Typhoon-resilient schools to rise
PALO, Leyte - Soon-to-rise school buildings are more climate change resilient, but not designed to provide shelter for families displaced by natural calamities, said Department of Education Secretary Armin Luistro. New school buildings, according...
Group turned over 150 bancas to fishermen hit by Yolanda
BABATNGON, Leyte-Survivors of Typhoon Yolanda in Eastern Visayas received paddled bancas as livelihood assistance from the Marriage Encounter of the Philippines, Inc. (MEFP). In a simple ceremony held last May 13, 2014 at 9:30...
Yolanda aftermath Climate change gathering set next week
PALO, Leyte- The regional office of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) is set to conduct a massive campaign and lecture on climate change. The program, dubbed as Iba na ang Panahon, Science...
Yolanda aftermath Old Guiuan church to be repaired while a new one to be...
TACLOBAN CITY – A new church is set to be constructed while the historic Our Lady of Immaculate Conception, a 17th century church in Guiuan, Eastern Samar that suffered extensive damage due to supertyphoon...
Engineer killed while playing basketball
CATARMAN, Northern Samar- A lone gunman shot and killed a provincial engineer of the Northern Samar District Engineer Office in the morning of May 12 with police authority still facing a blank wall as...
CSC rebuffs Gov. Ong on reassignment of eight health workers
TACLOBAN CITY – The Civil Service Commission (CSC) voided a memorandum order issued by Northern Samar Governor Jose Ong reassigning eight hospital workers saying the act was in violation of the Magna Carta for...