have failed to cover government properties with comprehensive fire insurance with the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) in violation of RA 656 and Presidential Degree 245. State Auditors Eva Fulach...
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21May2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, May 21 (PIA) -- The provincial management team of Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan (PAMANA) management team during a provincial peace and order meeting on Friday stressed that PAMANA project billboards should not bear any name nor face of any government official. “Bawal ho talaga (It is really forbidden),” said Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) Program Development Officer 4 for OPAPP-PAMANA Coordinating Unit-Luzon Visayas, Emy Bonifacio. ...
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04Oct2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, Oct 4 (PIA) --After two and a half years of implementation and more than a year of data collection and analysis, the government’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program has been found to be right on track and is indeed achieving its objectives. Department of Social Welfare and Development Regional Office 8 Director Leticia Diokno made the pronouncement in answer to a query of some media persons on whether the DSWD had a gauge to measure the impact of the Pantawid Pamilya Pr...
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16Feb2012NAVAL, Biliran, Feb 16 (PIA) -- The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) here in Biliran province called on all government agencies including the private establishments to hire students who are under the Special Program for Employment of Students (SPES). The employment program is mandated under Republic Act No. 73323 to help poor but deserving student pursue their education by ensuring that they are employed during summer or during Christmas vacation. Under this program, employe...
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10Feb2012by Bong Pedalino MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb. 10 (PIA) -- A love-driven message spoken on the day of hearts February 14 next week served as a perfect timing for the Chief Executive Officer here to express his fifth State of the City Address (SOCA). But love-struck symbols aside, the day, a Tuesday, also coincides with the regular session of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP), the venue where he will pronounce the SOCA, City Mayor Maloney Samaco explained. &ldqu...
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28Apr2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, April 28 (PIA) -- The Philippine Army through the 34th Infantry Battalion (34th IB) held a consultation-dialogue, Legal and Medical/Dental Mission last April 25 at Palapag, Northern Samar to benefit 700 rural folks. In a press statement, Battalion Commander, Lt Col. William Penafiel said that the activity was aimed to reach out, inform and orient the barangays folks of Barangays Capacujan, Osmeña, Bagacay and Bangon, Northern Samar. The army official urged the people t...
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12Feb2012In Eastern Visayas, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is promoting bamboo cultivation by local government units in areas that have been tagged by the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) as landslide-prone. Planting bamboos in potentially loose soil can serve to hold the earth in place with its dense and wide-spreading system of roots. This can limit erosion, particularly the large-scale sheet that can lead to fatalities and damage to properties. &nbs...
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06Mar2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, March 6 (PIA) -- The National Statistics Office (NSO) - Southern Leyte will conduct a two-day consultative workshop for local building officials where the latter can help by giving a construction analysis in the region. In partnership with the Philippine Association of Building Officials (PABO), a consultative workshop will be held on March 13-14, 2012 with the theme, “Improving the Quality of Construction Statistics for Countryside Development,” S...
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07Jan2013TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Jan 7 (PIA) – Good news for "tuba" afficionados. The sin tax law will not affect the price of their favorite alcoholic beverage. The price of tuba or coconut toddy, which is the native wine in Eastern Visayas or in the Visayas, will not be affected by the Sin Tax Reform Law of 2012 which took effect on January 1, 2013. Bureau of Internal Revenue Tacloban Assistant District Revenue Officer Susan Cabello said this is explicitly stated in the Implementing Rules and Regulat...
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30Apr2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, April 30 (PIA) -- Around 4,700 overseas and local job placements will be made available to the jobseekers in Eastern Visayas during the Labor Day Job Fair on May 1 at the Tacloban City Convention Center. Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) regional director Exequiel Sarcauga said that 26 local employers and 12 overseas recruitment agencies will be participating in the Labor Day Job Fair from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Sarcauga said the information came from Marites Z. V...
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04Jul2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, July 4 (PIA) -- Local chief executives in Eastern Visayas were reminded to follow an order banning public officials from placing their names or photos on billboards of government infrastructure projects. DILG regional director Pedro Noval Jr. said that Memorandum Circular No. 2010-101 issued by Secretary Jessie Robredo in September 2010 prohibits the practice of putting up billboards and signages and other information materials bearing the names, initials, or pictures of g...
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21Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb 21 (PIA) -- The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE-8) is using its visitorial power to private establishment to ensure that the workers in the private sector are properly protected under the labor standards. According to Exequel Sarcauga, Regional Director, DOLE-8 during the Harampang Ha PIA and SURUSWERTE Ha PIA simulcast over radio DYVL this day, that social welfare benefits (such as remittance for Pag-ibig, PhilHealth, and SSS contribution) shou...
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06Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Mar 6 (PIA8) -- The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) in Eastern Visayas is set to sign a Memorandum of Agreement with Bontoc, Southern Leyte on March 7 for the establishment of an OFW Help Desk on March 7 in Bontoc, OWWA OIC Evangelina Filamor said. The MOA provides that the OWWA facilitate an orientation of an LGU personnel assigned to man the Desk regarding the programs and services of the agency; the procedures and processes in availing o...
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15Oct2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Oct. 15 (PIA) -- People who have problems with their birth certificates having wrong entries on sex and the dates and months of their birthdays would be pleased to know that Republic Act 10172 intends to do just that, enlisting only the action of the local Civil Registrar to correct the errors, no longer a lengthy, costly legal process through the Courts. This was learned from Mae Almonte, Provincial Statistics Officer of the National Statistics Office (NSO) based ...
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15Jan2013PAWING, Palo, Leyte, Jan 15 (PIA) -- The observance of transparent bidding process by the Department of Public Works and Highways Regional Office in Eastern Visayas has saved P237.76 million for government in 2012. DPWH Region 8 Director Rolando Asis said the savings account for 6.29 percent of the P3.77 billion approved budget for 2012 projects. The savings were generated through the strict leadership of Asis, with the support of the Bids and Awards Committee, said Antonieta R. Lim, DPWH info...
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06Mar2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, March 6 (PIA) -- The Department of Education (DepEd) Memorandum Order 9, addressed to the Bureau Directors, School Division City Superintendents, Heads, Public and Private Elementary and Secondary schools concerning the 2012 Graduation Rites will focus on the theme “Your Gift of Learning, Our Tool for Nation Building." The memo states, “The significance of the occasion should not be overshadowed by pomp and pageantry but should be Sp...
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04Jul2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, July 4 (PIA) -- The Provincial Ordinance declaring July as Persons with Disability (PWDs) Consciousness Month in the province of Leyte will be implemented this year. Patrio Barca, the focal person for persons with disabilities of the Leyte Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office, informed the Philippine Information Agency that various activities had been lined up this July for PWDs. Proposed activities include the PWD Got Talent at Robinsons Place in the afte...
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23May2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, May 23 (PIA) -- A team from TESDA Central Visayas visited TESDA Samar to learn a thing or two in obtaining ISO certification. In a visit last week, Buenafe Sta. Rita, Assistant Regional Director and concurrent TESDA-Cebu provincial director said that they need to learn some kind of benchmarking how it is done to ensure that they pass the July auditing process. Benchmarking involves observing how others compete, learn how an organization’s policies, products, programs ...
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15Feb2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Peb 15 (PIA) -- The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) Catbalogan will augment its forces against illegal activities by hiring additional personnel. PCG will hire 700 new personnel by the end of the year to boost its present strength of 5, 400, according to reports from the coast guard. News reports say that Admiral Wilfredo Tamayo is set to fortify its forces through the additional personnel. “We are now into that direction of guar...
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21Apr2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, April 21 (PIA) - The Office of the Ombudsman – Visayas will be celebrating its 10th Anniversary of the Ehem! Aha! Anti-Corruption Initiative centered on the theme “Kulukabildo sa Kaligdong” (Dialogue on Integrity). It was learned from the Office of the Ombudsman that the program came to life through the strong partnership between the Office of the Ombudsman and the Philippine Province of the Society of Jesus. Since its creation the Ehem! Aha! has grown and captu...
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11Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb. 11 (PIA) -- Two airline companies in the country will start to service Samar Island in two weeks’ time. The first commercial flight at the Guiuan Airport in Eastern Samar will take off on February 20 as the Mid-Sea Express will conduct is maiden flight for the Cebu-Guiuan route on that day. Meanwhile, Eagle Trans Asia Airways Corp. (ETA Air) will serve the Catarman-Cebu and Catarman-Tacloban routes starting February 22. Northern Samar G...
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01Feb2012NAVAL, Biliran, Feb 1 (PIA) -- A revenue officer of the tax collection ageny strongly called on all taxpayers to religiously comply with tax rules and regulations to avoid being penalized and to contribute to the coffers of the government. Sol E. Peñaflor, revenue officer of Naval, in an interview, said Tuesday, January 31, that the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has stepped-up its tax collection campaign in this town through tax mapping and verification, holding of tax s...
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07Jun2012NAVAL, Biliran, June 7 (PIA) -- The provincial health office in Biliran province launched a new anti-smoking campaign that will raise more public awareness on the ill-effects of tobacco smoking to one’s health. Vanessa Veloso, health education and promotion officer of the Biliran Provincial Health Office (BPHO) said in a press statement that the province launched a new tobacco control campaign to warn Biliranons on the dangers of tobacco use. Department of Health (DOH) revealed in a recent ...
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27Jan2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, January 27 (PIA) – The National Grid Corporation (NGCP) issued advisories on the scheduled shutdown of some of its transmission facilities in specific areas of Eastern Visayas. In a statement sent to the Philippine Information Agency, Elmer Cruz, corporate communications officer of NGCP said that on January 28, there will be a power shutdown from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. which will affect the areas under the Northern Samar Electric Cooperative, Inc. (NORSAMELCO). T...
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30Dec2012CARIGARA, Leyte, Dec. 30 (PIA) -- To eliminate red tape, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) - Leyte has fully adopted the financial management improvement practice. District engineer Ma. Margarita Junia said they just recently conducted parallel testing, signaling a full shift from the traditional system to the electronic new government accounting system (e-NGAs) and electronic budget (e-budget). As a result, “our reports can now be done faster, obligations are readily updat...
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18Sep2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Sept 18 (PIA) -- The Office of the Civil Defense in Eastern Visayas has reported a landslide and rockslide in an area of Eastern Samar and Southern Leyte respectively as aftermath of typhoon Karen. OCD regional director Rey Gozon said that the landslide occurred at around 4 a.m., Friday, in Brgy. Mugto, Hinabangan Samar; while the landslide partially damaged the houses of Susemo Dance and Mario Jacla to the cost of P 25,000. No casualty was reported. In a related report, ...
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21Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb. 21 (PIA) -- The Civil Service Commission (CSC) Regional Office No. 8 will be conducting a one-day live-out “Facility Course on Recruitment & Selection for PSB Members” on February 28, 2012 in Tacloban City. The said training, according to Atty. Marilyn E. Taldo of CSC, aims to familiarize members of the Personnel Selection Board (PSB) on the scope and limitations of their functions, and how to build their capability to effectively perform t...
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12Feb2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, February 11 (PIA) –- Three Samar coastal towns united together in order to push for the protection and sustainability of the marine products in Maqueda Bay. The mayors of Tarangnan, Daram and the city of Catbalogan signed a joint Memorandum of Agreement on February 10, 2012 at the Catbalogan City Session Hall, signifying cooperation in implementing local fishery laws pursuant to Republic Act 8550 otherwise known as the Philippine Fisheries Code. Th...
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10Mar2012CATBALOGAN CITY, March 10 (PIA) -- Two business establishments in Samar received the BAGWIS awards Friday, from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). Justmar Marketing from Calbayog City earned the Silver Award while Ticon Marketing form Cataloging City earned the Bronze Award. Bagwis Award is given to business establishments that practice business and uphold the rights and welfare of customers. The Bagwis program is a check and balance for establishment...
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27Mar2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, March 27 (PIA) -- One of the superstores in Maasin City pledges to discontinue selling cigarettes especially when they are located within the 100-meters radius from an elementary school. “I have talked with Dr. Edward Gaisano, the Maasin Hiper (Gaisano) owner and he agreed to stop selling cigarettes at the superstore," a Maasin City Mayor Maloney Samaco said. The incessant campaign to prohibit smoking in public places had now reached newly established superst...
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19Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb 19 (PIA) -- The Philippine Postal Corporation has merged its Central and Eastern Visayas Regional offices into one which is now called as the CEV Region with only one area director in the person of Area Director Robert S. Mondonedo. This was learned from Philpost Tacloban’s chief operations officer, Cirio Oscar Espos, during the recently held Harampang Ha PIA media forum held at the PIA Regional Office. The move is part of the Philp...
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04Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 4 (PIA) -- To aid their campaign in optimizing tax collection, the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), Regional Office -08 chose recently an IEC info-material from 11 entries in audio visual presentations (AVP). With the theme, “I love Philippine, I pay taxes,” 11 entries were presented for final judging after they had been chosen from so many, in a pre-judging session days before. The Infomercial w...
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28Jan2013CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Jan. 28 (PIA) -- Health authorities in Samar may yet face another round of Chikungunya fever infection in Samar as some 500 Villareal folks have been affected which rendered the victims unproductive for a week. Dr. Antonio Tirazona, Department of Health (DOH) Representative in Samar reported this during the first Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Council (PDRRC) meeting, this morning. He declared that they have received reports that Chikungunya has threatened the muni...
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09Mar2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, March 9 (PIA) -- At least six local chief executives here have expressed support to R.A. 9344 or the Juvenile Justice Welfare Act (JJWA) of 2006. They are Mayors Nenita Alder (Balangkayan), Carmelita Sumayod (Salcedo), Mayor Edgar Boco (Hernani) and the representatives of Llorente and Oras towns and Borongan city who joined in yesterday’s forum on JJWA and articulated their support. Earlier in the forum, Atty. Tricia Cla...
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15Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb 15 (PIA) -- The Department of Budget and Management stated that at least 55 poor Eastern Visayas local government units (LGUs) are among the 600 focus areas in the implementation of the bottom-up budgeting, an approach that will incorporate the budget of priority requirements of LGUs. DBM regional director Imelda Laceras said that the 55 poor town and cities were identified by the Cabinet’s Human Development and Poverty Reduction (HDPR) cluster....
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27Feb2012NAVAL, Biliran, Feb 27 -- The Civil Service Commission (CSC) here in Eastern Visayas gave the green light to the local government unit (LGU) of Naval to take final action on appointments in the hiring of its personnel. This came after CSC Regional Office No. 8 through regional director David E. Cabanag Jr, Mayor Susan V. Parilla, and Vice-Mayor Redentor V. Villordon signed on February 24 a Memorandum of Commitment stipulating the granting of both local officials the ca...
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08Jan2013BORONGAN CITY, EASTERN SAMAR, January 8(PIA) – Attorney Butz Beato, COMELEC Provincial Election Supervisor here, informed that election campaign for the 2012 midterm election begins January 13 and ends on June 12, 2013. Relative to this, he reminded all concerns of the prohibited acts while the election period is in effect. First, he said that it is prohibited to alter precinct territories. Second, there shall be no movement/transfer of civil servants or government employees during this pe...
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30May2012NAVAL, Biliran, May 30 (PIA) -- It’s another great honor for the local government unit (LGU) of Naval as it won for the second time the Department of Health (DOH) Red Orchid Award for 2012. This was revealed by Dr. Gabby Velasquez, a medical doctor by profession and the Chairman of the Committee on Health of the Sangguniang Bayan (SB) of Naval town in a text message on Tuesday, May 29, to the Philippine Information Agency (PIA)-Biliran. He said, the achievement of LGU-Naval in the successfu...
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12Nov2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Nov 12 (PIA) -- Leyte-based families of Overseas Filipino Workers are now able to communicate with their loved ones abroad with the recent launching of the Overseas World Wide Access through Information and Communication Online Technology project or OWWA-ICOT at the Leyte SMED Center at the Leyte capitol g. The most common cause of worry of families with OFW family member is their not being able to contact their kin who is working abroad especially when the OFW is in conf...
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04May2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, May (4) -- City Commission on Election Officer, Sebastian Caspe, revealed that the Satellite Registration for far-flung barangays is on-going in order to serve those who are financially constrained to travel to the town for the said purpose. Caspe who is “Baste” to friends reported that they had already finished serving the barangays of Canyupay, Bagong Baryo, and Pinanag-an, all reachable by motorboats where they also stayed for days to fully serve the voters ...
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16Feb2012CATBALOGAN CITY. Samar, Feb 16 (PIA) -- The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) offers non stop-scholarship under the Private Education Students Financial Assistance (PESFA). TESDA has partner institutions nationwide that implement enterprise-based and community-based training programs. It also has a network of 125 TESDA Technology Institutes composed of schools and training centers it administers all over the country. Accor...
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03Apr2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, April 3 (PIA) -- As the agency tasked with regulating the minerals industry in Eastern Visayas, the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) in the region has taken a strict stand on the imposition of sanctions against permit holders on mineral production underreporting production. MGB Regional Director Roger A. De Dios said the agency’s plan to impose severe sanctions and penalties as required by law to holders of non-metallic permits including sand and gravel contractors. D...
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08Jun2012NAVAL, Biliran, June 8 (PIA) -- "The command of the Biliran Police Provincial Office (BPPO) will be characterized by simplicity," Police Senior Superintendent Felix A. Diloy said, in his assumption speech as the new provincial director of the provincial police office in Biliran. Diloy assumed office in a simple turn-over ceremony, held Thursday, at the BPPO in Barangay Larrazabal, Naval. He replaced Police Senior Superintendent Roel. B. Acidre who served as BPPO provincial director for three m...
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20Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 20 (PIA) -- The Deutsche Geseilschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit better known as GIZ has poured in some P12 million for projects of identified local government units (LGUs) in Leyte Island, under the Enhancement of Food Security (EFOS)Project in the Visayas, a component of the Environment and Rural Development Program of GIZ. In a document furnished by GIZ, GIZ though fund sources from the European Union poured in a total of P12, 840,193 w...
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22Jun2012PALO, Leyte, June 22 (PIA) -- The celebration of the 114th anniversary of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) tomorrow will revolve around PNoy's "Daang Matuwid" using the theme “DPWH: Katiwaliaan ay Labanan, Para sa Bayan.” said that as per directive of Public Works Secretary Rogelio Singson, the theme is guided by President Benigno S. Aquino III’s “tuwid na daan.” “On the occasion of our anniversary, may we be guided by President Benigno S. Aquino’s policy of ...
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07Apr2011TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Apr 7 (PIA) – In efforts to provide continuous service to its clientele, the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) region 8 is now implementing the no-lunch-break policy, per Memorandum No. 8 series of 2011, as issued by the Civil Service Commission (CSC). In an interview with the Regional Director Eliasem Castillo, he said that all the departments in his office are now open for business even during lunchtime which is 12 noon to 1:00 in the afternoon, Mondays thr...
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03Feb2012PAWING, Palo, Leyte, Feb 3 (PIA) -- The signing recently of a memorandum of agreement between the National Food Authority and the provincial government of Leyte, will ensure an increase in palay procurement this year. Signed by NFA 8 regional manager Alan Borja and Leyte Governor Carlos Jericho L. Petilla, said MOA allows the NFA to procure the palay deliveries collected by LGU-Leyte from farmers who have availed of the Increased Crop Output thru Rural Infrastructure and Com...
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23Sep2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Sept 23 (PIA) -- Fully convinced of the significant contribution of the Youth Enterprise Support program to lessen the percentage of the unemployed, Fe A. Estrella, head of the DOLE Samar Field Office recently conducted two YES orientation activities to students and administrators of two Samar universities. The first orientation was conducted at the Samar State University in Catbalogan City on September 12 and the Northwest Samar State University in Calbayog City on Septe...
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12Apr2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, April 12 (PIA) -- The Office of the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC)-8 through its Regional Director German Palayab signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with Southern Leyte Governor Damian G. Mercado to bring their services closer to Southern Leyteños. The MOA signing was held at the governor’s office here this morning, April 11. “Both parties need to gain strength and joint benefits from its creative cooperation and collaboration towards extending ...
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13Mar2012CATARMAN, Northern Samar, March 13 (PIA) -- The Department of Public Works and Highways- Northern Samar First Engineering District (DPWH-NSFED) and the Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers (PICE), Northern Samar Chapter joined forces in pushing for transparency through a regular media forum, a venue for them to disseminate programs, projects, and activities and clarify issues and concerns particularly those concerns lodged in the local radio and print outlets. In his open...
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16Apr2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Apr 16 (PIA) –- "It is in knowledge that one will be successful,” Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) 8 Director German Palayab said during a Memorandum of Agreement signing ceremony, Wednesday, April 11, with the provincial government. Director Palayab revealed that the secret of economic success is an education-related activity. “With the MOA signing between PRC and the province of Southern Leyte, economic activities in the province will improve,” he ...
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29Sep2012TACLOBAN CITY, Sept 29 (PIA) -- The Association of Government Information Officers (AGIO) in region 8 will be tapped by the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) to assist in communicating the Philippine Development Plan (PDP) 2011-2016 to all sectors in their areas of assignment. The request was articulated by Jose Ryan Babon, project manager of the Communication Advocacy Program (CAP)-Special Project (SP) of NEDA central office during the day-long PDP dialogue with AGIO-8 on Friday,...
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18Mar2012ORMOC CITY, Leyte, March 18 (PIA) -- Ormoc is currently waging a battle against the Crown of Thorns starfish, locally known of dap-marine invertebrates that feed on corals which are marine sanctuaries and kills corals. The outbreak of COTS in Ormoc was confirmed recently after the Animal Production and Fisheries Division of the City Agricultural Services Office collected almost 400 pieces of COTS after just two hours of diving in more or less 200 square meters inside the fish sanc...
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30May2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, May 30 (PIA) -- The St. Bernard Municipal Tourism Office in this city initiated a kite-flying competition at the Lawigan River Ground Zero View Park. The Lawigan River Ground Zero View Park is the official viewing area for the visitors who want to take a look at the Guinsaugon ground zero safely. It also serves as the venue to accommodate all activities related to its commemorations. In 2006, the whole village of Guinsaugon in St. Bernard was covered with mud a...
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05Oct2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Oct 5 (PIA) -- As the nation celebrates National Cooperative Month this October, millionaire cooperatives in Samar were recognized for their invaluable assistance to micro businesses in Samar. Dr. Asela Cabanas, cooperative development specialist in Samar, cited the Samar Multi-Purpose Cooperative (Samico) as the leading co-op in Samar with assets of P 238 million. She added that Samico is now in Regions 6, 7 and 8 and engages in different types of business. Samico ex...
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10Mar2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Mar. 11 (PIA) -- Samar governor Sharee Ann Tan on Friday called on cooperation from all the government agencies as she gave her message on the 2nd day of the training workshop on Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan (PAMANA) of government agencies for peace and development projects at the Rolet Hotel, Catbalogan City. Tan asked the other agencies who participated in the workshop to focus on road networks. “Our military men, and other government agencies ...
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01Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, Feb 1 (PIA) -- It pays to follow the straight but narrow path by being transparent in using public funds and by being accountable in all government transactions. For this, a growing number of local government units (LGUs) are being given the stamp of Seal Of Good Housekeeping by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the Department of Budget and Management (DBM). So far, a total of P170.6 million will be released to 35 LGUs&n...
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14Oct2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Oct 14 (PIA) -- The barangays in Eastern Visayas are ready for the nationwide synchronized barangay assembly on October 14, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) - 8 said. Tarpaulins announcing the important event could be seen hanging in the various barangay halls, programs have been printed, the venues are well-prepared, what waits to be seen is the participation of barangay residents, DILG-8 Regional Director Pedro A. Noval Jr. told the Philippine ...
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08Oct2012CAMP SEC. RUPERTO K. KANGLEON, Palo, Leyte, Oct 8 (PIA) -- Government security measures are in place to protect and ensure the safety of visiting foreign nationals and domestic tourists in Eastern Visayas, Police Region 8 Director Elmer R. Soria said. “Peace and order is the key to a successful tourism industry as safety and security of visitors is a primary concern of tourists when travelling to tourist destinations," said Soria during the activation of the Tacloban Tourist Police Unit on...
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05Sep2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Sept 5 (PIA) -- Seventy-nine residents of Barangay 60-A in Tacloban City are ready to start their small businesses as they have recently been given starter kits and training by the Department of Labor and Employment in partnership with the An Waray Partylist and the Eastern Visayas State University. Virgilio Doroja Jr., DOLE information officer, said that the starter kits included tools and equipment like sewing machines for those who trained in dressmaking and sewing. C...
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06Dec2012GOV’T CENTER, Palo, Leyte, Dec 6 (PIA) -- Citizens, civil society organizations, and other entities can now voice out their complaints and concerns through government’s central helpline, dubbed Contact Center ng Bayan (CCB), by sending a text message to 090-888-16565. Civil Service Commission-Region 8 Director Marilyn Taldo said the use of SMS started December 3, as part of the Commission’s plan to make it easier and more convenient for the public to complain about inefficiency, discourt...
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25Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Mar. 25 (PIA) -- Most of Eastern Visayas local government units (LGUs) have submitted to the government’s disclosure policies. Through the intensified efforts of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Regional Management and field officers, 121 of the 149 local government units in Eastern Visayas have fully complied with the government’s Full Disclosure Policy (FDP). DILG Region 8 director Pedro Noval Jr. through Myles Colasito, DILG information offi...
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19Mar2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Mar. 19 (PIA) -- The Social Security System (SSS) has launched another program that seeks to waive the penalty arising from unpaid loans incurred by its delinquent individual members. Starting April 2 until September 30 this year, SSS, a government-owned-and-controlled corporation (GOCC) serving the pension and retirement needs, among others, of workers in the private sector, will be condoning penalties on loans of its members subject to four spe...
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01Feb2012BORONGAN City, Eastern Samar, Feb 1(PIA) -- This mother feels helpless whenever she hears of parents or students in dire need of financial assistance in connection with education, so it was a great relief to her when she learned that their mayor, Fe Abunda, is hiring students and out-of-school youths for a certain project. Primitiva Cantos, mother of two college students, who was overwhelmed by the news that Mayor Fe Abunda is set to hire students and out-of-school youths (OSY) as weeke...
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13Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 14 (PIA) -- The Department of Labor and Employment spearheaded on March 13 the creation of the Regional Tripartite Monitoring Board (RTMB) in Eastern Visayas Region. DOLE Regional Director Exequiel R. Sarcauga disclosed that the primary task of the Board is to monitor compliance to International Labor Standards, particularly International Labor Organization Convention No. 87 on the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize. Sar...
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22Jun2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, June 22 (PIA) -- The Department of Agriculture (DA) has formulated its agency’s response for the administration’s call for transparency in government transactions by means of a web portal. In his visit to the DA Regional Field Unit in Eastern Visayas in June 7, Director Gary Glenn Fantastico of the DA-Information Technology Center for Agriculture and Fisheries (ITCAF), together with ITCAF Consultant Carlo Cachuela, introduced to the DA-8 management the “Matuwid na Da...
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07Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 7 (PIA) -- The Professional Regulations Commission is set to forge partnerships with local government units. This is in pursuit of its mandate in securing for the nation a reliable, trustworthy and progressive system of developing professionals. PRC Chairperson Teresita R. Manzala is scheduled to sign a Memorandum of Agreement with the provincial governors of Leyte, Southern Leyte, Biliran, Samar, Northern Samar, and Eastern Samar; the city mayors of...
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14Mar2012CATARMAN, Northern Samar, March 14 (PIA) -- Following the Civil Service Commission’s (CSC) mandate supporting the President’s agenda to strengthen the bureaucracy, the Civil Service Commission has opened the Search for Outstanding Public Officials and Employees all over the country, announced Director Emmanuel Fuentes of CSC Northern Samar in “Huruhimangraw sa Panginudto,” a PIA radio program. The CSC is encouraging the public to nominate deserving pu...
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03Sep2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Sept 3 (PIA) -- The regular maintenance funds of district engineering offices can take care of the minor damages to infrastructure brought about by the intensity 7 earthquake that jolted Eastern Visayas on the evening of August 31. This was disclosed by Department of Public Works and Highways Region 8 Director Rolando Asis who said the DPWH, in coordination with the Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers (PICE), continues to conduct rapid assessment of all buildings in th...
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27Apr2012NAVAL, Biliran, April 27 (PIA) -- As local and foreign tourists flock to famous beach resorts in the country to cool themselves this summer, a newly developed beach resort located southwest in the island municipality of Maripipi particularly in Sambawan islets is now open to tourists. Mayor Uldarico P. Macorol of Maripipi one of the eight towns in Biliran province informed PIA in an interview that a private developer named Nestor C. Macorol, a Baptist church leader who is engaged in the busin...
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19Sep2012GOVERNMENT CENTER, Palo, Leyte, Sept 19 (PIA) -- The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) recently raised concern over the use by substance abusers and pushers, of “mephentermine” as a potential substitute for methamphetamine hydrochloride. Julius Navales, PDEA region 8 director, quoted PDEA Director General Undersecretary Jose S. Guttierrez, Jr, who said that mephentermine is a stimulant and has similar effects and characteristics with that of shabu but that it is by far cheaper. ...
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12Jun2012PALO, LEYTE, June 12 PIA) –- Seven local government units in Eastern Visayas received Performance Challenge Fund of P1 million each from Secretary Jesse M. Robredo June 11, during the Tapatan on Disaster Preparedness and Management in Eastern Visayas held at the DPWH Multi-Purpose Hall. The local government units are recipients of the second round of assessment for the Seal of Good Housekeeping in Easterm Visayas, DILG Director Pedro Noval, Jr., informed. Noval identified the LGUs as Alang-A...
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24Sep2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Sept 24 (PIA) -- Allow officials and employees to go home early on September 24, Monday, to be able to join their families for dinner on Famealy Day, so indicated in Memorandum Circular No. 2012-152 of the Department of Interior and Local Government. DILG Director Pedro Noval Jr. said this is pursuant to Presidential Proclamation No. 326 dated January 26, 2012, “Declaring the Fourth Monday of September of Every Year as 'Kainang Pamilya Mahalaga' Day" amending Proclamat...
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09May2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, May 9 (PIA) -- The quick action of the Department of Health (DOH) in Eastern Visayas in addressing the typhoid fever outbreak in Maydolong, Eastern Samar stopped the disease from spreading further. DOH-8 regional director Jaime Bernadas reported that the office quickly sent a team to the town where chlorine was provided in the treatment of contaminated drinking water source. Stricken residents were also treated by the team. Residents from the 12 barangays of the town were...
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06Jul2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, July 6 (PIA) -- “The important tangible outputs of being in the government service is performance.” This is how Department of Health (DOH)-representative to Southern Leyte underscored the importance of performance in government. Emphasizing that the achievement of the different programs of the government depends on the performance of every government employee, Dr. Feliciano John Matibag of the DOH here, discussed the topic on how to respond to the immediate nee...
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21Aug2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, August 21 (PIA) -- The agency that will implement the Secondary National Road Project is not only concerned with the infrastructure that it will soon start to make travel to Eastern Samar faster and comfortable. It is also bent in making sure that Samarnons do not fall prey to human trafficking. The Millennium Challenge Account-Philippines (MCA-P), in charge of the rehabilitation and repair of the 222 kilometer-road that traverses Samar to Eastern Samar has signed a m...
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29Sep2012CARIGARA, Leyte, Sept 29 (PIA) – The Department of Public Works and Highways in Leyte is set to demolish or remove at least 11,000 illegal structures along the road right-of-way limit of national highways. Ma. Margarita C. Junia of DPWH said this will be implemented to the fullest by a team who will rid road of way free from obstructions. “The six-man team will solely focus on demolition of illegal structures. It seems that people just disregard our notices. We should not wait for erring r...
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20Jan2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Jan 20 (PIA) -- To entice councilors to work better and carry on their commitment to public service, the Philippine Councilors’ League (PCL) is launching the search for the 10 Most Outstanding Councilors of the Philippines, said PCL president Alma Moreno-Salic and PCL chair Alan Zulueta during the PCL Convention in Samar. Winners will get P1-million-worth of projects at the end of their term from Senator Edgardo Angara, a supporter of the search. &nb...
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14Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 14 (2012) -- The Leyte First Engineering District of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), Region 8 conducted inspection surveys on projects currently being implemented in the municipalities of Tanauan and Alangalang, Leyte. It was bared in a report from the Leyte First Engineering District that to date, there is an on-going repair and improvement project of the multi-purpose building in Barangay San Miguel and Brgy. Malaguicay, Tanauan, L...
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22Jun2012ORMOC CITY, Leyte, June 22 (PIA) -- President Benigno S. Aquino III’s anti-corruption campaign was highlighted during the recent seminar for government executives at Ormoc City Multi-purpose Hall. Dubbed as “PNoy’s Priority Key Result Areas (KRAs): Anti-corruption and Transparent, Accountable, and Participatory Governance,” the seminar was conducted by the Region Eight Administrators League (REAL) in coordination with Ormoc City. REAL is committed towards a transparent, accountable a...
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25Oct2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Oct. 25 (PIA) -- The Civil Service Commission (CSC)-Southern Leyte Office announces the establishment of the Contact Center ng Bayan 1-6565 as the government’s main help desk for the public to air concerns on any complaints about the quality and delivery of government services. CSC Provincial Director Lysander Navales said the CCB was conceived through CSC Memorandum Circular No. 15 and will be initially implemented in six agencies such as the National Computer...
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08Feb2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Feb 8 (PIA) -- The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) first engineering district based in Calbayog City, urged the contractors to abide by the deadline set by the department. In a statement by district Engineer Virgilio Eduarte, he echoed the directive of Secretary Rogelio Singson to finish the projects on or before September 30, 2012. On January 24, 2012, DPWH held a contractors’ dialogue with DPWH where he briefed the contractors on the new systems...
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14Mar2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, March 14 (PIA) -- At least for four local government units( LGUs) that won the Seal of Good Housekeeping, the Local Government Support Fund (LGSF) will implement the chosen infrastructure projects in their respective areas. According to the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Provincial staff, LGOO IV Loren Abrau- Aniciete, the four local government units are: Maasin City and Hinunangan, Hinundayan and Macrohon municipalities. Anici...
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27May2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, May 27 (PIA) -- The World Environmental Day celebration on June 5 will put on center stage the green economy aimed to secure renewed political commitment for sustainable development, assess the progress to date in the implementation of the outcomes of the major summits on sustainable development, and address new and emerging challenges. The Environmental Management Bureau in Eastern Visayas released the information stressing that focus of the celebration will be on the ins...
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03Sep2012PALO, Leyte, Sept 3 (PIA) -- The Philippine National Police (PNP) under the leadership of Regional Director Elmer R. Soria batted for heightened community commitment, participation and partnerships in crime prevention during the 18th National Crime Prevention week. Soria said that a much-needed focus on lasting partnerships and more active participation from the partners in the community must be done. “Everybody must be encouraged to dedicate themselves in crime prevention,” Soria said add...
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21Feb2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb. 21 (PIA) -- The Civil Service Commission-Southern Leyte Provincial Office will conduct an orientation-workshop on the Revised Statement of Assets, Liabilites and Networth (SALN) in two separate dates, Lysander G. Navales CSC Director II informed PIA-Maasin, Monday. CSC-Southern Leyte set the dates for the said activity on February 23, 2012 for the Pacific area and Pana-on Island from the municipality of Silago to San Ricardo and Sogod Bay area from Sogod ...
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03Jan2013BORONGAN CITY, EASTERN SAMAR, January 3(PIA) –The Office of the City Local Registrar, thru its Chief Ms. Marilou A. Alido informed that they are now implementing R.A. 10172, “An Act Further Authorizing the City or Municipal Civil Registrar or the Consul General to Correct Clerical or Typographical Errors in the Day and Month in the Date of Birth or Sex of a Person Appearing in the Civil Register Without Need of a Judicial Order Amending for this Purpose Republic Act Numbered Ninety Forty-Ei...
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26Dec2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, December 26 (PIA) – A very much welcome gift this Christmas Season is the Air Passenger Bill of Rights which took effect of December 22, 2012, thanks to the Joint Administrative Order No. 1 between the Department of Transportation and Communication and the Department of Trade and Industry. As provided for by the Joint Administrative Order, the Bill of Rights for Air Passengers recognizes the passenger’s right to be provided with accurate information; the right to recei...
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31Jul2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, July 31 (PIA) -- The Sandiganbayan’s Fifth Division has meted out a 90-day suspension to Borongan City vice Mayor Fidel Anacta, Jr in connection with the graft case filed against him last August 23, 2003 by then Borongan Sanguniang Kabataan Chairman Hector Apita. Lydia Loyola, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) provincial director for Eastern Samar, served the suspension order to Anacta last Friday morning at the vice mayor’s office. The suspended ...
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28Nov2012NAVAL, Biliran, Nov 28 (PIA) -- A huge chunk of foreign investment amounting $180 million or roughly P7.38 billion will be poured in the island province of Biliran with the start of the 49 megawatts Biliran geothermal project in April 2013. “The amount will be downloaded in a Singapore bank,” Nilo A. Apuada, the site manager of Orka Energy Philippines Inc assured the members of the Sangguniang Bayan (SB) of Naval, barangay officials, heads of concerned agencies, and the head of a people...
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20Jan2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Jan 19 (PIA) –- To entice councilors to work better and espouse their commitment to public service, the Philippine Councilors’ League (PCL), is seeking for 10 Most Outstanding Councilors of the Philippines, announced by the PCL president Alma Moreno-Salic during the PCL Convention in Samar. The winners, at the end of their term, will get P1-million of projects from Senator Edgardo Angara. An added and the more salient part of the incentive ...
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22May2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, May 22 (PIA) -- No one is above the law. “The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in the province will campaign for the local business establishments to comply with the labor standards of the country soon after the Technical Assistance Visit (TAV) orientation scheduled on May 25, 2012 in Maasin City shall be conducted," DOLE provincial head Fe Norma Valuis disclosed. Every local business establishment whether employing one or less than...
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29Feb2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Feb 28 (PIA) --The Technical Education Skills Development Authority (TESDA)-Samar received the International Standardization Organization (ISO) certificate last week at the central office. According to Cleta Omega, provincial director, they received the certificate during their management conference. “This is the product of a long and arduous process,” Omega told PIA. This means that TESDA Samar passed the international standard s...
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20Nov2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, November 20 (PIA) – The Department of Agriculture (DA) Region 8 approved and allocated P500,000 for an Agriculture and Fishery Council Consultative Meeting cum Capability-building through the assistance of the Agricultural Training Institute Regional Training Center (ATI-RTC) led by Center Director Paulino T. Cabahit. Regional Agriculture and Fishery Council chairman Edgardo Codilla lauded the Department of Agriculture Region 8 headed by Regional Executive Director Antoni...
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21Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 21 (PIA) -- March 22, 2012 marks the ceremonial project opening of the Leyte Provincial Freshwater Fish Hatchery in Barangay Libongao in Kananga town, a project which is aimed at enhancing food security in the province of Leyte. The Hatchery is a province-wide approach to encourage farmers to diversify in aquaculture production in order to augment the income of poor households while securing at the same time food availability and quality in the province. Expecte...
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29Nov2012CATARMAN, Northern Samar, Nov.29 (PIA) -- The local DPWH office called for a monthly regular media forum for transparency. The move is in pursuit of the Departments’ mission in providing and managing quality infrastructure facilities and services responsive to the needs of the people. In a media forum Wednesday, November 28, issues tackled included road projects, parameters on the road-right of-way, tree planting activities to counter climate change, road widening, and new policies and di...
