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Carigara ready for cityhood status, says municipal mayor
TACLOBAN CITY- The local government unit of Carigara, Leyte is now paying the heed for its cityhood status. Thus said Mayor Trinidad Apostol in an interview by phone yesterday. “It’s a big yes for our cityhood status. In fact, we are planning already for it prior to what had happened to the three cities in our region,” she said. The three cities Apostol was referring to were the local governments of Baybay, Leyte; Borongan, Eastern Samar; and Catbalogan of the Samar [...]
Who exactly killed them?
One after another, officials are getting sacked after the bloody hostage crisis that shocked the world. It has always been the SOP and even those whose involvement are least, end up replaced or thrown somewhere. The innocent with the least influence get the brunt of the blame. This usual practice is something that is always done whenever something happens that bring embarrassment to the institution concerned or the country in general. And while we are at it, it is best to remember that [...]
St. Bernard, So. Leyte mayor offers his town as pilot testing area for early warning device for landslide
TACLOBAN CITY- Mayor Rico Rentuza of St. Bernard, Southern Leyte is offering his town to be a pilot testing area for new technology that would serve as early warning device for landslides. In an interview with Leyte Samar Daily Express recently, Rentuza said this kind of technology is already being developed and studied by experts abroad for its accuracy. Rentuza said this kind of scientific breakthrough was demonstrated to them at a conference in Tokyo, Japan last 2008 where he is one of [...]
OWWA offers OFW- dependents with scholarship program
TACLOBAN CITY – The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) is offering a scholarship program to OFW-dependents who have a monthly salary of US$400 or below, effective this semester school year 2010-2011. To be able to avail of the scholarship program, the applicants must be a Filipino citizen, a beneficiary/legal dependent of an OWWA active member, single and not more than 21 years old, a high school graduate or already enrolled in college, and must pass the qualifying entrance [...]
DTI to look into establishments not granting discount to PWDs
TACLOBAN CITY – The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Leyte chapter emphasized that establishments should give discounts to Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) upon purchasing their basic and prime commodities. This was according to Eleanor Etulle, focal person on the programs for PWDs of DTI Leyte, in a recent interview with the Leyte Samar Daily Express. Etulle pointed out that PWDs like senior citizens are also entitled to receive discount upon purchasing basic and prime [...]
50 policemen in EV underwent random drug test last Tuesday
TACLOBAN CITY— At least 50 policemen in the Philippine National Police (PNP) in the region had undergone a random drug test on Tuesday to allay suspicions that even lawmen in the region are using the illegal drugs amid series of pursuits to recover bricks of cocaine in Eastern Samar, an official declared. According to Police Senior Superintendent Manuel Cubillo of the Police and Community Relations Office of the PNP-8, uniformed personnel at the headquarters were randomly selected from low [...]
Safe foods, healthy foods
“Tell me what you eat, and I tell you what you are.” This is a common axiom that otherwise expresses the age-old health principle “You are what you eat.” Usually chubby or overweight individuals have insatiable craving for meat, especially the mouth-watering lechon that is loaded with cholesterol and calories which if not burned well will stick to ones body in the form of unwanted flab. While lots of people wanted to stay fit and trim all the time, food binge just could not keep them [...]
Stink
With hundreds even thousands of spectators from different municipalities all over the region and the country, even foreigners coming to the City to watch the fiesta celebrations, especially the Pintados-Kasadyaan Festival of Festivals and the Sangyaw Festival, they may not remember all these grand presentations after their brief stay in the City, but the lack of water supply for their basic needs. Imagine waking up in the morning expecting to take a fresh bath or shower and only a few droplets [...]
2010 GSIS arts competition winners proclaimed
CALBAYOG CITY – GSIS President and General Manager Atty. Winston F. Garcia announced over the weekened the result of the 2010 GSIS National Art Competition at the GSIS Art Museum Manila. The annual art competition is sponsored by the Government Insurance System in cooperation with the Art Association of the Philippines. Some 700 entries by professionals and amateur visual artists throughout the country were submitted to the competition. The three categories were sculpture, representational [...]
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