DOLE: New wage order for EV workers starts March 30
TACLOBAN CITY – The new wage order raising the minimum wage of low-income earners in the region above the regional poverty threshold level took effect on March 30, the first post-“Yolanda” wage adjustment after...
Director Pedro Noval installed Menzon as vice mayor of Babatngon
BABATNGON,Leyte- Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Regional Director Pedro Noval, Jr. assisted by his regional legal officer Cyril Casey Blanco, installed Winston Menzon as the duly elected vice-mayor of Babatngon town in...
USAID turned over new school building in Palo, Leyte
PALO, Leyte—The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on March 25 has turned-over another school building in this town making it as the third classroom building project completed by the said agency this...
EV as country’s poorest region Not surprising at all, says Governor Petilla
TACLOBAN CITY- The dubious distinction attained by Eastern Visayas as the country’s poorest region was not at all a surprise. Thus said Leyte Governor Leopoldo Dominico Petilla, who also chairs the Regional Development Council. According to...
Tanauan’s mass grave turned into Yolanda monument
TANAUAN, Leyte- Relatives of the 1,384 people who perished when Supertyphoon “Yolanda” smashed this town more than a year ago will now have a better place where they could offer their prayers and remember...
RPAB-EV approves small livelihood sub- projects under PRDP
TACLOBAN CITY- The Regional Project Advisory Board (RPAB), a body which provides guidance, reviews and approves subprojects for funding under the Philippine Rural Development Project (PRDP), unanimously approved and correspondingly endorsed 13 small livelihood...