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12Jun2012PALO, LEYTE, June 12 (PIA) -- Interior and Local Government secretary Jesse M. Robredo launched in Palo, Leyte, the Seal of Disaster Preparedness which aims to recognize the performance and efforts of local governments in institutionalizing disaster preparedness. Speaking before local government executives, heads of government offices, non-government organizations and leaders of civil society during the Tapatan on Disaster Preparation and Management summit on June 11at the DPWH Multi-Purpose Ha...
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04Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 5 (PIA) -- The Professional Regulations Commission is set to forge partnership with local government units (LGUs) to develop professionals whose personal integrity and spiritual values are solid and respected, whose competencies are globally competitive, and whose commitment to serve the nation is strong and steadfast. In this connection, PRC Chairperson Teresita R. Manzala is scheduled to sign a Memorandum of Agreement with the provincial governors of Leyte, Southe...
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21Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb. 21 (PIA) -- The Department of Public Works & Highways (DPWH), 4th Leyte Engineering District (LED) through its District Engineer Lino Francisco C. Gonzalez is very vigilant in the conduct of inspection on the various projects currently being undertaken by his office. Gonzalez said that among the projects that he is inspecting is the on-going Ormoc-Lake Imelda Road, which leads to Lake Imelda, a tourist spot in Ormoc City. Gonzalez had orde...
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13Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 13 (PIA) -- The ban on the use of plastics and styrofoam as food containers at the Leyte provincial government offices is now in effect. An officer of the Provincial Association of Government Employees (PAGE) told the Philippine Information Agency that the resolution authored by the Sanggunian Panlalawigan Committee on Environment and Natural Resources Chairman Roque Tiu and unanimously passed, took effect on March 1, 2012. This was confirmed ...
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17Aug2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, August 17 (PIA) -- The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) provincial office declared that all local government units (LGUs) in Southern Leyte passed the Seal of Good Housekeeping (SGH), as of February 2012. According to Loren Abrau-Aneciete, Local Government Operations officer, who is also the designated Public Information Officer, “All of the 18 municipalities and the city of Maasin in the province are already 100 percent Seal of Good Housekeep...
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16Jan2013Tacloban City, January 16 (PIA) - Bringing government services closer to the people, the Home Development Mutual Fund (HDMF) intends to open field offices, branches across the region. According to Pag-Ibig Information Officer Kevin Sosiona during the Info Fest initiated by Philippine Information Agency – 8 Regional Director Erlinda Olivia P. Tiu and hosted during the weekly Harampang (Kapihan) ha PIA at PIA Regional Office – 8 in Tacloban City, “ definitely Ormoc and Calbayog Pag-Ib...
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07Nov2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Nov 7 (PIA) -- The local government of Paranas is proud to present its accomplishments and major development projects in 2012. One is the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Kalahi-Cidss program under the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) with a total of 24.8 million. According to Mayor Felix Babalcon, P24.8 million was used in the 30 subprojects for 33 beneficiary barangays in Paranas. While P19.7 million came from MCC, P5.1 million came from the...
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15Jun2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, June 15 (PIA) -- The recently concluded “Tapatan on Disaster Preparedness” culminated with the signing of commitment on Disaster Preparedness and Climate Change Adaptation Program (DPCCA) of government. Jesse Robredo, secretary of the Department of the Interior and Local Government, led the signing of the pledge among various officials of local government units (LGUs) in Eastern Visayas. The pledge of commitment was a sign of assurance where the signatories are expect...
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24Dec2012CAMP RUPERTO KANGLEON, Palo, Leyte, Dec 24 (PIA) – The Eastern Visayas Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council called on local government units and the public to heed weather advisories and to take geohazard maps seriously. Office of Civil Defense Director Rey Gozon made the call as Pagasa has spotted and is currently monitoring a Low Pressure Area off Eastern Mindanao. The LPA is expected to bring moderate to heavy rains (5.0 - 15.0 mm/hr) and thunderstorms in Bicol Region...
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11Sep2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Sept 11 (PIA) -- The presence of active Philippine Fault zone and lineaments have put 29 municipalities in Eastern Visayas as high risk to earthquakes. This was revealed by the Philippine Volcanology and Seismology (Philvocs) in the region where Myra Dolina, Philvocs science research analyst said that while recent movements of the fault lines have been recorded, the intensity were not really felt by residents because the intensity was lower. Philvocs disclosed that the C...
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13Aug2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Aug 13 (PIA) -- Set to be launched in Matag-ob, Leyte on August 24 is a newly-developed system that would ensure a fraud-free implementation of the conditional cash transfer program otherwise known as the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps). The new system using biometrics for 4Ps beneficiaries have been developed by the provincial government of Leyte through its Income Creating Opportunities through Technology Project – Information Technology (ICOT-P IT). The sys...
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07Oct2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Oct 7 (PIA) -- Starting October 5 businessmen and travelers can already travel from Tacloban directly to Iloilo City, thus making the three regions in the Visayas Islands more accessible. The Cebu Pacific Air launched on Friday, direct flight services from Iloilo to Tacloban City in the province of Leyte. The route serviced by an ATR 72-500 aircraft will be on a thrice weekly schedule, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. It has an estimated flying time of about 1 hour...
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08Nov2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Nov 8 (PIA) -- Marabut, Samar recently unveiled its Seal of Good Housekeeping (SGH) Glass Marker, a tangible manifestation of the LGU's compliance to the government's full disclosure policy. Mayor Percival Ortillo welcomed guests DILG Director Pedro Noval and OIC Director Judy Batulan during the event, Tuesday. In his message,Noval challenged Marabut LGU to sustain the gains of practicing full disclosure which eventually earned them the SGH. For his part, Mayor Ortillo...
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19Jul2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, July 19 (PIA) -- Two police officers from Eastern Visayas are strong contenders in the nationwide search for the Model Philippine National Police (PNP) Families, the National Police Commission (Napolcom) said. Napolcom Regional Director Nicomedez E. Jose said the annual search led by the National Police Commission (Napolcom) aims to promote the image and morale of the PNP rank and file. “The commission is happy that PSupt. Orlando Senedrin Gardiola, chief of the Easte...
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26Apr2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, April 26 (PIA) -- The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has completed the Biodiversity Assessment of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) pilot area and at Mt. Nacolod in the province of Southern Leyte. DENR 8 Regional Executive Director Rogelio T. Trinidad in a letter to PIA-Maasin said, a presentation of the assessment and a Management Planning will be conducted on May 2-3, 2012 at Kuting Reef in Macrohon, this p...
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25Mar2012SOUTHERN LEYTE, Mar. 25 (PIA) -- How about a media tour to have the media people see for themselves the ongoing infrastructure projects in the area, all these in the name of transparency? The Engineering District of this province’s Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) did just that when it led members of the local tri-media here to a guided tour Friday, visiting some finished and ongoing projects implemented by the said agency. Joining the site visits was a representative from Ban...
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02Oct2012NAVAL, Biliran, Oct 2 (PIA) -- The province of Biliran joined in the annual celebration of Consumer Welfare Month this October with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in the lead. This year’s celebration is focused on the theme “Get Organized. Be Heard. Be Empowered.” The first day of the celebration started yesterday with a motorcade around the town and hanging of streamers in the different business establishments and government offices. Engineer Jorge Modesto, senior trade an...
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06Nov2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Nov 6 (PIA) -- The Southern Leyte Public Employment Services Office (PESO) got the coveted award as National PESO Manager (provincial category) award of the year. Southern Leyte PESO Manager Norman Ordiz received the award during the 12th National Congress of the PESO last October 5-7 in Tagaytay City. Ordiz, who is also the PESO regional president, reported that Southern Leyte PESO has consistently topped in its performance at the regional level for the last four...
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02Nov2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Nov 2 (PIA) -- The Bureau of Foods and Drugs of the Department of Health in Eastern Visayas recently stated the recall of Korean noodles contaminated with benzopyrene from the local market. Mr. Francis Germano of BFAD 8 said that BFAD OIC BAby Castillote went on an inspection mission on October 31, to recall six Korean brands of noodles products found by the Korean FDA to contain benzopyrene, a chemical with carcinogenic potential. The list of identified noodle products...
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24Jul2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, July 24 (PIA) -- The Department of Public Works and Highways has issued guidelines on how to use savings derived from restructured cost estimation and competitive bidding of projects. According to Carlo C. Rivera, district accountant, savings derived from FY 2011 GAA, 70 percent of the total savings could be used to fund new projects of the same project category, within the same congressional district and implemented by the same implementing office. It can also be used ...
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03Aug2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Aug. 3 (PIA) -- The local government of Basey, Samar recently conducted its 2012 Local Governance Performance Management System (LGPMS) Exit Conference and the CY 2013 Municipal Plans Formulation at Sabin Resort, Ormoc City, Leyte. According to lawyer Igmedio Junji E. Ponferrada, municipal mayor of Basey, the LGPMS is an annual program of the Bureau of Local Government Supervision (BLGS) of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), which enables LGUs to ass...
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19Jul2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, July 19 (PIA) -- The city government of Maasin is set to receive a P3-million Performance Challenge Fund (PCF) award for complying with the standards of good governance. “The city government passed the Seal of Good Housekeeping (SGH) program initiated by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) for the year 2011, hence, the city government of Maasin is entitled to the incentives for compliant LGUs,” City Local Government Operations Officer (CLG...
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24Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY, Feb 24 (PIA) -- The Home Development Mutual Fund (HDMF) or Pag-IBIG Fund announced that they are condoning penalties of housing loan borrowers whose accounts are delinquent. This was revealed by Paulino Talacay, engineer and department manager of Pag-IBIG Fund during the “Harampang Ha PIA” held on Thursday, February 23, at the Philippine Information Agency regional office in Tacloban City. He said, the condonation of penalty to delinquent housing loa...
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14Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 14 (PIA) -- The Department of Labor and Employment spearheaded on March 13 the creation of the Regional Tripartite Monitoring Board in Eastern Visayas Region. DOLE Regional Director Exequiel R. Sarcauga disclosed that the primary task of the RTMB is to monitor compliance to International Labor Standards, particularly International Labor Organization Convention No. 87 on the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize. &n...
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06Dec2012GOV’T CENTER, Palo, Leyte, Dec 6 (PIA) -- An Integrity Parade dubbed, “Lakad Kontra Katiwalian,” will be conducted on Sunday, December 9, as the Visayas, in solidarity with the international community marks the International Anti-Corruption Day. Atty. Marilyn Taldo of the Civil Service Commission in Region 8 said that the activity, which is aimed at highlighting the government’s anti-corruption campaign, will be participated by all anti-corruption partners and crusaders from both the...
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20Dec2012GOV’T CENTER, Palo, Leyte, Dec 20 (PIA) -- The Civil Service Commission reminds government officials and employees not to accept gifts in exchange for performing their duties, especially from clients, suppliers and contractors with whom they are facilitating business. CSC Region 8 Director, Atty. Marilyn Taldo said that the reminder came from CSC Chairman Francisco T. Duque III who said that gifts may be construed as a bribe or reward in exchange for a favor or better treatment. Serving the...
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08Dec2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar Dec 8 (PIA) -- Belying rumors that they are remiss in fixing the potholes in some stretches along the province’s national highways, Domcelio Natividad, chief and engineer of the Public Works and Highways (DPWH) spoke over government radio station DYES,to explain their work. Natividad said that there are times when weather is so bad, it is impossible to do maintenance job. Still, he said, the critical portion along Taft (junction) to Binaloan is finished, whil...
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13Nov2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, Nov 13 (PIA) -- The local government of Eastern Samar was awarded recently the Seal of Good Housekeeping by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG). through Regional Director Pedro Noval. Director Pedro Noval of the DILG handed over to Governor Conrado Nicart Jr. the plaque of Seal of Good Housekeeping with two symbolic checks totaling P16 million. The fund which was released by the Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace Process (OPAPP) under...
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12Nov2012GOVERNMENT CENTER, PALO, Leyte, November 12 (PIA) - The Civil Service Commission has recently launched the Contact Center ng Bayan conceived to be the government’s main helpdesk where citizens, civil society organizations and other entities can voice their concerns with government agencies and gain access to information. CSC Regional Field Office 8 Director Marilyn Taldo said that through CCB, the public may obtain general information about government agency policies and procedures specifica...
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14Jun2012SOUTHERN LEYTE, June 14 (PIA) -- The municipality of Hinunangan, in Southern Leyte received from the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jesse M.Robredo the replica of the P1 million Performance Challenge Fund (PCF) for being Seal of Good Housekeeping-compliant , Monday at the DPWH Multi-Purpose Hall, Government Center, Palo, Leyte. DILG –Provincial Office Information Officer designate Loren Abrau-Aniciete disclosed that the municipality of Hinunangan led by Mayor Rom...
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21Sep2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Sept 21 (PIA) -- The Southern Leyte Provincial Health Services, in coordination with Department of Health-Center for Health Development (DOH-CHD) in Region 8, conducted a Basic Training Course for barangay health workers (BHWs) on September 18 - 20 at Supercha 1 , Maasin City. “Twenty-seven participants were able to finish the whole course,” Provincial Health Officer I Dr. Noel Lumen informed PIA-Maasin. The basic training course is one of the requirements be...
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26Jul2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, July 26 (PIA) -- The Sandiganbayan has directed the Department of Interior and Local Government to serve its 90-day preventive suspension order on the mayor of the local government unit (LGU) of Tunga town, Leyte province. The mayor and the LGU's municipal accountant were both meted the same sanction in connection with the alleged conspiracy in the procurement of a land tractor amounting to P1 million without undergoing bidding in August 2005. Former vice-mayor Isabel Nie...
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01Apr2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, Apr. 1 (PIA) -- Land Transportation Office (LTO) Region 8 Director Camilo Guarin said recently that the “Ligtas Oplan Cuaresma 2012” will again be implemented in Eastern Visayas, from April 2 to 10. This is pursuant to the DOTC Memorandum directing for a nationwide implementation of “Ligtas Oplan Cuaresma 2012” to assist the travelling men, women and children, Director Guarin said. Guarin said he has directed all the heads of LTO districts and extension offices all...
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09Oct2012CARIGARA, Leyte, Oct 9 (PIA) -- Currently ongoing is the P1.5-million hanging bridge in Barangay Uyawan, Carigara, Leyte, Department of Public Works and Highways Leyte II District Engineer Margaria Junia said. This development is welcomed by hundreds of barangay residents exposed to danger and inconveniences during flood surges. When the new hanging or suspension bridge project is completed before the end of December, residents can safely cross to the other side of the village. The hang...
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08May2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, May 8 (PIA) -- The Department of Education (DepEd) is all set for the K to 12 Grades 11 and 12 modeling at the pilot schools of Palo National High School (PNHS) and the Merida Vocational School in Leyte. Department of Education secretary Armin Luistro and other education stakeholders are set to attend the launch at 8:00 a.m. of May 10 at PNHS in Palo, Leyte and on May 11 at the Merida Vocational School at Merida, Leyte, according to DepEd Region 8 director Luisa Bautista-Y...
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21Sep2012NAVAL, Biliran, Sept 21 (PIA) -- The National Statistics Office (NSO) - Biliran urged locals to extend their cooperation and support in the 2012 Registry System for Basic Sector in Agriculture (RSBSA). Rose Marie Lumbre, NSO provincial director, asked target interviewees to supply the information and data needed by the interviewers. RSBSA aims to gather basic agricultural information that includes profile of farmers and the activities they are in, like farming and fishing. The data will be ...
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31Jul2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, July 31 (PIA) -- The regional Statistics Office here is set to conduct on July 31 the Regional Data Dissemination Seminar on the results of the 2011 Family Health Survey (FHS), 2010 Census of Population and Housing (CPH), and other official statistics, the National Statistics Office here informed the Philippine Information Agency. Around 100 participants are expected to attend the seminar at the Hotel Alejandro coming from national government agencies, local government uni...
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16Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 16 (PIA) -- The Department of Interior and Local Government here, Leyte, and the GREAT Women Project of the Philippine Commission on Women will conduct a Regional-Provincial Stakeholders Forum on Women’s Economic on March 16, from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Emmeline L. Verzosa, executive director of the Philippine Commission on Women, said that about 100 participants from different LGU partners in the province, women micro-entrepreneurs, nationa...
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30Mar2013CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, March 30 (PIA) -- The 8th Infantry Division, Philippine Army based in Camp Vicente Lukban, Catbalogan City announces the Army Officer’s Courses and Candidate Soldiers Course Pre Entry examination. If you are 21-31 years of age, Filipino citizen (natural-born), single, at least 5 ft. in height (male or female) Baccalaureate degree holder, and will be able to pass the Philippine Army Aptitude Test Battery (PAATB) with a minimum score of 110 points, you can join the Proba...
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01Feb2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Feb 1 (PIA) -- Children of small coconut farmers will be enjoying a scholarship from the United Coconut Planters Bank, Coconut Industry Investment Fund (UCPB-CIIF)at the Samar State University in Catbalogan City. According to the Samar head of the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) Emi Acasio, for a start, some 10 scholarship slots for children of Samar are allotted for the school opening in June 2012. Qualified to apply are children of coconut farmers w...
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11Jan2013PALO, Leyte, Jan 11 (PIA) -- Eastern Visayas is hosting a four-day Department of Social Welfare and Development National Development Management Conference at the Oriental Hotel Leyte from January 10 to 13. The gathering will tackle the review of the results of the programs of the different bureaus in the Department and the accomplishment reports of the 17 DSWD regions. Expected to attend the conference are the top officials of the Department, the bureau directors and the DSWD regional directo...
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26Jan2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Jan 26 (PIA) -- District Engineer Leopoldo M. Pica of the Leyte Third Engineering District of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Region 8 bared the different projects accomplished by his office in the year 2011. According to Pica, his office launched water systems in several municipalities in the third district of Leyte including far-flung barangays. A number of schools were also constructed in some areas, and improvement...
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08Oct2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Oct 8 (PIA) -- The Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA) in Eastern Visayas will strengthen their campaign against anti-illegal recruitment and anti-human trafficking in the region through the conduct of pre-employment orientation in schools and municipalities. Rose Gervoso, POEA regional coordinator, disclosed that this October 10-11, the agency will be in Catbalogan City for the campaign against illegal recruiters. She said also that the activity will be graced b...
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25Dec2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, December 25 (PIA) – It is a wet Christmas Day in Eastern Visayas as the Low Pressure Area spotted over East of Northern Mindanao has developed into a Tropical Depression named “Quinta.” Bringing maximum winds of 55 kilometers per hour and moderate to heavy rainfall estimated from 5 - 15 mm per hour, Quinta has already prevented children, except for a few brave ones, from enjoying their traditional Christmas morning activity, that of going from one house to another to...
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24Mar2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, March 24 (PIA) -- Another device was installed to keep the people updated on weather conditions and keep them ready for possible calamities to strike in Maasin City. “Brgy. San Rafael is prone to flooding, landslides calamities which are usually triggered by heavy -rains hence the need to determine the amount of rainfall, whether it is still within normal or exceeds the water level already,“ said DOST Provincial Head Engr. Dominador Clavejo. The Maasin Cit...
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31Oct2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Oct 31 (PIA) --The city government of Maasin will receive the Consistent Regional Outstanding Winner in Nutrition (Crown) Maintenance Award this year on November 9 at the Ceremonnial Hall, in Malacañang, Manila. Maasin City Mayor Maloney L. Samaco said during the “Maasin City in Action” radio program, Tuesday that the city will receive the national award for consistently showing outstanding performance in the nutrition program, particularly reducing malnutritio...
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20Mar2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, March 20 (PIA)—The Health Department’s program on Registered Nurses for Health Enhancement And Local Service (RN HEALS) addresses the necessary number of midwives and nurses in the Rural Health Units (RHUs) especially for the families in the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCTs) areas. This was pronounced in a meeting on March 19, Monday attended by the representatives from the partner agencies of Department of Health (DOH...
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06Nov2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Nov 6 (PIA) -- The Department of Tourism (DOT)-8, through its Bids and Awards Committee (BAC), is inviting suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and contractors to apply for eligibility and to bid for security services for 2013 at the DOT-8. According to DOT Regional Director Karina Rosa S. Tiopes, the security services will be on a 24-hour guard duty per day with an approved budget of P570,000 for said contract for the period January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2013. Prosp...
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07Aug2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Aug 7 (PIA) -- The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) lauded the new policy that allows only local governments (LGU) that have been conferred with the Seal of Good Housekeeping (SGH) to secure a loan from banks and other financial institutions. DILG-8 Regional Director Pedro A. Noval Jr. said that as a result of talks between DILG Secretary Jesse Robredo and Department of Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima, the Bureau of Local Government Finance (BLGF) is...
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20Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 20 (PIA8) -- Journalists will visit on March 21-22 projects of the Deutsche Geseilschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the Department of Agriculture (DA) in selected municipalities in Leyte and Southern Leyte provinces. Ten Manila-based journalists and local media will visit three projects in two provinces in Eastern Visayas under the Enhancement of Food Security (EFOS), a component of the Environment and Rural Development Program of...
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29Dec2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Dec. 29 (PIA) -- The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) Tacloban City branch had conducted an orientation seminar on Agency Authorized Officer and Agency Liaison Officer to re-integrate the importance of Agency Remittance Advice (ARA) in harmony with the data of their personnel with the GSIS. According to Joy Poloyapoy of GSIS Tacloban Branch that Agency Remittance Advice is very crucial in updating employees record and to reconcile if there is disparity in the age...
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30Nov2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Nov. 30 (PIA) -- Education, manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade, electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply, and agriculture, forestry and fishing are the top employment providers in Eastern Visayas. This was revealed by the regional National Statistics Office (NSO) during the agency’s regional Data Dissemination Forum on the 2010 Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (ASPBI) and the 2010 Survey on Information and Communication Technology (ICT...
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24Oct2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, October 24 (PIA)—The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) -Samar I is set to activate “Lakbay Alalay” skeletal workforce to ensure help is available to motorists as the nation observes All Saints' day and All Souls' day locally known as “Undas”. DPWH organized a composite team in the district in partnership with other government entities that will provide assistance on normal and emergency situations to motorists along the National Road during this pe...
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25Jan2012PALO, Leyte, January 25 (PIA) – The importance of civil society organizations’ participation in the process of budget preparation was emphasized during the FY 2013 Regional Budget Forum conducted on January 20, 2012 at the Department of Public Works and Highways Multi-Purpose Hall in Palo, Leyte. DBM Region 8 Director Imelda Laceras said that transparency is an important element of a good budget process. The participation of CSOs will increase the transparency in the budget proc...
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20Apr2011TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Apr. 20 (PIA) – Borongan City in Eastern Samar has been recognized by the Civil Service Commission (CSC) in Region 8 for delivering quality frontline services, as evidenced by the the Citizens' Satisfaction Center Seal of Excellence Award (CSC-SEA) mounted in the hallway of Borongan City hall. The glass seal which was mounted last March 24, and witnessed by all officials and employees of the said city. The award was the result of the nationwide Report Card Su...
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06May2011TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, May 6 (PIA) -- Proper implementation of zoning ordinances, comprehensive land use plans that are resistant to climate change and disaster, as well as protected environmental resources are among the essential factors for sustainable development, as highlighted during the 3rd Land Use Forum held yesterday, May 5 at the University of the Philippines, Tacloban Campus. With the theme, "Zoning Ordinance: Significance to sustainable Land Use and Development,” the...
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06Mar2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Mar 6 (PIA) -- Filing of one’s Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net worth (SALN) promotes transparency, according to the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Samar’s First Engineering District.This was the message DPWH conveyed to its personnel during a re-echo seminar on filing SALN. Catherine Quilantang, an accountant at DPWH said that it is not enough to comply with the filing of SALN.“What is important is that they should know ...
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16Oct2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Oct 16 (PIA) -- All Southern Leyte local civil registrars have become full-pledged municipal/city civil registrars (MCR/CCR), hence, they can now correct errors birth certificates without court approval. Republic Act 10172 signed August 15, 2012 by the President extends the power of local civil registrars to correct errors in birth certificates without any court order said Mae Almonte, provincial statistics officer, during the weekly Action Center Kapihan sa PIA. ...
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11Oct2012PALO, Leyte, October 11 (PIA) -- The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) recently warned the public about the proliferation of marijuana-laced brownies, or cakes, in the streets. PDEA Region 8 Director Julius Navales said PDEA Director General Undersecretary Jose S. Gutierrez Jr. issued the warning in light of a recent report citing the existence of homemade baked goods that contained marijuana presented as a birthday gift. Director Navales said that last week, a nurse in a provincial ...
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02Jan2012NAVAL, Biliran, Jan 2, (PIA) -– Mayor Susan Parilla of the local government unit (LGU) of Naval bared some of her priority projects for the year 2012. In an interview with Mayor Parilla, she said that the need to complete the drainage projects for poblacion Naval is a priority to avoid flooding in major streets of the area especially now that the rainy season which is usually experienced during the last quarter of the year will spill over during the first months of 2012. ...
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02Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 2 (PIA) -- As the agency tasked with the augmentation of government initiative for disaster preparedness and response, the Department of Science and Technology in Eastern Visayas is introducing more measures under its disaster management efforts. DOST’s regional director Edgardo Esperancilla said that for the past two years, the department had already installed automatic weather stations and automatic rain gauges in strategic areas in the region. He sai...
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14Oct2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Oct 14 (PIA) -- To raise the level of awareness of the public on road safety, a motorcycle relay dubbed, “2W Relay for a C.A.U.S.E. (Call to Action towards Unity, Safety and Equality) was launched in General Santos on September 22 and was scheduled to arrive in Laoang, Northern Samar on October 13. DOTC-Land Transportation Office Regional Director Camilo Guarin said the 2W Relay which will run from September to November of 2012, is spearheaded by the Department of Trans...
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12Oct2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Oct 12 (PIA) -- The National Statistics Office - 8 is now conducting registration for the Registry System for Basic Sectors in Agriculture (RSBSA) Batch 2, covering the remaining provinces of Leyte, Biliran, and Southern Leyte. Regional Director Raul F. Dones said this undertaking, which started September 17 and will end on November 7, aims to create a database or master list of farmers, farm laborers, and fishers that will provide basic data for use in national or sub-n...
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04Feb2013TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb 4 (PIA) -- It is only the Department of Social Welfare and Development that can remove or delete, for a cause, 4Ps beneficiaries from the roster. DSWD Region 8 Director Remia Tapispisan made the pronouncement during the press conference held at the DSWD Regional Office in the morning of February 4. With barely four months before the May 2013 mid-term national and local elections, the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) of the Department of Social Welfare and Dev...
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03Aug2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, August 3 (PIA) -- The top official of the regional Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) has admitted that the suspension order of the Sandiganbayan to a Tunga town dad and the local government unit’s municipal accountant, has yet to be served as the regional official has not yet received the release order of the suspension from DILG Secretary Jessie Robredo. DILG regional director Pedro Noval Jr., said the suspended official filed a motion for reconsid...
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11Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 11 (PIA) -- Research studies in Eastern Visayas has become and will continue to be more relevant to the public in the next five years. This was observed by Department of Science and Technology Region 8 Director Edgardo Esperancilla during the Research and Development Exhibit held recently at the Robinson’s Place in line with the 11th Anniversary of the Eastern Visayas Consortium for Industry and Energy Research and Development (EVCIERD). The R&...
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31Jan2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb. 1 (PIA) -- Because of the achievement of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Regional Office No. 8 together with its six provincial offices, the agency is among the few deserving ISO 9001:2008 certified agencies recognized by President Benigno S. Aquino III during a ceremony held at the Rizal Hall, Malacañang Palace. This was bared by DTI-8 regional director Cynthia R. Nierras, who disclosed that the said awarding ceremony took...
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04Dec2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Dec 4 (PIA) -- An immigration satellite office was opened on December 3 at the Ormoc City Hall. This was disclosed by Mila Repulda, alien central officer (ACO)of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) in Eastern Visayas. Repulda said that the satellite office will serve foreigners residing in the western side of Leyte and neighboring towns to fix their records relative to the application for permanent residence visa and pre arranged employment visa. The putting up of immigration...
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24Sep2012CAMP RUPERTO KANGLEON, Palo, Leyte, Sept 24 (PIA) -- PNP PRO 8 conducted a blood-letting activity at the PRO 8 Grandstand, Palo, Leyte on September 19, 2012, which is the 112th Anniversary of Philippine Civil Service. Seventy police officers participated in the activity headed by PCSupt. Elmer Ragadio Soria, Police Regional Office 8 Regional Director. The police donated 450 cc of blood each or 31, 500 cc of blood, PSSupt Roel Balintong Acidre, chief of the Regional Police Community Relations ...
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10Feb2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb 10 (PIA) -- The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)- Southern Leyte Provincial Office is apprehensive on the infestation of crown of thorn stars, a kind of sea animal, that would eventually interrupt the ecotourism industry in province if it remains unabated. According to So Leyte DTI provincial director Michael Nuñez, reports reaching their office on the fast growth of crown of thorns population partic...
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26Oct2012ORMOC CITY, Leyte, Oct 26 (PIA) -- Members of the Project Monitoring Group (PMG) of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Region 8 recently conducted a four-day inspection and evaluation of the on-going projects being conducted by the Leyte 4th Engineering District. Among the projects inspected and evaluated were the on-going construction of the Sibugay Flood Control, and Bacan Flood Control along Ormoc-Baybay-Southern Leyte boundary road, Albuera, Leyte said Linor Francisco C. G...
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17Jan2013ORMOC CITY, Leyte, January 17 (PIA) – Some 32 key personnel from the 19th Infantry Battalion and nearly 60 policemen in Ormoc City were recently oriented on Election Laws at the Ramona Banquet Hall of New Pongos Hotel, this City. The whole day activity was hosted by the Occidental Leyte Bar Association (OLBA), Commission on Elections (COMELEC) -Ormoc City and the Rotary Club of Ormoc as their initiative for a secure and fair elections come May 13 this year. During the seminar, Police Senior...
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26Dec2012PALO, Leyte, December 26 (PIA) – Flooding was reported in at least six towns in the province due to rains brought about by Tropical Depression "Quinta," the Leyte Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said. Affected municipalities were La Paz, Palo, Burauen, and Babatngon, according to Danny Pederise of Leyte PDRRMC. Barangay officials reported that several barangays in Tanauan were also flooded. The latest report on flooding came from Dagami town at noontime of December ...
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18Dec2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Dec 18 (PIA) -- The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG)-Southern Leyte provincial office romped away with the major awards in the recent Year end Evaluation of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG – 08) held at the Tacloban City Convention Center on December 14. DILG-Southern Leyte was recognized during the Parangal Ceremony as Best Performing Provincial Team and Best in Annual Report, , said Loren Abrau-Aniciete, DILG-Local G...
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28Nov2012CATARMAN, Northern Samar, Nov 28 (PIA) -- A team from the Bureau of Research and Standards and Quality Assurance Unit (BRS-QAU) Department of Public Works and Highways Manila recently visited Northern Samar to inspect and validate the on-going P25-million Spanish-assisted project being implemented by the DPWH -Northern Samar 2nd District Engineering Office (NSSDEO). This was learned from Rey Orsua, NSSDEO PIO Unit who identified said project as Kagkawayan Bridge under Spanish assisted DPWH bri...
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07Oct2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Oct 7 (PIA) -- P20 million from the Priority Development Fund (PDAF), second tranche, of Representative Mel Senen S. Sarmiento will build water systems, multi-purpose buildings, and concrete pavements in Samar. According to the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) -Samar, the PDAF for 2012 has been released this month to cover the implementation of the mentioned projects. This is in response to the clamor of barangay officials. Barangay Himalandrog and Cag-a...
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18Feb2013TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb 18 (PIA) – With the forthcoming 2013 graduation rites in public elementary and secondary schools the Department of Education released guidelines and policies for the conduct of graduation rites for the guidance of public school heads, teachers and other DepEd personnel Centered on the theme “Building the Nation’s Future Leaders Through the K to 12 Basic Education Program” or “K-12 Basic Education Program – Tungo sa Paghuhubog nga mga Makabagong Lider ng Ban...
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23Jan2013CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, January 23 (PIA)—The Department of Health-Samar warns public against cases of Chikungunya virus infection. The warning was issued in the province of Samar after 28 cases of fever with rashes and joint pains from Barangay Guintarcan were reported by the Municipal Health Officer of Rural Health Unit (RHU) Villareal, Samar on December 10-27, 2012. Ten cases or 36% were confirmed to have Chikungunya infection through IgM ELISA testing by the Research Institute of Tropic...
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09Oct2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, Oct 9 (PIA) -- A Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) district revenue officer urges all qualified candidates for the May 2013 elections to register with the office. Ed Castillo, BIR district revenue officer, said candidates are all mandated to remit to BIR 5 percent of their campaign expenditures. Castillo said that ideally, the registration should have been done immediately after filing their certificates of candidacy. Tarpaulins nowadays have become the most famo...
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23May2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, May 23 (PIA) -- Individuals who have their own businesses like selling goods or offering legitimate services for a fee will now have the chance to save part of their earnings by being a member of the expanded Pag-IBIG Fund and benefit from the latter's different programs. This was announced by Ketche Rex Barrantes, Marketing and Enforcement Specialist of Pag-IBIG Fund, Tacloban branch, who was who is calling on the so-called informal sector of society to be members ...
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13Sep2012NAVAL, Biliran, Sept 13 (PIA) -- The long wait for granting benefits and incentives for Barangay Health Workers (BHWs) serving Naval, the capital town in Biliran province, is over. The Sangguniang Bayan of Naval has finally passed the "Barangay Health Worker’s Benefits and Incentives Ordinance of the Municipality of Naval, Biliran 2012” on August 6 (or Ordinance No. 19 series of 2012). The ordinance was signed and approved by Naval Mayor Susan V. Parilla on August 28. It is sponsored by ...
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01Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 1 (PIA) -- Nature’s way of advertising its beauty has manifested in the pink beach in the island town of San Vicente in Northern Samar. The pink beach is drawing tourists to the island town which made the local government unit (LGU) decide to build facilities for tourists. The pink beach is being eyed as a tourism asset and as growth drive for the local economy. San Vicente town, which can be reached from the Northern Samar mainland through a two-hour ...
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26Sep2012CANDAHUG, Palo, Leyte, Sept 26 (PIA) -- The 4th Eastern Visayas Regional Congress of Bilis Aksyon Partners (EVRC-BAPS) will converge all the BAPS in Eastern Visayas on October 10-11 to update them on the recent programs affecting their functions like promoting heroism in public service. This will be at the Government Center in Palo, disclosed lawyer Marilyn E. Taldo, CSC regional director. This will be headed by the Civil Service Commission (CSC) in partnership with the Region Eight Association...
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06Jun2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, June 6 (PIA) -- The National Statistics Office (NSO) will conduct the 2012 census mapping operation using the Geographic Information System (GIS) technology beginning this June through August. It aims to gather accurate and reliable digitized maps that can be used in census and survey operations, information dissemination, and master sample updating. According to NSO Samar, Provincial Statistics Officer, Letecia Chu, the operation entails digitizing of maps at all leve...
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10Oct2012PALO, LEYTE, October 10 (PIA) -- Governors from the six provinces of Eastern Visayas and several other provinces of the country are scheduled to attend the 2nd Governors Forum on October 10, 2 p.m., at Leyte Oriental Hotel. The PhilHealth-sponsored forum aims to inform governors of their sponsored program enrolment and to help them improve government hospital operations and management. The theme of the forum is “Going Beyond Enrolment, Maximizing Health Investment,” PhilHealth Tacloban...
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03Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb 3 (PIA) -- The Department of Labor and Employment is implementing a program called Single Entry Approach (SEnA) where it becomes mandatory for labor-related complaints to go through this before cases are formally filed in their attached agencies for resolution. In Eastern Visayas, DOLE outgoing regional director Forter Puguon disclosed that the agency has disposed 498 labor disputes under SEnA where 376 workers received P 2.75 million in monetary benefit...
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26Aug2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Aug 26 (PIA) -- Commission on Elections (Comelec) Region 8 Director Atty. Jose Nick Mendros urged the media to report truthfully the peaceful election process that happened in the area.. Mendros met more than 50 media practitioners in Tubabao Island, Guiuan, E Samar, Saturday for the 12th Express it at the Park Anniversary. “If it is a peaceful election, please report it, too,” he urged the reporters. He added that some reporters would find election proceedings bor...
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15Mar2012CATARMAN, Northern Samar, March 15 (PIA) – Today, two rebel returnees and a facilitator received immediate assistance allowance from the local government through the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO) under the Local Social Integration Program of Northern Samar at PSWDO, Capitol Compound, Catarman, Northern Samar. The two former rebels who surrendered on November 30, 2012 received P10, 000 each and the facilitator for the voluntary surrender of the two rebel ...
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07Sep2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Sept 7 (PIA) -- The Department of Health (DOH), in close coordination with the Land Transportation Office (LTO) - Maasin City, conducted a Road Traffic Injury Orientation and Prevention Seminar at SLEMCoop Function Room on September 4-6. The three-day seminar was aimed in strengthening the capacity to implement measures to preventing road traffic injuries, DOH nurse Letecia O. Tan said. “It was attended by traffic implementers such as representatives from the Ph...
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15Nov2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Nov. 15 (PIA) -- Tacloban City will receive today the Pamana ng Lahi award, the latest in a string of awards the city local government unit harvested. In a text message, Mayor Maloney Samaco told Philippine Information Agency (PIA) that Gawad Pamana ng Lahi is the highest award given by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), combining the Seal of Good Housekeeping, Full Disclosure Policy, and LGPMS. He said only three LGUs received the award: Taclo...
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19Oct2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Oct 19 (PIA) -- The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) –Maasin City Jail District will be one of the polling centers in the city to accommodate inmate-registered voters this coming 2013 elections. The city jail will be furnished with election facilities in order to secure the registered voters of the 70 inmates in Maasin City jail, said J/SInsp Arlene Barraca, jail wardress, during the weekly Action Center Kapihan sa PIA Thursday. There are 70 out of...
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29Dec2012TACLOBAN CITY, Dec 29 (PIA) -- Department of Health (DOH) Eastern Visayas is strengthening its ‘Iwas Paputok' program through its Aksyon: Paputok Injury Reduction (APIR) this year aiming for zero casualty as the nation welcomes the New Year. The campaign also encourages the use of environment friendly materials instead of dangerous, pollutant firecrackers and plastic during the celebration. To avoid firecracker accidents and enjoy a safe celebration, DOH encourages participation in a co...
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16Nov2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Nov 16 (PIA) -- The National Statistics Office in Eastern Visayas will conduct a Regional Data Dissemination Forum on the results of the 2010 Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (ASPBI) and 2010 Survey on Information and Communication Technology (SICT) on November 21 from 1-5 p.m. at Hotel Alejandro, Tacloban City. NSO-8 officer-in-charge Wilma Perante said this activity aims to raise awareness on the importance and relevance of the establishment-based survey...
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13Nov2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Nov 13 (PIA) -- The Gawad Pamana ng Lahi awarding ceremony for the Eastern Visayas Region winners will be held at 8 a.m.,November 15, Thursday, at the Balyuan Convention Center in Tacloban City. Department of Interior and Local Government Region 8 Director Pedro A. Noval Jr. said the affair will be attended by regional contenders in the city category from Eastern Visayas. On October 17, the Regional Award Committee proclaimed the province of Leyte and Tacloban City as th...
