Domingo’s appointment hailed, brings to six in Arroyo’s family from EVisayas
By Jani Arnaiz
First posted 7:00 a.m 10/25/2009
MAASIN CITY – Top Southern Leyte officials have lauded the appointment of former Presidential Assistant for Eastern Visayas Victor Domingo into the Highways portfolio.
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo designated Victor Domingo, her adviser on new government centers, as acting secretary of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), on [...]
Bogo women’s group grows tree seedlings to fight climate change
By Erna S. Gorne
MAASIN CITY — Not only that these women are now earning from the sales of tree seedlings they have grown at Barangay Bogo, but an offshoot of Congressman Roger Mercado’s campaign to address the pressing global environment concern particularly climate change.
In response to the drive of green-thumb Congressman Mercado, representative of the [...]
San Roque people support Mindanao tribe’s mega dam opposition
The Menovu-Pulangiyen and Menovu-Dunguanen tribes of Southern Bukidnon filed a manifesto of protest against the proposed Pulangi V 300 megawatt hydroelectric project before the Department of Energy (DOE) in Taguig City, Manila which gained support from the Dam affected communities.
In a letter sent to Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center-Cagayan de Oro Office, Mr. Windel [...]
Maasin Comelec to hold 3-day open registration
By Bong Pedalino
MAASIN City — On the last week of the final days of registration for new voters and transferees, the local office of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) will swing its doors open and conduct a three-day registration at the city gym here, from Monday to Wednesday next week, October 26-28.
It would have been [...]
Kin of Filipino crew detained in Nigeria appeal to President Arroyo
TACLOBAN City — The desperate parents of all Filipino crew of the MT Lovell Sea appealed for President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s intercession and help for the repatriation of their seamen-sons from Lagos, Nigeria where they are being held inside their tanker for three months already.
Tanauan LGU Budget Officer, Mr. Marcelino Mueva and his seaman son [...]
Samar island town gets road funding from ARCP 2
By Ninfa B Quirante
CATBALOGAN, Samar — Daram, a Samar island town gets road funding from the Agrarian Reform Community Project Phase 2 (ARCP 2).
This was bared by Teresa Tijol, Information Officer of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Samar.
On October 22, Daram Mayor Lucia Astorga received the good news with her constituents.
Some seven thousand Daramnons [...]
Alsa Masa member arrested for extortion
By Quirico M. Gorpido, Jr.
MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte -An alleged Alsa Masa member from Surigao del Sur was arrested here by the police hours after he reportedly victimized a lady physician for extortion.
The suspect was arrested at the city’s public plaza when chanced upon by plainclothesmen from the Maasin police station based on the description [...]
Maasin Mayor Maloney Samaco joins The Reporter Online
Mayor Maloney Samaco, who just got back from Germany to learn about waste management, will join thereporteronline.com.ph as columnist and opinion writer.
Mayor Samaco is a pioneering member of the Associated Media of Southern Leyte (AMSL) and former columnist of a local newspaper.
His column, Missions And Sights And Motions, will be read regularly at thereporteronline.com.ph.
Read on!
Lessons on solid waste in Germany
MISSIONS AND SIGHTS AND MOTIONS
By Maloney Samaco
I would like to thank the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) for sending me to Germany last September with our Maasin City Administrator Feorillo Demeterio, Jr., at the same time our General Services Officer-Designate. There were only four other mayors who were with the trip – Jerry Treñas of [...]
Former Eastern Visayas PA Domingo is new DPWH head
By Eden Benusa – Reyes
TACLOBAN CITY — Former Presidential Assistant for New Government Centers Victor “Vic” Domingo will assume his new post as Secretary of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH).
Domingo took his oath of office last Thursday morning (October 22), at Malacañang Palace before Secretary Eduardo Ermita.
He will replace former DPWH Sec. [...]
