Maasin City, Southern Leyte – A slide is something associated with accident and every person is a potential victim of slide. If a person is careful in his steps in shiny or polished tiles inside a building or a restaurant, chances are he/she is away from accidental slides. However, this is not always the case. In most instances, particularly during a heavy rain, most decorative, smooth and glossy tiles that are part of an edifice?s floorings would become slippery from wet shoes and wet raincoats.
If you are wearing a rubber …

Maasin City, Southern Leyte – The Department of Health, regional office, has declared the province of Southern Leyte as filariasis-free after the continual seven years (2000-2007) preventive annual mass treatment was completed in the entire province led by Rural Health Unit physician Dr. Francelisa I. Tan.
Dr. Noel Lumen, IPHO?s Provincial Health Officer 2 disclosed that before the DOH-RO?s aforesaid declaration, a Regional Filariasis Team has conducted another random blood sampling extractions preferably to a total of 3,000 children ages from 6 to 7 years old in various municipalities of the …

It’s my first time to hear that a journalist or publisher here in Southern Leyte has been attacked.
According to the police, at past 3:00am this Thursday, December 11, 2008, unidentified gunmen fired two shots at the house of Mr. Tony Reyes, hitting the glass door and into the room just below room where Mr. Reyes stayed. Mr. Reyes’ house served as his home and at the same time the office of the Southern Leyte Times.
Neighbors said that they heard a motorcycle, stopped in front of the house before firing.
Mr. Tony …

Maasin City, Southern Leyte – Two motorcycles, both running in high speed. The first one speeding towards northwest and the other running towards southeast collided in Brgy. Dinahugan, Padre Burgos at past 7:00 p.m. recently (Nov. 29,2008) seriously injuring both drivers and the latter?s backrider.
The impact of collision was so destructive that it broke the facial bone of the unidentified motorcycle driver with no headlight. The other driver was identified as Eliseo Sabandal Mangalo, 44 years old, married, and resident of Brgy. Sta.Sophia, Padre Burgos. The backrider, his son, …

Maasin City, Southern Leyte – Twenty four thousand mangrove tree seedlings were planted in two consecutive years in 2007 and 2008 in 12 municipalities covering a total of 24 barangays of this province allegedly as a measure to help mitigate climate change or global warning.
This was the disclosure of Evangeline Andrade Alvarez, Aquaculturist 2 of the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Management Office (PENRMO) whose office is located within the two-storey building of the Provincial Capitol here.
She implied that prior to the distribution of the mangroves or beach forest …

Maasin City,Southen Leyte – Adonis Aguelo of Maasin City knockout Tiny Tyson in just 2 rounds of the scheduled 10-round professional fight recently (Nov 21,2008) held at the city gymnasium as an offering tournament to the 54th birthday celebration of incumbent Governor Damian G. Mercado.
The professional fight is the first since the untimely death of Alex Aroy several months ago. Weighing 122 lbs. of the super bantamweight divisions, Aguelo bagged an easy win over his opponent via TKO at 1:59 official time after the referee counted Tyson out.
At …