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02Dec2012NAVAL, Biliran, Dec 2 (PIA) - The municipality of Naval in Biliran province will receive the Green Banner Award as outstanding municipality in Region 8 for the effective implementation of nutrition programs, projects, and activities. This was revealed by Mayor Susan Parilla in an interview. She said Naval was chosen to receive the award in terms of nutrition program implementation by the Regional Nutrition Committee through the regional evaluation team who came over to the municipality for the...
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03Sep2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Sept 3 (PIA) -- The Philippine National Police-Southern Leyte Police Provincial Office (PNP-SLPPO) will hold drug symposiums as one of the highlights in celebrating National Crime Prevention Week from September 1 to 7. Police Senior Inspector Ariel Nuñez said the celebration kicked off this morning, September 3, at the city’s gymnasium discussing drug-related topics during the flag-raising ceremony of the Maasin City hall employees led by Police Provincial Direct...
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22Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 22 (PIA) -- Patients suffering from typhoid fever can be admitted to accredited hospitals and avail of hospital benefits as members of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (Philhealth). PhilHealth in Eastern Visayas assured members of the health insurance that typhoid fever admissions to hospitals are compensable. Miramar Zabala, PhilHealth information officer disclosed that PhilHealth may pay to as much as P 14,000 for confinement due to typh...
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15Mar2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, March 15 (PIA) -- The Provincial Peace and Order Council (PPOC) meeting discussed the priority project identified on the training workshop of Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan (PAMANA) for peace and development projects a week ago. The 29 programs were prioritized according to the perceived need of the different localities that the army recommended as conflict areas. The Department of Interior Local Government (DILG) presented the list of road networks iden...
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11Dec2012TACLOBAN CITY, Dec. 11 (PIA) -- The Office of the Ombudsman through Atty. Edwin B. Tabaranza, officer-in-charge of the Office of the Ombudsman in Eastern Visayas, reiterated the call for support to government’s call for anti-corrupt practices in the delivery of service. In his message during the commemorative program held after the Integrity Parade for the observance of the International Anti-Corruption Day, Tabaranza called on the public and private sectors to support government's campaig...
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24Jan2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, January 24 (PIA) -- The 7th Visayas Island Conference of the Provincial Board Members League of the Philippines (PBMLP) will put premium on education and employment programs as subject of legislation, Board Member Henry A. Bacurnay, Jr., PBLP President, informed. BM Bacurnay said the event will be held on January 30 to February 1 and the activities will be in line with the theme, “Engaging the PBMLP into the Mainstream of National Policy-Making Thru Themat...
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08Jan2013CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, January 8 (PIA)—The City Government of Catbalogan sought the involvement of civil society organizations as the LGU implements various projects in 2013. According to the official website of Catbalogan, the LGU gathered the CSOs Monday, to orient them in the valuable role they will assume in the Bottom Up Planning and Budgeting for the 2014 Local Poverty Reduction Plan. The involvement of the CSOs is embodied in the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), Department ...
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26Feb2013TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb 26 (PIA) -- The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) in the region will be conducting trainings for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) or their relatives on entrepreneurial development. The OWWA conducts the business training every first and third Monday of the month at the OWWA conference room to help OFWs and or kin how to run and manage a business. Alberto Penaflor, regional OWWA case officer, disclosed that the business training is mandatory for OFWs or t...
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08Nov2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Nov 8 (PIA) -- When it rains, it pours. In the same week when the Southern Leyte assessor got the distinguished National PESO award from the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), he was also awarded the prestigious top performance award by the Department of Finance. Norman Ordiz, Southern Leyte assessor, was recognized for his services on assessment operations especially in the assessment of real properties thus garnering an increase of about 150 percent in ...
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27Nov2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Nov 27 (PIA) -- The Department of Trade and Industry Region 8 (DTI-8) calls on service and repair shops dealing with motor vehicle, heavy equipment; engine and engineering; electronics, electrical; air conditioning and refrigeration; office machine; data processing equipment; and medical and dental to apply for accreditation with their Office. According to DTI, the applicant must fill up an application form together with the complete basic requirements and index card, then...
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28Jul2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, July 28 (PIA) -- During the recently concluded 34th National Disability Prevention Rehabilitation (NDPR) week, last July 17-23, Department of Public Works and Highways-Leyte conducted several activities to mark the event. The theme of the celebration is “Mainstreaming Persons with Disabilities in Economic Development.” Engr. Lino Francisco C. Gonzalez, head of DPWH–Leyte, 4th Engineering District said that aside from the display of streamers, persons with disabiliti...
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12Sep2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, Sep 12 (PIA) -- The Seal of Good Housekeeping of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) in recognition of local government’s exemplary performance will continue, despite the untimely demise of its proponent. DILG-8 Senior Staff Nida B. de la Cruz said this in an interview. De la Cruz added that for this year, eight municipal local government unit together with the provincial LGU will receive the Bronze Award for Good Housekeeping. These LGUs are...
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20Nov2012By Marcelo M. Pedalino MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Nov. 20 (PIA) -- The Department of Public Works and Highways -- Southern Leyte Engineering District (DPWH-SLED) maintained its record for several years as it again topped this year’s first semester road rating. The road rating is done bi-annually by the Bureau of Maintenance-DPWH Manila to determine the responsiveness of the maintenance activities done to national road networks, one of the primary concerns of the government’s infrastru...
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30Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 30 (PIA) -- As part of its contribution to advocate this year’s Women’s Month theme, region’s 8 gender committee has conducted a forum on the importance of women’s role in disaster management. The Regional Gender and Development Committee (RGADC) of the Regional Development Council in Eastern Visayas conducted Wednesday, March 28, a gender forum underscoring the importance of the role of women in disaster preparedness and management. Evangeline M. Paran, RGA...
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20Jan2013TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Jan 20 (PIA) -- All officials of the Commission on Election in Eastern Visayas will be reshuffled in the region and to other regions which will take effect on Monday, January 22 and will end on June this year. Atty. Felicisimo Embalsado, Comelec assistant regional director disclosed that the reassignment is true for all Comelec officials throughout the country aimed to ensure the credibility of the conduct of the May 2013 elections. He said Comelec wants to avoid public p...
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18Apr2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Apr 18 (PIA) -- Maasin City has launched the Department of Environment and Natural Resources’ “Sustainable and Eco-Friendly Schools” program to participate in this year’s competition with Maasin City College, a city-run institution, as the entry. School Administrator Ryan Cahambing reported that the city-run college has already existing projects continuously implemented within the school’s campus, considered to have strong points in the eco-friendly schoo...
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27Sep2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Sept 27 (PIA) -- Lest the nation forget, the spirit of EDSA People Power will live on but with the perspective of advocating new depictions of bayanihan, volunteerism and working with the government and other sectors in the community towards the shared goal of nation building. This is the statement of the EDSA People Power Commission created through Executive Order No. 82 (S.1999) under the Office of the President, Malacañang, Manila. The Commission has reinvented EDSA-...
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01Nov2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Nov. 1 (PIA) -- The Environment Management Bureau of the Department of Environmental and Natural Resources in Eastern Visayas will again launch its program that aims to encourage schools and academic institutions to become more involved in the promotion of environmental issues. The program, for relaunching through a contest among schools entitled “2013 National Search for Sustainable and Eco-Friendly Schools” is a joint activity of the DENR through the EMB, the Depart...
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16May2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, May 16 (PIA) -- Climate change affects everything, fish even. The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in Eastern Visayas has already acted on the reported alleged fish kills in Manicani Island in the province of Eastern Samar. The Philippine Information Agency called up the BFAR regional office on Monday upon the request of a media outlet. Residents from the island visited the station and wanted to hear from BFAR. OIC Regional Director Justerie Granali said ...
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05Mar2013CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, March 5 (PIA) -- To immediately respond to fires, the Catbalogan City Fire Protection Station will tap barangay tanods to help douse fires. They will be trained in fire fighting and rescue, according to Catbalogan City Fire Inspector Agustin Ballo. The bureau has organized the Barangay Integrated Defense Action (BIDA) team in different barangays in Catbalogan. A BIDA team is composed of a number of barangay tanods who will help the local fire station respond in case the...
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01Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb 1 (PIA) -- Sustained maximum yield is now within reach for many rice farmers in Region 8 as the Rapid Food Production Enhancement Program (RaFPEP) nears completion. DA-8 regional executive director Antonio Gerundio said that this was gleaned from the three-day final evaluation of the European Union (EU) food facility in Region 8 conducted on January 25-27. The evaluation team was headed by Martin Caldeyro-Stajano, EU representative, togethe...
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28Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, March 28 (PIA) -- The continuous downpour on March 27 has rendered many areas in Tacloban City flooded and several road impassable, the Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council reported. OCD Region 8 Director and RDRRMC Chairman Rey Gozon informed at about 5:30 in the afternoon of March 27 that among the roads reported to have been rendered impassable to light vehicles were Maharlika-Nulatula at Barangay 74, Maharlika-Tigbao at Barangay 94and Maharlika-Abuca...
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11Jul2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, July 11 (PIA) -- The proposed budget of more than P600 million of the Eastern Samar provincial government has been approved. With a majority vote of eight against five, the budget was approved Monday during the regular session of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP). The court in June issued an order on the nullity of the Appropriation Ordinance, citing the “insufficiency in the number of votes” (7 vs. 6) as the main reason. In one of his previous statemen...
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23Jul2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, July 23 (PIA) -- Secretary Herminio “Sonny” Coloma of the Presidential Communication Operations Office called on the public to listen intently to the State of the Nation Address (SONA) and provide feedback. “Gusto pong malaman ng Pangulo ang mga saloobin ng mga mamamayan para po maunawaan ang kanilang mga concerns at para mapaghusay lalo ang mga programa ng gobyerno na makakatulong sa ating mga kababayan (The President wants to know the opinions of the people so that...
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21Jan2013BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, Jan 21 (PIA) -- The local government of Borongan City has recently approved its P452-million budget for 2013 expenditures. As a newly approved city, Borongan will enjoy bigger annual internal revenue allotment (IRA). Two years ago, the Supreme Court (SC) changed its decision on Borongan's cityhood, together with other 15 municipalities in the country, including three in Region 8. The SC decision confused the LGU budget and derailed some of its operational exp...
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07Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 7 (PIA) -- There have been significant increases in the number of Filipino women with high waist-hip ratio since 1988. This was revealed by the Seventh National Nutrition Survey conducted in 2008 by the Food and Nutrition Research Institute of the Department of Science and Technology or FNRI-DOST. Salvador Serrano of FNRI-DOST said that from 40 in every 100 women in 1988, the figure went up to 54 in every 100 in 2003, and reached up to 65 for ...
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16Sep2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, Sept 16 (PIA) –- The Department of Social Welfare and Development is harnessing and enhancing the Civil Society Organizations in the improved implementation of Family Development Sessions (FDS) and FDS Plus. DSWD Region 8 Director Leticia Diokno disclosed that the FDS aims to strengthen the capacities of family members particularly parents to become more responsive to the needs of the family. Diokno said the FDS Plus refers to a range of initiatives complementary to FDS ...
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11Sep2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Sept 11 (PIA) -- Over-the-counter claims of cash grant under the Pantawid Pamilya Program is faster using the biometric system developed by the provincial government of Leyte through its Income Creating Opportunities Through Technology Project – Information Technology (ICOT-P IT). The Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) biometric system was launched on September 7 in Matag-ob, Leyte. Among those who attended the affair were Secretary Corazon Soliman, Leyte Governor Carlos Je...
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12May2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, May 12 (PIA) -- The Department of Environmental and Natural Resources (DENR) in Eastern Visayas has vowed to conserve the forests of Mt. Nacolod in Silago town, Southern Leyte province. DENR regional director Rogelio Trinidad accepted the challenge to preserve and nurture the forest resources of Southern Leyte stating that “taking care of our forests should be passed from generation to generation and people should lead by example.” Accordingly, an assessment which wou...
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25Mar2012PALO, Leyte, March 25 (PIA) – The Department of Energy (DOE) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Philippines will conduct an energy conservation seminar on March 27 at the Oriental Leyte. The DOE partnered with WWF and Philippine Information Agency (PIA), in order to disseminate adequate information on ways and measures to conserve energy and thus, save the planet from further environmental degradation. Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Sonny Coloma and ...
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31Aug2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Aug. 31 (PIA) -- The second quarter census mapping for 2012 in Southern Leyte has started on June 4. Prior to this nationwide activity, different levels of trainings were conducted since May in preparation for the said program, Provincial News Stat Overview reported. The task force first-level training was participated by selected cartographers from the Data and Geographic System (DGS) and information technology-related personnel from all regions. It was held at th...
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19Sep2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Sept 19 (PIA) -- The social welfare department is scouring poor families not covered by the benefits and conditions of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program to put them under the Modified Conditional Cash Transfer (MCCT) this year. This was the information disseminated by Regional Director Letecia Diokno to the Provincial Advisory Committee of Samar during the Regional Advisory Committee meeting in Catbalogan City Friday, The new MCCT will cater to poor families with ...
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15Sep2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Sept 15 (PIA) -- The government is further expanding the poverty reduction program, Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) or the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) to reach out to families and children in difficult circumstances and in need of special protection. With the emerging and increasing concern of families who need special protection, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is implementing the Modified CCT (MCCT), DSWD-8 Director Leticia Diokno sa...
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28Mar2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, March 28 (PIA) -- The anti-littering ordinance in Catbalogan City is trying to address ecological and environmental issues in the city. Proponent city councilor Stephany Uy-Tan reiterated this as she discussed the reasons why the ordinance needs to be implemented immediately. The councilor said the ordinance enacted in 1990 and amended in 1993 has become ineffective and inapplicable to the current state of the city. “As the world faces more ecological and environment...
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28Sep2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, Sept 28 (PIA) -- The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) is poised to accelerate the delivery of support services to agrarian reform beneficiaries as well as to other farmers through the implementation of projects financed by the Asian Development Bank(ADB). One of these projects, according to Lorena A. Azura, OIC-Chief Agrarian Reform Program Officer (CARPO) for Operation, is the conduct of subdivision survey for collective Certificate of Land Ownership Award (...
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24Dec2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Dec 24 (PIA) -- It was a pleasant surprise, the unexpected kind of a Christmas cash gift for 26 security guards of Mandaue City-based Probe Security Agency, Inc. serving at Metro-Hyper, this city. On Thursday, December 20, more than half of these guards received more than P12,000 in individual checks paid by Probe corresponding to payment of regular and special holidays and overtime pay, from July 5 to October 31 of this year. The ceremonial awarding was made righ...
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10Dec2012TACLOBAN CITY, Dec. 10 (PIA) -- In support of government’s anti-corruption campaign, the Office of the Ombudsman and the Civil Service Commission (CSC), in partnership with the Region Eight Administrator’s League, Inc. (REAL) and the Association of Resident Ombudsmen of Region 8, conducted an Integrity Parade dubbed as “Lakad Kontra Katiwalian.” The parade, which was conducted on December 9, was participated by more than a thousand anti-corruption partners and crusaders from government...
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11Jul2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, July 11 (PIA) -- The Philippine National Police-Southern Leyte Police Provincial Office (PNP-SLPPO) has announced that the registration for the Philippine National Police Academy (PNPA) cadet admission test is now open. Police community relations officer Jonathan Pineda said in a report that PNPA needs able, responsible, and well-motivated youths who have the aptitude for service to meet the challenging duties of a public safety service officer. Pineda said the r...
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06Oct2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Oct 6 (PIA) -- Wage Order 17 issued by the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board in Eastern Visayas will take effect on October 16, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in Region 8 said. DOLE -8 Information Officer Virgilio Doroja Jr. said during the Harampang Ha PIA media interaction last October 4, that the Wage Order 17 will take effect on the 16th of this month, 15 days after the required publication of it in the print media. Doroja said DOLE is ho...
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23Mar2013CANDAHUG, Palo, Leyte, March 23 (PIA) -- The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Regional Office No. VIII through its Science Education Institute (SEI) has already released the results of the 2013 DOST Undergraduate Scholarship Examination held last November 18, 2012. According to DOST, out of the 25,696 who took the examination nationwide, 3,597 passed. And out of the 3,597 who passed the examination, 172 are from region 8, wherein 156 are under the Science and Technology Scholarship ...
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03Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, March 3 (PIA) -- The Department of Agriculture (DA) Regional Field Unit Region 8 recently gathered the key stakeholders for a two-day orientation and project proposal writeshop at the Leyte Park Hotel, as DA-8 Regional Executive Director (RED) Antonio G. Gerundio exhorted these key players to put together in writing their strategies to transform the 20,000-hectare area in Ormoc-Kananga (OK), Leyte upland range into a major grower of semi-temperate vegetables and high value c...
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14Oct2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, Oct 14 (PIA) -- A Diskwento Caravan will be conducted on October 18 to 20 at the DTI Leyte Provincial Office grounds. Spearheaded by the Department of Trade and Industry Leyte Provincial Office, the three-day caravan is part of the month-long celebration of Consumer Welfare Month in Leyte, DTI Director Desiderio Belas Jr. said. The caravan opens every 8 a.m. and closes at 5 p.m., Belas said even as he invited the public to visit, shop, and avail of the basic commodities be...
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19Sep2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Sept 19 (PIA) -- The government is implementing a pilot project in Leyte’s Sab-a Basin Peatland involving community-led demonstration activities on sustainable use of peatlands as well as rehabilitation of degraded peatlands for the hydrology and conservation of biodiversity. The Leyte Sab-a Basin is one of the two pilot sites for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Peatland Forest Project in the Philippines. The other project is in Agusan Del Sur. The p...
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09Sep2012GOVERNMENT CENTER, Palo, Leyte, Sept 9 (PIA) - The San Juanico Bridge which connects Leyte and Samar provinces is safe despite sustaining shallow cracks on some of its piers, Department of Public Works and Highways Region 8 Director Rolando Asis said. The damage sustained by the Bridge is minor and cannot cause any alarm on the commuting public, Asis told the media during the Harampang at PIA held here, recently. “Our motorists have nothing to worry about. The bridge is okay and remains pa...
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01Feb2012NAVAL, Biliran, Feb 1 (PIA) -- Some 300,000 seedlings of different varieties of fast-growing trees like narra, lawaan and other species and different kinds of fruit trees are set to be planted by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in the province of Biliran for the year 2012 in line with the National Greening Program (NGP) of President Benigno S. Aquino’s government. This was revealed by Genny Rose Salas of the planning unit of the DENR-Biliran provinc...
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08Mar2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Mar 8 (PIA) -- Some 25 barangays from three municipalities in Samar province are set to receive peace and development projects under the Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan (PAMANA). PAMANA is government’s peace and development framework that seeks to reduce poverty, improve governance, and empower communities through community-driven projects that address people’s needs and at the same time promote peace. The barangays in Matuginao, Baruz, Caro...
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21Mar2012PALO, Leyte, March 21 (PIA) -- This early, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) in Eastern Visayas has already mapped out plans to ensure orderly and hassle-free travel for the thousands of commuters who are expected along Maharlika Highway for the traditional pilgrimage during the annual Semana Santa (Holy Week). Regional Director Rolando Asis said that he has instructed all district engineers to activate composite teams to man the stations set up in strategic locat...
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03Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb 3 (PIA) -- The Regional Highway Patrol Unit (RHPU) in Eastern Visayas linked up with the Peace, Action and Resave with the Dedication to Serve the Society (PARDSS) to ensure the safety of motorists and maintain visibility of law enforcers in the highways. PARDSS is a national non-profit organization accredited by the Philippine National Police (PNP), Police Community Relations Group (PCRG), Association of Chiefs of Police of the Philippines Incorporated (ACPPI) and ...
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14Dec2012CAMP RUPERTO K. KANGLEON, Palo, Leyte, Dec 14 (PIA) -- The intensified crackdown by the Philippine National Police against the proliferation of illegal drugs in Eastern Visayas has netted a sizable number of drug suspects and the seizure of a significant amount of illegal drugs as the Police Regional Office 8 (PRO8) vowed to make the area free from the drug menace. “The campaign against illegal drugs remains to be one of the PNP Eastern Visayas’ top priority with the aim of making Eastern ...
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23Mar2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Mar 23 (PIA) -- At least 11 women’s associations participated in the culmination program of the Women’s Month celebrated this month at the city’s gymnasium, showcasing their livelihood products through a competition. Maasin City women showcased products such as handmade accessories like necklaces, rings, bracelets, and the like; candles of different shapes; coconut midrib vases and brooms; wooden ladles, among other industrial products; while food products ...
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18Oct2012NAVAL, Biliran, Oct 18 (PIA) -- “Biliran province is a top performer in terms of health program implementation in Region 8 based on its health scorecards,” an official of Department of Health Region 8 said. Dr. Jaime Bernadas, DOH-8 regional director, said during the declaring of Biliran province as “Rabies-Free Zone on October 11,” the province along with the province of Southern Leyte were top performers in 2011 in the region in terms of implementing health programs. The DOH-8 chief...
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11Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 11 (PIA) -- In a study conducted by the Department of Science and Technology, most regions in the Philippines have more overweight adults. According to the anthropometric survey component of the Seventh National Nutrition Survey conducted by the Food and Nutrition Research Institute of the Department of Science and Technology or FNRI-DOST in 2008, nine out of 17 regions in the country, the rates of overweight Filipinos are higher than the national average of ...
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02Apr2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, April 2 (PIA) -- With the recent clamor for health foods, Pinabacdao (Samar) ginger producers may just be able to rise from poverty. "Back to basics" is making people realize that ginger, even simply boiled could cure colds, is good for the immune system, and soothens itchy throats. The ginger industry will usher in a better income for Samarnons in Pinabacdao with the assurance from a big Japanese buyer who will purchase the product in bulk. So averred Mayor Mario Quij...
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04Dec2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Dec 4 (PIA) -- The ordinary park and a quiet place specially at night is now a place where families and friends spend the night after dinner in watching the different colors and lights of the Christmas decorated trees. Some 43 government offices and non government organizations joined the “Light a Tree Contest” to run from December 1 until New Year at the Samar Capitol grounds, Catbalogan City. The contest with a theme “Christmas around the world” started a simu...
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04Jun2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, June 4 -- To provide better quality and safer roads, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Rogelio Singson, through Department Order number 29, urged DPWH district offices to enforce strictly the removal of obstructions and prohibited use of the right-of-way of national roads. Singson expressed his determination to ensure that the department order is followed and the road right-of-way is totally free from all illegal encroachment. Records show tha...
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24Apr2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, April 24 (PIA) -- The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) in Eastern Visayas has expanded its program coverage to include tuberculosis (TB) patients. Miramar Zabala, PhilHealth information officer, said in a statement that the insurance office will extend help to TB patients who are not confined in hospitals or those Directly Observed Treatment Short-courses (DOTS) and those newly-infected TB patients. Zabala explained that new TB patients qualified for i...
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16Oct2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Oct 16 (PIA) -- The Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Eastern Visayas again underscored that cutting of upland forest trees for charcoal production is not allowed by law. DENR Regional Technical Director Danilo Javier of the Protected Areas, Wildlife and Coastal Zone Management Service made the stern warning upon learning that a 10-wheeler van loaded with 66 sacks of charcoal without permit was intercepted and apprehended at Barangay Pequit, Paranas, Samar...
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28Jun2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, June 28 (PIA) -- The United State Navy Ship (USNS) Mercy attended to almost 200 patients since the first day of accepting 40 patients per day inside the USNS Mercy Ship. The USNS Mercy Ship has 12 surgery rooms, four x-ray equipments, a physical therapy center, computed tomography (CT) scan unit, pharmacy, dental suite, angiography suite, optometry and lens laboratory, two oxygen-producing plants, and a blood bank with 5,000 units of blood. It is a floating hospital wit...
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23Nov2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Nov 23 (PIA) -- November as Philippine Clean Air Month underscores the urgent need for collective action to clean the air, with the Environmental Management Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources as the lead agency. Director Leticia Maceda of the Environmental Management Bureau in Eastern Visayas said November had been declared Clean Air Month through Presidential Proclamation No. 1101 issued in 1997. This brings to focus the issues and concerns an...
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29Mar2011TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Mar 29 (PIA) – The filing of nominations for the Civil Service Commission’s (CSC) search for 2011 Outstanding Public officials and employees has been extended from March 31 to April 15, 2011. According to the information gathered from CSC, aside from the extension of nominations, there is also an increase in cash rewards to all the search categories. The CSC Search for 2011 Outstanding Public Officials and Employees is an annual activity of the commission unde...
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09Jun2012ORMOC CITY Leyte, June 8 (PIA) -- In line with the 114th Philippine Independence Day celebration on June 12, the Department of Labor and Employment Region 8, in coordination with the city government of Ormoc and the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA), is set to conduct a “Kalayaan Jobs and Livelihood Fair” at Ormoc Superdome, Ormoc City. Various private establishments coming from Cebu City were invited to conduct interview for those interested applicants willing to be ass...
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08Jan2013MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Jan 8 (PIA) – The city government of Maasin through the City Sports Council is now preparing for the upcoming Eastern Visayas Regional Athletic Association (EVRAA) competition to be held in the province of Leyte slated this last week of January 2013. City Mayor Maloney Samaco during the regular program “Maasin City in Action” aired over DyDM station, informed that the athletes from elementary and high schools who will participate during the week-long sports...
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17Jan2013CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, January 17 (PIA) —The Department of Health (DOH) cites ten Samar municipalities for the successful implementation of Garantisadong Pambata in 2012. Garantisadong Pambata program is a package of health services given to children. Samar Provincial Health Office (PHO) revealed that out of the 26 municipalities and cities, ten of these got the highest number in program implementation. In vitamin A supplementation, Talalora, Samar placed number 1 with 114.6% accompli...
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02Feb2013BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, Feb 2 (PIA) -- Nothing could best assure of people’s participation in determining the country’s national budget than the recent administration’s strategy, where representatives of various people’s organizations (POs) are asked what their priority concerns are. This was the Local Poverty Reduction Action Team (LPRAT) planning-workshop where a number of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) gathered at the Borongan city hall recently, in order to come up with...
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03Jan2013Ailene N. Diaz CATARMAN, Northern Samar, 3 Jan (PIA) - Not a single member of Philippine National Police (PNP) in the province was caught using their service firearms during New Year revelry. Northern Samar PNP Provincial Director, Police Senior Superintendent Isaias Bañez Tonog reported that the servicemen in his turf strictly obeyed the No Indiscriminate Firing policy of the PNP. Members of PNP Northern Samar down to the municipal level complied with the instructions to conduct simulta...
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25Sep2012NAVAL, Biliran, Sept 25 (PIA) -- Activities for the 152nd Pueblo Day celebration in the municipality of Naval are all set on Wednesday, September 26, despite inclement weather. Naval Mayor Susan V. Parilla of Naval said she is optimistic of a successful celebration. The 152nd Pueblo Day celebration is the kickoff activity for the town fiesta celebration of Naval, which is held every first Saturday of October in honor of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary. A holy mass at 6 a.m. at the Cathedral wi...
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18Dec2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Dec 18 (PIA) -- Plan International, a child-centered NGO in Samar took the challenge to train children in Gandara, Samar about Risk Reduction & Management and Climate Change Adaptation. On December 14-16, participants comprising of elementary and high school students, were oriented on the basic concepts of disasters and calamities, such as earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, and other climate change-related disasters that affect their schools and their communities, and how ...
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10Jan2013CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, January 10 (PIA)—The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) gives emphasis this 2013 the Good Governance Reform and Anti-Corruption Program. This focuses on the five R’s – Right Project, Right Cost, Right Quality, Right Time and Right People. The project will push for best quality and Safety National Roads and Bridges Programs. In a reecho done by Engr. Roster L. Andaya, he disclosed the validity of 2013 projects which is one year only effective Janua...
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20Oct2012CARIGARA, Leyte, Oct 20 (PIA) -- The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Second Leyte Engineering District (LED) has topped the collection of testing fees in September 2012 among the 12 district offices in Eastern Visayas. This was learned during the monthly meeting of the second LED section chiefs with District Engineer Margarita C. Junia. Junia attributed the good collection performance, which exceeded even the collection of the regional office, to the acquisition of new equipment...
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21Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 21 (PIA) -- Department of Labor and Employment Regional Director Exequiel Sarcauga cited the management of Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines Inc. – Tacloban Plant and its two labor unions, the Tacloban Coca-Cola Plant Labor Union, and the United Sales Force Union, for showcasing industrial peace in Eastern Visayas. Director Sarcauga made the pronouncement during the signing of the Collective Bargaining Agreement of Coca Cola and its two unions ...
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30Sep2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, Sept 30 (PIA) -- The launching of the Job Search Kiosk of the Department of Labor and Employment will highlight the opening program of the 23rd National Statistics Month celebration in Eastern Visayas, Director Bonifacio G. Uy of the National Economic Development Authority and chairman of the Regional Statistical Coordination Board in Eastern Visayas, said. This is in keeping with this year’s theme, “Monitoring Progress on Decent Work through Statistics: Pathway to Inc...
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13Mar2012NAVAL, Biliran, March 13 (PIA) -- A high ranking official of the Biliran Police Provincial Office (BPPO) disclosed in a regular radio program that their campaign on anti-illegal fishing topped the list of accomplishments for 2011 netting an estimated value of fishing paraphernalia worth P38,253,143 in 2011. Police Superintendent Mateo Macale, chief, Police Community Relations (PCR) section of BPPO, recently said during the PIA Kapihan at Pulong-Pulong ng Bayan in Radyo Natin-Naval...
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01Feb2013PALO, Leyte, February 1(PIA) -- The Philippine National Police in Eastern Visayas is currently recruiting 75 new policemen as part of the supplemental quota for the Calendar Year 2012 second semester recruitment program PNP Region 8 Director Elmer Soria disclosed that the quota for the region is part of the additional 454 slots that were added to the 519 supplemental quota for the second semester of last year due to the unusual high rate of attrited PNP personnel in the month of December 2012 f...
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27Nov2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Nov 27 (PIA) -- The Department of Interior and Local Government enjoined all local governments to conduct activities towards ending violence against women. This is in line with the observance of the 18-day Campaign to End Violence Against Women which started November 25 to December 12. With the theme, “VAW-Free Society in Times of Peace, Conflict and Calamity,” this year’s campaign will focus on gender-based violence during disasters and armed-conflict situations ...
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27Jan2013BORONGAN CITY,Eastern Samar, Jan 27 (PIA) -- To help the Department of Education (DepEd) Eastern Samar Division in making contingent plans for the incoming school year, 2013-2014, the Eugenio S. Daza Pilot Elementary School (ESDPES), conducted an early registration today at their school gym. Elden Fuentes, principal, said teachers were not deterred by the morning drizzle drizzles of rains in accepting early registrants, as they would await for more up to 5 p.m., Saturday. Fuentes said, tho...
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07Dec2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Dec. 7 (PIA) -- The family of Captain Manuel D. Gabornes, Eastern Visayas nominee to the national search for the Model OFW Family of 2012, was proclaimed winner of the sea-based category during the awarding held at Sofitel Hotel in Pasay City on December 6. Considered the most prestigious award for OFWs, the Awarding was attended by DOLE Secretary Baldoz who read the keynote address of President Benigno S. Aquino III, while OWWA Administrator Carmelita S. Dimzon gave the...
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02Apr2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, April 2 (PIA) -- The Catbalogan local poverty reduction program targets P 30 million worth of projects this year. In a talk with Jose Obrero, the local government operations officer, he said that the projects and programs are results of the workshops identified both by the Local Poverty Reduction Action Team (LPRAT) and the civil society represented by the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) basic sector and the LGU-accredited organizations. One distinct feature of ...
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21Nov2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Nov. 21 (PIA) -- The various ongoing projects being implemented by the Department of Public Works and Highways – Tacloban City Sub District Engineering Office (DPWH-TCDEO) keep the staff to be on their toes, Arnaldo R. Bonifacio, DPWH engineer said. Among these projects currently being conducted in Tacloban are: the construction of the drainage system im barangays(brgy) Abucay and 20; the construction of a two-storey multi-purpose building in Brgy 51; construction of c...
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12Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 12 (PIA) -- In line with the month-long celebration of Women’s Month, a gender forum is set to be conducted at 1:00 p.m., March 12, at the Governor’s Hall of the Leyte Provincial Capitol. Dubbed, “Mobilizing Eastern Visayas Women in Government for Disaster Risk Reduction and Management,” the forum was organized by the Philippine Information Agency as the lead convener, under the auspices of the Region Eight Administrators League,...
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10Jan2013TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Jan 10 (PIA) -- In the spirit of solidarity and sharing, the employees of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Eastern Visayas decided to forego a lavish Christmas party in 2012 and instead donated the party’s fund to the victims of typhoon “Pablo” in Mindanao. DAR-8 Regional Director Eliasem Castillo disclosed that the entire DAR organization in Region-8 was able to raise a total of P60,640 from the staff of the Regional and six provincial offices for the vict...
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23Nov2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Nov 23 (PIA) -- To insure that concerned people are informed regarding “Removal of Obstructions and Prohibited Uses within the Road Right-of-Way of National Roads,” a meeting was recently organized by the Department of Public Works and Highways Leyte First Engineering District. The meeting, spearheaded by Angel A. Sia Jr. of DPWH, was in coordination with the local government units and some private institutions. The discussion revolved on road right-of-way encroachmen...
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21Feb2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Feb 21 (PIA) -- Teachers and parents from the island town of Daram (Samar) welcomed the news and implementation of the DepEd program K + 12. In an interview with Daram DepEd officials recently, they said there has been no opposition to the program with the more than a hundred mentors in Daram. DepEd Miguel Labnao Supervisor said that they made the rounds of the whole island of Daram with fellow supervisor Felipa Del Monte to inform both parents and teachers ...
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20Apr2012CATARMAN, Northern Samar, April 20 (PIA) -- At least 1,456 examinees, 1,300 of whom are slated for professional and 156 for sub-professional levels will take the Career Service Examinations on May 27, 2012, 7:00 AM at University of Eastern Philippines, Catarman, Northern Samar. According to CSC Director Emmanuel Fuentes, the 1,300 examinees for the professional level will hurdle a 170 item questions in three hours while there will be 156 items for sub-professional examinees who have to finish t...
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15Jun2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, June 15 (PIA) -- The Department of Science and Technology (DOST), in coordination with the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) and the Advance Science and Technology Institute, recently installed three Automated Weather Stations (AWS) in the Eastern Samar towns of Salcedo, Borongan, and Can-avid. Arnaldo Amosco Jr., provincial S&T director, said these three weather monitoring units are among the 200 units deployed al...
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04May2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, May 4 (PIA) -- The coconut tree lives up to its name as the tree of life as coconut husks that have been decorticated are woven into coconets and used to prevent erosion that could save lives. To support the government’s effort in promoting green engineering and climate change adaptation program, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Samar 1 Engineering District implements the use of coconet bio-engineering technology in its projects. The use of coco f...
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12Jan2013TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Jan 12 (PIA) - The purchasing power of peso in Leyte was maintained at 72 centavos for three consecutive months from August to November 2012, the National Statistics Office (NSO) said in a statement. NSO Leyte Provincial Statistics Officer Wilma Perante said this indicates that the same basket of goods and services worth 72 pesos in 2006 (base year) will be bought at 100 pesos during the reference period, August to November of 2012. Stated in another way, this means, acco...
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13Sep2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Sept 13 (PIA) -- The Regional Statistical Coordination Committee (RSCC) in Eastern Visayas will be giving an award to the local government unit (LGU) with outstanding participation in line with the month-long celebration of the 23rd National Statistics Month (NSM) on October. This award is designed to promote the conduct of activities that will further the objectives and spirit of the NSM celebration at the local levels, Evangeline M. Paran, RSCC secretary and regional hea...
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25Dec2012CAMP RUPERTO KANGLEON, Palo, Leyte, Dec. 25 (PIA) -- The Philippine National Police in Eastern Visayas is conducting heightened campaign against unscrupulous vendors of illegal firecrackers and pyrotechnics to ensure public safety. The various city and municipal police stations in Region have been conducting surveillance and confiscation operations on illegal firecrackers and pyrotechnics which are being sold in the market. In Tacloban City, a substantial number of illegal firecrackers and ...
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29Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 29 (PIA) -- As the world races to save the earth’s reserve energy, conservationists went out of their way to disseminate adequate information on ways and measures to conserve energy. The Department of Energy (DOE) held a Seminar on Electricity Conservation in Households and Schools held in Palo, Leyte on March 27. Participants to the seminar were students from the different schools in various towns in Leyte. National government agencies in Eastern Visayas, local g...
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18Feb2013Samar, Feb 18 (PIA) -- Around 20 cases of diarrhea and skin diseases have been reported in the office of Municipal Health Officer (MHO) Dr. Perlie Langi as a result of residents sourcing their water from open wells. The water system of Motiong town is damaged and residents want it repaired immediately. Locals resort to open wells for their water supply as the water pipes were inadvertently damaged in the on-going rehabilitation of the Buray-Taft road section. The water pipes damaged are loca...
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06Feb2012Borongan City, Eastern Samar, Feb 6 (PIA) -- The PLAN Philippines, Inc., Eastern Samar Chapter, a non-government organization (NGO) wants to help government efforts in providing disaster risk reduction (DRR) programs. Initially, PLAN sponsored a two-day training workshop on Disaster Risk Reduction IEC Development Training on February 4-5 at Eastern Samar Development Foundation (ESADEF), Borongan City, E. Samar. The training included a planning session where children and youth...
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14Sep2012CATARMAN, Northern Samar, Sept 14 (PIA) -- An exit conference was conducted at Brgy. Nenita, Mondragon, Northern Samar, a recipient of the P30 million under PAyapa at MAsaganang PamayaNAn (Pamana) road project. The provincial government, represented by PPPDO Romeo Cardenas and the Provincial Engineering Office, explained to constituents the overview of the activity, project updates and the planned turnover on September 19. Pamana Area Manager Emy Bonifacio asked barangay officials and residen...
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26Sep2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Sept 25 (PIA) -- The Filipinos of today have more positive things to say about the Presidency, indeed they are now more expressive about it than they were before. So said Presidential Communication Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Sonny Coloma in a press conference today at the VIP Lounge of the DZR Airport of Tacloban this province. Sec. Coloma was referring to the latest survey of the Social Weather Stations (SWS), on August 24-27 which revealed President Aquino...
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15Feb2013By Jonnie H. Buenaventura TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, 15 Feb. (PIA)- The implementation of Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) Electronic Premium Reporting System (EPRS) made Philhealth 8 compared to other Philhealth offices nationwide in addressing the needs of its members. According to Walter R. Bacareza, Regional Vice-President, the electronic premium reporting system made by their office helps a lot in updating the records of its members the posting of members' premium. Bacare...
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25Jan2013CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, January 25 (PIA)-- The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) launched and mobilized the Government Manpower Information System (GMIS) web-based application at the DPWH Multi-Purpose Building, Region VIII, Baras, Palo, Leyte, recently. GMIS stems from Executive Order No. 55 which directs the Integration and Automation of Government Financial Systems. Also, Executive Order No. 31 directed for the establishment of a Comprehensive Database on Government Manpower for Bu...
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13Sep2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, Sept 13 (PIA) -- Eight municipal local government units are set to receive glass markers as symbol of the Bronze Award for Good Housekeeping. Nida B. de la Cruz of the provincial Department of Interior and Local Government said this in an interview. The awarding ceremony, which will also recognize the leadership of the provincial government of Eastern Samar, will be held on September 28 during the Peace Forum. De la Cruz added that the Good Housekeeping Progra...
