Teenage pregnancies take a dive
Downside of the quarantine in Tacloban
TACLOBAN CITY- The population office of this city has reported of a ‘positive effect’ on the current pandemic: decline of teenage pregnancies.
Based on their record, cases of teenage pregnancies...
More LGUs in EV to procure anti-COVID vaccines
LGUs allocate millions of pesos for the purpose
TACLOBAN CITY- Several local government units here in the region will not wait for the national government to provide them vaccines against coronavirus as they will procure...
Guiuan execs: No overspending, discretionary fund
Contrary to COA report
TACLOBAN CITY- Officials of Guiuan town in Eastern Samar defended themselves amid a report from the Commission on Audit (COA) that they have allegedly overspent their discretionary fund.
The officials, however, said...
Tide embankment project only at 60% completed
As EV marks 10th of Yolanda’s onslaught
TACLOBAN CITY – A top official of the Department of the Public Works and Highways (DPWH) in the region expressed his optimism that the tide embankment project, supposed...
Former Red members ask PH gov’t to be wary
On the proposed peace talk
TACLOBAN CITY-The peace agreement that is said to be considered by the Marcos administration with the Communist Party of the Philippines-National Democratic Front (CPP-NDF) has received a lukewarm response from...
Residents, officials nix Pieta demolition
In Catbalogan City
TACLOBAN CITY — The demolition of a memorial monument in Catbalogan City, Samar, honoring the thousands who perished in the tragic 1987 collision between the M/V Doña Paz and oil tanker M/T...