69K E. Visayas cash aid recipients tagged as non-poor
TACLOBAN CITY – About 69,038 family beneficiaries of the conditional cash transfer in Eastern Visayas have been identified as non-poor, an official of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) reported.
DSWD 8 (Eastern...
Eastern Samar town aims to address maternal mortality through a ‘waiting home;’ penalizes ‘hilots’
Targeting interior villages
LLORENTE, Eastern Samar – This town is aiming to have a zero death due to maternal delivery, especially those living on its far and isolated villages.
And part of its effort to achieve...
Paul Daza takes father’s seat as congressman for N. Samar’s first congressional district
TACLOBAN CITY- Former Northern Samar governor, Paul Daza, was elected as congressman of the province’ first congressional district.
Daza clobbered an old political rival, Harlin Abayon, to win the congressional race by almost 60,000 votes.
Daza,...
NPA camp overran by gov’t forces in Samar town
TACLOBAN CITY- A firefight between government forces and members of the New People’s Army (NPA) resulted to the discovery and seizure of the rebels’ camp in San Jose de Buan town, Samar province on...
DAR-Eastern Visayas to parcelize 206,436 hectares of agri lands
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Eastern Visayas recently held the cascading of the revised guidelines on Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling (SPLIT) project and aims to parcelize 206,436 hectares...
Eastern Visayas gets 5K food packs as augmentation support
TACLOBAN CITY – Eastern Visayas received on Wednesday 5,000 food packs from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Visayas Disaster Resource Center as augmentation for the region.
The augmentation from Cebu City will...