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08Mar2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, March 8 (PIA) – Hunger is number one cause why children steal and commit other serious crimes. This was revealed by Atty. Tricia Clare Oco of the Juvenile Justice Welfare Council in a Policy Forum for Juvenile Justice Welfare Act which was held recently in the city. “We cannot do otherwise, hungry children are left without choice but steal in order to survive,”, she said. She added that of the five top crimes committed by children between 2006-...
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24May2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, May 24 (PIA) -- The Department of Health Regional Office 8 (DOH-8) through its director, Dr. Jaime S. Bernadas, is encouraging women 30 years old and above to undergo a regular cervical cancer screening for an early detection, prevention and control of cervical cancer. In his message during the Cervical Cancer Awareness Month launching and kick-off ceremony held at the Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Center last May 17, Director Bernadas underscored this year’s theme, ...
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26May2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, May 26 (PIA) -- The Philippine National Police led by Southern Leyte Police Provincial Office Director PSSupt. Allan T. Cuevillas strengthened the campaign against illegal gambling activities throughout the province. According to the report of Police Community Relations Officer Jonatahan Pineda, Thursday, the PNP-SLPPO led by Police Provincial Director Cuevillas directed all Chiefs of Police to conduct surveillance against the resurgence and the arrest of persons ...
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22Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 22 (PIA) -- Eastern Visayas marks the commemoration of World Water Day today, March 22, through the conduct of several activities centering around the theme “Water and Food Security,” highlighted by the “Linis Estero” activities at Burayan River and Mahayahay Creek, in San Jose, Tacloban City. Led by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), the Linis Estero, which starts at 8:00 a.m., will be participated by DENR per...
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06Jan2013MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Jan. 6 (PIA) -- Six technical studies on production and marketing of shrimps, along with four scientific posters, comprise the official entries for the first International Freshwater Ulang Congress and Festival slated January 10-11, at the Southern Leyte State University (SLSU)-Bontoc Campus. These were the outputs of researchers coming from various places, from Misamis Oriental in Mindanao, Northern Samar, from Vietnam, and from the host province, Bontoc and Sogo...
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29Oct2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Oct 29 (PIA) -- Ninety-six couples in the far islands and barangays of Catbalogan who lived together for many years without marriage are now lawful pairs as they become beneficiaries of the October mass wedding conducted by the City Civil registrar sponsored by local government unit (LGU). Catbalogan City Mayor Coefredo Uy officiated the mass weddings in barangays Silanga, Old Mahayag, Bagongon, Rama, Cinco Sierra and Cagutsan this October 2012. The couples were require...
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02Jul2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, July 2 (PIA) -- The National Statistics Office (NSO) reported that for the first quarter of 2012, there were 672 deaths in Southern Leyte with pneumonia topping the leading cause. According to the NSO June 2012 special release, of the 672 deaths, 331 were caused by the top 10 leading causes of death and the remaining 341 were due to other causes. The release added that all other causes contributed less than two percent of the total deaths in Southern Leyte for t...
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09Sep2012KANANGA, Leyte, Sept 9 (PIA) -- Seventeen former rebels attended a three-day livelihood skills training, September 3-4, conducted by the provincial government of Leyte to prepare them mainstream in society. They were trained on animal husbandry and farming methods. Values development was also highlighted during the activity. The training was a pre-requisite before the former rebels can receive the livelihood financial assistance amounting to P50, 000 each from the Office of the Presidential Ad...
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19Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 19 (PIA) -- Stakeholders, during the final project steering committee meeting held recently, cited the successful implementation of the Enhancement of Food Security project in Leyte Island, a project designed to address food security issues in Leyte and Southern Leyte. The Enhancement of Food Security (EFOS) project in Leyte Island was introduced by the German International Cooperation (GIZ) together with the Department of Agriculture Regional Off...
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27Mar2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, March 27 (PIA) -- The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) engaged the cooperation of a non government organization (NGO) to boost Samar’s small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Meanwhile, the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) - Strategic Corporate-Community Partnership (SCOPE) assists in identifying projects mutually beneficial to the company and the community. Through SCOPE, the SME will be able to look for a community that will produce the raw materials...
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08Jan2013By: Marivic Alcober TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Jan 8 (PIA) – The National Statistics Office (NSO) – Leyte Provincial Office headed by Provincial Statistics Officer Wilma A. Perante, will be hiring service contractors who will serve as enumerators for the 2012 Census of Agriculture and Fisheries. The enumeration activity is scheduled to start on February 25, 2013. According to NSO-Leyte, applicants for the enumeration job should meet the following requirements: must be a college graduate or...
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12May2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, May 12 (PIA) -- Tree species like yakal, bagonito, patsaragon, narra and almaciga are being utilized as tree seedlings in Samar’s National Greening Program (NGP). In a report from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), it enumerated the tree species being planted in Samar’s wild. As of this year 2012, some 15 people’s organization will be greening Samar in the different watersheds of Catbalogan, Ulot, Mt. Huraw and Gandara among others. The ...
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06Jun2012CATARMAN, Northern Samar, June 6 (PIA) -- School association and education officials signed a covenant on Philippine public higher education on May 17, 2012. Among the signatories were University of Eastern Philippines (UEP) President Mar P. De Asis, who also stands as the Vice President for Visayas of the Philippine Association of State Universities and Colleges (PASUC); and the Commission on Higher Education together with other presidents of 109 state universities and colleges (SUCs) in the P...
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27Mar2012NAVAL, Biliran, March 27 (PIA) -- With an estimated more than three million tilapia fingerlings that will be produced annually by the hatchery located in his town, the local dad of Kananga envisions his town as a major supplier of tilapia fingerlings in Leyte province and in the whole of Region 8. It was learned that the Leyte Provincial Freshwater Hatchery is a project of the Deutsche Geseilschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) under the Enhancement of Food Security (EFOS) project ...
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10Feb2012NAVAL, Biliran, Feb 10 (PIA) -- Heart disease ranked fifth among the top 10 causes of mortality here in Biliran province, a health educator revealed during the “Kapihan at Pulong-pulong ng Bayan" live over Radyo Natin-Naval. Vanessa D. Veloso, Health Education and Promotions Officer (HEPO) of the provincial health office in Biliran province, said that the data was based on the records in 2010. She also disclosed that heart disease is ranked number 1...
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10Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb 10 (PIA) -- The trend in industrialized countries for more environment friendly products has given rise to growing demands for natural fibers such as the coconut coir. Coconut-growing countries have shifted attention to coconut products because of the slight increase in its prices. The situation made the Department of trade and Industry in Eastern Visayas to put the region to take position to catch the demand for natural products like coco coir. Eastern Visayas...
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14Nov2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, Nov 14 (PIA) -- Jesus Naquila, new director of the Department of Interior and Local Government Unit (DILG) here said he will continue implementing the Seal of Good Housekeeping of the department. Naquila said that for 2011, eight municipal local government units (LGUs) qualified in the assessment conducted in the province which were likewise validated by DILG-8. According to him, aside from the provincial government unit which recently received a glass marker on...
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22Feb2013TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb 22 (PIA) -- The National Statistics Office in Eastern Visayas hired 3,704 enumerators and 1,814 team supervisors as the 2012 Census of Agriculture and Fisheries starts on February 25 until April 13. The hired staff will augment the field personnel of NSO in this undertaking. Training have been conducted for all who will be involved to equip them with the needed knowledge and skills for the undertaking, said NSO Regional Director Raul Dones. The 2012 Census on Agricu...
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29Dec2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Dec 29 (PIA) -- Tropical storm Quinta made landfalls at Guiuan, Eastern Samar, and Abuyog, Leyte early this week, left four dead, one injured in the region. Office of Civil Defense Director Rey Gozon, chairperson of the Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, said Quinta also caused landslides rendering roads impassable, caused flooding in several municipalities, affected at least 390 families and evacuated at least 43 families. It also paralyzed the sea...
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24Jan2013PALO, Leyte, Jan 24 (PIA) -- The Bureau of Internal Revenue in Eastern Visayas known as Revenue Region No. 14 has exceeded its 2012 collection target. BIR Director Diosdado R. Mendoza said that the Region has collected a total revenue of P 4,749,461,891.44 in 2012 posting a cumulative surplus of P212,108,891.44 or 4.67% over its P 4,537,353,000.00 collection target for CY 2012. Director Mendoza added that the total revenue collection in 2012 posted a higher collection compared to the previous ...
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14Dec2012SOGOD, Southern Leyte, Dec. 14 (PIA) -- Smile, Agas-Agas, you are on camera in Bollywood. This imposing structure may soon be featured as one of the location shooting for a Bollywood movie “Dhoom3,” an action-epic film series that depicts the adventures of a cop going after thieves. Bollywood is the entertainment, celluloid world of India, the counterpart of Hollywood in the United States. It all began with a communication from Regional Director Karina Rosa Tiopes of the Department of To...
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09Dec2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Dec. 9 (PIA) -- The recent ambush of two Kalahi-CIDDs community facilitators in Samar is a case of mistaken identity. This was the conclusion reached by members of the Team Area Coordinator, the Philippine National Police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines as the two community facilitators were wearing incognito helmets and jackets and were not wearing any identification that they were from DSWD Kalahi-CIDDS when they were fired upon by unidentified armed men on th...
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11Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, Feb. 11 (PIA) -- With a few thousand pesos, a bunch of willing skilled craftsmen, a backward set of woodworking tools and an unwavering optimism, Ronie Villanueva started his small bamboo furniture business in a small lot along the Kawayan-Culaba road in Bulalacao, Kawayan, Biliran. Ronie used to be a security guard before he became an entrepreneur. He earned the trust of an unemployed furniture maker who convinced him to put up a small capital to start the bu...
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04May2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, May 4 (PIA) -- The water district in Catbalogan City has been promoting the planting of fruit trees in the Catbalogan Watershed where the source of water is found. In an interview with Tante Panela, Information officer of the Catbalogan Water District, she said they have already planted pili trees and jackfruit (langka). “Even the Catbalogan Bankers Association members will be planting trees this May,” added Panela who took pride in mentioning that they have attrac...
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07Oct2012ORMOC CITY, Leyte, Oct 7 (PIA) -- A national consultative meeting was recently conducted in the City of Ormoc to discuss the importance of securing animal breeds and the vital role of the United National Artificial Insemination Program in accelerating the development of the livestock industry. Regional Executive Director Antonio Gerundio of the Department of Agriculture in Eastern Visayas informed that the Unified National Artificial Insemination Program (UNAIP) consultative meeting brought to...
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22Mar2012CATBALOGAN City, Samar, March 22 (PIA) --The rural folks of Lapinig town stood up for peace and security in their hometown through a peace rally with the theme, “Undangon an Kasamok, Respetohon an Katungod ngan Kinabuhi han Tawo” (trans: Stop violence, respect human rights) recently. More than 2,000 participants from the cross section of Lapinig populace joined the rally which started at 8:00 a.m. from the Lapinig Town Plaza, passed the downtown streets, and returned to the ...
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30Mar2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte Mar 30 (PIA) -- The Social Security System (SSS) Maasin Branch is encouraging existing Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) to participate in the Member-Get-Member promo program , dubbed “Sa SSS: Kasamahang OFW ay Protektado, Meron Pang Papremyo” Program. In a meeting held with the Information Officers at PIA-Maasin, Thursday, SSS IO designate Merlinda Duazo said the raffle promo program is encouraging existing OFWs to urge other OFWs to be an active member of SSS...
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10May2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, May 10 (PIA) -- Eastern Samar province is set to receive an aid from the government of Australia as mentioned in a consultative conference held recently at the Provincial Governor’s Conference(PGO) Hall with key stakeholders and representatives of the Australian government. The conference aimed to come up with project proposals on child-centered community-based adaptation programs which could help children and their communities in increasing their resiliency t...
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12Sep2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Sept 12 (PIA) -- Samar province sees the need to replace senile trees that have not been yielding better coconuts. According to the regional development direction in coconut, Leyte and Samar have the largest percentage of senile trees. This is one of the reasons why attention is also given to coconuts in Samar. According to the Samar government website, coconut is the main commercial crop in the province, which is mostly concentrated in coastal areas. The total coc...
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24May2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, May 24 (PIA) -- The 8th Infantry (Stormtroopers) Division (8ID), Philippine Army (PA) will partner with “Pacific Partnership 2012,” a humanitarian and civic assistance mission in selected communities of Samar Island, from June 18 to July 1. The Pacific Partnership 2012 (PP12) is the largest annual mission of the United States Pacific Fleet in the Asia-Pacific region. The purpose of the mission is to deliver basic services, strengthen alliances, and ensure that the i...
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06May2012Barely a year after its initial implementation, the Integrated Taxation Management System (iTax) has improved the real property tax collection (RPT) in Leyte in 2011. This good news was relayed by the Leyte iTax coordinator, Madelyn Aclo who said that 22 of the 23 iTax municipalities showed an increase in Real Property Tax collection since the system was implemented in June of 2010. The iTax municipalities of Tabontabon, Pastrana and Javier experienced over 100 percent increases in RPT c...
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01Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, Feb 1 (PIA) -- For the year 2012, the massive tree planting campaign in Eastern Visayas is targeting 2,115,500 seedlings to be planted in 4,231 hectares of land, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources said. Purificacion Daloos, information chief of DENR Region 8, said that this is much higher than last year’s target which exceeded with the help of partners from government and private sectors. This year, Eastern Visayas had been chosen as the pilot...
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20Apr2012SOUTHERN LEYTE, April 20 (PIA) -- With the discovery of the new species of frogs in Southern Leyte, Gordon Ignacio, senior adviser of the biodiversity assessment project, urges Governor Damian Mercado and local government units to conserve the forest and the biodiversity of the province. According to Ignacio, the rich and unique bio-diversity wildlife is “Southern Leyte’s pride,” for this reason, it must be well-preserved and protected. The joint project of Deutsche Gesellschaft für I...
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19May2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, May 18 (PIA) -- A New People's Army (NPA) encampment at the vicinity of Brgy. Hagbay, San Jose De Buan, Samar was overrun by military troops of the 87th Infantry Battalion, 801st Infantry Brigade, 8th Infantry Division (8th ID), Philippine Army, under the leadership of LtC Cerilo C Balaoro last May 11. Elements of 87th IB under 2Lt Verniel D Semblante discovered the NPA encampment after they encountered undetermined number of rebels earlier that day. The said camp is...
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07Aug2012BAYBAY CITY, Leyte, August 7 (PIA) -- A two-day Jackfruit FIESTA opened in the morning of August 6, 2012 at the Visayas State University in Baybay City, Leyte. Spearheaded by the Visayas Consortium for Agriculture and Resources Program and the Department of Agriculture Regional Field Unit 8, the Jackfruit FIESTA is a collaborative effort to further push Eastern Visayas as the Jackfruit Capital of the country. The thrust is towards globally competitive and sustainable Jackfruit industry in East...
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30Apr2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, April 30 (PIA) -- Around 1,000 applicants responded to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) office’s government internship program in Catbalogan City. A total of 1,145 application forms had been received since April 26 but only 859 participants were interviewed due to lack of time. Most applicants came from Catbalogan City and only one has applied from San Jose de Buan. No one applied from the towns of Sto. ...
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09Dec2012CAMP DOWNES, ORMOC CITY, Dec. 9 (PIA) -- The military branded as desperate moves of lawless elements belonging to the New People’s Army, the attacks on government troops in Albuera and Jaro, Leyte on December 6, which resulted to the killing of two soldiers, and the wounding of three other soldiers and a civilian. “This is another desperate act of the NPA to disrupt our efforts of bringing peace and development that will benefit our less fortunate brothers and sisters in the area,” said ...
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08Feb2012NAVAL, Biliran, Feb 8 (PIA) -- Students from Limpiado Memorial Foundation, Incorporated commonly known here as the Lightbringer Learning Center showed their wares and mastery in archery as they emerged over-all champion in the secondary division in the recent Eastern Visayas Regional Athletic Association (EVRAA). EVRAA, a big annual regional sporting event participated in by ten athletic delegations coming from the different school divisions of the Department of Education from the...
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24Aug2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Aug 24 (PIA) -- Twenty four out of 28 private hospitals in Eastern Visayas have opened its doors to poor patients by forging a deal with the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) in the region implementing the No Balance Billing (NBB) policy to indigent patients in the region. Walter Bacareza, PhilHealth Eastern Visayas regional vice president, said the forging of the deal signed between PhilHealth president and chief executive officer Dr. Eduardo Banzon and...
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09Jul2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, July 9 (PIA) -- The Calbayog City Health Office reiterated its advocacy campaign to sustain the cleanliness of their surroundings, especially this rainy season. According to city health officer Dr. Sylvia de Guzman in a radio interview at Radyo ng Bayan-DYOG, there are reported suspected dengue cases in the city. She added that Calbayog City Mayor Ronaldo Aquino will issue an executive order to re launch an Iwas Dengue Campaign done in the city in 2010. She likewise urg...
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04Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb 4 (PIA) -- Commission on Higher Education chairperson Patricia B. Licuanan recently issued a memorandum endorsing the nationwide e-trike design contest for support and participation of all concerned in the Agency. In her memorandum issued on January 26, 2012, Licuanan enjoined all central and regional directors of CHED, all presidents, heads of public and private higher education institutions to support and participate in the DOE undertaking in acco...
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24Feb2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Feb 24 (PIA) -- Harmonizing Initiatives for the Spread of Good Nutrition (HIMSoG-8), a nutrition media group assessed its nutrition programs in the past year and vowed to overcome the challenges of malnutrition in Eastern Visayas. In its first board meeting yesterday at the Department of Health (DOH) compound, the media group outlined its plans for the same mission - fight malnutrition through media power - and with more passion. HIMSoG - 8 plans to advo...
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21Nov2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Nov 21 (PIA) -- The farm-to-market road project of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) in Barangay 107, Sta. Elena, Tacloban City has recently been completed. Arnaldo R. Bonifacio, engineer, of the DPWH said that the 2,750 square-meter project, which took off on August 10, 2012 had a total cost of P1,464,882.02. Said project, which was handled by DPWH engineer, Margarito E. Fabillo, was under contract with the Go Solid Builders, Inc. Another newly comple...
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13Mar2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, March 13 (PIA) -- The Southern Leyte Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (PDRRMC) allocated P 300,000 for the acquisition of spear guns that would get rid of the crown of thorns starfish (COTS) multiplying out of control throughout the province. “The provincial government considered the overpopulation of COTS as a natural disaster that threatens the marine life in the province,“ Provincial Environment an...
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21May2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, May 21, (PIA) -- The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) has implemented a joint memorandum on the convergence of a special program for the employment of students (SPES) and training for work scholarship program (TWSP), based on a recent interview with TESDA. The Public Employment Service Officers (PESO) in 16 municipalities is in charge of identifying potential applicants. The PESO shall process...
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09Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Mar 9 (PIA) -- True to its commitment and support to the national government’s campaign plan in addressing natural disasters and calamities, the Philippine National Police Regional Office 8 will be conducting a trainor’s training on March 9-13, 2012 dubbed, “Disaster Preparedness, Rescue and Relief Operations,” designed to prepare police rescue units for possible disaster response and deployment in search and rescue operations. This was lea...
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20Oct2012PALO, Leyte, October 20 (PIA) -- With the MacArthur Landing Memorial Shrine in Red Beach, Palo, Leyte as the backdrop thousands of people will gather today to commemorate the 68th Anniversary of the Leyte Gulf Landing. Among those expected to attend are World War II veterans and their relatives, foreign dignitaries from the nation members of the Allied Forces, national government officials, provincial government officials, students, and representatives of all sectors of the community. Leyte Go...
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05Feb2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, February 5 (PIA) – The series of earthquakes that shook the province since the third week of January, resulted from “the movement of the Philippine sea plate diving down the Eastern Philippines along the Philippine trench.” This was the findings of the Philippine Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS), according to a text message by PhiVolcs Director Renato Solidum to the Philippine Information Agency and media groups. He stresse...
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24Jan2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Jan 24 (PIA) -- The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (PDRRMC) of Southern Leyte has already identified the disaster-prone areas in the province and released these to the people concerned. According to PDRRMC consultant Jason Calva, Southern Leyte faces six risk factors like flooding, earthquake, tsunami, flashflood, heavy rains, and liquefaction. Earthquake is imminent within the 25-kilometer danger zone ...
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04Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb 24 -- One of the priority thrusts of government under the present administration is to ensure that all Filipinos be included in the health care by enrolling them under the Universal Health Coverage of the PhilHealth. Of the 95.74 million Philippine population, it is targeted that the entire population be registered and be provided with health care benefits by PhilHealth. According to Atty. Jerry F. Ibay, PhilHealth-8 Regional Vice-President during th...
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21Sep2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Sept 21 (PIA) -- The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has reported that one out of four establishments in Eastern Visayas has been violating labor standards. Out of the 443 firms checked by the inspectorate team in Eastern Visayas, 111 committed labor law violations, a report posted in DOLE’s website said. The report also showed that fire establishments espoused the plant level correction of violations which restituted P 417,953 benefits received by 55 workers....
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04May2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, May 4 (PIA) -- The Department of Health (DOH) in a public-private partnership with Merck Sharp & Dohme Philippines (MSD) will be offering free cervical cancer screening every Tuesdays for the whole month of May to women in the Visayas aged 25 to 49 years old. The launch of the said nationwide screening program, which is now in its fifth year, will be conducted on Tuesday, May 8, at 9:30 a.m. at the Eastern Visayas Medical Center in Tacloban City. The launch will be attende...
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26Mar2012SOUTHERN LEYTE, March 26 (PIA) -- To strengthen the local government units’ knowledge on disaster preparedness, the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) conducted a two-day community-based multi-hazard mapping at Silago, this province. OCD-Southern Leyte Provincial Coordinator Marichu Tan reported that the training held at Silago Municipal Audtirorim, Thursday and Friday was attended by Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council members, barangay officials throughout the municipality, teac...
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30Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 30 (PIA) -- Effective April 2012, the National Statistics Office (NSO) – Leyte Provincial Office will be updating its list of establishments for 2012 and will also conduct a survey on the 2012 labor force as of April. For this purpose, Anesia S. Babante, Statistical Coordination Officer II of NSO-Leyte shared that they will be hiring 29 statistical researchers who will act as enumerators in the results of the survey to be conducted plus other tasks that maybe a...
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02Mar2012SAN ROQUE, MACROHON, Southern Leyte, March 2 (PIA) -- Way back in 2003-2004, a non-government organization monitored the existence of crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) along the waters of Limasawa Island, known to be in an infestation stage. This was how Homer De Dios, a marine biologist from Southern Leyte State University-Bontoc Campus, believed to be the start of the existence of COTS, locally known as “Dap-ag”, here in the waters of Sothern Leyte. Crown-of-thorns ...
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27Dec2012GOV’T CENTER, Palo, Leyte, Dec 27 (PIA) -- The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) in Eastern Visayas, Revenue Region No. 14, is set to intensify campaign on the compliance to the “Iboto Mo” program of the agency. The Agency will check and monitor compliance to the directives of Project: Iboto Mo which imposes a five percent creditable withholding tax (CWT) on all election campaign-related expenditures for the coming May 13, 2013 local and national elections, said lawyer Diosdado R...
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16Mar2012NAVAL, Biliran, March 15 (PIA) -- The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) in Biliran is calling on high school graduates here to avail of the various scholarship grants offered by their agency for the next school year opening in June 2012. The call was made by Loreta Banario, provincial director of TESDA-Biliran during the Kapihan sa PIA held on Thursday, March 15, live in Radyo Nation - Naval. The national scholarship include the Training ...
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19Jun2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, June 19 (PIA) -- The Provincial Nutrition Council (PNC) will be adopting nutrition management during emergency and disaster response. The Technical Working Group (TWG) of the PNC is ready to adopt the National Policy in Nutrition Management in Emergencies and Disasters as mandated in National Nutrition Council Board Resolution 2, series of 2009. Under the policy, the nutrition council requires the delivery of quality nutrition and other health-related services that...
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20Sep2012GOVERNMENT CENTER, Palo, Leyte, Sept 20 (PIA) -- In response to the basic learning needs of the increasing number of out-of-school children, youth and adults, the Department of Education employed 52 additional Alternative Learning System (ALS) literacy volunteers in Eastern Visayas. The 52 literacy volunteers were assigned in five provinces of the region: five for Eastern Samar, 20 for Leyte, 10 in Northern Samar, 10 in Southern Leyte, and seven for Samar province, Dr. Cresencia Catan of DepE...
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25Apr2013CATBALOGAN CITY, April 25 (PIA)—The crowd that met the Peace and Development Caravan on Tuesday roused into an applause when heavy equipment arrived one by one in Barangay Barruz, Matuginao, Samar. The arrival of equipment signal the start of roadworks that will connect Matuginao to other parts of Samar. Battalion Commander of the 546 Engineer Battalion, Col Edgar Yerro was met with a round of applause from residents lining up the streets. Yerro reportedly travelled all the way from Boronga...
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09Feb2013TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb 9 (PIA) -- The Provincial Board of Leyte has granted clearance to NorAsian Energy Ltd. to conduct drilling operations in an area covered by Service Contract 51 issued by the Department of Energy. Board Member Ryan Lawrence Tiu, chairman of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan’s Environment Committee, said that the Leyte Provincial Board found no impediment to grant the clearance after going through the reports submitted by the Community Environment and Natural Resources Offi...
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03Jan2013TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Jan 3 (PIA) -- The tourism industry in Eastern Visayas is picking up and it is expected to pick up further with better infrastructure facilities making tourist destinations more accessible. Department of Tourism Region 8 Director Karina Rosa Tiopes made the disclosure in a radio interview, saying that the tourism industry of the region is slowly gaining a steady foothold based on the improved number of tourists arrivals. Tiopes said that based on the DOT monitoring as of ...
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22Nov2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Nov 22 (PIA) -- “It is commendable that a government agency such as the Bureau of Internal Revenue Region XIV which has nothing to do with the environment, initiated a forum on mitigation effects on climate change.” So said Presidential Assistant for Climate Change Secretary Elisea Gozun who was the guest speaker during the “Greening the Environment “forum, November 16 held at the BIR grounds, Palo, Leyte. Gozun commended BIR-Eastern Visayas regional director Att...
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16May2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, May 16 (PIA) -- The Regional Information Communication Technology Committee (RICTC) in Eastern Visayas, chaired by the Department of Science and Technology through Director Edgardo M. Esperancilla, conducted a Planning Workshop Tuesday to update the ICT Roadmap of the region from 2012 to 2016. Director Cynthia R. Nierras of the Department of Trade and Industry and RICTC vice chair, presided over the planning workshop which was attended by members from the national governm...
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16Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY, LEYTE, Feb16 (PIA) – Commuters are currently stranded along the Abuyog-Silago Road due to three landslides that occurred due continuous rains in the area. OCD Region 8 Director Rey Gozon said that the DPWH maintenance crew is already in the area to conduct clearing operations. The crew has been directed by DPWH Region 8 Director Rolando Asis not to leave the area unless the clearing operations are completed. Gozon added that the Police have been contacted t...
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17Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 17 (PIA) -- The surge of nursing graduates amid declining demand for them here and abroad led the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to come up a project dubbed EntrepreNurse project. “EntrepreNurse is an initiative of DOLE, in collaboration with Professional Regulations Commission – Board of Nursing, Philippine Nurses Association, and other government agencies and academic institutions to promote nurse entrepreneurship by introducing a h...
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25Aug2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, August 25 (PIA) -- The Department of Interior and Local Government Regional Management Coordinating Committee composed of DILG, Philippine National Police and Bureau of Fire Protection sponsored a concelebrated mass for the late Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo. Held at the Santo Nino Parish Church at 8 a.m. of August 24, Friday, the mass was attended by the officials and staff of the DILG family in Eastern Visayas, members of the media and other govern...
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14Mar2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, March 14 (PIA) -- Samarnons may adapt rice ratooning to augment their dwindling harvest. In Pinabacdao town where 756 hectares are devoted to rice farming, the rice ratooning technique will be done along with some other towns in Samar making the total area to be ratooned, 300 hectares, said Nelson Badolid, Municipal Agriculturist. The idea was conceived in a meeting of agriculturists with Anita Taran, provincial agriculturist. Ratooning, a...
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06Dec2012CAMP RUPERTO K. KANGLEON, Palo, Leyte, Dec 6 (PIA) -- The Police Regional Office-8 scored the biggest drug haul this year as a recent anti-illegal drugs operation in Kananga town in Leyte yielded a sizeable amount of methamphetamine hydrochloride, popularly known as “shabu.” Police Chief Superintendent Elmer Ragadio Soria, Eastern Visayas police director, said that joint operatives of Anti-illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Group (AIDSOTG) from the Leyte and Kananga police, and agents fr...
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15Feb2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Feb 15 (PIA) -- There is the "guru," "the master," the "idol," now there is the "specialista." The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) launched TESDA Specialista Technopreneurship Program (TSTP) information center in Calbayog City on February 10, 2012. The specialista is a graduate of a TESDA technical-vocational course that specializes in any of the three groupings: food and beve...
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10Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 10 (PIA) -- The Philippine Health Corporation (PhilHealth) in Eastern Visayas is determined to include all underprivileged families in the region in the agency’s health insurance coverage. Through the PhilHealth Capitation Fund (PCF), local government units (LGUs) which avail of the program are allowed to enroll hundreds or thousands of indigent residents to a one-year coverage. The program requires of an LGU to allot part of its annual budget ...
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29Aug2012ALANGALANG, Leyte, August 29 (PIA) -- The Korea Federation of Fire Association (KFFA) will turnover to the local government of Alangalang, Leyte a newly refurbished fire truck worth P13 million on August 30 at the Central Office of the Bureau of Fire Protection. The donation will boost the local government’s fire fighting capability as it only has one fire truck which Alangalang Mayor Loretto Yu described as “old Yu said the acquisition of new fire truck is part of the Sustainable Use and ...
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20Mar2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Mar 20 (PIA) -- The Philippine Army (PA) through Staff Sergeant Noel D. Cabides said they are now recruiting additional military forces where examination for interested applicants will be administered on different dates and separate venues. The Army is open to interested applicants for PA Officer Candidate Course (OCC) and Officer Preparatory Course, it was learned. Examination for the applicants are set on the following dates and venues: April 13 at Cam...
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26Mar2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, March 26 (PIA)—The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) in Samar is inviting small and medium enterprises to avail of its Small Enterprise Technology Upgrading Program (SET UP) in the province. Applicants should not be discouraged by the requirements of the agency, said DOST offical Roselle Gopo told members of the Provincial Small and Medium Enterprises Development Council (PSMED) on Wednesday. “When applicants read the requirements, they are discouraged imm...
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04Jun2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, June 4 (PIA) -- The Department of Interior Local Government (DILG) Region 8 Director Pedro Noval Jr. arrived at the Provincial Government Office of Samar to sign memorandum of agreement (MOA) with Governor Sharee Ann Tan, Friday. The MOA signing was done for the implementation of Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan (PAMANA) program in Samar. This program is an intervention in conflict affected and vulnerable areas to complement the government’s peace negotiation efforts. ...
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06Aug2012GOVERNMENT CENTER, Palo, Leyte, Aug 6 (PIA) -- After a thorough review and evaluation, the Evaluation and Selection Committee for the Regional Research Oral Presentation and Poster Exhibit Contest has chosen three entries in the professional category and four entries in the student category from Eastern Visayas to compete for the best research from different regions of the country. Department of Science and Technology Region 8 Director Edgardo Esperancilla said the contest will be held in time...
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03Feb2012by Aurora J. Casimpan TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb 3 (PIA) -- Athletes and participants representing school divisions in Eastern Visayas converged Sunday at the Southern Leyte Sports Center in Mantahan, Southern Leyte to join the Eastern Visayas Regional Athletics Association (EVRAA). According to Genes Murallos, officer-in-charge of the Maasin City schools divisions, some 5,000 athletes coming from the 10 school divisions in the region and 400 sports officials were expected go ...
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21May2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, May 21 (PIA) -- In an effort to intensify the campaign against illegal drugs, Southern Leyte Police Director PSSupt. Allan T. Cuevillas directed all Chiefs of Police to monitor each of the area of responsibility, particularly drug-related activities. Maasin City Police Station led by PSInsp. Marianito P. Malibago conducted a buy-bust operation in Barangay Asuncion, Maasin City, Thursday which resulted in the arrest of a suspected jobless drug pusher, 26, Police Co...
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24May2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, May 24 (PIA) -- One of the Diskwento Caravans, which will simultaneously be launched nationwide by Trade Secretary Gregory Domingo on May 29, is the "3rd Diskwento Caravan Sale: Balik Eskwela Edition 2012" at Rizal Park, Tacloban City. Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Leyte Provincial Director Desiderio Belas, Jr. informed that the Diskwento Caravan in Tacloban City on May 29 to 31 will be hosted by DTI in coordination with the City Government of Tacloban City. The C...
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11Jun2012PALO, Leyte, June 11 (PIA) -- Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jesse Robredo will arrive in Eastern Visayas region on Monday, June 11, to keynote the regional summit on disaster in Eastern Visayas. DILG-8 director Pedro A. Noval Jr. said that the activity is the region’s edition of the Tapatan Roadshow which is set to be conducted nationwide by the DILG to advocate and institutionalize the concept of disaster preparedness among local government units all over the c...
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02Jul2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, July 2 (PIA) -- B. Gen Gerardo Layug, the Commanding General of the 8th Infantry Division, Philippine Army declared that the accomplishments of the biggest U.S. humanitarian mission in Samar exceeded targets. Layug was assigned as the ground commander during the project that started in June 18 and ended today. Pacific Partnership is the largest humanitarian and civic action mission in the Asia Pacific region designed to strengthen regional partnership and enhance a col...
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29Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 29 (PIA) -- Awareness of how one can make a difference in saving planet earth from further environmental degradation through energy conservation propelled about 300 sectoral representatives to answer the call to attend the March 27 Seminar on Electric Conservation in Households and Schools. Organized by the Energy Utilization Management Bureau of the Department of Energy in cooperation with World Wildlife Fund for Nature Philippines and the Philippine Information Age...
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12Feb2013MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb. 12 (PIA) -- The provincial office of the Technical Education Skills Development Authority (Tesda) will have its hands full as it helps 10 local government units in the province prepare a doable program for implementation in 2014 aimed at reducing poverty incidence. The Local Poverty Reduction Action Plan (LPRAP), a convergence of several national line agencies, will be set in motion next year in Macrohon, Bontoc, Hinunangan, Libagon, Maasin City, Malitbog, So...
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19Apr2012SOUTHERN LEYTE, April 19 (PIA) -- This province has carved a new impression as a haven for a rich bio-diversity wildlife in the wake of reports broadcast on nationwide television and online news outlets that two new species of frogs were discovered in the forests off the pacific area. According to reports, the newly-found frogs species were a mottled brown frog with red eyes and a broad yellow stripe running down its back, and a yellow green frog the size not much bigger than a man’s thumb....
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19Mar2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, March 19 (PIA) -- The Social Security System (SSS) Maasin Branch announces that barangay chairmen may attest to the existence of a pensioner in his/her respective barangay if the latter could no longer report personally every year at the bank. Medical Specialist II Jerome O. Paler, MD, reported during the Action Center - PIA Kapihan over MCTV and DySL radio station, Thursday, that the state social insurance is keen on implementi...
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22Mar2012ANAHAWAN, Southern Leyte, Mar. 22 (PIA) -- A six kilometer (km) farm-to-market road linking this town to its its interior and upland barangays can greatly help farmers save on costs in transporting their farm products and will inspire them to produce more. “Each sack of copra costs P 80 to P 100 when ferried to the town, so for 10 sacks ,a farmer spends P 1,000 for transportation expenses alone; but with the opening of this road, such expenses can be saved ...
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09May2012CATARMAN, Northern Samar, May 7 (PIA) -- The University of Eastern Philippines (UEP), in close coordination with the Mines and Geo-Sciences Bureau (MGB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), has identified hazard-prone areas within its campus as an integral part of its contingency plan in case of an emergency. Among the risk areas identified by the MGB that can possibly happen within the territorial confines of the UEP were landslide sites and liquefaction, or the loose...
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24Jan2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Jan. 24 (PIA) -- Department of Education (DepEd) has assured the public that the K to 12 program will surely be implemented. “K to 12 is a go, walang atrasan. (K to 12 is a go. There’s no turning back)” said Undersecretary Yolanda Quijano of the DepEd during the first Regional Education Summit on Jan. 20 in Tacloban City. “We have a well-prepared curriculum,” said Quijano, citing several committees that are preparing thoroughly for ...
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30Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 30 (PIA) -- Mothers will now have the privacy to breastfeed their babies while at the PhilHealth office in Tacloban. This, after a Breastfeeding Corner was opened at the transacting area of PhilHealth. The Breastfeeding Corner has two comfortable coaches, pillows, and sanitizers. Soon, said Renato Limsiaco, chief of PhilHealth Management Services Division, the Corner will be provided with soothing music to comfort breastfeeding mothers and their babies.. A refrig...
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03Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 3 (PIA) -- Some 144 people’s organizations (POs) under the Community-Based Forest Management (CBFM) Program of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) will be tapped as primary partners in the implementation of the National Greening Program (NGP) in Eastern Visayas. Now in its second year of implementation, the NGP in Region 8 has a total of 12,365 hectares targeted for development by the 144 POs implementing the CBFMP, Ms. Purificaci...
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10Feb2013TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb 10 (PIA) -- In preparation of its full automation by middle of this year, the Home Development Mutual Fund (Pag-IBIG Fund) is once again reminding employers and members who have not registered yet online to do so to fully implement the system. During the Suruswerte ha PIA Tuesday, Pag-IBIG-8 marketing division chief Leo Larraga said that the program will run once the nationwide online registration will be completed or complied by all the employers and members. “The ...
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12Apr2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, April 12 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development, via its Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), the government’s poverty alleviation program, is hiring qualified people for assignment as regional encoders, municipal links, and social welfare assistants for this project. Joan Baclay, 4Ps regional information officer of the DSWD in the region, disclosed that new graduates as well as unemployed graduates from past years will have a chance to work in g...
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18May2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, May 18 (PIA) -- The Commission on Population (POPCOM) in Eastern Visayas is set to launch in July this year a full-length movie designed to educate the youth on adolescent health and youth development program (AHYDP). The movie, “Crossroads,” will focus on students and the out-of-school youth as target audience. Leo Rama, POPCOM regional director, informed that copies of the movie will be reproduced to the cities and provinces across the region for showing to young pe...
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01May2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, May 1 (PIA) -- The repair of the 34.121-kilometer access road to Samar’s poorest town is now in the works. This was learned from the Emy Bonifacio, Program Development Officer of the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process –Payapa at Masaganag Pamayanan (OPAPP-PAMANA) in an interview yesterday. San Jose de Buan is a hinterland town, and in 2003 was ranked one of the poorest in the region with a poverty incidence of 82 percent. It is accessible by roa...
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17Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb. 17 (PIA) -- The Civil Service Commission (CSC) Regional Office No. 8 will be conducting a two-day live-out “Basic Customer Service Skills” seminar scheduled on February 22-23, 2012 in Tacloban City. The said seminar, according to CSC, which is designed for frontline service providers, aims to equip the participants with skills that will not only enable them to please their customers, but also make them enjoy their work even better. Specifi...
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24Jan2013MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Jan 24 (PIA) -- One among the priority infrastructure projects of the Southern Leyte Engineering District (SLED) of the DPWH is the construction of better road networks to tourist destinations to facilitate travel of local and domestic tourists visiting the province. “The infrastructure support such as concreting of road pavements leads to the development of tourist destinations for the accessibility of foreign and domestic tourists,” Southern Leyte Re...
