DTI presents investments potentials of Sogod Bay to Taiwanese businessmen
By Bong Pedalino
Southern Leyte (January — The trade and investment possibilities in the sprawling Sogod bay area of this province, particularly on aquamarine development among others, were already presented to top businessmen of Taiwan, according to Mike Nunez, Provincial Director of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).
The presentation was made during the Visayas [...]
Solon sponsors Southern Leyte medical-dental mission
By Erna Sy Gorne
Ichon, Macrohon — Hundreds of marginalized families flocked at the newly constructed Saint Joseph Medical Clinic located at Barangay Ichon, as they availed of the health services extended by Congressman Roger G. Mercado of the Lone District of Southern Leyte in partnership with non-government organization, Limasawa Development Foundation (LIDEF).
The Saint Joseph Medical [...]
DOLE pays tribute to 2 partners in East Visayas
by Virgilio Doroja
Tacloban City — The Department of Labor and Employment in Region 8 recently paid tribute to two of its partners, one, a Management Representative and the other, a Labor Representative to the Regional Tripartite Industrial Peace Council, Regional Director Forter Puguon informed.
The honorees, Mr. Rene V. delos Reyes, administrative assistant at Energy Development [...]
“Boto Mo I-Patrol Mo” goes to St. Bernard
St. Bernard, Southern Leyte – The “Boto Mo I-Patrol Mo” was formally launched here on Thursday (January 7) through the initiative of the youth coordinating council.
“The youth here has been very active, and since we wanted to take part in the upcoming election, not just by voting but by being vigilant and being a voice [...]
Goma says disqualification case, a political harassment
By Ronnie C. Roa
ORMOC CITY – Leyte’s 4th district congressional candidate, actor Richard Gomez dismissed the disqualification case filed against him as “merely political harassment” to be used as black propaganda.
Gomez is facing a disqualification case of non-resident filed by former Barangay Libertad chairman Buenaventura Juntilla at the Comelec national office. The 1st hearing was [...]
CAMILO “YEL” COBILE: The man who connects “home” to the world
By Ronald O. Reyes
The spirit of “Bayanihan” (mutual aid) will always prevail in the psyche of every Filipino. This peculiar characteristic of ours, however, is even more appreciated if it is being manifested continually by any Filipino citizen who have had acquired fame and fortune abroad.
This best characterizes Camilo “Yel” Kangleon Cobile. Born in Maasin, [...]
Expectations for 2010
TALKING POINT
By Bong Pedalino
Maasin City (5 January) — No big deal here, really, because every handover of a new number for a coming year brings with it lots of excitement of good tidings to come, either on personal matters or for the good of the community, the country as a whole.
But 2010 somehow stands out [...]
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 [...]
