Ex Bontoc mayor starts 90 days suspension

By JANI ARNAIZ

First posted July 31, 2010

MAASIN CITY – One year after the final ruling of The Sandiganbayan affirming its decision suspending the mayor of Bontoc town in Southern Leyte, the DILG finally served the suspension order last Friday.

However, Pedro Fustanes will not be suspended for 90 days as mayor of Bontoc town having served his final three terms last June 30 but as vice mayor. He ran and elected vice mayor last May polls.

Fustanes, who was reportedly in Tacloban yesterday, did not answer several calls and …

Driver evades LTO, meets accident

By Ronald O. Reyes

CARIGARA, LEYTE–A wrong u-turn caused the untimely death of one student and seriously injured three others on board a single Honda wave motorcycle Monday morning at the national road in Barugohay central, this town.

Carigara police reported that Jessie Makabenta, driver of the motorcycle, was on his way to ferry three students to their school at Carigara National High School-Jugaban annex when he quickly stopped and made a u-turn upon seeing the presence of Land Transportation Office (LTO) personnel on the road.

Immediately thereafter they were …

DepEd 8 welcomes new OIC regional director

TACLOBAN CITY — The Department of Education Regional Office No. 8 has a new Officer in Charge of the Office Office of the Regional Director.

DepED Administrative Officer Nimfa G. Beltran informed that effective November 12, 2009, the OIC-RD is Dr. Rose Marie Felicidad V. Saet.

The DepEd Administrative Officer called on all the government agencies, local government units and other education stakeholders and clients to please address all communications to the new OIC of the Regional Office at the Department of Education Regional Office 8, Government Center, Candahug, …

Lilith’s Bocarillo: a successful SME story

By Ronald O. Reyes

“Hard-work and patience, not just luck!”

Lilia Gil Oraiz or Mana Lilith summed up the wisdom she learned in nearly three decades since her family first put up the “bocarillo” business in the early 80’s.

Located in Barangay Ibarra, Maasin City, the new and well-designed Lilith’s Bocarillo store now stands as a concrete example how small-medium enterprises (SME’s) in the countryside can also be rewarding and profitable through sheer determination and endless improvement of the product.

With only two workers during its first operation and with an …