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25May2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, May 25 (PIA) -- Some 50 Barangay Women and Children Desk Officers (BWCDO) from different barangays in Catbalogan City gained beneficial information the two days orientation- seminar on their roles and responsibilities as regards cases of violence against women and children at the Cocina de Cabral, Catbalogan City on May 23 and 24. City legal counsel Atty. Aileen Forteza, discussed Republic Act (RA) 9262 Anti Violence Against Women and Children (VAWC) Act of 2004. Fort...
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19Apr2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, April 19 (PIA) --To ensure that Ulot Watershed is protected, the Paranas local government unit (LGU) conducted an awareness campaign concerning the watershed and other protected areas within the Samar Island Natural Park. According to Joy Salazar, Paranas’ municipal tourism officer, the activity was attended by barangay captains, chiefs of offices, national governmentagencies (NGAs), and other representatives of local governments. Angelito Villanueva, Protected Area S...
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01Feb2013MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb 1 (PIA) -- The Social Security System (SSS)- Southern Leyte Field Office urges all its members to register online. SSS-SoLeyte Officer In Charge William Penserga said during the weekly Action Center Cable TV program yesterday, “ thru the SSS website www.sss.gov.ph, all the members of SSS may register online as soon as the Maasin Filed Office will launch the e-center by February 2013.” “ E-center will provide convenient access for the SSS members fo...
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16Apr2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Apr 16 (PIA) -- The Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Management Office (PENRMO) has been continuously extracting the crown-of-thorns starfish throughout Southern Leyte since it reportedly increased in number, particularly in the waters of Sogod Bay and in Maasin City. In a mitigation report by Coastal Fisheries Resources and Management Office Provincial Head Eva Abad the municipality with the highest COTS extracted was Padre Burgos with 80,145, followed...
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29Jan2013CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Jan 29 (PIA) -- The Police Regional Office - Reg 8 (PRO-8) awarded a policeman from Samar along with others during the 22nd Foundation Day of the Philippine National Police (PNP) Monday. The PNP elements were given recognition for their efforts in fulfilling the organization’s peacekeeping mission. POI Noel Royandoyan was given a Medalya ng Kagalingan or PNP Merit Medal for his gallantry in action during the manhunt operation at Barangay Peñaplata, Gandara, Samar wh...
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30Dec2012CARIGARA, Leyte, Dec 30 (PIA) -- The Second Leyte Engineering District (2nd LED) is set to undertake a P68-million worth of projects in 2013 to facilitate the opening of the long-awaited for Burauen-Albuera Road. A P50 million funding will cover the road opening and pavement of two-kilometer(km) road section and construction of Lobi Bridge while the remaining P18 million is intended for building the 30-meter Balagnon Bridge said Ma. Margarita C. Junia, district engineer. “If these entire...
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27Jan2012The destitutes of this city and from elsewhere in the province, have been receiving free physical check-up, dental, and surgical services, including medicines, courtesy of a medical mission held this week. The mission, dubbed “Gasa Para sa Katawhan sa Southern Leyte” (a gift for the people of Southern Leyte), was spearheaded by Rep. Roger Mercado, his wife Luz, and supported by the Limasawa Development Foundation (LIDEF), and the local governments of the city and the p...
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15Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb 15 (PIA) -- The Eastern Visayas Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council and Southern Leyte Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council are set to conduct a joint meeting in order to discuss the disaster issues and concerns besetting the areas. Office of Civil Defense Director Rey Gozon who is the chairman of the RDRRMC, disclosed that the joint meeting which is scheduled to be held on February 16, 2012 at Kuting Reef, Macrohon, Southern L...
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27Jan2013BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, Jan 27 (PIA) –- Mayor Emiliana Villacarillo of Dolores recently asked the Department of Health (DOH) central office to strengthen their assistance in order for her municipality to be free of Schistosomiasis. Villacarillo, in part of her thanksgiving speech after the Inter-local Health Zone, where Dolores was given recognition by the Provincial Health Office (PHO) as top performer in the elimination of filariasis. The mayor wished that other than filariasis, s...
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29Jan2013TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Jan 29 (PIA) -- The Commission on Elections (Comelec) in Eastern Visayas may ask for more military and police presence in Samar for the mid-term elections if the situation calls for this. Comelec Regional Director Dennis Ausan said the plan for augmentation will based on circumstances prevailing in the province. Ausan said the situation should be weighed carefully as augmenting the force might instead heighten the tension here. Several barangay officials and residents of...
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13Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, Feb 13 (PIA) -- Office of Civil Defense Region 8 OIC Director Rey Gozon called on the public to participate in the conduct of the 2012 first quarter nationwide simultaneous earthquake drill on March 1, 2012. The earthquake drill will be spearheaded by the Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Councils (RDRRMC), Gozon told the local media in the recently held Harampang Ha PIA. The drill is critical in the light of the series of disasters that have confr...
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30Mar2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Mar. 30 (PIA) --The Regional Validation Team of the Office of the Civil Defense (OCD) and the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has recently monitored the implemented projects funded by the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management calamity fund. The validation team looked into the NDRRMC-funded projects that were implemented by the Southern Leyte Provincial Risk Reduction Management Council (PDRRMC) in St. Bernard, among the various rehabilitation an...
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21May2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, May 21 (PIA) -- A contaminated water source was cited as one reason for the suspected typhoid fever outbreak in some barangays of Maydolong town, a few weeks past. This was revealed in a “preliminary report” sent to mayor Henry Afable by a study team from the Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP), National Epidemiology Center of the Department of Health, Manila. To recall, an April 30 report had it, that there were 177 suspected typhoid fever cases, who c...
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02May2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, May 2 (PIA) - - The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Regional Office 8 is set to screen today the applicants for the 832 summer job young workers coming from Southern Leyte to join the nationwide Expanded Government Internship (EGIP). According to Edna Dator of the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO) EGIP team will meticulously select 112 qualified youths out of 700 young applicants in Maasin City alone; the rest of the EGIP...
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18Mar2012PALO, Leyte, March 18 (PIA) -- The national government has allotted P750 million to finance seven major infrastructure projects which are scheduled to be implemented in Eastern Visayas starting this month. Department of Public Works and Highways Region 8 Director Rolando Asis said that the amount is part of the additional P1.9 billion allocation intended for 2011 but was not released last year. The DPWH in the Region had completed the survey of all the seven projects. In...
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05May2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, May 5 (PIA) -- The Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau/New Conservation Areas in the Philippines Project (PAWB/New CAPP) seeks to establish an inter-local government unit alliance to establish Mt. Nacolod as a conservation area. "A study has been undertaken jointly by the PAWB/New CAPP and Forest Management Bureau/German Development Cooperation-Duetsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit, through the Fauna and Flora International in coordination with ...
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17May2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, May 17 (PIA) -- Francisco Canayong of Salcedo was hacked to death May 1, while he was on his way home of said town. As an active member of the Samar Island Partnership for Peace and Development (SIPPAD), Canayong supported and advocated for the protection of the environment particularly against the mining operation in Salcedo and in other parts of Eastern Samar. In a Pastoral letter, the three Samar Bishops, Most Reverend Crispin Varquez (Borongan), Most Rever...
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01Feb2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb. 1 (PIA) -- The central office of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) was so impressed with the panoramic view of two tree-planting sites here under the National Greening Program (NGP) that these were declared model NGP areas . According to Provincial Environment and Natural Resources officer (PENRO) Ricardo Tomol, the NGP sites at barangays Bogo and Laboon, and another at barangay Lunas, caught the attention of the agency&rsq...
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15Mar2012Southern Leyte, March 15 (PIA) -- The Coastal Fisheries and Resources Management (CFRM)Office in Southern Leyte set a synchronized extraction of crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) from the waters of Southern Leyte on World Water Day, March 22. CFRM Officer Eva Abad disclosed in a launching ceremony of Sogod Bay Sustainable Marine Management Alliance held at San Roque, Macrohon recently that, “the deadly COTS can’t be eliminated with us alone; every community should ...
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19Feb2012With the lingering need to get away from it all, there is a place in the province of Leyte where Juan and his family can commune with nature. Such place is “Kalanggaman,” an island jeweled with ivory white sands, crystal clear waters with mixed aqua marine and blue colors that blend well with the palm trees in the place. Kalanggaman is approximately 12 kilometers from the town proper of Palompon, Leyte and located close to the province of Cebu. With a...
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04Apr2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Apr. 4 (PIA) -- The Special Program for Employment of Students (SPES) project of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) provincial office here just got even more special this summer time, as more qualified youths will be gainfully employed. In a list of 2012 SPES pledged by DOLE, some 1,031 posts are up for grabs, mainly through the labor agency’s partner institutions that include local government units (LGUs), a public school, and one national governmen...
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22Jan2012by Flor Jackson TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, January 22 (PIA) -- Some 300 participants attended the first-ever Eastern Visayas (EV) Regional Education Summit on Friday, January 20 at the Department of Education (DepEd) Regional Office 8 Complex at the Government Center in Candahug, Palo, Leyte. The education summit brought together school officials and teacher representatives from the six provinces of Eastern Visayas led by DepEd Regional Director Luisa Bautista-Yu, parents, local c...
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11Feb2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Feb. 11 (PIA) -- The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) campaigns with partners in advocating the National Greening Program (NGP) as President Benigno S. Aquino III declared the implementation of Executive Order 26 or the National Greening Program as a government priority. “Our current reforestation efforts are ineffective and inefficient so there’s this new strategy called NGP,” Dr. Cleofe Torres, Dean of the Development Com...
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05Sep2012PALO, Leyte, Sept 5 (PIA) -- The Eastern Visayas Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council placed total damage to infrastructure in the region by the 7.6 earthquake on August 31 at P75,858,500. Rey Gozon, Office of Civil Defense – Region 8 director, said the amount represents road and bridge damages as reported by the Department of Public Works and Highways and school building damages as reported by the Department of Education in East Samar. Northern Samar estimated that dama...
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13Feb2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Feb 13 (PIA) -- The Samar provincial government during a meeting on February 10 of the Provincial Development Council (PDC) proposed P 674-million worth of road projects leading to tourism destinations. The council is banking on the “Convergence Program for Enhancing Tourism Access” forged between the Department of Tourism (DOT) and the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH). Governor Sharee Ann Tan presented some se...
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30May2012TACLOBAN CITY, May 30 (PIA) -- As the Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC) in Eastern Visayas envisions to reduce by 50 percent the rate of injuries by 2020, an addition of 30 on top of the 99 listed initiatives in the Philippine Road Safety Action Plan from 2010- 2011 were noted. DOTC Assistant Secretary (ASEC) Dante Lantin for administrative and finance noted that the DOTC regional office in Eastern Visayas is moving ahead than other regions as evidenced with the lau...
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28Jun2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, June 28 (PIA) -- The Lingganay Festival of Alangalang, Leyte retained its Pintados-Kasadyaan crown in a spectacular festival presentation held at the jam-packed Leyte Sports Complex on June 27. Pasaka Festival of Tanauan, Leyte emerged as second place, while Karatong Festival of Dulag, Leyte placed third. The grand champion received P500,000 cash prize, a trophy and the chance to represent the province of Leyte in the next Aliwan Fiesta in Manila. The Lingganay Festival ...
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10Feb2012NAVAL, Biliran, Feb 10 (PIA) –-- A health educator from the Department of Health (DOH) urged the public to follow the seven lifestyle habits to avoid heart disease. Vanessa D. Veloso, Health Education and Promotions Officer (HEPO) of the provincial health office in Biliran province, made the statement on February 9, when she represented Dr. Alfonso Veneracion, provincial health officer of Biliran as guest during the regular “Kapihan at Pulong-Pulong ng Baya...
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27Mar2012VISCA, Baybay City, Leyte, March 27 (PIA) -- Top officials of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Region 8 and the Visayas State University are set to sign on March 27 a memorandum of agreement for the benefit of the agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) in the provinces of Leyte and Biliran. DAR Region 8 Director Eliasem Castillo disclosed that in the agreement, DAR will provide the funding while VSU will conduct the needs and design assessments among the identified ARB organization...
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25May2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, May 25 (PIA) -- Among the provinces throughout Eastern Visayas, Southern Leyte had the lowest average annual growth rate with 1.03 percent annually, the National Statistics Office – Provincial Office in a press release said. Provincial Statistics Officer Mae R. Almonte reported that those other provinces stood at 1.04 percent for Leyte, 1.33 percent for Eastern Samar, 1.35 percent for Samar, 1.43 percent for Biliran, and 1.64 percent for Northern Samar. Tacloban C...
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06Feb2012CAMP RUPERTO K. KANGLEON, PALO, Leyte, Feb 6 (PIA) -- It will not take long for the surroundings to turn a soothing green as millions of trees will be planted nationwide as a mitigating step against the changing climate. Officers and personnel of the Philippine National Police in Eastern Visayas recently planted 13,600 tree seedlings as its contribution towards the preservation and protection of the environment in the region. Police Senior Supt. Nilo Donayre, chief of the Regional...
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01Apr2012NAVAL, Biliran, Apr.1 (PIA) – Biliran province joined with the rest of the provinces nationwide on Saturday in the observance of Earth Hour from 8:30 to 9:30 in the evening by switching off lights and other appliances in households. In an interview, Naval Vice-Mayor Redentor Villordon informed that he disseminated the information about the Earth Hour not only to the employees of the local governemnt unit but also to the members of the Basic Ecclessial Community during an assembly today where...
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05Apr2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, April 5 (PIA) -- Major General Emmanuel Bautista of the Philippine Army presided over the ‘changing of the guard’ of the 8th Infantry Division, Philippine Army in Camp Lukban, Catbalogan City, Tuesday. Brigadier General Gerardo Layug filled the post vacated by Major General Mario Chan who retired April 3, Tuesday. Bautista commended Chan for his peace initiatives in Samar his biggest accomplishment being the declaration of Southern Leyte as insurgent free and Leyte ...
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02Jan2013TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Jan 2(PIA) -- Eastern Visayas recorded only one firecracker injury related case on New Year’s eve. This was learned from the Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Center, the only sentinel hospital in Region 8. The victim was identified as Tiudulo Fernandez, 76, from Kassel Home, Tacloban City who was brought to a private hospital at about 10:29 p.m. of December 31 for injuries sustained from Picolo blast. It was learned that the victim was having a drinking spree with his ...
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25May2012NAVAL, Biliran, May 25 (PIA) -- Opening of classes is just a few days away and it’s time to think again how to save a few pesos from the budget set aside for school supplies and other school needs. In order to help students save same some amount for other school needs, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Biliran Provincial Office shares some “Tipid Tips” when buying school supplies and other school items in time for the opening of classes in June 4 this year. Part of the “Tipi...
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22Dec2012CAMP RUPERTO KANGLEON, Palo, Leyte, Dec. 22 (PIA) -- A team from the Eastern Visayas Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council is set to leave on December 26 for augmentation of relief operations in the Pablo stricken areas in Mindanao. Office of Civil Defense Region 8 Director Rey Gozon, during the December 21 special meeting of the RDRRMC Technical Working Group said the team from Eastern Visayas will go to Region 11 particularly in the thirteen municipalities which severely aff...
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22May2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, May 22 (PIA) -- The city government of Maasin through the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council held a ground-breaking activity for the construction of Embankment Protection and River Bed Protection projects, last May 18, at Barangay Nasaug, this city. The mitigating structure projects is assisted by the German Deutsche Gessellschaft fúr Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), City Engineer Aniceto Narit disclosed in a short talk last Friday. ”There ...
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23May2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, May 23 (PIA) –- To provide reliable communication system, especially in times of disasters, the city government of Maasin through the City Risk Reduction and Management Office (CDRRMO) will rehabilitate the 2-way radio system in cooperation with the German Deutsche Gessellschaft fúr Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). “The city government proposed to GIZ, the plan to rehabilitate the communication system to enable the concerned officials to contact the baranga...
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28Mar2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, March 28 (PIA)-- The National Director of Earth Hour Pilipinas urged the public not only to observe “Earth Hour” but to go beyond the requested 60 minutes of switching off the light. Earth hour will be observed and celebrated this March 31, 2012, Saturday at 8:30 -9:30 in the evening. Cities, towns and commercial establishments support the program by switching off their lights and appliances saving as much as 611 megawatts as what happened in the year 2009. “Thi...
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02Oct2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, Oct 2 (PIA) -- Two members of the Provincial Police Force were recognized for their contributions in the province’s quest for peace and order. This was during the recently concluded Peace Month celebration of the provincial local government here. Police Supt. Orlando S. Gardiola Jr. and his family were given the certificate of commendation and cash incentive of P10,000 as 2012 Model PNP Family (National Level-Third Runner-up, Family Category). SPO2 Solita Canit...
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16Apr2012NAVAL, Biliran, April 16 (PIA) -- A soaring eco-tourism in the municipality of Cabucgayan is invisioned by all concerned agency officials who attended and witnessed the turnover and groundbreaking ceremonies of three infrastructure projects on Thursday (April 12) in Brgy. Balaquid, Cabucgayan, Biliran. Brgy. Balaquid now enjoys a .5129 kilometer (km) concrete farm-to-market road leading to Kasabangan Falls, a .5169 km communal irrigation system (CIS). Soon to start is a P2,706,854-worth...
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15Jun2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, June 15 (PIA) –- A total of 53 job-seekers were hired on the spot during the Samar Job Expo 2012 in Catbalogan City as the nation celebrated its 114th Independence Day on June 12. In a report filed by Fe Estrella, provincial head of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), it said that 16 were hired for overseas jobs while 37 were hired for local employment. Provincial agriculturist Anita Taran, who served as the one in charge of the job expo, said she is happy ...
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09Feb2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Feb 10 (PIA) -- The lightbearers of the National Greening Program (NGP) is asking the Samar media to help "educate" timber poachers in the area. Dr Cleofe Torres of the UP Los Banos College of Development Communication, in a press conference, appeased media as they decried the presence of the timber poachers in the Samar island Natural Park (SINP). “We call this eco pornography, pambabastos, please help us educate them that wh...
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05Mar2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Mar. 5 (PIA) -- As an integral part of its action plan for disaster preparedness, the local government unit here organized its choice personnel as Army reservists and subjected them to a 30-day para-military training starting Mar 3 and 4, and every weekend thereafter. Selected to compose one company of 50 individuals were mostly city ordinance enforcers and those coming from the office of general services, usually the same frontline personnel on call dur...
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28Dec2012CARIGARA, Leyte, Dec 28 (PIA) -- The Department of Health has allotted P67 million from the 2013 budget for the rehabilitation of national road sections with shattered slabs along the mountainous area of Capoocan, Leyte. District Engineer Ma. Margarita Junia made the disclosure saying the said road section is one of the busiest highways in Eastern Visayas and its rehabilitation is indeed very much needed. Junia revealed that P67 million have been set aside next year to rehabilitate a five-kilo...
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26Sep2012TACLOBAN CITY, Sept 26 (PIA) -- The Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) hopes to partner with local entrepreneurs in the production of Bigas (rice) at Mongo (mung bean, Bigmo) complementary food they have just developed as a nutrition intervention strategy for children. FNRI wishes to transfer its newly developed technology of Bigmo food blends and snack foods and the adoption of the DOST Pinoy strategy, a Package for the Impr...
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12Apr2012NAVAL, Biliran, April 12 (PIA) -- The Philippine National Police (PNP) Biliran Police Provincial Office (BPPO) is set to plant more trees in different schedules within the year until 2016, in support to the National Greening Program (NGP) of the government. This was revealed by Police Superintendent Mateo Macale, Police Community Relations officer of BPPO recently during the “Kapihan sa PIA” forum live over Radyo Natin-Naval. He said, each personnel of the BPPO is mandated to plant at leas...
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11Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb. 11 (PIA) -- After a recent inspection, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) in Eastern Visayas has found out that 171 public buildings and 257 bridges in the region are vulnerable to severe damages should a strong earthquake occur. While there were no reports of damages due to the series of earthquakes which hit some parts of the region during the past week, DPWH has undertaken its periodic checking of infrastructures to reduce damages and avert...
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01Nov2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Nov 1 (PIA) -- The Southern Leyte Police Provincial Office (SLPPO) assured the public of a peaceful and orderly observance of All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day. Provincial Director Police Senior Superintendent Allan T. Cuevillas ordered a maximum deployment of personnel at major cemeteries, seaports, terminals and other places of convergence and major thoroughfares throughout the province. Police Senior Inspector Ariel Nuñez, in a report said that Police Assi...
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03Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb 3 (PIA) -- The city of Ormoc and the municipalities of Kananga, Leyte, and Hinunangan, Southern Leyte made it as outstanding cities/municipalities in the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) 2011 Search for Agri-Pinoy Rice Achievers Awards. Department of Agriculture Region 8 Director Antonio Gerundio said that the local government units' (LGUs) highly impressive track record in terms of its implementation of food staple sufficiency plan for 2011-2...
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04Oct2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Oct 4 (PIA) -- The Department of Labor and Employment in Eastern Visayas distributed P1.63 million worth of livelihood grants and starter sets to unemployed and underemployed workers on October 1 at the opening program for the National Statistics Month celebration. DOLE Region 8 Director Exequiel Sarcauga said the assistance is part of the department’s continuing livelihood interventions for the informal sector and rural workers in the region, who have potentials on beco...
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30Aug2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Aug 30 (PIA) -- Forty-eight (48) fishers in Maasin City, Southern Leyte are hopeful that the small-scale fishing livelihood project funding that they recently received from the Department of Labor and Employment Integrated Livelihood Program (DILP) in partnership with the city government of Maasin, will uplift their economic status. Said livelihood project is aimed at enhancing and transforming fishing activities of individual fishers to a cohesive community enterprise th...
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13Sep2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Sept 13 (PIA) -- The National Statistics Office (NSO) - Region 8 will conduct the second batch registration activity for the Registry System for Basic Sectors in Agriculture (RSBSA), from September and November 2012. Wilma Perante, NSO-8 officer-in-charge, said the RSBSA Batch 2 in Eastern Visayas will cover the provinces of Biliran, Leyte, and Southern Leyte. The three provinces of Samar were covered in the first batch, which was undertaken during the first quarter of th...
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09Feb2013TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb 9 (PIA) -- On its 62nd Anniversary celebration, the Department of Social Welfare and Development honored three of its partners from the non-government organizations and the local government units for significantly providing successful social protection programs to marginalized and vulnerable sectors of the region. This year’s awardees who were feted on February 6 at the Leyte Park Hotel in Tacloban City were South Pacific Integrated Agricultural Development Foundatio...
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08Feb2013MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, February 8 (PIA) - The National Statistics Office (NSO) – Southern Leyte Provincial Office calls for the full support and assistance of the Local Government Units as the 2012 Census for Agriculture and Fisheries (CAF) will start on February 25, 2013. According to Statistician II Jimmy Dagupan, “ the 2012 Census of Agriculture and Fisheries (CAF) is a large-scale government undertaking geared towards the collection and compilation of basic information on...
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20Jan2013TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Jan. 20 (PIA) -- Nine airports in the region are set for upgrading. This, as an official of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) in Eastern Visayas has disclosed that a budget of P167.35 million was earmarked for the upgrading of these airports. Antonio Alfonso, CAAP area manager said the project for the upgrading of the nine airports which includes 7 without passenger aircraft operations is part of the five-year development plan for implementation th...
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06Jun2012“Complete uniform includes a smile,” intoned Dr. Rebecca Ragrag, a ranking official of the Department of Education (DepEd) regional office, during the Education Summit held at Barangay Panan-awan, Friday. With classes for school year 2012-2013 having officially begun this week, DepEd issued a special instruction: everyone must be in complete uniform. Along with this came a point-blank directive: wear a smile. This injunction was addressed to teachers, not students. Why a “smile” on ...
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03Jul2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, July 3 (PIA) -- The Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council of Eastern Visayas spearheaded the launching of the National Disaster Consciousness Month celebration, Monday, at the Robinson's Place Activity Area. The month-long observance with the theme “Ligtas na Bayan, Maunlad na Pamayanan” (Safe town, prosperous community), kicked off with a motorcade participated in by the member agencies of the RDRRMC. Colonel Virgilio Espineli, Assistant Commandin...
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16Feb2013MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb. 16 (PIA) -- Two municipalities of Southern Leyte were awardees during the Local Legislative Awards 2012 held Wednesday, February 13, at the People’s Center in Tacloban City. The island municipality of Limasawa was proclaimed Regional Champion in the 2012 during the Local Legislative Awards while the town of Hinunangan won second place in the 1st-3rd class category, Department of Interior and Local Government Unit (DILG)-Southern Leyte Information Officer Lo...
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01Apr2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, Apr. 1 (PIA) – Department of Interior and Local Government Region 8 Director Pedro Noval Jr., called on local government units in Eastern Visayas to implement necessary measures in order to ensure peaceful observance of the Holy Week. Director Noval, through DILG-8 Information Officer Mr. Myles Colasito said that DILG Secretary Jesse M. Robredo has issued Memorandum Circular No. 2012-59 directing all governors, city and municipal mayor and barangay chairmen, to step up th...
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17Feb2013TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb 17 (PIA) -- Barangay Hingatungan, Silago, Southern Leyte in Eastern Visayas has been adjudged as the national champion for 4th to 6th class municipality Barangay category in the Lupong Tagapamayapa Incentive Award. Regional Director Pedro A. Noval Jr. of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG)-8 revealed that the department has been notified of such development by the DILG Central Office through a letter dated January 31, 2013. Dir. Noval credited B...
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14Feb2013TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb 14 (PIA) -- The best performing municipal and city legislative bodies (sanggunians) in Eastern Visayas were cited in an awarding ceremony which highlighted the second day of the Regional Congress of the Philippine Councilors’ League on February 13 at the People’s Center and Library, Tacloban City. The Sangguniang Bayan of the island town of Limasawa, Southern Leyte emerged as the Best Council, besting six nominees for the fourth to sixth-class municipality categ...
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04May2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, May 4 (PIA) -- The Philippine Associated Smelting and Refining Corp (PASAR), in Isabel town in Leyte province, the country’s only copper refinery, will resume operations by middle of this year. This is a welcome move since a significant bulk of local taxes come from PASAR and the re-opening will mean job opportunities to local residents. Engr. J. Paul Tan, PASAR assistant vice president for industrial and community relations said that after six months of non-operations,...
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12May2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, May 12 (PIA) -- The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Region 8 has arrested a 40-year-old mother of four children for allegedly selling and possessing a total of 0.85 grams of shabu on May 3. PDEA-8 Information Officer Liza Baoy said the suspect was collared at the downtown Tacloban City for selling illegal drugs. Baoy said the suspect was caught selling 0.395 grams of shabu to a PDEA agent who acted as a poseur buyer in a transaction for two thousand pesos,...
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19Feb2013CATARMAN, Northern Samar, Feb 19 (PIA) – The local Commission on Election (Comelec) office here has briefed individuals and groups here on the salient provisions of Comelec Resolution No. 9615. Topics discussed included election rules and regulations, including specifications of election propaganda, prohibited acts, and bases for removal of election propaganda. Lawyer Rico Leo Sacaben, municipal election officer of Catarman, identified four designated Comelec common poster areas: front of ...
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10Feb2012BORONGAN City, Eastern Samar, Feb 10 (PIA) -- Ha pagsuporta han kanan goberno nasyonal programa nga pagpa-menus han epekto han nagbabag-o nga klima han planeta, maabot hin 300 nga mga kahoy nga mahogany an igintanum han mga pulis nga nagtikang mismo han Provincial Police Office (PPO). An report in nagsering nga tinikangan pala ine han ngatanan nga kadamoon hin kahoy nga plano igtanum han bug-os nga pwersa han pulisya. Ha pangunguna ni SSupt. Manuel E. Cubillo, an ka...
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13Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 13 (PIA) -- Francis Rosaroso, information officer of the Department of Agriculture, affirms what has been being bandied by those who believe in going back to the basics, and that is, organic farming has lots of benefits compared to using synthelic fertilizers. This he stated during the Suruswerte ha PIA radio program Tuesday. Rosaroso said that their office is promoting organic farming in Eastern Visayas or the natural farming system considering i...
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19Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 19 (PIA) -- The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), Region 8, through its Regional Director Exequiel R. Sarcauga, commended the National Conciliation and Mediation Board (NCMB), an attached agency of DOLE, for settling two notices of strike separately filed by two labor unions, February 2012. DOLE’s Acting Information Officer Virgilio A. Doroja Jr. said that the two groups who were planning to stage a strike last February are the Leyt...
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07Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb. 6 (PIA) -- The series of tremors which occurred in the region and panicked the citizens in Tacloban City last February 1 have resulted to positive actions from government agencies. The regional office of the Office of Civil Defense revealed in a weekly media forum that it will conduct an earthquake drill in various schools in the region and some offices. Rey Gozon, OCD-8 regional director said that the earthquake drill which will be held in March 1 is aimed at ...
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10Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, Feb 10 (PIA) -- The provincial government of Leyte calls on all government agencies and local government units under its area of jurisdiction to adopt the “ No Plastic, No Styrofor” policy in their respective offices. This was learned from board member Roque Tiu who was guest at the Suruswerte Ha PIA on Friday. Tiu said that the call was made through a resolution passed just recently by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Leyte declaring all such offices and bu...
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11May2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, May 11 (PIA) -- The Eighth Infantry Division (8th ID) is calling on the public to join them in condemning the continued use of landmines by the New People’s Army (NPA). BGen. Gerardo T. Layug, commanding general of the 8th ID of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, said the use of landmines is a violation of Republic Act 9851 (Crime Against International Law). This is also a clear violation of the paragraph 15, article II of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Respect...
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14May2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, May 14 (PIA) -- Members of the Regional Task Force (RTF) on human trafficking converged to discuss issues and updates at Patio Victoria, Baluarte, San Jose, Tacloban City last May 11. Traffic Management Group Police Senior Inspector Emmanuel Arteche, who represented Samar, said that it was the monthly meeting of RTF on human trafficking to discuss the refiling of some cases. “We also discussed the procedures required in admitting and releasing of victims, complaina...
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09May2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, May 9 (PIA) -- The Department of Tourism (DOT)-Office of Tourism Services and the Leyte provincial government has partnered to train government-accredited professional service providers in the region. Department of Tourism regional director Karina Rosa Tiopes said that the 21-day training, which started on May 7, intends graduates to be accredited as regional tour guides. She explained that the previous three-day training has only tackled basic guiding techniques and the t...
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03Feb2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb. 3 (PIA) -- The Office of Civil Defense-Southern Leyte Office conducted a disaster risk reduction management orientation where participants learned when a state of calamity is declared, the role of the DRRMC, and when the DRRMC can claim for financial assistance from the national level. Provincial Civil Defense Coordinator Marichu Tan, reported Friday that the orientation was attended by municipal and barangay DRRMC members, SLSU-San J...
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06Feb2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb 6 (PIA8) -- The province of Southern Leyte faces the danger of rain-induced landslides and the immediate solution is to resettle the people from geo-hazard prone areas. “ I would like to prepare before any untoward incident happens in the province,” Congressman Roger G. Mercado said during a special meeting with the department heads of national line agencies in the province last Saturday. Mercad...
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16Feb2012CANDAHUG, PALO, Leyte, Feb 16 (PIA8) -- The Department of Works and Highways in Eastern Visayas said that on February 16, several roads were closed to traffic due to landslides brought about by the continuous rains. Director Rolando Asis of DPWH Region 8 said that at 5:45 a.m. of February 16, due to continuous rains soil eroded in the vcinity of Daang Maharlika particularly at Kilometer 1004 +900 at Barangay Kahupian in Sogod, Southern Leyte rendering road impassab...
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06Mar2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, Mar 6 (PIA) -- Doctor Jean Marie Egargo, Department of Health (DOH) Representative here reported that come May 13, some 166 nurses under the RN-HEALS program will be deployed to the different rural health units (RHUs) of the province. This after they have attended the Orientation Program on the same day and have accomplished the needed records, i.e. TIN number, PhilHealth, and ATM cards. She also said that these registered nurses have one year insu...
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10Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, March 10 (PIA) -- Wading through the tidal mudflats of San Juanico Strait, the women employees of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Region 8 trooped to plant mangroves right at the foot of the San Juanico Bridge, which connects Leyte and Samar. In a display of “Women Power; Empowered Women,” the DENR ladies planted some 187 mangrove propagules in an estimated half hectare mangrove area at Barangay San Juan, Sta. Rita, Samar in...
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16Apr2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, April 16 (PIA) -- The army recruitment office for Eastern Visayas (ARO-Visayas) will conduct an information drive and administer examination to applicants for the Philippine Army Officer Candidate Course and Officer Preparatory Course. The ARO-Visayas team will visit different schools and universities in Samar, Leyte Island and Bohol and army units in Samar and Northern Samar on April 17 to 25, 2012. To qualify for the Officer Candidate Course, the candidate must be 2...
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17Dec2012ISABEL, Leyte, December 17 (PIA) – Aquasilviculture, a climate-smart and environmental-friendly agriculture will soon be showcased in Isabel, Leyte through the public-private partnership scheme that the P-Noy Administration is promoting. The establishment of a 69.33-hectare aquasilviculture project was launched with the forging of a memorandum of agreement among the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) through its Regional Executive Director Manolito Ragub, the local govern...
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13Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 13 (PIA) -- In its bid to strengthen the successful prosecution and conviction of every violator of the anti-child labor and trafficking in persons, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), Region 8 headed by Regional Director Exequiel R. Sarcauga in coordination with the the International Labor Organization – International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labor (ILO-IPEC) recently conducted a two-day training on child labor and human traf...
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21Nov2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, November 21 (PIA) – The recently- conducted GIS 8 Network 6th Conference and 14th Regional Assembly underscored the benefits of optimizing the use of geospatial information in support to disaster risk reduction and management. Held on November 15-16, 2012 at the Leyte Park Resort Hotel, the conference which was hosted by the Department of Agriculture Region 8, centered on the theme “GIS in Aid for Disaster Risk Reduction and Management.” It was attended by more than ...
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29Mar2013TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 29 (PIA) -- The role of policewomen in governance and peacekeeping was underscored by the top official of the Police Regional Office (PRO8). Police Chief Superintendent Elmer Soria, PRO8 regional director paid tribute to the 120 policewomen-participants of the Women’s Month Forum and Gender and Development (GAD) planning workshop held at the PRO8 Matapat Hall, Monday, March 25. Soria told his women audience that his leadership “acknowledges the importance of str...
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29Jan2013CATARMAN, Northern Samar, Jan. 29 (PIA) – The Provincial Planning and Development Coordinator of Northern Samar Engr. Romeo M. Cardenas is now attending a study mission on climate change adaptation initiatives and policy at Vancouver, British Columbia and Winnipeg, Manitoba from January 24 to February 2, 2013. In a letter sent to Cardenas, Program Manager Regan Mancini of International Program Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC) said that as a mission participant, the planni...
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19Jun2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, June 19 (PIA) -- After the successful implementation of the Inventory System on Agriculture and Fishery Investment (ISAFI) project in the four provinces of Region 8 - Leyte, Biliran, Southern Leyte, and Eastern Samar - the Department of Agriculture-8 (DA-8) now sets its eyes on the two remaining provinces in Eastern Visayas. “Expanding the project to Northern Samar and Samar will mean covering the entire region,” Regional Technical Director (RTD) Wilson A. Cerbito, the...
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25Jan2012PALO, Leyte, January 25 (PIA) -- The Mines and Geoscience Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Eastern Visayas has recommended to DENR Secretary Ramon Paje the suspension of all the small scale mining permits in Eastern Samar. MGB Region 8 Director Roger de Dios said he has made the recommendation through a communication which was sent in December 2011, addressed to MGB Director, Engr. Leo L. Jasareno, copy furnished the DENR Secretary. Director de Dios said tha...
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29Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 29 (PIA) --The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) in Eastern Visayas is on heightened alert due to flooding in some areas in the region. Bhenlie Linde, OCD-8 operations officer has called on residents in flooded and flood prone areas to heed issuances of advisories from their respective local government units (LGUs) to prevent adverse effect of floods on lives. The incessant rains experienced in the region since Monday have flooded areas in the villages of 74, 94, 91 92,...
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11Apr2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, April 11 (PIA) -- The nationwide staging of SINEBATA: Kabataang Pinoy Festival was jointly announced by the triumvirate of child advocates Boy Abunda, Mikee Cojuangco Jaworski, and Cheryl Cosim. Mag Cruz Hatol, director of the National Council for Children’s Television, said that SINEBATA is a follow through of the successful Visayan edition that was staged jointly in Tacloban City, Leyte last year by Anak TV, Plan Philippines, and other partners which drew in a bumper ...
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10Feb2013NAVAL, Biliran, Feb. 10 (PIA) -- The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) in the province of Biliran has launched on Wednesday, February 6, the Search for “Illegal Propaganda-Free” Barangays in the province. Atty. Sabino Mejarito who is the new Provincial Election Supervisor (PES), in an interview said the rampant violation of Republic Act 9006 otherwise known as the “Fair Elections Act” specifically on the proliferation of illegally posted campaign materials during the campaign period in ...
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07Feb2013TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, Feb 7 (PIA) -- The Department of Education in Eastern Visayas has started preparations for its hosting of two big national events, the National Talent Festival on April 6-11 and the National School Press Conference on April 7-12, 2013. During the Convergence Meeting held at the DepEd Regional Office on February 5, DepEd 8 Regional Director Dr. Luisa Bautista-Yu encouraged the various government agencies and DepEd officials from all over the region to collaborate with the ho...
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10Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 10 (PIA) -- The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) has deferred the implementation of the increase in premium contribution rates for overseas Filipino worker (OFW) members. Miramar Palacio, information officer of PhilHealth Tacloban, informed the Philippine Information Agency that this new development is contained in PhilHealth Circular 07, Series of 2012, which amended an earlier issuance prescribing the new contribution rates for the diff...
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09Dec2012TACLOBAN CITY, LEYTE, Dec. 9 (PIA) -- The Department of Energy reiterated its call for the public to use compact fluorescent light bulbs because they are more energy-efficient than incandescent bulbs. DOE’s call came with the advent of the Christmas Season when people oftentimes double their electric consumption as they decorate their homes and business establisments with Christmas lights. DoE Visayas Regional Director Antonio Labios said that regular bulbs create light by heating a filamen...
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12Apr2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, April 12 (PIA) -- The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) provincial office based in this city appealed to the patriotic sense of taxpayers in its heightened campaign for tax payments as the deadline for filing individual tax returns nears. Revenue District Officer Alexander Laroza quoted the BIR’s battlecry advocacy, which declares “I love Philippines, I pay taxes,” in a bid to touch the nationalistic nerve of the tax-paying public and move them to pay their t...
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21Jun2012ORIGINAL: by: Flordelis E. Jackson NAVAL, Biliran, June 21 (PIA) – The members of the Biliran Provincial Nutrition Committee (PNC) will meet the Municipal Nutrition Action Officers (MNAOs) of the eight municipalities of Biliran province on Thursday, June 21 at the Biliran Provincial Hospital Conference Hall in Naval, Biliran at 8:00 o’clock in the morning. In a letter-invitation sent to the Philippine Information Agency (PIA), Biliran Provincial Information Center being one of the co...
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10Feb2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Feb 10. (PIA) -- Ninety-four Samar students have committed to plant 10 trees a year until 2016 in support the National Greening Program of the Aquino administration. Yesterday, after the commitment signing and learning to plant trees, the students proceeded to Barangay San Vicente, Catbalogan to initially fulfill their promise. “This is part of the social mobilization we were dreaming to achieve our goal,” said Adelaida Abenir of DENR-Samar. ...
