5.4-magnitude tremblor shakes confidence of Leyte residents
REELING from the strong earthquake that rocked the province on Thursday last week, Leyte was again jolted by a strong aftershock that sent employees and students scampering for safety.
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REELING from the strong earthquake that rocked the province on Thursday last week, Leyte was again jolted by a strong aftershock that sent employees and students scampering for safety.
Elmer V. Recuerdo / Photos by Vincent Paulo Cortes
TACLOBAN CITY—The Regional Development Council in Eastern Visayas (RDC-EV) backed a $94-million (roughly P2.3-billion) agriculture development project to be implemented in selected provinces in Eastern Visayas and in all regions in Mindanao.
TACLOBAN CITY—Leyte’s Pintado–Kasadyaan, dubbed as “the festival of festivals” in Eastern Visayas, gathered nine festival contingents from various municipalities in the region.
TACLOBAN CITY—Southern Leyte State University (SLSU) became the first academe in the Visayas region that will be involved in monitoring subprojects of World Bank-funded Philippine Rural Development Program (PRDP) being implemented by the Department of Agriculture (DA).
TACLOBAN CITY—Under the sweltering heat of a sunny morning, 42-year-old Elena Enciso joined a group composed mostly of women as they marched to the National Housing Authority (NHA) to formally file a notice rejecting the houses scheduled to be awarded to them soon.
Story and photos by Elmer V. Recuerdo / Correspondent
TACLOBAN CITY—The National Maritime Polytechnic’s Quality Management System (NMP-QMS) maintained its ISO 9001:2008 certification after passing the surveillance audit conducted by the Anglo Japanese American (AJA) Registrars Limited.
THE Catholic Church has launched a nationwide fund drive to help families displaced by the ongoing clashes between the government and the Maute rebel group in Marawi City.
TACLOBAN CITY—Economic planners are expecting the economic gains in Eastern Visayas that started in 2015 to continue in the next few years due to many big-ticket infrastructure projects implemented under the Duterte administration.
TACLOBAN CITY—The household population of Eastern Visayas reached 4,425,172 persons in 2015. This is 335,438 higher than the 4,089,734-household population reported in 2010. The figure was based on the 2015 Census of Population (POPCEN) conducted in August 2015.
TACLOBAN CITY—Eastern Visayas posted the fastest economic growth among the country’s provinces at 12.4 percent last year. The growth is higher than the 4.6-percent growth rate recorded in the previous year and the first-ever double-digit growth of the region.
TACLOBAN CITY—Fish sanctuaries in Eastern Samar destroyed by Supertyphoon Yolanda in November 2013 will soon get funding for the rehabilitation, almost four years after storm hit the province.
TACLOBAN CITY—They worked in different Asian countries either as teachers, tutors or household-service workers. After working abroad for several years, they came home to take up their passion—to teach local children.
TACLOBAN CITY—An ongoing research on maritime education in the country has identified the foremost training needs of maritime instructors in maritime higher- education institutions (MHEIs) in the Philippines.
TACLOBAN CITY—The Tacloban Saltwater Dragon Boat Club (TSDBC)—Tacloban Salties, in short—was organized primarily to help locals cope with the lingering trauma and phobia of the sea, after experiencing the most destructive waves and storm surges to hit a populated land mass in recent years.
TACLOBAN CITY—Construction of a P232-million farm-to-market road (FMR) funded under the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) Philippine Rural Development Project (PRDP) has started.
TACLOBAN CITY—The Philippine Reclamation Authority (PRA) and award-winning One Architecture and Urbanism joined efforts to firm up a coastal-protection strategy that won a grant for Tacloban City in the highly competitive Global Resilience Water Window Challenge organized by the Global Resilience Partnership (GRP).
By Elmer V. Recuerdo / Correspondent
TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte—The Regional Development Council (RDC) in Eastern Visayas approved and endorsed the P191-billion budget for 2018 of regional line agencies and state-run schools during its first-quarter full-council meeting on March 22.
TACLOBAN CITY—More than four years after Super typhoon Yolanda (international code name Haiyan) hit the Visayas provinces, recovery efforts continued for communities with the turnover of disaster-resilient infrastructure in Tacloban and Palo in Leyte, and in Balankayan, Hernani and Quinapondan in Eastern Samar for three days last week.
CATARMAN CITY, Northern Samar—Three bishops, representing the three dioceses of Samar island, are urging the Commission on Appointments (CA) to confirm an antimining advocate as secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).
TACLOBAN CITY—Results of a training needs analysis (TNA) conducted by the National Maritime Polytechnic (NMP) revealed specific subject areas in the Training Course for Instructors (IMO Model Course 6.09) needing further emphasis and strengthening, as well as other industry recommended knowledge, skills and attributes (KSAs) that maritime instructors need to possess to reinforce learnings.
TACLOBAN CITY—More senior citizens of this city are expected to receive a monthly social pension after the qualifying age was lowered from 77 years old to 60.
TACLOBAN CITY—The Bureau of Customs (BOC) on Thursday said it may cancel the import accreditation permit of Mighty Corp. following new discovery of 400 master cases of cigarettes believed to be bearing fake-stamp taxes.
TACLOBAN CITY—When the fourth World Bank mission comes in May to conduct a midterm assessment on the implementation of the Philippine Rural Development Project (PRDP) of the Visayas cluster, it will be answering questions from the provincial governors, particularly on the tedious process the bank requires before a project is approved.
TACLOBAN CITY—Minimum-wage earners in Eastern Visayas get an increase of between P10 and P25 in daily income based on their sectoral classification. The labor department in the region is urging business establishments to comply to this.
TACLOBAN CITY—Heirs of the 4,000 people who died in the ill-fated MV Doña Paz received claims of more than P200,000 each based on a ruling of the Civil District Court in Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States.
TACLOBAN CITY—More than three years after Supertyphoon Yolanda (international code name Haiyan) destroyed the facilities of the Department of Agriculture (DA) in Eastern Visayas, repairs for the damaged experiment stations can already start after funds finally came.
Story and photos by Elmer V. Recuerdo | Correspondent
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