Extended registration nets 660 new voters for Southern Leyte
By Bong Pedalino
Maasin City (January 6) — A total of 660 fresh entrants to the electoral right of suffrage showed up for the eighteen towns and one city of the province during the five-day extended voters listing last month.
The special registration by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) was made in accordance to a Supreme Court [...]
PNP 8 vows to ensure strict implementation of election total gun ban in East Visayas
Tacloban City (January 5) — Newly-installed Police Regional Director Chief Superintendent Rey Lanada gave the assurance that the PNP in Region 8 will enforce total gun ban from January 10 to June 10 in order to ensure that honest, orderly and peaceful elections (HOPE) will prevail.
In a media interview, Director Lanada urged the public to [...]
South Leyte hospital registers only one minor injury for New Year’s Eve
By Bong Pedalino
Maasin City (January 4) — The way it was raining non-stop here day and night on December 31, 2009, until midnight on New Year’s day, and most of the day on January 1, 2010, one would think nobody got hurt with the wet and subdued noisy celebration that welcomed the coming of another [...]
Welcome 2010: Another year of fruitful service, brighter hope
Tacloban City (January 3) — As various firecrackers of all shapes and forms roared into the air with million multi-colored lights blazing across the midnight horizon, millions of Filipinos joined the whole world in welcoming the new year 2010 with new hopes for a better tomorrow.
Amid the firecracker explosions turning the midnight sky into a [...]
OUR HEARTFELT THANKS TO ALL
For Inko Dadoy, “Godspeed in your journey in the afterlife!,” Sir…
Yel Kangleon Cobile
Virginia, USA
Gus Arnaiz, my journalism mentor at the university of hard knocks
TALKING POINT
By Bong Pedalino
Maasin City (December 29) — Gus Arnaiz has gone back to his Maker. That is an understatement. For to him, he has gone back to his Maker.
The eternal life after this life has always been one of our hot topics up for discussion everytime we sat down together to down bottles [...]
Maasinhon in US suggests hero citation for late mediaman Agustin Arnaiz
By Bong Pedalino
Maasin City — A Maasinhon now residing in Virginia, USA, has called on the “big three” local leaders — City Mayor Maloney Samaco, Gov. Damian Mercado, and Cong. Roger Mercado — to award a posthumous hero citation to Agustin Cerro Arnaiz, 85, for having actively served as member of Philippine Scouts during the [...]
PGMA orders burning of remaining cocaine bricks recovered at East, North Samar
Tacloban City (December 30) — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has issued a directive for the police to burn the cocaine bricks worth P5 billion recovered from the shores of Eastern and Northern Samar.
President Arroyo gave the order during the National Security Council meeting at the Presidential Mansion in Baguio City.
“I have ordered PDEA to burn 195 [...]
Don’t buy fireworks without PS mark, DTI says
Tacloban City (December 30) — Trade Secretary Peter Favila cautioned the public not to buy fireworks which do not bear the PS (Philippine Standard) mark.
Secretary Favila issued the warning in a statement issued on December 29, in a bid to remind and make the people aware and to minimize fireworks-related accidents during the New [...]