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29May2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, May 28 (PIA) -- Officials of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the attached agency of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (DENR-MGB) in Eastern Visayas are to appear before the Congress committee on natural resources next week to shed light on the issue of fish kill incidents in Lake Bito, Brgy. Imelda, MacArthur town in Leyte province. It was learned that DENR Secretary Ramon Paje is among the officials summoned to appear before the committee on May 29...
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30Mar2012TOLOSA, Leyte, March 31 (PIA) –- The fisherman from Tolosa, Leyte who was reported missing since he went out fishing on March 27 at the height of heavy rains, was found on March 29, right on time for his wedding on March 30. “Yes, he was found. I am sure of that. I just officiated his wedding this morning,” Tolosa Mayor Erwin Ocaña told the Philippine Information Agency. Mayor Ocaña described as very emotional, the wedding of fisherman Castro C. Advincula, 48 years old and his girlfri...
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11Apr2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, April 11 (PIA) -- A weather system prevailing here and the rest of Eastern Visayas and Mindanao, including the Bicol region, was responsible for the scattered, slight but non-stop rains the last Tuesday, with dark clouds expected to dominate the skies this week. The “trough of low pressure area" (LPA) somewhere in Mindanao caused widespread rains, even as in Luzon the weather was fine with temperatures reaching 33 degrees because of a high pressure area there, s...
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16May2012CATARMAN, Northern Samar, May 16 (PIA) -- The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) said that three road concreting projects in Northern Samar will be completed soon. A report from the Project Inspection and Monitoring Unit said that the three concreting projects include Laoang-Lapinig-Arteche, San Policarpo, Imelda-Bagangbang Section, Km. 857+000 – Km. 859+000, costing P36 million plus, awarded to the joint ventures of Rhyes Builders and JUPA Construction, has now accomplished 62 pe...
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20Feb2012HILONGOS, Leyte, Feb. 20 (PIA) -- Hilongos town in Leyte has been named one of 24 agricultural communities nationwide for the Sagip Saka Program. As a Sagip Saka Awardee, Hilongos received an initial amount of P1 million, which the LGU would use to purchase fishnets and other gadgets, and for the conduct of training for the town’s fishery sector particularly the Samahang Mangingisda ng Barangay Himo-Aw in Barangay Himo-Aw, Hilongos, Leyte. Sagip Saka is an advocacy recent...
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11May2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, May 11 (PIA) –- The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) - Tacloban City Sub-District Engineering Office (TCSDEO) has completed a road preventive maintenance project with a total allotment of more than P8.5 million. The project was completed on April 20, 2012, which was 68 days ahead of its scheduled date of completion. Another project completed is the construction of concrete shoulders along Cabalawan-Camansihay road, the purpose of which is to give extra spa...
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14Mar2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, March 14 (PIA) -- The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) in Samar’s First Engineering District forged a cooperation project that will guarantee employment for the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) beneficiaries; Monica Insigne, Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Officer, signed for the DSWD. In a press release sent by Information Officer Nenita Gomez, she said that this project is an effort of the government to red...
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07May2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, May 7 (PIA) -- The National Statistics Office (NSO) will conduct the 2012 Updating of the List of Establishments (ULE) this May in some barangays to get a list of emerging industries. In a press release distributed by NSO-Samar, it says that the survey will be done in barangays not covered in the 2011 ULE in the cities and municipalities of Samar. This ULE is a regular activity of the NSO aimed to update reliable sampling frame for the census and survey of establishment...
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15Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb 15 (PIA) -- The law which is batting for a Child Labor Free Philippines is vigorously being implemented by the Department of Labor and Employment in Eastern Visayas. DOLE-8 regional director Exequil Sarcauga disclosed Republic Act No. 9231 or the Anti- Child Labor Law is being implemented through sustained advocacy, surveillance, and rescue operations, and livelihood interventions which are all aimed at prevention and elimination of child labor. In December ...
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28Apr2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, April 28 (PIA) -- The Philippine Army through the efforts of the 34th Infantry (Reliable) Battalion under Lt. Col. William P. Peñafiel Jr. gathered government agencies and the academe to Palapag town, Northern Samar for free legal, medical and dental services to riverside Barangays of Capacujan, Osmeña, Bagacay and Bangon. In a press release penned by Ramil S. Palisoc, CMO Officer of 34th Infantry Battalion, he said the whole day activity was held on April 25, 2012 in...
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02May2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, May 2 (PIA) -- As ordered by the Philippine National Police (PNP), Regional Office-08 Campetic, Palo, Leyte, the PNP Provincial Office here raised the heightened alert for all its municipal police offices in connection with yesterday’s observance of Labor Day. So said PNP Provincial Director, SSupt. Manuel E. Cubillo in an interview. According to him, the heightened alert or “Blue Alert” in PNP parlance means all members of the police force to be on the al...
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11Mar2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, March 11(PIA) -- When hundred percent of the wood poles have been replaced and the Sta. Rita-Quinapundan loop have been put up and operationalized, expect fewer power interruptions. Thus said Engineer Joel Tan of the National Grid Corporation(NGCP) in a press conference called for recently by the Eastern Samar Electric Cooperative (ESAMELCO). Tan said that with the on-going replacements of wood poles, power interruptions will...
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03Dec2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Dec. 3 (PIA) -- Disaster councils from the province to the barangays, are currently being mobilized, ready for the onslaught of another typhoon. This developed as Southern Leyte was included in the declaration by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, Astronomical Services Administration (Pag-asa) under public storm signal No. 1 today due to a weather disturbance locally called “Pablo” (international codename Bopha). “We are on Red Alert Status,” said D...
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06Mar2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, March 6(PIA) -- Major Edwin Barbosa, Police Community Relations Officer (PCR), Eastern Samar Provincial Police Office (ESPPO) reported that as of February, some 3,894 seedlings of trees have already been planted by their command. According to him this was their target for February which they have truthfully met; and the same number is likewise targeted for the month of March. Barbosa added that for the succeeding months, they are to coordinate with the Easte...
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11Dec2012ORMOC CITY, Leyte, December 11 (PIA) – The Local government of Ormoc City is set to inaugurate its P55.506 million integrated waste management facility at Barangay Green Valley on December 12. Dubbed the “Ormoc City Eco-waste Center (CEC),” the 32-hectare facility features a recycling, composting, and sanitary landfill in a single site serves as the local government’s strategic response to address solid waste management within its jurisdiction. The inauguration of the CEC at 9 a.m. i...
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17May2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, May 17 (PIA) -- Officials of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) visited Paranas, Samar as the starting point of the $214-million MCC road project in Samar and Eastern Samar. MC Account-Philippines/KALAHI-CIDSS Director Andres Moll met with concerned agencies and local government units at the Kirigtaan Hall in Paranas last Wednesday. “The primary objective of the project is to help improve the living conditions of the people of Samar.” “With more accessibl...
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13Jun2012LOPE DE VEGA, Northern Samar, June 13 (PIA) -- Operatives of the 20th Infantry Battalion under the 8th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army seized another New People’s Army (NPA) camp in Barangay E. Duran, Bobon, Northern Samar. In a press statement, Lt. Colonel Noel Vestuir, 20IB’s commanding officer, said that civilian informants in the area has tipped in information about the presence of armed rebels who are conducting house to house visitation and collecting food from the residents ...
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25Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY, Feb. 25 (PIA) -– The members of the media organization,Harmonized Initiatives of Media for the Spread of Good Nutrition in Region 8 or HIMSoG-8 has scheduled a nutrition media caravan to Limasawa island in Southern Leyte on the last week of March this year. Mr. Francis Batula, HIMSoG-8 President and presiding officer of the board meeting attended by the members of the organization from the different media outfits in Eastern Visayas said tha...
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24Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, March 24 (PIA) –- PhilHealth is encouraging the online crowd to help map up all health facilities in the Philippines in order to maximize the benefits of the social networking platform. Atty. Jerry F. Ibay, PhilHealth-8 Regional vice president, said that recognizing the strong presence of Filipinos on the Internet, PhilHealth hopes to gather their support to pin all health facilities on an online map. PhilHealth will then display data over the facilities to better infor...
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19Feb2012PALO, Leyte, Feb 19 (PIA) -- The February 16 flooding has displaced 674 individuals in 57 barangays in the province of Leyte due to continuous downpour that also triggered landslides in several areas of the province, the Eastern Visayas Regional Risk Reduction and Management Council said. Office of Civil Defense Regional Director Rey Gozon, RDRRMC chairman, cited that there was zero-casualty in the latest disaster in the Region, which he said is a manifestation of the much-improve...
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06Jun2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, June 6 (PIA) -- The Department of Agriculture intends to increase rice production from five to 10 percent through farm mechanization and postharvest, and will award machines to farmers in this regard. So says Cesar BalaJadia, Visayas region cluster head of the Department of Agriculture-Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (DA-PhilMech), saying that government will award to farmers’ groups in Eastern Visayas more than P163.9 million worth of far...
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10Apr2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, April 10 (PIA) -- The National Statistics Office (NSO) in Region 8 is currently conducting the April 2012 Consumer Expectations Survey in Eastern Visayas, financed by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. NSO said the provinces of Leyte, Southern Leyte, Samar and Eastern Samar are being surveyed. In Leyte, five sample barangays are included such as Brgy. Tabunok, Bato; Brgys. Manloy and Poblacion Zone I, Capoocan; Brgy. Hilusig, Mahaplag; and Brgy. Nasunogan, Ormoc City. Accor...
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19Apr2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, April 19 (PIA) -- Police Superintendent Rico Tome, who took over as this city’s Police Chief Monday replacing P/Supt. Hector Enage, said his new assignment here should be taken as a natural course in the life of just another police officer doing his the best that he can. In an interview this morning, Tome said that people in the city have high expectations on his appointment, and he simply wanted to temper this grand impression even as he vowed to exert all his ...
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21Apr2012NAVAL, Biliran, April 21 (PIA) -- All the 230 barangay health workers (BHWs) in the municipality are hopeful for the approval of proposed Ordinance No. 19-2012 known as “An Ordinance Granting Benefits and Incentives to Accredited Barangay Health Workers and for Other Purposes” as the local government’s assistance for their voluntary services in the promotion of primary health care in their respective barangays. In a public hearing conducted on Thursday (April 19) for said ordinance,...
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18Feb2013CATBALOGAN CITY, Feb 18 (PIA) -- Samar residents who had been delisted from the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) may have yet another chance in the ongoing revalidation. This is according to Gina Omillo, Provincial Link of the program. To date, there are 9,445 under revalidation. These are residents who did not attend community assemblies, had irregular school attendance, and who have moved somewhere else. Omillo also said this is a program of the government, and politicians have not...
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13Feb2013TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb 13 (PIA) -- The best performing municipal and city legislative bodies (sanggunians) will be cited during the second day of the Regional Congress of the Philippine Councilors’ League which will have Energy Secretary Carlos Jericho Loreto Petilla as keynote speaker. Local Government Regional Director Pedro A. Noval Jr. said that the regional Local Legislative Awards (LLA) which is scheduled to be held at 10 a.m. today, Wednesday, at the People’s Center and Library, ...
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28Jun2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, June 28 (PIA) -- The US Navy dropped off boxes of medical equipment and supplies for the City Health Office and several sports equipment for the Local Youth Development Council of Catbalogan City on June 27 as part of the Pacific Partnership 2012 (PP12) Mission. Medical supplies donated, include urethral catheter, bandage gauze, sterile gloves, stethoscopes, syringes, face masks, and other supplies. Vice mayor Art Sherwin L. Gabon, first councilor Stephany Uy-Tan and ot...
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14Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb 14 (PIA) -- The Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (Philhealth) in Eastern Visayas stressed the importance of health care providers to be accredited with the agency to insure that said providers conform of the guidelines, standards, and procedures set by the state health insurer. Dr. Noel Arteche, PhilHealth 8 division chief on healthcare delivery management, declared that hospitals need to be PhilHealth accredited to be able to participate in the National Health Insu...
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02May2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, May 2 (PIA) -- At least 139 Eastern Visayans were hired on the spot (HOTS) during the Labor Day jobs fair sponsored by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). DOLE 8 Regional Director Exequiel Sarcauga informed that there were about a thousand jobseekers, 904 to be exact, from all over the Region who trooped at the Tacloban City Convention Center on May 1. About 15 percent or 139 were able to land a job as of 3:00 o’clock in the afternoon of May 1, Ms. Thess Vi...
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03Feb2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, Feb 3(PIA) -- Avail of the free registration over at the National Statistics Office (NSO), urges provincial chief, Ronnie Bajado, who is urging parents to register births, deaths, marriages to avoid possible problem in the future about their children’s birth certificates for schooling, employment, or travel. Bajado observes that, with the implementation of the “Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program” or 4Ps, a lot of birth certifi...
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08Feb2013CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, February 8 (PIA) -- The Catbalogan City Sangguniang Panglungsod has approved Php 30.2 million Local Poverty Reduction Plan 2013 Program as endorsed by the City Development Council (CDC). The local government unit plan with programs and projects collectively drawn through a participatory process with Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and other stakeholders will address the needs of the poor constituents and the marginalized sectors in the LGU. Catbalogan City is one of...
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23Jan2013BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, Jan 23 (PIA) -- Police Senior Superintendent Brigido B. Unay, police director here, cited the directive from PNP Director General Alan Purisima which effected the recall of policemen who were previously detailed as escorts and bodyguards of some local chief executives (LCEs). In a meeting held at the PNP provincial headquarters, the PNP-PD discussed with the LCEs the issues raised but he quickly referred to the directive and Comelec resolution sent him, that ou...
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14Feb2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb 14 (PIA) --- The police here has already started planting at least 750 mangrove seedlings to strongly support the nationwide tree planting campaign, in compliance with the President's National Greening Program. Superintendent Hector Enage disclosed that each of the 52 organic police officers and staff in the police station are required to plant at least six trees every month for a year. Enage said earlier...
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30Mar2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Mar. 30 (PIA) -- The Department of Science and Technology (DOST)-Southern Leyte has released funds for the equipment of business enterprises in the city. The DOST Southern Leyte released P700,000 to Marte Technova shop for the production of needed equipment of Small Medium Scale (SMS) business enterprises. Marte Technova produces food utensils and equipments for use by the small medium scale enterprises in the locality. DOST provincial director Engr. Dominador Cla...
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25Apr2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, April 25 (PIA) -- The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) Senior Meteorological Officer Eddie Dela Cruz bared that the temperature will remain high until the end of April. Dela Cruz said in a telephone interview today that he expects that rain showers will pour in May. Yesterday afternoon though, light rain showers poured in the city but it stopped as a high pressure area prevented more downpour, added the weather officer...
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19Jul2012NAVAL, Biliran, July 19 (PIA) -- As part of the highlights of the Nutrition Month celebration in Naval, a poster and slogan-making contest was conducted by the local government unit (LGU) of Naval on Tuesday at 9 a.m. on the second floor of the municipal hall with six students from the different high schools participating. The students demonstrated their creativity with slogans focusing on eating vegetables everyday which gives the body more vitamins and minerals that lead to a strong and healt...
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02Aug2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, August 2 (PIA) - Some 60 individuals attended the dialogue on “Human Rights Violations, Harassment, and Injustices” held recently at St. Isidore Church, Salcedo, Eastern Samar. According to Ian Mosquesa, director of Diocesan Commission on Social Action – Justice and Peace, the dialogue aimed at organizing a fact-finding task force to investigate human rights violations that had happened in the locality in the recent past, connected to mining operations. On...
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08Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, Feb. 9 (PIA) -- Starting March 1, 2012, plastic and styrofor food containers will be banned at the Leyte Provincial Government buildings and offices. This after the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Leyte passed a resolution prohibiting the entry of plastic and Styrofoam/styrofor receptacles used as food containers in the offices and buildings of the provincial government of Leyte and henceforth declaring all such offices and buildings as plastic and Styrofoam/st...
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04Mar2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, March 4 (PIA) -- The residents of three sleepy towns in Samar will finally feel progress descend on them once different projects are implemented next year. The program Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan (PAMANA) will include the local governments of San Jose de Buan, San Jorge, and Matuginao. PAMANA is the national government’s program and framework for peace and development. The project, spearheaded by the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (O...
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20May2012Tacloban City, Leyte, May 20 (PIA) -- Residents of Brgy. Villa Imelda in MacArthur town, Leyte province are protesting against a local mining corporation which they claim is responsible for the fish deaths of more than 21,000 kilograms (kg) of tilapia valued at P1.7 million. Accordingly, the silting operations of the mining company have resulted to the pollution of Lake Bito where the fishpens are located. The fishkill incident occurred March 15, this year. The mining company which mines black...
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31May2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, May 31 (PIA) -- This province’s lone district lawmaker has filed a bill in Congress that seeks to declare the entire province as a mining-free zone in which all forms of mining operations are prohibited. House Bill 5855, introduced by Cong. Roger Mercado, with the title “An Act Declaring Southern Leyte as a Mining Free Zone and Providing Penalties for Violation thereof,” was already passed by the House Committee on Natural Resources last week and was expected...
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05Jun2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, June 5 (PIA) -- The National Kidney and Transplant Institute, through its Renal Disease Prevention Program (REDCOP) and the Philippine Information Agency Region 8, will tackle renal disease prevention during the Harampang Ha PIA media forum on Tuesday, June 5. PIA Region 8 Director Erlinda Olivia P. Tiu said that this special Harampang for the Renal Health Care and Prevention is in line with the celebration of the National Kidney Month this June,with the end goal of reduc...
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16May2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, May 16 (PIA) -- A P5-million irrigation project recently turned over to some 150 rice farmers in Calapi, Motiong will make Motiong town realize its Rice-Sufficiency Program, according to Motiong Mayor Francisco Langi in an interview this morning. “It is gratifying to see the farmers so inspired to plant rice in the irrigated areas,” Langi said. He is fully supporting the project because he is also pushing for rice sufficiency. “I wish that Motiong will be on the l...
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30May2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, May 30 (PIA) -- The Department of Education (DepEd)-Maasin City Division will hold its annual Education Summit on June 1 tapping internal and external stakeholders in the city and the province, Assistant Schools Division Superintendent Genis S. Murallos in his invitation to PIA-Maasin said. The education summit set at Panan-awan Barangay Gymnasium, this city, bears the theme, “Strengthening Basic Quality Education via K to 12.” “It is aimed at presenting th...
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21Feb2012NAVAL, Biliran, Feb 21 (PIA) -- Biliran is one of the top 10 outstanding provinces in the entire country that earned recognition and received an award in the 2011 Search for the Agri-Pinoy Rice Achievers. This was learned by the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) from the Department of Agriculture regional office 8. According to the source, Biliran province was endorsed by DA regional office through Regional Executive Director (RED) Antonio Gerundio for its exemplary performance in the fi...
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15Sep2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, September 15 (PIA) – “Nalilipay ako nga nahibulig ako hini nga 4Ps kay dako an bulig ha amon pamilya” (I am happy that I am a 4Ps beneficiary as it helps our family a lot), said Alicia Egos, 43 years old from Javier, Leyte. Mana Alicia, as she is fondly called in Javier, said the Pantawid Pamilya allowed her to know herself better thru the Family Development Sessions and other community activities. When 4Ps was not yet implemented in their area, she said she was bar...
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14Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, March 14 (PIA) -- Water and Food Security will be the focus of World Water Day which is celebrated every March 22 in order to increase people’s awareness of the importance of water in the environment, agriculture, health and trade. The World Water Day in 2012 is intended to draw the international attention on the relationships between water and food security. According to the United Nations, “Food security exists when all people, a...
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02Mar2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, March 2 (PIA) -- Allan Rafalis of Barangay Canlobong, Pinabacdao, Samar was 12 when he joined the NPA because his uncle was allegedly killed by the military. But his more than 20 years stay in the rebel movement did not bring him any future to look forward to. “My kids are growing and I have to do something to educate them,” he shared. After a long period of reflection and consideration, he decided to surrender to the army. Samar Governor Sharee Ann Ta...
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15Feb2013GOV’T CENTER, Palo, Leyte, Feb 15 (PIA) -- The Eastern Visayas Regional Development Council (RDC) nominated Governor of Northern Samar, Paul R. Daza, and Mayor of Palo, Leyte and President of Leyte Mayors’ League, Remedios L. Petilla for the council’s chairmanship. NEDA Region 8 Director Bonifacio Uy, the RDC Vice Chair who presided over the meeting, said this was done through Resolution No. 04, series of 2013 which was passed during the Council’s first quarter Full Council Meeting on...
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23Jan2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Jan 23 (PIA) -- The leader of the group called Teachers Dignity Coalition (TDC) urged the Department of Education to give plantilla positions to Kindergarten teachers. Edilberto Sumapig, regional coordinator of (TDC) expressed this sentiment during the regional education summit held today at DepEd regional office graced by Undersecretary Yolanda Quijano, a passionate and staunch supporter of K+ 12 Program. Sumapig said that the Kindergarten teachers perfor...
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04Mar2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, March 4 (PIA) -- The TESDA specialists trained on technical-vocational skills will also be taught the rudiments of business as they are now called Tesda Specialista Technopreneurs. “As we anticipate their blossoming into service providers, we will teach them how to maintain logbooks for clients, financial operations and budgeting, personality improvement, records keeping, and how to negotiate with clients,” said Imelda Calagos-TESDA nurturer. On ...
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23Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb 23 (PIA) -- The "poor man's sugar," may soon become the "rich man's sweet pot." The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) in Eastern Visayas is eyeing muscovado production in Ormoc City, noting that consumer interest in healthy and organic foods has revived the interest in muscovado sugar. Just recently, the DOST Region 8 led by Director Edgardo Esperancilla conducted a training needs assessment in Ormoc City at the sugarcane far...
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30Apr2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, April 30 (PIA) -- The Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) – Maasin of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Southern Leyte Provincial Office is now undertaking the development of 5,410 hectares of upland areas under the Community-Based Forest Management Program (CBFMP) in close coordination with the local peoples’ organizations. CENRO-Maasin, which covers eight municipalities out of the 18 municipalities and one city o...
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15May2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, May 15 (PIA) -- The Fiber Industry Development Authority in Eastern Visayas has reported on the agency’s management of the abaca industry in the region particularly on the abaca disease management. Abaca plantations in some areas in the region are being managed relative to the treatment, control and eradication of the abaca disease namely the bunchy top, tract mosaic and abaca mosaic. Over report that the abaca industry of the provinces of Leyte and Southern Leyte are d...
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31May2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, May 31 (PIA) -- The Southern Leyte Disaster Risk Reduction Action Officers are off to Albay to visit the World Bank Funded Project, “Bote at Kampana,” in Sitio Inang Maharang, Albay. Maasin City delegate, Ritche G. Sumalinog said that the visit will be from May 31 - June 3. “ It is an opportunity given to the province to ensure that the indigenous practices in disaster risk reduction using bottles and bells would be shared and replicated in the province, w...
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23Aug2012PALO, Leyte, Aug 23 (PIA) -- Bureau of Internal Revenue-8 Regional Director, lawyer, Diosdado R. Mendoza exhorted all government withholding tax agents to correctly impose and promptly remit the corresponding tax due from wage hikes to avoid penalties. The implementation of the National Budget Circular No. 540 dated 10 May 2012 signed by DBM Secretary Florencio B. Abad, pertains to the Fourth Tranche Monthly Salary Schedule for Civilian Personnel and Base Pay Schedule for Military and Uniform...
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14Feb2012CATARMAN, Northern Samar, Feb 14 (PIA) -- The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) proudly announced to the business sector and all businessmen that the agency has already formally opened the National Economic Research and Business Assistance Center (NERBAC) in Catarman, the capital town of Northern Samar on February 3, 2012. DTI said businessmen can now register their business through NERBAC and they will accept processing of business permits applications every Thursday. During the lau...
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23Feb2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb 23 (PIA) -- As an effective measure to prevent flooding especially in low-lying areas, Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jesse Robredo is calling on all local chief executives to include the construction of rainwater collectors in their respective development plans or climate change action plans. In a short talk with DILG-Southern Leyte Information Officer designate Loren Abrau-Aniciete disclosed that the installation...
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23Mar2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, March 23 (PIA) -- Mayor Coeferdo ‘Tekwa’ Uy cited city scholars who graduated with honors in simple ceremonies recently. The Mayor Tekwa Scholarship Program is now reaping its fruits as its first batch of graduates will be marching this month out of high school. The scholarship program was initiated by the City Social and Welfare Officer Nida Aroza with some 500 scholars; where 249 of them will be graduating this school year, 19 of them with academic honors. One s...
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13Apr2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, April 13 (PIA) -- The Overseas Workers’ Welfare Administration (OWWA) partnered with Leyte Governor Jericho Petilla to open the ninth OWWA help desk in the province of Leyte. According to OWWA Administrator Carmelita Dimzon, who flew in today for the signing of the memorandum of Agreement with LGU Leyte, this is part of the labor and employment agenda of President Benigno Simeon Aquino lll. She added that this is done, “upang lalong mapangalagaan ang welfare ng mga OF...
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26Oct2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Oct 26 (PIA) -- The public is reminded to take measures regarding the October 26 South Korea’s launching of its third satellite. The public, especially those along the coastal areas of Isabela in Region 2, the Bicol Region, Samar and Leyte in Region 8, and Surigao del Norte and Surigao del Sur in the Caraga Region, are cautioned to stay away from “exclusive zones” or areas where debris of the rocket are expected to fall, said a circular coming from the office of Secr...
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20Feb2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, February 20 (PIA)— School cadets and reservists have started a massive tree-planting and beach clean-up in response to President Benigno S. Aquino’s National Greening Program (NGP), a student cadet officer said Monday. Assistant Commandant Malik Rafon of the Samar State University’s Reserved Officers Training Corps (ROTC) said his school would begin a massive start tree-planting program in March this year. In Catbalogan, some 1400 Naval ROTC reserv...
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12Feb2013MAKATI, Feb. 12 (PIA) -- A high-level event dubbed as Philippine-German Policy Dialogue on Renewable Energy is set to be held at Manila A&B Function Room at Shangri-La Hotel, Makati on February 14, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Organized by the Department of Energy in cooperation with the Climate Change Commission, the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Development Cooperation – Deutche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, the event will bring together pol...
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16May2012CAMP RUPERTO KANGLEON, Palo, Leyte, May 16 (PIA) -- The Philippine National Police Region 8 celebrated a “Blue Mass” before the traditional Monday Flag Raising Ceremony, May 14, 2012. Police Senior Superintendent Felix Alberca Diloy, chief of the Regional Police Community Relations Division, informed that the Blue Mass was concelebrated by priests coming from the PNP National Headquarters. The Blue Mass started at 7:30 a.m. officiated by Reverend Father (PSSupt) Deody Barret, Director, PNP...
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08Aug2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Aug 8 (PIA) -- National Statistical Coordination Board Region 8 head Evangeline M. Paran said that NSCB has just released the 2009 city/municipal poverty estimates including that for Eastern Visayas. This is part of the agency’s continuing effort to be more relevant and to respond to the clamor for updated poverty statistics at lower levels of disaggregation, Paran said. The poverty estimates were the results of the Project on the Generation of the 2009 Small Area Esti...
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04Sep2012CATARMAN, Northern Samar, Sept 4 (PIA) -- The Northern Samar Provincial Agriculture Office, through the help of the Department of Agriculture, remains steadfast in achieving the province’s rice sufficiency target of about 3.8 metric tons (MT) per hectare in the year 2013. This is the optimistic view of Medardo Panoy, chief of Crops Section and Rice Program coordinator of the province. The financial and technical assistance, provided by the Department of Agriculture and Provincial Agricultur...
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24Jan2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Jan 24 (PIA) -- The Department of Science and Technology is coming to the rescue of one of Eastern Visayas popular dive sites, that of Padre Burgos in the province of Southern Leyte. Engr. Edgardo Esperancilla, DOST8 regional director disclosed that the DOST central office has allotted P5 million for the coral reef restoration project at Padre Burgos, Southern Leyte. The project, which involves the rehabilitation of a one-hectare area of coral reef...
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14Apr2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, April 14 (PIA) -- Ever true to its mission to help government bring peace and progress to the entire people of Samar, the Samar Island Partnership for Progress and Development (SIPPAD) resolved recently to seek the suspension of the controversial mining operations, particularly in the Eastern part of Samar. On motion of Agustin Docena and duly seconded by Maydolong Mayor Henry Afable, approved by the body in today’s 19th assembly, was the crafting and submis...
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15Aug2012SOUTHERN LEYTE, Aug15 (PIA) -- The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration Regional Office 8 (OWWA-8) is calling on fourth year high school children of married/single overseas Filipino workers, and brothers or sisters of unmarried as well as childless married OFWs to take part and avail themselves the college scholarship through the Education for Development Scholarship Program (EDSP). OWWA Regional Director Norma C. Del Rosario in a press release disclosed that there will be an examination se...
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09Mar2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, March 9 (PIA -- Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Jessie Dellosa visited the 8th Infantry Division (8th ID) based in Camp Lukban, Catbalogan City,Tuesday. The General proudly said that with President Benign Simeon Aquino lll, AFP Modernization has taken off in the manner they expected. He said they have acquired four helicopters and four more are coming before the year ends. While the Aquino administration has just been ...
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07Apr2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, April 7 (PIA) -- The 8th ID Commanding General Mario F Chan ordered his sergeant at arms: lower my personal flag, as his final order as he faced his division for the last time before retiring. After 38 years of service in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the Commanding General of the 8th Infantry Battalion said his last piece on April 3 in front of army officials, heads of agencies, and soldiers. “My service ends here,” Chan said. Chan joined the AFP as...
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30Dec2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Dec 30 (PIA) –- Eastern Visayas has to date registered three firecracker-related injuries, since the start of the Iwas Paputok monitoring on December 21. The Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Center in Tacloban City has recorded three cases, the latest of which was on December 26. Dr. Frederick Asanza told the Philippine Information Agency that the first case, admitted on December 21, was an 11-year-old boy from Santo Nino, Tanauan, Leyte who sustained corneal abrasion...
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04Jun2012CATBALOGAN CITY, June 4 (PIA) -- A new Department of Education (DepEd) program called Barangay Education Strategic Team (BEST) has yielded 12 new high schools in the division of Samar. According to Claire Menda of the DepEd Samar Planning Unit, these 12 new high schools will be opened to serve the rural students who live in rural or far-flung barangays. Today, June 4, Menda was on her way to Cabiton-an High School in the island of Daram, Samar for its launch with Division Superintendent Thelma...
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08Jun2012CATBALOGAN CITY, SAMAR, June 08, (PIA) --Department of Education's K to 12 program will not only place the Philippine educational system at par with international standard, but it will also contribute to the development of a better educated society capable of pursuing productive employment, entrepreneurship, or higher education disciplines, an official of DepEd said. DepEd Division of Samar Information Officer and Balik Ekswela Chairman Rustom Geonzon who guested on radio at PIA’s Huruhiman...
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28Jan2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Jan. 28 (PIA) -- The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Samar First Engineering Distict affirms it will continually uphold the Department's mantra on on right project, right cost and right quality in its implementation of projects. In a statement, Engr Virgilio Eduarte, District Engineer of the DPWH Samar’s First Engineering District,said the upholding of the Agency's mantra was emphasized during the planning for DPWH 2013 Infrastructure...
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30May2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, May 30 (PIA) -- The local government of Calbiga, Samar supported the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Association of Samar Producers (ASAP) in the week-long Calbiga Town Fiesta agro-industrial fair on May 21-27. In the agri-industry fair, ASAP products were displayed coming from different municipalities of Samar. ASAP is a group of Samar entrepreneurs and producers that banded themselves into a legitimate group and is supported by DTI. Products proven to...
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26Aug2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Aug 26 (PIA) -- Leyte Governor Carlos Jericho L. Petilla said that the provincial government of Leyte has developed the first-ever competitiveness index for a local government unit. Petilla made the pronouncement as the results of the Leyte Provincial Competitiveness Index project were presented to members of the League of Municipalities of the Philippines Leyte Chapter. The findings and ratings by the Index project will be the bases in extending financial and capability ...
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06Feb2012BORONGAN City, Eastern Samar, Feb 6 (PIA) -- Supportive of the government’s program to slow down the effect of climate change, the Police Provincial Health Office (PPO) here initially planted some 300 mahogany trees. Headed by SSupt. Manuel E. Cubillo, the PNP provincial force, trooped to sitio Catian, barangay Bato, this city, last Saturday where they performed their support to the National Greening Program (NGP) which aims to mitigate the greenhouse effect in humans and ot...
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12Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, February 12 (PIA) – All the barangays and sitios of Javier, Leyte are now lighted, thanks to the President who is really fulfilling his social contract with the Filipino people, Mayor Leonardo “Sandy” Javier told local media recently. Javier, who accompanied Budget Secretary Florencio Abad in his recent visit to the region, said that the 28 villages in his municipality have now access to electricity with the completion of the P6 million...
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14Feb2012BORONGAN City, Eastern Samar, Feb 14 (PIA) -- Apart from pre-scheduled power interruptions, stolen electric wires, and even kite-flying cause a cut in electricity service.This was revealed by the National Grid Corporation of Philippines (NGCP) Corporate Communication chief, Elmer Cruz in a phone-patch interview over Radyo ng Bayan DYES with Carlos Capito. Cruz’s revelation followed several complaints regarding the repeated power interruptions by the Eastern Samar Electric Coo...
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14Dec2012CAMP RUPERTO K. KANGLEON, Palo, Leyte, Dec 14 –- To ensure a fair and safe midterm elections next year, the Police Regional Office - Region 8 (PRO8) has formed a special task group to be deployed in Samar province after it was included in the list of 15 “priority areas” for the May 2013 polls. “The PNP in Eastern Visayas will make sure that upcoming elections is not only free and fair, but also secured, peaceful and orderly,” Police Chief Superintendent Elmer Ragadio Soria, Eastern V...
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06Nov2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Nov. 6 (PIA) -- At least seven State Colleges and Universities (SUCs) in Eastern Visayas, through their respective research departments, were invited to participate in the First International Freshwater Prawn Congress to be held January 10-11, 2013, at the Southern Leyte State University (SLSU)-Bontoc Campus. Among the invited SUCs in Region 8 along with their various campuses included University of Eastern Philippines, Eastern Visayas State University, Visayas St...
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13Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, March 13 (PIA) -- Some 100 women working in about 30 government agencies in Easter Visayas affixed their signatures on a Gender in Government Manifesto as a tangible manifestation of their support in the Disaster Risk Reduction and Management efforts. The signing of the Manifesto of Support highlighted the Gender Forum with the theme “Mobilizing Women in Government for Disaster Risk Reduction and Management," conducted on March 12 at the Governor&rs...
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08Mar2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Mar 8 (PIA) -- At least 105 Registered Nurses for Health Enhancement And Local Service (RN-HEALS) and 10 Rural Health Midwives Placement Program (RHMPP) were deployed by the Department of Health (DOH) in Southern Leyte, DOH Representative to the province, Dr. Feliciano John Matibag said this morning. “The third batch of RN-HEALS project started their work Monday, March 5 this year, including the RHMPP, with a two-day orientation conducted at the Ampi...
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22Feb2013MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb. 22 -- Provincial candidates in Southern Leyte signed a peace covenant to signify their commitment to abide by the election rules for secure and fair elections (SAFE) in May. Under the covenant, candidates vowed "to recognize the truth that the exercise of the right of suffrage is a solemn act of sovereignty, and the ballot, being an expression of sovereign will, is sacred." The candidates shall not personally or through the supporters, directly or indirectly...
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03May2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, May 3 (PIA) -- The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAG-ASA) has reported that the month of May signals afternoon rains. “Isolated rain showers may occur in the afternoon as cumulus clouds and thunderstorms are now in the weather system," said PAG-ASA-Catbalogan chief Eddie dela Cruz in an interview. Dela Cruz added that the days are now colder compared to last month. “Yesterday, the highest temperature measured 34.5 de...
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07Feb2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb. 7 (PIA) -- The Department of Health (DOH) based in Southern Leyte conducted an exit conference for the Registered Nurses for Health Enhancement And Local Service (RN-HEALS) project through presentation of accomplishments at the Salvacion Oppus Yñiguez Memorial Provincial Hospital (SOYMPH) conference hall, February 7. DOH Representative to the province, Dr. Feliciano John Matibag disclosed that Southern Leyte was allotted at least 77 regi...
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22May2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, May 22 (PIA) -- The Social Security System (SSS) Catbalogan branch has approved 10 applications for educational loans in Samar. In an interview with Necita Carretas-SSS Catbalogan head yesterday, she said that there are still others undergoing the regular processes to be approved. Covered beneficiaries include the member, legal spouse, child of SSS member (legitimate and illegitimate) and sibling of unmarried SSS members including half-brother or half-sister). The amo...
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29Jan2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Jan. 29 (PIA) -- PhilHealth official Dr. Noel Arteche encouraged hospital administrators in Samar to provide supplies and drugs to members of PhilHealth. Arteche made this appeal during the first Samar Hospital Summit held at the Capitol, Catbalogan City, Samar on Friday, Jan. 27. “If the member buys supplies and medicines outside the hospital pharmacy, the hospital losses some income,” Arteche told the gathered hospital personnel. T...
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18Feb2012PALO, Leyte, February 18 (PIA) -- In line with the Aquino Administration’s climate change adaptation program, the Department of Public Works and Highways will facilitate the construction of rainwater collection system in more public schools in Eastern Visayas this year. DPWH Region 8 Director Rolando Asis said Public Works and Highways Secretary Rogelio L. Singson has directed all DPWH field offices to facilitate the construction of rainwater collection system in public schools as...
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08Feb2013CATARMAN, Northern Samar, Feb. 8 (PIA) – The Civil Service Commission of Northern Samar will conduct a teambuilding and capability building activities for human resource management practitioners on March 11-15 at Puerto Princesa, Palawan. CSC Provincial Director Emmanuel Fuentes said the activity is in line with the launching of CSC roadmap for 2010-2015 towards the commissions’ vision to be the model of excellence in the service of the Filipino people, credible civil servants exemplifying ...
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05Jun2012NAVAL, Biliran, June 5 (PIA) -- The top official of the agriculture department said that the country will start exporting rice in the early part of 2013. Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala made the announcement before officers of a farmers irrigators association in Biliran province during his visit to the province last May 31. “We will export early next year our Philippine rice to Middle East,” Alcala said. As a caveat, he said the plan may not push thru if typhoons destroy the crops ...
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05Jun2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, June 5 (PIA) -- The Sogod Bay Sustainable Marine Management Alliance (SBSMMA), an alliance of 11 municipal governments sharing the Sogod Bay area, is proposing for a funding of P2 million to intensify the collection of the dreaded Crown of Thorns (COT) starfish spreading wildly in the bay. “ In close coordination with the local dive shops and barangay folks, the Sogod Bay Alliance noted that the extraction of the COT starfish needs funding for the food and o...
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02Mar2012CATARMAN, Northern Samar, Mar 2 (PIA) -- Confirmed in the roll posted on February 29, 2012 by the Supreme Court of the Philippines, the following is the official list of the new lawyers of the University of Eastern Philippines (UEP) released by Atty. Marlonfritz B. Broto, the new Dean of the UEP College of Law: 1. BALANQUIT, CHERRY L. 2. BALLICUD, CRISTALYN A. 3. BASILOY, ALMIRA E. 4. CARDENAS, ELEANOR A. 5. DRIO, ERWIN T. 6. ESTIGOY, AMADOR A. 7. GIRAY, ARMAN D. 8. MARTINE...
