Mangroves save lives during Yolanda’s onslaught seven years ago
TACLOBAN CITY- Pedro Cahindo, Jr., swears that their village in San Jose District could have more deaths when this city was pummeled by Super Typhoon ‘Yolanda’ exactly seven years ago.
But because of the mangrove...
Leyte farm school encourages young to go into farming
TABONTABON, Leyte
‘Magtanim ay di biro
Maghapong nakayuko…..’
So goes part of a song that is closely associated with how our farmers are being portrayed.
And this image is what a farm school, albeit relatively new, based in...
Mayor Romualdez bares dev’t plans for Tacloban City (Part I)
By Alvin Gz Arpon
There is no doubt that the city chief executive Cristina G. Romualdez has sincerely and effectively performed her role as city mayor of the highly urbanized city of Tacloban in such...
Out of poverty; Success Stories of Civil Society Engagement in Samar
(This story is part of the journalism fellowship of the Philippine Press Institute under the auspices of the Hanns Seidel Foundation.)
Aljon Cainto Operario, is a smart and confident 28-year-old Public School Teacher at the...
Mondejar Steiner caught the eye of world-famous lensman
A Taclobanon
By: VICKY C. ARNAIZ
TACLOBAN CITY – One of this city’s beautiful women caught the eye of a world-class photographer, Rupert Jacinto.
Minerva Mondejar Steiner, who is from this city but now lives in Switzerland,...
PASAR: A heaven-sent establishment to Leyte
By: Alvin Gz. Arpon
The Philippine Associated Smelting and Refinery Corporation (PASAR) hadbeen in Isabel, Leyte for about 30 years ago when this was established and the facilities constructed in 1983.
Worthy of note is this...