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28Mar2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Mar. 28 (PIA)—The heavy rains brought about by the two low pressure area in the country has flooded the towns of Calbiga, Sta Rita and some portions at the Maharlika Highway of the Catbalogan-Tacloban route. Rains started pouring Monday night and continued the whole day yesterday, inundating areas near rivers like Calbiga town. Despite the report of Luz Tacal that only light to moderate rains were felt in Samar, some areas become flooded. Tacal is the acting officer o...
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26Apr2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, April 26 (PIA) -- Several non-government organizations in close partnership with the local government unit here are willing to get themselves dirtied on Friday, April 27 as they clean two rivers in the city proper. “Let us wear our most sullied outfit and be ready to be as much dirty as possible,” said Mayor Maloney Samaco as he enjoined the various groups to be one with the city government in giving a facelift to the Combado and Tuburan rivers. The activity ...
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30Jan2013TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Jan. 29 (PIA) -- Productivity is an important concept which should be learned at an early age and the best stage for introduction of the concept is when the child starts school. So said Atty. Exequil Sarcauga, regional director of the Department of Labor and Employment in Eastern Visayas. The DOLE regional top man is pushing for advocacy on productivity in schools in a bid to introduce the concept during the formative stage of a child. He said that the labor department ...
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30May2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, May 30 (PIA) -- Road safety is now part of the elementary school curriculum, Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) Assistant Secretary Dante Lantin disclosed during a press conference recently at the Leyte Park Hotel in Tacloban City. ASEC Lantin who was in the province of Leyte on May 28 for the commemoration of the month of May as Road Safety Month, said that the integration of road safety in the school curriculum will hopefully raise the awareness and i...
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20Apr2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, April 20 (PIA) -- The Maasin city government will prioritize the construction of the evacuation centers for the two barangays since their respective barangay councils were ready with their own counterparts for the said infrastructure facility. “The two barangays, Brgy. Bilibol and Brgy. Tigbawan, all of Maasin City, shall be assisted in the construction of evacuation centers each since they have already set up the foundations, such as, the pillars and beams for ...
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12May2012NAVAL, Biliran, May 12 (PIA) -- The medical study “Comprehensive Etiological and Epidemiological Study on Acute Respiratory Infections in Children: Providing Evidence for the Prevention and Control of Childhood Pneumonia in Biliran Province” was launched at the Biliran Provincial Hospital (BPH) on Wednesday, May 8. The five-year comprehensive medical study is sponsored by the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) in collaboration wit...
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22Aug2012CALBAYOG CITY, Samar, August 22 (PIA) -- The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency successfully captured Samar’s most wanted drug personality in an entrapment operation conducted on August 18, 2012 in Calbayog City. In a report to the PDEA Director General Undersecretary Jose S. Gutierrez, Jr., PDEA Region 8 Director Julius Navales said the suspect is a 44 year old, married male and a resident of Barangay Matobato, Calbayog City. Director Navales said that PDEA lured the suspect into selling sh...
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09Jun2012BORONGAN CITY, EASTERN SAMAR, June 9 (PIA) -- Regalado Opena, Provincial Agriculturist here said that the targeted food sufficiency program of Governor Conrado Nicart Jr. is attainable. In 2010, he said that there was a 69-percent sufficiency level that increased to 78 percent in 2011. For 2015, Office of the Provincial Agricultural Services or Agriculture Office (OPAS) projects a 90 percent food sufficiency level. Opena attributes this big increase in Palay production to the incentive wh...
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30Dec2012CAMP RUPERTO KANGLEON, Palo, Leyte, Dec. 30 (PIA) -- All the local disaster risk reduction and management councils are directed to activate their respective operation centers under red alert status from December 30 to January 3, 2013. Office of Civil Defense Region 8 Director Rey Gozon said this is in view of the Memorandum from the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council dated December 27, 2012 calling for Red Alert status re “Alerto Bagong Taon 2013.” In his memo to the c...
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04Jun2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, June 4 (PIA) -- With its sustained pursuit for peace and development in Eastern Visayas, the 8th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army uncovered four more NPA camps in various sites in Samar and Leyte. In a report sent to Lt. Colonel Arvin Lagamon, chief of the Division Public Affairs Office, it was learned that on May 29, 2012, soldiers of 87th Infantry Battalion under 2Lt Verniel D. Semblante, recovered enemy encampment at Barangay Caulayan, Motiong, Samar. Said camp...
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13Mar2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, March 13 (PIA) -- The Office of Presidential Adviser on Peace Process (OPAPP) is set to hold a two-day workshop on peace and development at St. Mary’s College Auditorium, this city on March 13-14. According to Governor Conrado Nicart, the workshop, dubbed “Provincial Workshops on Mainstreaming Peace and Development in Local Governance (MPDLG,” is in line with the PAyapa at MAsaganang PAmayanan (PAMANA) program, for Samar Island. He added...
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16Apr2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, April 16 (PIA) -- The province of Southern Leyte is set to observe the Ocean Month celebration next month. Preparations for the celebration of the Ocean Month on May 2013 are already in place as the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Management Office (PENRMO) have identified the search for the Champion of the Seas in the province to highlight said national observation, PENRMO Coastal Resource and Fisheries Management Chief Eva Abad disclosed. Abad rev...
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05Jan2013TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, January 5 (PIA) – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources has inked a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the Visayas State University to improve watershed rehabilitation efforts in the country. Under the agreement, the DENR will assist in carrying out the four major objectives of the project: identify success and failure factors of watershed rehabilitation and reforestation in the country; identify key intervention points and design initiatives to improve wat...
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19Jun2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, June 19 (PIA) -- The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) included the Panan-awan airport here to be bid out in a national daily broadsheet; this, together with six other airports all over the country, with a combined worth of P303 million. In the June 14, 2012 issue of the Manila Bulletin, the DOTC stated that it is ,“improving and expanding the passenger and airport traffic handling capacity of seven provincial airports in order to support grow...
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09Feb2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Feb. 9 (PIA) -- Samar local government units (LGUs) rated poorly in terms of operational readiness to address disaster. In a rating sheet prepared by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and distributed to members, Samar LGUs lag behind in many indicators particularly in contingency plans for tsunami, and other calamities when it did not even reach 50%. The data stemmed from a survey on operational readiness of local governments to ...
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03Jun2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, June 3 (PIA) -- A ranking official of the Department of Education (DepEd) in Eastern Visayas announced that the regional DepEd office is all set for the implementation of a landmark reform in the educational system of the country, the K to 12. Dr. Rebecca Ragrag, head of Policy, Planning, and Research Division (PPRD) of DepEd-8, made the declaration during the Education Summit held at the gymnasium in this barangay yesterday in front of around 700 teachers comprisin...
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07Jun2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, June 7 (PIA) -- The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA)-Regional office 8 will conduct a Migrant Workers Day today, June 7, to be held at the Leyte Provincial Capitol gymnasium, Tacloban City. OWWA Local Communications Officer Florence D. Panao disclosed that around 800 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) together with their families throughout Eastern Visayas region are expected to participate in this year’s celebration which will start at 7:00 a.m. until...
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12Oct2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, Oct 12 (PIA) -- A team of educators from Bangladesh was in town yesterday to learn how the local government unit of Llorente adapts and mitigates the impact of natural disasters. It being a part of the programs of Plan International, the learning visit was led by Taslima Begum, a professor and Training Director of the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education of the Ministry of Education, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He said that they came to the Philippines because th...
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22Aug2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, August 22 (PIA) -- The Philippine National Police (PNP) newly installed Regional Director (RD) 8 Chief Superintendent Elmer Soria gave recognition to some PNP officers and men during his visit to the Samar Police Provincial Office (PPO) in Catbalogan City on Monday, August 20. The awarding held at the PNP Provincial Headquarters was presided over by Samar PNP Police Director Eusebio Mejos together with Regional Director Soria who presented the awards to the police. Th...
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23Mar2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, March 23 (PIA) -- Samar Entre-Pinays claim that their affiliation with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has helped them through the best and worst times. Both DTI-Samar bosses Meilo Macabare and Ruthelma Samonte with two Entre-Pinays confirmed their "love story" in a PIA 8-Samar ‘Huruhimangraw’ radio program over Aksyon Radyo DYMS, in Catbalogan City. Deny Uy, owner of fashion accessories in Catbalogan talked about how she resigned from being a banker to ...
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28Mar2012PALO, Leyte, March 28 (PIA) -- At least 44 families from five barangays of Palo, Leyte were brought to the evacuation centers due to rising water levels as of 8:00 p.m. of March 27. The Leyte Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC) Operations Center informed that three families from Barangay Tacuranga have been evacuated to the barangay hall. From Barangay Hibacaan, four families have been evacuated to the Barangay Hall while four families from Barangay Saint Michael...
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24Nov2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Nov. 24 (PIA) -- The mid-term polls next year will be using similar technology used during the 2010 presidential elections, an official of the provincial office of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) here announced. Provincial Election Supervisor Atty. Antonio Gulay, Jr., however, said his office is still awaiting the resolutions to be promulgated by the poll body’s central office as to the details on the overall preparations and conduct of the 2013 local and...
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01Mar2012SAN ROQUE, MACROHON, So. Leyte Mar 1 (PIA) -- In a launching ceremony of the Sogod Bay Sustainable Marine Management Alliance (SBSMMA), an alliance of 11 municipalities to protect the marine environment, the provincial government through Governor Damian G. Mercado vowed to support the reported outbreak of crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) along the sea shores of Sogod Bay. The governor said that they had purchased 30 crown-of-thorns gun which will be used to kill the killer star...
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04Apr2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, April 4 (PIA) -- The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has conducted various road projects this March. DPWH’s Tacloban City District Engineering Office (TCDEO) had rehabilitation, reconstruction, upgrading, road widening and preventive maintenance projects. According to TCDEO’s report, a 548-meter road along Tacloban-Baybay South has been rehabilitated on the first week of March provide safe roads to travelers. Tacloban City district engineer Arnaldo R. ...
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17Oct2012PALO, Leyte, Oct. 17 (PIA) -- The Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Eastern Visayas is set to host the first National Peatland Summit and Mission Review on October 24-25, 2012 at the Leyte Oriental Hotel in Palo, Leyte. DENR Regional Executive Director Manolito Ragub said this is in line with the implementation of ASEAN- International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)/Global Environment Fund project on the Rehabilitation and sustainable Use of Peatland Forests in Southea...
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01Jan2013TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Jan. 1 (PIA) -- PhilHealth, in cooperation with the Civil Service Commission in Eastern Visayas, calls upon all government agencies and entities to use and adopt the Electronic Premium Reporting System (EPRS) as the mode of preparation and submission of the monthly PhilHealth remittance reports effective immediately. PhilHealth Regional Vice President for Eastern Visayas, Walter R. Bacareza said that this move is in preparation for the phasing out of all other existing re...
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10May2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, May 10 (PIA) --The regional office of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic point to pollution as the cause of the fish kill incident in Lake Bito in MacArthur town in Leyte province. Dr. Nancy Dayap, chief environmental and monitoring sector of BFAR-8 disclosed that the pollution of Lake Bito might have been brought by three pollutants resulting to the fish kill incident. Dr. Dayap said that based on their findings Lake Bito was polluted due to the presence of fecal coli f...
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25Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 24 (PIA) -- The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in the region is urging secondary school graduates to enroll in technical and vocational courses because of increasing demand for technical workers abroad. DOLE Regional Director Exequil Sarcauga disclosed that there are tech-voc courses which high school graduates can consider for employment abroad. He added that taking ladderized courses is one of the alternatives which can lead to employment in the absence ...
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13Apr2012NAVAL, Biliran, April 13 (PIA) -- A total of P10,070,021 worth of Agrarian Reform Infrastructure Support Project (ARISP) of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) were inaugurated in Biliran province yesterday, April 12. These ARISP III projects, which include the concreting of Kasabangan farm-to-market-road, Balaquid Communal Irrigation System, and Balaquid Level II Potable Water System, were all located in Barangay Balaquid, an agrarian reform community situated in the municipality of Cabucg...
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17Jul2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, July 17 (PIA) -- The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has set on August 11 the National Persons with Disabilities (PWD) Registration Day as stated in Comelec Resolution No. 12-0624 to strengthen the campaign for PWD voter registration. The special registration day for PWDs aims to make election processes more accessible and their right to suffrage real, lawyer Rosemarie Polistico, Tacloban City Comelec registrar, said during the Suruswerte Ha PIA radio program. Polisti...
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23May2013BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, May 23 (PIA) -- About 276 Grade 2 teachers are now attending a joint mass training on the K to 12 Basic Education Program (BEP) of the Department of Education (DepEd) here which started Tuesday and will end on May 25. The training aims to provide all Grade 2 teachers with a concrete understanding of the Grade 2 curriculum and competencies, assessment and teaching plans and provide them with opportunities to acquire and demonstrate the values that will guide the te...
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21Jan2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, January 21 (PIA) – Preliminary works are now ongoing for the Secondary National Roads Development Project (SNRDP) under the Philippine Compact with Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). Engr. Rene Galapon of the Department of Public Works and Highways Regional Office 8, who is the Project Engineer, informed the Philippine Information Agency that environmental and social impact assessment is now ongoing. The initial environmental Examination is scheduled to be c...
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23Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 23 (PIA) -- The Philippine National Police Regional Office 8 has arrested two teenagers suspected of possessing illegal drugs in separate operations last Friday, March 16. This was learned from Police Superintendent Lito T. Bigoy, acting chief of the Regional Police Community Relations Division in a press release. In Calbayog City, joint elements of Calbayog City Police Station and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency arrested an 18-year-old female college student for...
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10Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, March 11 (PIA) -- Pregnant women from all over 138 barangays of the City of Tacloban flocked the Patio Victoria on March 10 as the country commemorates National Buntis Day with a series of Lectures with Tacloban City as the main host. More than 1,500 pregnant women have registered at the venue of the activity as the organizers, Philippine Obstetrical and Gynecological Society is set to make an official attempt at a Guinness World Record for the largest prenatal clas...
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26Jun2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, June 26 (PIA) -- The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), through the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB), has initiated a wage issue consultation among 30 private establishments in Southern Leyte on Friday at the Maasin Country Lodge. DOLE regional director Exequiel Sarcauga said that the wage consultation is one of the bases if there is really a need of restructuring the wages in the region. “There is a need for information from the d...
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26Aug2012BURAUEN, Leyte, Aug 26 (PIA) -- Government’s Social Integration Program for rebel returnees continues to draw communist terrorists back into the folds of the law. On August 24 at Barangay Roxas, Burauen, Leyte, 17 rebel returnees received financial assistance in the amount of P10,000 from the provincial government of Leyte. Clotilde Malatbalat, Leyte Provincial Social Welfare and Development Officer, informed the Philippine Information Agency that this is the counterpart of the provincial ...
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01Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, March 1 (PIA) -- The Philippine Information Agency in Eastern Visayas kicked off this year’s Women’s Month celebration by launching the “Entre-Pinay” (short for enterprising Pinay) episode of the Harampang Ha PIA. PIA 8 Director Olive Tiu said this is PIA’s way of helping budding women entrepreneurs promote their products or services and connecting them to the government agencies that will assist them in their business undertaking...
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21Jun2012PALO, Leyte, June 21 (PIA) – The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is eyeing the implementation of a diversion plan that will correct the saddle section of Liloan-San Ricardo Road in Southern Leyte. DPWH Region 8 Director Rolando Asis said that the so-called saddle road, located at Pintuyan, Southern Leyte, is considered as the most dangerous road section and is the perennial subject of complaints by motorists who use the newly operational Benit-San Ricardo Roro Port. Benit Ferr...
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17Jul2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, July 17 (PIA) -- The leading superstore in the city of Maasin has participated in the National Disaster Consciousness Month nationwide celebration and successfully conducted their earthquake and fire prevention drills yesterday. Office of the Civil Defense (OCD) provincial officer Marichu Tan noted that the said superstore has already organized their own preparedness teams such as medical, rescue, communication, evacuation from among their workforce during the co...
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02Jan2013CAMP RUPERTO KANGLEON, Palo, Leyte, Jan 2 (PIA) -- New Year revelry was generally peaceful and safer compared to previous year’s celebration, with lesser number of firecracker injuries and with no victims of stray bullets, in Eastern Visayas Region, Police Chief Superintendent Elmer Rogadio Soria, police regional director, said. Soria said that no untoward incident was so far reported by the various provincial and city police offices all over the region during the New Year’s eve and also on...
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11Mar2013PALO, Leyte, March 11 (PIA) -- There is no contamination of the Kananga River as a result of a landslide-induced busted steam pipeline of the Energy Development Corporation, the Environmental Management Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Eastern Visayas assured. Based on the initial analysis of the water taken from the Bao River in Kananga, Leyte, there is only low concentration or tolerable amount of boron disclosed EMB-8 Director Leticia Maceda. Maceda said that...
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17Apr2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, April 17 (PIA) -- Local people's ogranizations have fully taken the National Greening Program commitment of the Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) in Maasin to plant trees for 300 hectares of land. “All of the 300 hectares of open areas in the province are now ready to be planted with trees under the NGP as all were already contracted to the five local people’s organizations,” CENRO Maasin Senior staff Edilberto Alcarde disclosed. The ...
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09Mar2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Mar 9 (PIA) -- In compliance with the directive of the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (NDRRMC) to participate in the nationwide simultaneous earthquake drill, the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office here, through its City Disaster Operations Team, conducted an earthquake drill in two identified buildings within the city proper, Thursday. “The disaster operations team prepared the evacuation plan and identified at least ...
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02May2012CATARMAN, Northern Samar, May 2 (PIA) -- The white beach that used to be taken for granted has been transformed and developed by the University of Eastern Philippines (UEP) into a tourist attraction in less than two years time. “It has become the biggest resort in Northern Samar in terms of customers and land area,” said Atty. Mar De Asis, UEP President, in a press conference held at the school’s Eco-Park on Sunday. The news conference was a sideline event to the three-day risk awarene...
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06May2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, May 6 (PIA)—The Department of Tourism (DOT) 8 conducted a re-assessment of the Ulot Torpedo Boat ride in the Samar watershed, Barangay Tenani, Paranas, Samar on May 3, 2012. The activity started at Barangay Tenani, Ulot watershed jump off point at around 11:00 a.m. with 17 participants. Those who came and tried the torpedo boat ride are from the volunteer service overseas (VSO) from Canada, divers, local government unit employees, Philippine National Police, and to...
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30Nov2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Nov 30 (PIA) -- Twelve female overseas Filipino workers have availed themselves of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration’s "Balik Pinay, Balik Hanapbuhay" program and are currently undergoing 12-day training on Beauty Care and Hair Dressing at the OWWA-8 office. OWWA-8 Reintegration Program Specialist Mary Catherine O. Pastor said the program aims to provide immediate source of livelihood assistance through skills and entrepreneurial trainings to returning women OF...
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19Jun2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, June 19 (PIA) -- Two government agencies in Eastern Visayas have organized an orientation-seminar on food safety and proper food handling for Barangay Food Terminals (BFTs). The Department of Agriculture (DA-8), in cooperation with the Bureau of Agriculture and Fishery Products Standards (BAFPS), recently conducted an orientation-seminar on Food Safety, Quality and Proper Food Handling for BFTs at the Ritz Tower de Leyte. DA-8 stated that the seminar-workshop was conducte...
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07Jul2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, July 7 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in Eastern Visayas allocated P126,143,200 for its supplemental feeding program (SPF) in the region for Calendar Year 2011. This was revealed by Ms. Pauline Nadera, SPF focal person in a media orientation Thursday held at the Leyte Park Hotel this city. Nadera said that the amount is intended for the feeding of some 106,209 beneficiaries of the program in 3,918 day care centers throughout the region w...
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27Apr2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, April 27 (PIA)-- Access roads leading to tourist destinations in Samar’s first district will soon be constructed. The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Samar’s first engineering district in a press release said that like Samar’s Tourism Council, DPWH also envisions Calbayog City as an alternative tourist destination by 2016. The focus of the Tourism Master Development plan provides framework and direction to tourism development plan in the three pro...
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03May2012CATARMAN, Northern Samar, May 3 (PIA) -- The Sangguniang Panlalawigan, Committee on Labor, Employment and Human Resources sets to conduct a public hearing on May 16 on the proposed ordinance defining and penalizing the use of child labor, and providing for a program for the prevention and progressive elimination of child labor in Northern Samar. The proposed ordinance is aimed at progressively eliminating child labor in the province by preventing children, especially children at risk, from goin...
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09May2012Tacloban City, Leyte, May 8, (PIA) -- A lot of parents and students in Eastern Visayas have been given a respite in the payment of tuition fees as only two out of the 97 colleges and universities in the region had been approved by the Commission on Higher Education for tuition fee hike. CHED, which administers colleges and universities, approved the tuition hikes of Bato Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) in Bato town in Leyte and the Samar Colleges (SC) in Catbalogan City, Samar to ei...
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17Oct2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, Oct 17 (PIA) -- A team of Bangladesh educators was amazed at how students and teachers adapt and mitigate climate change. This was during the Learning Visit of the 15-member team to Barobo National High School at Barangay Barobo, Llorente this province, a Plan International beneficiary. “You have a very impressive curriculum,” said Lutful Khaled, education manager of Bangladesh Ministry of Education, after listening to the presentation of the school’s st...
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13Jun2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, June 13 (PIA) -- A local investor has renovated the old market in Maasin City through a private-public partnership (PPP) agreement with the city government. The Brodeth family, a home-grown investor, managed to change the landscape by constructing a Mediterranean-themed building, its façade dominating the scene in every perspective view. The whole structure that sits in more or less 2,000 square meters opened last week coinciding with the opening of classes, addin...
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08Jun2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, June 8 (PIA) -- A total of 391 pieces of assorted good lumber with a total estimate of 3,250 board feet from illegally cut logs were confiscated by the 8th Infantry (Stormtroopers) Division (8thID), Philippine Army (PA), Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), and the Philippine National Police (PNP) from January to May 2012. The anti-illegal logging campaign in Eastern Visayas is a joint effort of the army’s 8th ID, PNP and DENR, which resulted to the ...
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04Feb2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Feb 4 (PIA) -- A Canadian team working on Disaster Risk Reduction Management and Climate Change Adaptation is set to visit Samar on February 7 said Marilyn Saboy, provincial director of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG). The Canadian team will hold a dialogue with the local chief executives of Samar, heads of the academe, and other groups working on climate change adaptation at Maqueda Bay Hotel, to start at 8:00 a.m. Organizers believe that ...
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19Apr2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, April 19 (PIA) -- To help reduce energy consumption and fight global warming, the Maasin City College, a government-run institution is implementing the four-day school per week. School Administrator Ryan Cahambing disclosed Wednesday that the five-year-old city college started its energy conservation through the adoption of the four-day school week, which means that students will be attending classes for only four days, from Monday until Thursday only. “It starte...
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19Jul2012CATARMAN, Northern Samar, July 19 (PIA) -- To bring justice closer and faster to the people, the Supreme Court has launched the enhanced justice on wheels (EJOW) at the New Capitol Grounds, Catarman, Northern Samar Wednesday, July 18. The program is intended to bring justice closer to the poor and marginalized sectors of society through the following components of activities: court hearings in the bus, mobile court-annexed mediation (for mediatable cases), information dissemination in which se...
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21Nov2012CARIGARA, Leyte, Nov 21 (PIA) -- Who would have thought that the bunot (coco husk/coco coir), a by-product of the coconut tree, has a far more useful thing than shining floors? The Department of Public Works-Region 8 is all set to install coconets, along a 20-kilometer (km) road stretch in Capoocan, Leyte following a major landslide in said road section. District Engineer Margarita Junia said the Department is optimistic that the coconets will solve the problem of unstable slopes, particular...
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12May2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, May 12 (PIA) -- The Philippine Information Agency (PIA) called on the public anew not to fall victim to text scams, particularly that of text messages saying that the recipient has won something. The warning was issued as a result of the report that subscribers from Maasin City have been receiving text messages claiming that the recipient won P760,000 Handog Pangkabuhayan from the Noynoy Aquino Foundation and the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. The recipient is then asked to...
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20May2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, May 20 (PIA) -- Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan (PAMANA) bared its proposed interventions in Samar to push for peace and development. In the Provincial peace and Order Council (PPOC) meeting Friday in Catbalogan City, members of the PAMANA management team facilitated the appraisal for two priority projects in Samar province. Ranking number one is the initial concreting of Barangay Lokilokon (Paranas) to San Jose de Buan. Some 34.8 kilometers (km) of critical road stretch...
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29Mar2013TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 29 (PIA) --The Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Eastern Visayas directed the Energy Development Corporation to conduct immediate slope stabilization and rehabilitation measures in the areas affected by the landslide on March 1. The directive was made following the damaging effect of the landslide which occurred at the EDC Geothermal Plant in Kananga Leyte, DENR Regional Executive Director Manolito Ragub said. RED Ragub added that he also ordered th...
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19Feb2013BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, Feb 19 (PIA) -- A number of representatives of national government agencies (NGAs) will be holding a series of Information Caravans in the municipalities of Maslog and Jipapad. This was the consensus of the members of the Provincial Technical Working Group (PTWG) in their meeting yesterday. The PTWG Information Caravan (IC) will be held soonest in their effort to support the Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan (Pamayanan) projects which will be implemented in the two u...
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03Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb 3 (PIA) -- The process of management and workers settling their differences instead of going into strikes has created a climate of industrial peace in Eastern Visayas; this makes the region best suited for investments. The regional office of the Department of Labor and Employment has disclosed that the region’s business and industrial sector has experienced no labor strikes in nine consecutive years. Outgoing DOLE regional director Forter Puguon said that ...
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26Dec2012GOV’T CENTER, Palo, Leyte, Dec 26 (PIA) -- Tropical Storm Quinta caused two landslides in two areas in Southern Leyte, rendering roads impassable. The Department of Public Works and Highways in Eastern Visayas reported that the landslides occurred on or about 4 a.m., December 26. DPWH Region 8 Director Rolando Asis said that one landslide was in Km 1005+900 portion of the Maharlika Highway along Mahaplag-Sogod Road, Barangay Kahupian at Sogod, Southern Leyte. The second landslide, Asis s...
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11Oct2012NAVAL, Biliran, Oct 11 (PIA) -- The Department of Energy said drilling of exploration wells for a geothermal project in Biliran will begin in 2013. The project will generate about 50 megawatts of power. In a report, DOE Undersecretary Jose M. Layug Jr said the agency will partner with another Iceland-based firm Orka Energy in the exploration and development of the $150 million project of Biliran Geothermal Inc. in Eastern Visayas. Orka Energy plans to drill two to three exploration wells in 2...
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19Apr2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Apr 19 (PIA) -- Barangay Guadalupe in Maasin City bagged the third place in the “Master Gulay Chef Showdown” held at the Leyte Provincial Capitol Gym, Tacloban City, Tuesday. Maasin City Barangay Nutrition Scholar (BNS) coordinator Grace Rojas disclosed that Barangay Guadalupe followed Tanauan, Leyte and Calbiga, Samar as the first and second, respectively. “The cooking team of Barangay Guadalupe was composed of day care workers who prepared ginataang gulay...
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03Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 3 (PIA) -- The Department of Agriculture and the Provincial Government of Samar, exhorted Samareños to embrace organic agriculture. “Starting today, we should embrace Organic Agriculture as a way of life. The Department of Agriculture is ready to help, train and provide you the technology,” Department of Agriculture Region 8 Regional Executive Director Antonio Gerundio said as he encouraged Samar farmers to adopt organic farming for s...
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08Oct2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Oct 8 (PIA) –- The Eastern Visayas Region will again join the Kapisanan ng mga Broadkaster sa Pilipinas-led simultaneous nationwide tree-planting activity on October 13, Saturday. Dubbed “Oplan Broadcastreeing,” the activity is a tangible manifestation of the broadcasters’ love and concern for the protection of the environment as “environmental warriors.” This is also part of the broadcasters’ active participation in the government’s disaster preparedness ...
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22Aug2012BORONGAN CITY, EASTERN SAMAR, August 22(PIA) -- Philhealth President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr. Eduardo P. Banzon, is set to visit this city on August 24 said Ms. Josephine Mosquisa, Philhealth Provincial Chief. Mosquisa said Dr. Banzon will be gracing the launching of a health package dubbed “Primary Care Benefit-Phase 1 (PCBI) at the lobby of the city hall of Borongan. She added that Dr. Banzon will be joined by some Board of Directors and key personnel of PhilHealth Central O...
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23Feb2012BORONGAN city, Eastern Samar, Feb 23 (PIA) -- Forester Sadiri Pastores of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Community Environment and Natural Resources Office(DENR-CENRO) here, sought support of students in the Department’s effort to lead in the protection of the balance of ecosystem. Sadiri’s appeal was made during the orientation program for the “National Green Project” (NGP) of government, where he spoke before an audience of high s...
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31Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 30 (PIA) -- The labor department and a party list group agreed to extend livelihood assistance to the unemployed poor here. Regional Director Exequiel R. Sarcauga of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Region 8 and Representative Nell Benedict A. Montejo of the An Waray Party-list,agreed to join hands in coming up with programs wherein alternative livelihood will be provided to those in need, particularly the youth, women, the disabled, and parents of child...
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27Jun2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, June 27 (PIA) -- Set to be staged at 1:30 p.m. of June 27 at the Leyte Sports Complex is the staging of the Pintados-Kasadyaan twin festivals, an event residents and tourists always look forward to in the province of Leyte. As early as Sunday, contingents from the various municipalities of Leyte started to arrive in the City in preparation for the grand event, Palo Mayor Remedios Petilla, the chairperson of the Pintados-Kasadyaan Festival, said. This year, there are 11 c...
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28Apr2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, April 28 (PIA) -- Recipients of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) in Eastern Visayas will be receiving additional income through the Poverty Alleviation Program of the government. The said program coursed through the regional office of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD-8) will provide members of the 4Ps beneficiaries’ additional income through the Pamilya Guaranteed Employment which is under the sustainable livelihood program. Monica Ins...
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03Apr2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, April 3 (PIA) -- Together with 44 other honor students, two Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) scholars graduated Cum Laude during the Commencement Exercises of the Leyte Normal University on March 26 in Tacloban City. “We take pride in the achievements of our scholars. This makes evident that the financial assistance extended to them as qualified beneficiaries of our OFW (overseas Filipino workers) clients is not put to waste,” says OWWA- RWO8 OI...
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30Dec2012CAMP RUPERTO K. KANGLEON, Palo, Leyte, Dec 30 (PIA) -- In anticipation of New Year’s Eve revelry, the Eastern Visayas police personnel conducted a simultaneous taping of the nozzles of issued firearms on December 29. Police Region 8 Director Elmer Soria informed that The muzzling of guns of PNP servicemen is aimed at making sure that they will not be used for the New Year revelry. He was quick to add that in the past few years, not a single member of the PNP from the region has used his or h...
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06Dec2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Dec 6 (PIA) – The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council and the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) will conduct Rapid Needs Assessment in areas affected by typhoon Pablo. Office of Civil Defense Region 8 Director Rey Gozon said that per Memorandum from NDRRMC Executive Director Benito T. Ramos, the team from the national level will be deployed in regions 10, 11, and Caraga on December 5 to7 and to regions 4-B, 6, 7, and 8 on December 7 to 9. In view of t...
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18Oct2012CAMP RUPERTO KANGLEON, PALO, Leyte, Oct. 18 (PIA) -- The Eastern Visayas Philippine National Police Regional Office is enforcing strict compliance on the use of standard protective helmets while driving motorcycles, among all its personnel. PNP 8 Regional Director Elmer Soria said this is in line with the implementation of R.A. 10054, an act mandating all motorcycle riders to wear standard helmet gears when driving, the PNP PRO 8 in coordination with the Department of Trade and Industry(DTI) c...
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05Oct2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Oct 5 (PIA) -- The Department of Trade and Industry will hold activities around the theme “Get organized. Be Heard. Be empowered” as part of Consumer Welfare Month this October. DTI Leyte Director Desiderio Belas, Jr. said the theme is aligned with the objective of the DTI to revitalize, strengthen and empower the regional and national consumer organizations in the country. He said the DTI is also looking forward to harness a renewed and strengthened partnership betw...
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07Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb 7 (PIA) -- The natural disasters that have been visiting both rural and urban areas have made people realize the importance of being prepared for any eventuality. Government is making sure that all are, at least, informed on what to do in case these happen. The Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (RDRRMC) in Eastern Visayas is conducting trainings on disaster preparedness aimed at educating people on what to do and what steps to take during nat...
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01Apr2012To the 918 poor household beneficiaries from the 15 barangays of Tolosa, Leyte, the government’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program which was launched on March 31, is a much-needed “Manna” from Heaven bringing them hope for a brighter tomorrow. The P1,400 conditional cash allowance that each household beneficiary receives every month will enable them to give their children decent life, put nutritious food on their tables, afford the necessary vaccinations and send their children to scho...
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02May2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, May 2 (PIA) -- Samar province remained very peaceful during yesterday’s Labor Day celebration, according to the Samar Provincial Police Office (SPPO). “(It was) Very peaceful in Samar except for one vehicular self accident where one Tintoy Gabornay died on the spot as he bumped into the railing at the national highway in Barangay Mogdo, Hinabangan, Samar,” P/Insp. Carlito Abriz, Deputy Police Director of Samar said in a text message this morning. Meanwhile, Catba...
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31Mar2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, March 31 (PIA) -- A total of 1,709 Samarnon students will enjoy summer employment under the Special Program for the Employment of Students (SPES). This is according to June Obregon, head of the Samar Field Office of the Department of Labor (DOLE) in a phone interview today. The local government unit (LGU) under Samar Gov. Sharee Ann Tan will lead the summer employers by be hiring some 1,000 students. Following is Paranas that will employ 100 students, Calbayog with 73,...
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15Feb2013MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb. 15 (PIA) -- The Department of Health-Center for Health and Development (DOH-CHD) in Region IVA together with the local government of Quezon scheduled a technical visit in the province of Southern Leyte on February 19-20, 2013. The visiting group will be led by former DOH-8 Regional Director Dr. Eduardo M. Gonzaga who is now assigned at DOH-IVA, Provincial Health Officer I Dr. Noel P. Lumen informed. “The technical visit to Southern Leyte aims to enhance a...
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25Apr2012NAVAL, Biliran, April 25 (PIA) -- A student from Tabunan National High School in Biliran ranked third in a national math competition for high school students organized by a Philippine bank, a teachers’ association, and the Department of Education (DepEd). Marcia Butastas of Tabunan National High School, Almeria in Biliran province bagged the third place in the 2012 Metrobank-Math Teachers Association of the Philippines (MTAP)-Department of Education (DepEd) Math Challenge National Finals in t...
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07May2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, May 7 (PIA) -- The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has earmarked some P12.3 million for maintenance work of Samar’s first engineering district in 2012. In a press release, Ma. Nenita Gomez of DPWH Samar 1 said that it maintains more than a hundred kilometer road stretch of national highway. The fund is used to for pavement maintenance, vegetation control, traffic service maintenance, shoulder and drainage maintenance and bridge and structure maintenance...
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15May2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, May 15 (PIA) -- The total population of police personnel in Eastern Visayas stands to be strengthened with the additional recruits of 144 allotted to the region. Police Superintendent Jennifer Sumpo, deputy chief of the Police Community Relations Office of the Philippine National Police in the region, disclosed the information, saying that the total population of police personnel deployed, which stands at 6,161, will have this addition, which is the new roster of recruits ...
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14Mar2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, March 14 (PIA) -- The provincial government of Southern Leyte will closely coordinate with the 19 local government units in the province to assure full participation in the synchronized one hour electric power switch-off. Provincial Environment and Natural Resources (PENR) senior staff Eva Abad disclosed to PIA-Maasin about the switching off of electric power from 8:30 p.m. up to 9:30 p.m. of March 13, 2012 in observance of the E...
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20Dec2012SOGOD, Southern Leyte, Dec. 20 (PIA) -- A mega-structure of a bridge that spans the Subangdaku River here was blessed and opened for service on December 14, Friday in simple rites. Provincial leaders led by Gov. Damian Mercado and Cong. Roger Mercado, along with the mayors from various municipalities, joined Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Regional Director Rolando Asis in the ribbon-cutting ceremony. This was followed with a blessing officiated by Rev. Fr. Pepito Generan Jr.,...
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15May2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, May 15 (PIA) -- The Department of Agriculture (DA) in Eastern Visayas leads this year’s observance of Farmers and Fisher folks’ Month with the theme, “Sapat na pagkain, Sama-sama Nating Kamtin.” DA-8 regional executive director Antonio Gerundio Jr., said that the theme for this year’s celebration is apt and timely as the DA is frontloading its resources and focusing efforts to attain self-sufficiency in rice and major staples by end of 2013. The month-long celeb...
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05Aug2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Aug 5 (PIA) -- An ICT (information and communications technology)-Conference and Preparatory Workshop for the presentation of the ICT Sector Plan and Roadmap of the Regional ICT Committee of the Regional Development Council, will be conducted on August 6 at Hotel Alejandro, Tacloban City. Director Edgardo Esperancilla of DOST-8 who is chairman of the ICT Committee of RDC-8, said that this activity is conducted in partnership with the Information and Technology Office of DO...
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02Apr2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, April 2 (PIA) -- Leyte is set to showcase the richness of its culture by sending contingents of two of its best festivals to participate at the Aliwan Festival on April 14 at the CCP complex. Governor Carlos Jericho L. Petilla said the contingents of the Lingganay Festival of Alangalang town and Buyugan Festival of the town of Abuyog have been given financial assistance of P1 million each, by the provincial government of Leyte as they compete in the country’s biggest gat...
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22May2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, May 22 (PIA) -- The Federation of Senior Citizens from Maasin City celebrated its 8th year and the 1st year anniversary of the “Action Center” Kapihan program on May 26, thus dubbed as the 8+1 celebration. OSCA Federation President Willy Justimbaste said that the joint activity will be held on Friday, May 25 at the OSCA building, Tagnipa, Maasin City. “The 8+1 joint celebration will start at 6:00 a.m. to be participated by the senior citizens and invited g...
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20Jan2012by R.G. Cadavos MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Jan 20 (PIA) –- The province of Southern Leyte will initiate a one-day Barangay Tanod Congress tentatively scheduled on March 1 that will tackle the issues regarding barangay tanods. In a meeting held with Provincial Peace and Order Council (PPOC) PPOC members, Tuesday at the governor’s office here, Gov. Damian G. Mercado announced the upcoming Congress and requested the body to file a resolution authorizing the release o...
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01Mar2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Mar 1 (PIA) -- The National Statistics Office Southern Leyte Office revealed the provincial champion of the Civil Registration Quiz (CRQ) held last February 2012 at the Sangguniang Panglungsod (SP) Session Hall in Maasin City. NSO Provincial Statistics Officer Mae R. Almonte said that the winner Raquel G. Valles, an 18-year old senior student from Saint James College of Padre Burgos emerged the provincial winner besting other six contenders from other participating ...
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13Nov2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Nov. 13 (PIA) -- Maasin City received a rescue boat from the Deutsche Gsellschaft fúr Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in a turn-over ceremony held Monday, November 12 at the city hall grounds. Mayor Maloney Samaco said during the “Maasin City in Action” radio program, Tuesday, November 13, that the donated rescue boat is worth P900,000 or “almost P1 million which will be used strictly for rescue operations only, specifically during calamities,” Mayor S...
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15Apr2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, April 15 (PIA) --To ensure that all filers have the time to meet the responsibility of filing their tax return before the deadline, the Catbalogan Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has opened today. According to Rolando Espina –Catbalogan Revenue District Officer, Calbayog City and even the other collecting offices in other towns are opened. ”There is also another tax assistance center set up at the Imelda Park, Capitol Catbalogan City to decongest the taxpayers at t...
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06Dec2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, Dec 6 (PIA) -- The 282 farmers from East Visayas who graduated from the University-on-the-Air (UOA) classes on Organic Farming, are now the Department of Agriculture’s strong partners in weaving a viable organic production system. This was pronounced by DA Region 8 Regional Executive Director Antonio G. Gerundio during the Culminating Exercises of the UOA on November 28 at the Leyte Provincial Gym. The 282 farmers from Leyte, Samar, and Eastern Samar provinces complete...
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17May2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, May 17 (PIA) -- The inflation rate in the province of Leyte was posted at 2.9 percent in March this year, recording the seventh successive decline in inflation rate since September 2011, the Leyte Provincial Statistics Office here said. The 2.9 percent inflation rate of the province in March 2012 indicates that the general price levels of goods and services in Leyte were higher by 2.9 percent, compared to the price levels during the same period the previous year. A 0.6-pe...
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27May2012VILLABA, Leyte, May 27 (PIA) -- District Engineer Leopoldo Pica of the Department of Public Works and Highways Leyte 3rd Engineering Office said majority of the DPWH Leyte 3rd District’s P327-million budget for 2012 are focused in the improvement of the 68.27 kilometers of unpaved roads traversing the municipalities of San Isidro, Calubian, Leyte, Tabango, and Villaba, all in the province of Leyte. Pica also assured that the so-called "abortion road" is now a thing of the past. In its place ...
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09Feb2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, Feb. 9 (PIA) -- As the school year 2011-2012 ends on March, Eastern Samar Assistant Division Schools Superintendent, Judith Boco reminds school administrators anew to collect only what is authorized by the Department of Education (DepEd). This, after Boco received calls from parents reporting about exorbitant contributions for approaching Juniors-Seniors Promenades on February 14. “I wish to remind teachers and adm...
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06Dec2012GOV’T CENTER, Palo, Leyte, Dec 6 (PIA) -- Department of Public Works and Highways-Region 8 Director Rolando M. Asis said that typhoon Pablo caused no significant damage to infrastructure in Eastern Visayas. All roads and bridges are passable to traffic, Asis assured, even during the onslaught of super typhoon Pablo. No considerable impairment to roads caused by Pablo was noted in the region, Director Asis added. As the country anticipated the onslaught of Pablo, the DPWH Disaster Prepared...
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09Jul2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, July 8 (PIA) -- After rigid screening of interested contractors, the contract will be awarded and the winning bidder will start constructing the Secondary National Roads Development Project (SNRDP) on August 15, an undertaking funded by a $214.44-million Millennium Challenge Corporation five-year grant. Rene Galapon, project engineer of the Department of Public Works and Highways Region 8 said that the winning contractor will work on the SNRDP Contract Package 3 which e...
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23Jan2013NAVAL, Biliran, Jan 23 (PIA) -- Nearly 300 from Biliran walked in the early morning on Sunday, January 20, for one common objective, to have a secure and fair election in May 2013. The early morning unity walk was in line with safe and fair election (SAFE) 2013 espoused and launched nationwide by the Philippine National Police (PNP) for a safe and fair conduct of the 2013 elections nationwide. The conduct of the unity walk in Biliran province was initiated and led by the Biliran Police Provi...
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20Mar2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, March 21 (PIA) -- The Southern Leyte Employees Multipurpose Cooperative (SLEMCoop) linked with the Globe Telecom/G-Xchange Inc. (GXI), to serve or delivery the cash grants to the Pamilyang Pilipino Pantawid Program (4Ps) beneficiaries in the province particularly in the municipality of San Juan. According to SLEMCoop Board of Director Velma P. Kangleon, the Coop Board approved the SLEMCOOP Satellite Office in San Juan to serve in the delive...
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23Mar2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, March 23(PIA) -- Lady entrepreneurs, day care workers, women cooperatives, and city employees, joined yesterday’s symposium at Borongan Session Hall as a culminating activity of the Women’s Month celebration. In her message, Chairwoman Gracia Anacta of the Borongan City Council for Women (BCCW) thanked the participants for responding positively to her invitation. “Your attendance is a confirmation that Borongan women today have already a high level of awaren...
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20Feb2013ORMOC CITY, Leyte, Feb 20 (PIA) -- The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) in Leyte recently had Grade III pupils from Saint Ann’s Play School as "guests" in their office. This early, the youngsters were learning what an agency that shovels up dirt and creates traffic is actually doing good for the country. They learn that infrastructure building which is what the agency mainly does, is part of nation building. According to Lino Francisco C. Gonzalez, engineer of the DPWH, Engr....
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07Nov2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, Nov 7 (PIA) -- The Leyte Investment Forum scheduled on November 7 at the Ritz Tower de Leyte, hopes to generate P50 million investments and create new jobs. Hosted by the Department of Trade Provincial Office in coordination with the local government of Leyte, the Leyte Investment Conference intends to assist expansion ventures and new projects to meet with the banks, Board of Investments representatives, and businessmen looking for joint ventures. DTI Leyte Director Desi...
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28Mar2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, March 28 (PIA) -- The Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) will allocate 274,500 coconut seedlings to the province of Southern Leyte for planting and replanting program in the next four years beginning this year. The province of Southern Leyte is a recipient of the Planting, Replanting and Fertilization program under the PCA Development Program throughout the country, PCA National Administrator Euplides G. Forbes said according to Provincial Governor Damain G. Merc...
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28Sep2012SOUTHERN LEYTE, Sept 28 (PIA) -- The European Union has provided at least €384,000 or P20 million for Disaster Risk Reduction programs for the municipality of Saint Bernard for five years of implementation of the disaster programs. Michiko Quinto, Secretary on Political Press & Information Section of the Delegation of European Union of the Philippines, reported in a press statement, that EU disaster preparedness program aims at “ Improving the capacities of at-risk communities to prepare f...
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24Mar2013TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 24 (PIA) -- To ensure that teachers are well-versed on the use of precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines, the regional office of the Commission on Elections in Eastern Visayas are training more than 10,000 teachers who will serve as Board of Election Inspectors (BEI) in the region this coming May 2013 election. Earlier, the pool of trainers composed of provincial election supervisors, and board of certifiers went through the same training which was also done by...
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15Feb2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb. 15 (PIA) -- The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) conducted a hazard mapping orientation in 14 barangays in the municipality of Libagon to enhance knowledge on disaster-risk and vulnerabilities in their areas. “At least 14 barangay chairmen from the 14 municipalities of Libagon attended the one-day hazard mapping orientation,” Civil Defense officer Marichu Tan disclosed to PIA-Maasin. It was also participated by the Municipal Di...
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20Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 20 (PIA) -- The Department of Agriculture (DA) Regional Crop Protection Center (RCPC) 8 called on farmers to be vigilant and to intensify their pest and diseases monitoring activities in their respective rice cluster areas. The call was made during the pest surveillance training conducted by the DA-RCPC in cooperation of the local government units of Hinundayan and Hinunangan on March 6-7, Francis Rosaroso, chief information officer of DA-8,...
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14May2012GOVERNMENT CENTER, Palo, Leyte, May 14 (PIA) -- The Department of Science and Technology represented by Regional Director Edgardo M. Esperancilla, is now the newly appointed chair of the recently renamed Regional Information and Communication Technology Committee (RICTC), formerly RITECC. Director Esperancilla said that the newly renamed committee is set to conduct its first meeting on May 14 at the DOST Building, Government Center, Candahug, Palo, Leyte. The meeting will tackle important issu...
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30Jun2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, June 30 (PIA) -- Some 1,000 mahogany and narra seedlings were planted in Tacloban City in celebration of Arbor Day this year. Officer-in-Charge Regional Executive Director Manolito D. Ragub of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources said that the site of the tree planting activity was within the Community Based Forest Management area of the Caibaan Farmers Livelihood Association (CFLA) in Barangay Caibaan, Tacloban City. Several organizations and agencies join...
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24Jan2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Jan 24 (PIA) -- In line with the nationwide celebration of February as Arts Month 2012, the University of Philippines Visayas Tacloban College through its Division of Humanities will be holding a one-day forum on February 3, 2012, entitled “Kinaadman para han aton Kalibutan ha Kabubuwason” (Knowledge for Our World Tomorrow) which will cover Philippine Culture, Education and Media Directions for the Millennium. To make the discussion during the for...
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16Oct2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, Oct 16 (PIA) -- Led by Plan International, the local government of Hernani launched "Because I am a Girl (Biaag)" which coincided with the first International Day of the Girl. BIAAG aims to empower girls of all ages so that they would have the assets, skills, and knowledge to succeed in life. Done at the Pedro E. Candido Memorial National High School campus, Hernani, E. Samar, the students joined in the slogan- and poster-making contest. During the program, a...
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15Jun2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, June 15 (PIA) --Farmer members of the agrarian reform communities (ARCs) in Samar are set to benefit from the Agrarian Reform Community Connectivity and Economic Support Services (ARCCESS). In a press release by Teresa Tijol of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Samar, it said that these farmer beneficiaries come from Calbiga and Calbayog City. The farmers from Mabagdok Multi-Purpose Cooperative and Cag-anibong Multi-Purpose Cooperative both of Oquendo District Cal...
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24Oct2012ORMOC CITY, Leyte, October 24 (PIA) – Members of the Disaster Response Committee of the Eastern Visayas Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council are currently taught the Incident Command System (ICS) as a disaster response tool with the training held at Sabin Resort in Ormoc City until tomorrow. The use of the Incident Command System (ICS) in the Philippines as a tool for on-scene disaster response and management in consonance with the country’s disaster risk reduction and ma...
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01Jul2012DANAO FOREST PARK, Maasin City, Southern Leyte, July 1 (PIA) -- Saying that to experience being in a zoo is every child’s dream, Gov. Damian Mercado yesterday opened the doors of the Maasin Zoo for all visitors to come and see for themselves the latest man-made attraction the province can offer. “Finally, we can declare Southern Leyte open as the playground of Eastern Visayas,” Mercad said during the grand opening ceremony here, an activity timed to become part of a series of events m...
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18Aug2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, Aug 18 (PIA) -- Two notorious pushers, included in the target list of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Eastern Visayas, and their cohort were arrested during a drug bust in the province of Leyte. PDEA Director General Undersecretary Jose S. Gutierrez Jr. identified the target-listed suspects as alias Val, 48, a resident of Barugo, Leyte and alias Tonton, 25, also from Barugo. Val's cohort, identified as alias Pinne, 26, who also comes from Barugo was ...
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02Feb2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb. 1 (PIA) -- The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) mobilized all barangays to lead in the implementation of the “Aksyon Barangay Kontra Dengue" (ABKD) through regular clean-up activities in each concerned community. In Southern Leyte, these activities are monitored quarterly by local government units (LGUs), Loren Abrau-Aniciete, DILG Information Officer designate said. She said that &lsqu...
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09Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, Feb. 9 (PIA) -- As a prerequisite to avail the business loan under the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA)-Reintegration Program, 56 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and beneficiaries are set to undergo entrepreneurial development training (EDT) on Feb. 9 and 10 at the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Training Center at Trece Martires St., Tacloban City. OWWA Region 8 OIC Director Evangeline Filamor said, “Most of our OFW clients are first-...
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29Mar2012PALO, Leyte, March 29 (PIA) -- One fisherman from the coastal town of Tolosa, Leyte was reported missing by the Tolosa Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council. Office of Civil Defense Director and RDRRMC chairman Rey Gozon informed that at 3:00 p.m of March 28, the Tolosa LDRRMC reported that the fisherman identified as Castro Advincula, about 45 years of age and a resident of Barangay Poblacion, Tolosa, Leyte, has not yet returned home since he left for fishing early morning o...
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30Apr2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, April 30 (PIA) -- The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)-Regional Office VIII will be hosting a job fair with 4,800 overseas and local job opportunities available as part of the observance of the 110th Labor Day Celebration tomorrow. The job fair will be held at the Tacloban Convention Center from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. According to Virgilio A. Doroja, Jr. of DOLE, the conduct of the job fair is a yearly activity not only in region 8 but also in various regions dur...
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07Nov2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Nov 7 (PIA) -- The army Bayanihan troops continue to pursue rebels particularly in Matuguinao, Samar where lairs of rebel camps are hidden; on November 5 in Barangay Del Rosario, Matuguinao, Samar, they seized an abandoned enemy camp. According to Captain Gene Orense of the 8th Infantry Division, there were makeshift bunkers and kitchen which can accommodate 45 people in the camp. “The abandoned NPA camp in Matuguianao, Samar symbolizes that the NPA is suffering a so...
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06Nov2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Nov 6 (PIA) -- An official of the Department of Health in Eastern Visayas is urging the people in the region to avail of doxycyline antibiotics and prophylaxis from their health centers in the aftermath of typhoon “Ofel” which left most areas flooded and succeptible to leptospirosis. Neliosa Cuartel-Guarda, assistant regional health emergency management staff (HEMS) coordinator, revealed that the call to the people is DOH’s way to lessen and prevent the possible cas...
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15Oct2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Oct 15 (PIA) -- Scheduled to open at 3 p.m. October 15 at the Government Center Quadrangle at Candahug, Palo, Leyte, is the Agri-Aqua, Trade and Industry and Science and Technology Fair. The Fair was organized as one of the highlights of the forthcoming 68th Anniversary celebration of the Leyte Gulf Landings and the sixth Leyte Province Business Month, Director Desiderio Belas Jr., informed. The Fair will run from October 15 to 20, from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., said Belas. ...
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04Oct2012SAINT BERNARD, Southern Leyte, Oct. 4 (PIA) -- All efforts at preventing calamities or in mitigating its ill effects should lead to an active participation of local folks especially those living in identified high-risk areas. This was the gist of the Saint Bernard experience in handling disasters as shared by Mayor Rico Rentuza during the National Conference for Effective Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation Practices held in this town Friday, September 28. “The municipal...
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21Jun2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, June 21 (PIA) -- A local mining company has been penalized by the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) in Eastern Visayas after the result of the agency’s investigation on the fish kill incidents in Lake Bito, Brgy. Imelda MacArthur town, Leyte province showed positive for mining contamination. Engr. Reynaldo Barra, officer-in-charge of the EMB’s pollution and control division said that the mining operations manager paid the P50,000 penalty on June 13. It might be re...
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16Aug2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Aug. 16 (PIA) -- The lone district lawmaker of this province disclosed that a new credit cooperative which he helped organized was already registered with the Cooperative Development Authority (CDA). The Pinoy Credit Cooperative was also recognized by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to be able to avail of tax exemptions due cooperatives, said Congressman Roger Mercado. “All elected officials of the province of Southern Leyte are the initial members of the n...
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17Nov2011The provision of correct and accurate information on proper nutrition to Filipino families, especially in far-flung areas whose constituents are always believed to be the less privileged ones, has always been the priority concern of the National Nutrition Council (NNC) . Such premise directs the idea of the Nutri-Skwela Community Radio Project, a long-term NNC strategy aimed at influencing or changing the mindset of local folks. The project is being institutionalized all over the countr...
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19Apr2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, April 19 (PIA) -- The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Southern Leyte Provincial Office will launch six TESDA Especialista business centers down at the barangay level initially in Maasin City. “The TESDA Especialista Technoprenuership program in Southern Leyte aims to assist the first 38 Technical Vocational Education Training (TVET) graduates, who are not yet gainfully employed, and will be provided with the needed tools in order t...
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01Feb2012BORONGAN City, Eastern Samar, Feb. 1(PIA) -- Through the city government of Borongan, some poor fishermen of Divinubo Island received 42 paddled bancas costing P272,496 from the Department of Labor and Employment(DOLE), Regional Office 8. Mayor Fe Abunda received gracefully from DOLE Regional Director Atty. Forter G. Puguon the assistance in a simple yet meaningful ceremony before the island’s barangay officials and the beneficiaries of the DOLE’s Integrated Livelihood Progr...
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06Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Mar 6 (PIA) -- Government earmarked about P50 million for projects that would benefit conflict-afflicted areas in Samar Island to address the root causes of insurgency. Department of Interior and Local Government Region 8 Director Pedro A. Noval Jr., disclosed that with its three provinces considered among most vulnerable to the CPP/NPA, Samar island is one of the seven zones in the country to be covered by the “Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan” program o...
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10May2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, May 10 (PIA) -- Around 24 nurses who were trained to become Customer assistance, Relations and Empowerment Staff (CARES) of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) were finally deployed to accredited hospitals in Eastern Visayas. Ms. Luz Santiago, PhilHealth Tacloban’s focal person for CARES, informed the Philippine Information Agency that the 24 nurses underwent a two-week intensive training on various aspects of the PhilHealth operations and to equip t...
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08Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 8 (PIA) -- The local government units (LGUs) in Eastern Visayas are set to highlight activities that will underscore the role of women as powerful agents of change in disaster risk reduction as they celebrate Women’s Month this March. DILG Region 8 Director Pedro Noval Jr. said that this is pursuant to DILG Secretary Jesse Robredo's memorandum to all governors, city and municipal mayors and punong barangays, saying that it is high time that women’s invo...
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20Mar2012CATBALOGAN, Samar, March 20 (PIA) -- “If you love your country, you should be part of the solution. Do not just stand and do nothing. Help our government by helping our local government units, our community,” said Deputy Customs Commissioner for Intelligence Danilo Lim to the graduating class of the Philippine Army. “Fight for what is true, fight for what is right, and fight for what is just,” the Commissioner gave his encouragement to the graduates. ...
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04Jul2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar July 3(PIA) -- Barangay nutrition scholars (BNS) here attended an orientation-training on “Barangay Implementers on the Promotion of Good Nutrition” which tackled the basics of preparing nutritious foods. Some 40 BNS coming from Guiuan and Maydolong towns and Borongan city were taught stir-frying, boiling and grilling preparations of vegetables for children. The scholars said various factors may affect nutrition in a family. Among these were laziness i...
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07May2012TACLOBAN CITY, May 7 (PIA) -- Preparations are underway for the forthcoming Leyte fiesta celebration on June 30, highlighting the festival of festivals in honor of Sr. Sto. Niño, the Patron Saint. During the meeting attended by heads and representatives from government and socio-civic organizations, held recently at the SMED Center this city, list of different activities together with the corresponding month-long daily schedule were presented as the working guide for the different committees ...
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24Apr2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, April 24 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office 8 through its regional director Leticia T. Diokno issued last Monday the schedule of provincial orientation and deliberation for its applicants of the Expanded Government Internship Program (EGIP). For Leyte, the schedule of interview and orientation will be on April 24 and 25 in Tacloban City while in Ormoc City, it will be conducted at the Pantawid Pamilya Operations Office on April 30...
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08Feb2013BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, Feb. 8 (PIA) -- Ensuring for a Population and Gender Development (POPDEV) -sensitive local government unit, a two-day seminar workshop was held recently here, by the Provincial Planning and Development Office (PPDO), and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The workshop formulated development plans where population and development dimensions were integrated. Specifically, the workshop reviewed the Rationalized Local Planning System and provided the ...
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05Jan2013Daram, Samar, Jan 5 (PIA) – Gone are the days when Cloie and her classmates would rush outside their classroom to find safer place during rainy days and to avoid scorching heat when the weather is warm. Gone, too, are the times when the school children could not concentrate on their lessons for fear that their dilapidated school building may collapse anytime. Thanks to the Toyota Boshoku and the Toyota Boshoku’s Managers Association in collaboration with Plan Philippines, Cloie and her c...
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10Oct2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Oct 10 (PIA) -- The P78-million weather radar system in Guiuan, Eastern Samar, now 25 percent complete, will soon be operational according to Pag-asa Catbalogan Eddie dela Cruz. The system, said Dela Cruz, chief meteorological officer, can accurately monitor incoming tropical cyclone and can accurately detect the amount of rainfall and the time it will pour. “This is state-of-the-art equipment can help the public prepare for the worst,” Dela Cruz said. He said the...
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23May2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, May 23 (PIA) -- The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Samar 2 has started to implement the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) stating that 20 percent of the unskilled labor requirement will be filled by the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps; aka conditional cash transfer (CCT)) beneficiaries. The funds for the program will last from 2012 and the succeeding years until 2016, unless earlier...
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05Mar2012CATBALOGAN CITY, March 5 (PIA) --Organic farmer Rey Pedroso from Iloilo shared to Samarnons how he started organic agriculture five years ago and how it changed his farming style. Pedroso is a director of the newly-organized National Organic Agricultural Board and was the keynote speaker during the launch of Organic Agriculture in Samar on March 1. He is also determined to help farmers do the switch from the regular farming style to organic like what he did some five years ago....
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17May2012Vincent Tegerero Tegio was not excited to see the exam results, he was nervous. He felt he may not have done his best in the 300 item-Civil Engineering board Exams recently. But he could not escape the deluge of congratulatory messages beeping one after the other from his cellphone - he did not only pass, he was among the top 10 ranking along with one from Dela Salle University and another from Mapua Institute of Technology. This is the first time that a student from Eastern Samar State Unive...
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14Oct2011TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, October 14 (PIA) -- The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) is the head of the newly created Inter-agency Drug Interdiction Task Group at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport or NAIA. (NAIA-IADITG), PDEA Region 8 Director Julius Navales informed. The group which endeavors to effectively synchronize anti-illegal drug efforts at the country’s premiere airport, was created through Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) signed recently by PDEA Director General Un...
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12Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, Feb. 12 (PIA) – Due to the recent tremors felt in the city, Tacloban City Engineer Dionesio de Paz said that his office continues to assess the reported cracks in several public and private buildings in the City. De Paz, in a radio interview on Saturday, said that his office has coordinated with the owners of the buildings in order to know the current situation of the buildings. The City Engineers Office has written the own...
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06Mar2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Mar. 6 (PIA) -- Five foreign-assisted bridges, Spanish-inspired structures, will be installed in three barangays in the municipality of Silago and two barangays for San Ricardo municipality within this year. In a press conference with local media recently, Engr. Carlos Veloso, head of the Department of Public Works and Highways – Southern Leyte Engineering District (DPWH-SLED), identified the locations at barangays Hibatian, Lawa-an, and Ba...
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03Aug2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Aug 3 (PIA) -- The Climate Change Commission, an attached agency of the Office of the President tasked to coordinate, monitor and evaluate the programs and action plans of the government relating to climate change, has launched on August 1 the Ecotown project in Guiuan, Eastern Samar, the first in the Visayas. The formal launching of the project entitled, “Demonstrating the Ecotown Framework,” was done with the signing of a memorandum of agreement between the Climate C...
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10Feb2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb 10 (PIA) -- The Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) – Maasin City is offering the local school divisions of the Department of Education (DepEd) some 9,328 board feet of logs for school building purposes. CENRO Chief Forestry section head Edil Alcarde reported that the office has in its possession about 22 cubic meters or equivalent to 9,328 board feet of logs generated from the 25 planted trees...
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08Feb2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Feb. 8 (PIA) -- In view of the drive of the Armed Forces of the Philippines to equip every soldier with the knowledge regarding the laws on human rights and have a deeper understanding and appreciation of the international humanitarian law (IHL), the 34th Infantry (RELIABLE) Battalion (34th IB) headed by Lieutenant Colonel William P. Peñafiel Jr. invited a team from the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) to give a lecture on IHL. This was re...
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01May2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, May 1 (PIA) -- The inflation rate in the Eastern Visayas in the month of March remains at 2.8 percent, the same figure in February 2012, the National Statistics Office in the Region said. NSO Region 8 Director Raul Dones said that most of the provinces in the region experienced increased inflation rate except for the province of Leyte and Southern Leyte that registered slower rates from 3.5 percent and 2.2 percent in February to 2.9 percent and 2.1 percent in March, respec...
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10May2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, May 10 (PIA) -- The provincial field office of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) here has set aside over P 2.6 million worth of livelihood projects intended for individual small-scale businesses in the so-called informal sector. The amount was already moving in various stages of implementation as coursed through DOLE’s accredited co-partner (ACP) consisting of five municipalities and one city, involving 251 individual beneficiaries, said Fe Norma Val...
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24Oct2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Oct 24 (PIA) – The Local Government of Limasawa in Southern Leyte was recently awarded as the Best Implementer in Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) and Breastfeeding programs in Eastern Visayas. The awarding ceremony initiated by the Department of Health (DOH) recognized efforts and initiatives of different institutions including schools, hospitals, other workplaces throughout the country for their support in the infant and young child feeding program and p...
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28Feb2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte Feb. 28 (PIA) – Police identified at least four suspects who robbed a meat shop in an old public market here, carting away cash and goods worth PhP13,600.00, a Police Community Relations Chief Abdulmajid Jaji said. The robbery took place on February 23 at Maan’s Meatshop. Jaji said the robbers, who were all residents of Maasin City, forcibly entered the store, destroying the plywood wall and took away two sacks of rice, as...
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05Apr2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, April 5 (PIA) -- The implementation of the Overseas Foreign Workers Dependents Scholarship Program (OFW-DSP) of the Overseas Workers Welfare Association (OWWA) is reaping it rewards with some of its scholars graduating with honors. Florence D. Panao of OWWA in Eastern Visayas reported that two scholars of OFW-DSP in the tertiary level and another in the elementary level graduated with cum laude and first honor awards respectively. Ritzee Operio and Mark Geraldo were conf...
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12Jun2012TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, June 12 (PIA) -– The number of local government units in Eastern Visayas which have well-planned and active disaster preparedness measures is about 80 to 85 percent. Department of the Interior and local Government (DILG) regional director Pedro Noval announced this during the weekly media forum at the Leyte Park Resort Hotel. Aware that Eastern Visayas is among the regions in the country prone to natural disasters, all local government units in the region are required ...
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06Jul2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, July 6 (PIA) -- A ranking official of the local power utility here emphasized that their office has been campaigning to save electricity consumption even if it means decreased revenue on their part. Archie Salazar, former officer in charge of Southern Leyte Electric Cooperative (SOLECO), said they treated power conservation from the viewpoint of the consumers for them to save costs, and not necessarily something that can diminish their sales, SOLECO being a non-pro...
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28Oct2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, Oct. 28 (PIA) -- Vegetable farmers of barangays Lalawigan, Locsoon and Cabong this city have been urged to continue with the organic way of farming as this will enhance their crop production. It will also pave the way for other farmers to embrace organic agriculture in the area. Speaking before some 45 farmer-participants during the culminating activity of the season long Farmers’ Field School (FFS) on Organic Vegetable Production on October 25, 2012, City Admin...
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21May2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, May 21 (PIA) -- The 8th Infantry (Stormtroopers) Division pledge to participate and support the Department of Education’s (DepEd) annual Brigada Eskwela activity from May 21 to 25. The Brigada Eskwela Activity is in line with the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Internal Peace and Security Plan “Bayanihan” in which the army units help deliver much needed assistance and support to the communities in order to attain peace and development in the area. The troope...
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20Mar2012CATARMAN, Northern Samar, March 20 (PIA) -- The Civil Service Commission (CSC) Northern Samar Field Office, in partnership with the provincial government, Junior Chamber International Philippines and other line agencies will lead “Women’s Desk on Wheel,” an activity which will provide services particularly for women in observance of Women’s Month. This year’s theme centers on, “Women’s Weathering Climate Change: Governance and Accountabi...
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21Apr2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, April 21 -- The problem between the power consumers in the City and the Eastern Samar Electric Cooperative (ESAMELCO) is far from over. This, after some issues during a recent Power Forum at the Borongan City Hall grounds were left unresolved even as the forum ended around dinner time. The issue on registering the cooperative with either National Electrification Administration (NEA)or Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) emerged as the major issue in the fo...
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11Jan2013CAMP RUPERTO KANGLEON, Palo, Leyte, Jan 11 (PIA) -- To enhance mobility, the Philippine National Police in Eastern Visayas recently distributed motorcycles to 17 police stations in the region. Police Chief Superintendent Elmer Soria, regional director of PNP - 8 said, “This is part of the capability enhancement and part of the strategic focus of the new PNP chief.” The use of motorcycles has its advantages: it can be maneuvered in crowded streets and it gets to the scene of the accident m...
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13Nov2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Nov 13 (PIA) -- The Federation of Filipino Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Inc donated a two-room school building to the Bliss Community School at Barangay Canlapwas in Catbalogan. The officers and members of the Chamber in Manila along with Gil Jao and Albert Uy of the Chamber in Catbalogan City turned-over the classrooms on Thursday, November 8. In behalf of Catbalogan, Councilor Stephany Uy-Tan was present during the turn-over ceremony along with Roy Gabi...
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25Sep2012TACLOBAN CITY, Sept 25 (PIA) -- No less than the two chiefs of the attached agencies of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) publicly announced the plan of government to increase the number of early warning devices and systems that detect incidence of earthquakes and flooding in the country. Dr. Renato U. Solidum, director of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) and Reymund E. Liboro, director, Science and Technology Information Institute (STII) revealed ...
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09Jun2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, June 9 (PIA) -- Provincial Agriculturist Regalado Opena is optimistic that with the demonstration farm being cultivated by his office and with the new farm machineries gven by the Department of Agriculture (DA), this city would be able to produce their own fruits and vegetables and be food sufficient by 2015. Opena said that the demo farm showcases integrated farming that in July, he expects to harvest corn, peanuts, water melon, cabbages, lettuce, and more. Acc...
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12Mar2013TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 12 (PIA) -- Local governments in Eastern Visayas (Region 8) are happy that they are able to identify and make known their wish list through the bottom-up planning and budgeting approach being implemented for 2014. Department of Interior and Local Government Region 8 Director Pedro A. Noval Jr.said majority of the projects identified by the LGUs in the region are construction of farm-to-market roads and provision of agricultural facilities. Director Noval said this...
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08May2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, May 8 (PIA) -- The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) called on industrial workers and service providers over business issues in a forum at the DTI conference room here recently. The whole day meeting was attended by six proprietors and nine workers from the different repair shops in Catbalogan City. DTI discussed the provisions of Presidential Decree (PD) 1572 or The Regulation of Repair and Service Shops, Republic Act (RA) No. 7394 or The Consumer Act of the Phil...
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12May2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, May 12 (PIA) -- The Southern Leyte Electric Cooperative (SOLECO) schedules series of information drives throughout the province as their commitment to the provincial government to increase the level of awareness of the stakeholders on the power situation of the province. Professor Wally del Mundo of the University of the Philippines National Engineering Center and SOLECO officer-in-charge Arce B. Salazar will assist the information drive entitled “Power 101.” E...
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10Jul2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, July 10 (PIA) -- The Philippine National Police-Southern Leyte Police Provincial Office (PNP-SLPPO) through the leadership of Director PSSupt. Allan T. Cuevillas commended police officers from the city of Maasin and the town of Malitbog. In a press statement sent to the Philippine Information Agency-Maasin, Police Superintendent Jonathan Pineda informed that at least 13 policemen were given commendation from the Malitbog Municipal Police Station headed by PSInsp. D...
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23Feb2012PADRE BURGOS, Southern Leyte, Feb. 23 (PIA) -- The local government is leading a campaign to rid the coastal areas here of a deadly specie of starfish that poses a threat to the town’s tourism industry and also to the livelihood of marginal fisher folk, Agriculturist Juliet Crisostomo said. The crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS), a coral-eating underwater creature, has been blamed for destroying a partial stretch of coral reef in this dive destination. If the destruction is left...
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15Aug2012CATARMAN, Northern Samar, Aug 15 (PIA) -- The Philippine Army, 803rd Brigade presented to the Provincial Peace and Order Council the internal peace and security operations “Oplan Bayanihan” in a meeting recently held at Governor’s Conference Room, Provincial Capitol. Col. Mario Lacurom, Deputy Brigade Commander informed the body that while the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is constitutionally mandated to protect the people and the state and too was called to lead in addressing arm...
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23Apr2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, April 23 (PIA) --The Samar Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office had started profiling former rebels on April 16-17. This project is done by the office with the Office of the Presidential Assistant on the Peace Process (OPAPP) to assess the needs of rebel returnees (RRs) and the eventual provision of the government in addressing the needs. This is according to Emy Bonifacio, OPAPP extension worker in Samar. According to Alma Austero Social Welfare Officer 1,...
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15Nov2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Nov. 15 (PIA) -- The Philippine National Police-Southern Leyte Police Provincial Office (PNP-SLPPO) personnel in living up to the PNP’s commitment to protect the environment, conducted their own tree-planting activity within the compound of Camp Alfredo K. Bantug at the PNP headquarters here. Acting Chief of Provincial Police and Community Relations Branch Ariel P. Nuñez disclosed that The cops planted at least 50 mahogany and jackfruit seedlings in addition to ...
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13Feb2012PALO, Leyte, Feb 13 (PIA) -- The Leyte Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said that the continuous rains over the weekend have caused landslides in two places, evacuation of families in at least four barangays, and the isolation of at least nine barangays in the province. Paul Mooney of the Leyte PDRRMC Operations Center said that as of 1:00 p.m., the water level at the Flood Early Warning Station at the Binahaan River was .80 which is alert level 2. If ...
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11Apr2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, April 11 (PIA) -- As per PhilHealth Advisory No. 03-05-201, members under the Individually Paying Program (IPP), KaSAPI (Kalusugang Segurado at Abot-kaya sa PhilHealth Insurance) and Group Enrollment Schemes with average monthly income of P25,000 and below may now avail of the annual premium rate of P1,200, if full payment is made on or before June 30, 2012. Likewise, it was stated that members also have the option to lock-in, or advance the premium payment for a period ...
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16Oct2012CAMP RUPERTO K KANGLEON, Palo, Leyte, Oct 16 (PIA) -- Police Chief Superintendent Elmer R. Soria, the PNP regional director for Easter Visayas, recently turned over eight bikes and eight handheld radios to the regional support group and the Palo Municipal Station, to enhance capability in more efficient and more effective anti-crime efforts. Police Superintendent Franco Simborio, the chief of Regional Headquarters Support Group, received two bikes and two handheld radios while Palo Municipal ...
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25Jun2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, June 25 (PIA) -- Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief LtGen Jessie D Dellosa and Gen Shigeru Iwasaki, Chief of Staff of the Japanese Self Defense Forces (JASDF) went to Calbayog City in connection with the on-going Pacific Partnership 2012 humanitarian missions on June 21 2012. The visit of the Japanese military leader is considered another milestone in AFP–JSDF relations that has been strengthened through the years. Dellosa and Iwasaki met at the Calbayog Pier as t...
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30Jan2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Jan 30 (PIA) -- The river passing through Barangay Soob, Albuera, Leyte has been causing heavy damage in said area whereas a part of the mountain located in the same place is being eroding and threatening to wash away the national highway. This was reported by Lino Francisco C. Gonzalez, engineer of the Leyte Fourth Engineering District of the Department of Public Works and Highways, Region 8. According to him, there is an urgent need for a river ...
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20Feb2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Feb. 20 (PIA) -- Sourced out from the funds of the Department of Education’s 3rd batch of infrastructure projects, a school building was constructed at the Fisherman’s Village Elementary School, Cirilo Roy Montejo National High School and at the Leyte National High School, in an effort to counteract the insufficiency of classrooms in said schools. According to Tacloban City District Engineer Arnaldo R. Bonifacio of the Department of Public Works and Hig...
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26Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 26 (PIA) -- Various stakeholders in Eastern Visayas converged at the Robinsons Place in the morning of March 26 in order to sign a memorandum of agreement supporting the Earth Hour Commemoration in Eastern Visayas on March 31. The activity was spearheaded by the JCI Candahug Liberation led by its President JCI Senator Rommel Capungcol, MD, which has been spearheading the Earth Hour activities since 2007, together with Kabang Kalikasan ng Pilipinas and World Wildlife ...
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22Jun2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, June 22 (PIA) -- “Saludo Kami, Marinong Pinoy! Bayani Ka Talaga," is the theme for this year's celebration of Filipino Seafarer's Day. As part of the celebration, the Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA) Regional Office-8 scheduled various activities, one of which is the offering of a Thanksgiving Mass at the Sto. Nino Church, Tacloban City. MARINA, through its Regional Director Atty. Manuel C. Portus, invited various government institutions in the region to attend ...
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06Sep2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Sept. 6 (PIA) -- Field offices of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) in Eastern Visayas were directed to submit realistic earthquake damage reports in the light of the 7.6 magnitude offshore earthquake which struck the region Friday last week and caused damages to some government funded structures. DPWH Regional Director Rolando Asis instructed to the district engineering offices to refrain from submitting reports for funding purposes and to focus on making...
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05Apr2012TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, April 5 (PIA) -- The Department of Labor and Employment and the National Conciliation and Mediation Board in the region recently initiated the dialogue between management and labor union of Philippine Associated Smelting and Refining (PASAR) Corporation in Isabel, Leyte. This was in an effort to facilitate the negotiations of a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) between the two parties whose previous contract expired last March 31, 2012. This information came from DO...
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18Dec2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Dec 18 (PIA) -- The government of Germany through the German International Cooporation or GIZ gave Calbayog City five sets of Mobile Water Purification System (MWPS). The MWPS has a capacity of 1,000 liters of water each which Calbayog will use for the city’s disaster-relief efforts. Mayor Ronald Aquino received the water purifiers at the city hall, expressing his gratitude to the donor, as he said that these will be a great help to the people of Calbayog. Accordin...
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08Feb2012One OWWA Region 8 scholar by the name of Ma. Freni Luya, a BS Accountancy freshman at the University of San Jose Recoletos in Cebu, finished her first semester of school year 2011-2012 with flying colors, OIC director Evangeline Filamor happily informed. Filamor said that Freni was awarded Honor Student on January 24, 2012 for having garnered a general weighted average of 1.4. Freni has been an OWWA scholar since 2010 under the Education and Livelihood Assistance Program ...
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09Feb2012BORONGAN City, Eastern Samar, Feb. 9 (PIA) -- Engineer Rey Gozon, Director of the Office of Civil Defense (OCD)-08 gave warning to never run to the dried-up sea bed, nor pick up fishes, in case water recedes after a strong quake. “It is because such an outward movement of the seawater could be a warning that a high water is upcoming,” Dir. Gozon said, during the “Harampang” at the Philippine Information Agency Regional Office 8, Tacloban City, Leyte. Goz...
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04May2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, May 4 (PIA) -- Important programs of the national government such as Tourism, Environment and Agriculture (TEA), are important components to help boost economy not only here in the province but throughout the country said Southern Leyte Lone District Congressman Roger G. Mercado. In Southern Leyte, Mercado cited the Panan-awan airport, in Barangay Panan-awan, the Roro Port of Barangay Guadalupe and the on-going port rehabilitation, all in Maasin City as the sites t...
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21Jun2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, June 21 (PIA) -- The 43rd Infantry Battalion stationed in Matuguinao, Samar participated in the town’s 47th founding anniversary on June 19 through a medical and dental mission. Mayor Melissa dela Cruz told PIA 8-Samar that those who patronized the dental and medical mission exceeded their target. Even prescription pads became insufficient for the crowd of Matuguinao folks. Dr. Rochelyn Pagpagitan, Municipal Health Officer (MHO) led the team of six doctors who attende...