The Sangguniang Panlalawigan has strongly opposed the Silago ordinance in allowing midwives to dispense emergency medicines/drugs to expectant mothers who are under labor without the doctors’ prescriptions and supervisions.

The Sangguniang Panglunsod has approved the second and third final reading of its proposed budget for the current year to the tune of P338,657,971.71M during its recent weekly session held at the City Hall’s session hall.

Macrohon, Southern Leyte – Engr. Robert Castañares, also Business Development Analyst, claimed that tourism development is the only way to go to improve the economic condition of the entire province and to provide employment opportunities to the people.
This was his conclusion after he and his newly-organized group Southern Leyte Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SLCCI) conducted a province-wide studies of the economic endeavor that the pubic and the private sector were engaging.
“The dollar-earner abaca industry was wiped out by unpreventable infestation of airborne pests called bunchy top attacking all the …

Maasin City, Southern Leyte – The Sangguniang Panlalawigan has finally approved P518,621,885.29M budget appropriation for the current year 2011 during its recent weekly session held at the provincial capitol here.
SP Cesar Rey, Chairman Committee on Finance and Appropriation informed the august body that the amount that needs to be reconciled was already complied with. He said he called on the attention of the different departments’ heads previously conducted during a special meeting held on the same venue.
The proposal of the past meeting, he said, was to deduct P50, 000.00 …

Red Cross Southern Leyte Chapter with funds from the provincial government has conducted training-live-in seminar for ten days on Disaster Management Preparedness for the new Provincial Disaster Response Team (PDRT) members during the recent month.

Maasin City, Southern Leyte – Mayor Maloney Samaco in behalf of the City Government has initiated during the recent weeks ‘run for the heart’, an open fun run participated in by City Hall employees, PNP personnel and other sports enthusiasts individuals in the city.
The one-day afternoon affair, which was divided into two categories, has a total of 1,150 participants composed of men and women.
The 3-K run for the heart was participated in by 311 men and women, while the 6-K run has exceeded beyond the double number of3-K’s men …

Maasin City, Southern Leyte – Two folks residing in Brgy. San Jose, Alberto Roa Bascug and Cresencio Salar Padaria, both of legal ages, have reported recently to San Rafael Police Community Precinct, another barangay next to it, that they have discovered suspected marijuana plantation at the mountainous area of their resident barangay.
This was the disclosure of our source P02 Aldous Dexter Roa of the Maasin Police Station who received the message. He said that responding joint team of PNP personnel of San Rafael and Maasin Police officers led by …

Maasin City, Southern Leyte – The equipments and tools that the robbers were bringing in robbing the Henry Lhuillier Pawnshop in Brgy. Abgao, this city, which they have left inside, were proofs that they were big-time robbers.
It’s a well-planned robbery the way it was carried out. It was believed that the suspected robbers were studying the pawnshop’s location and how to penetrate inside, since the store is always double-locked at closing time.
The robbers believed to be composed of either three or four men, have make use of the neck-deep canal …

The snake’s rare appearance atop the mahogany tree at the Anatalio Gaviola plaza has attracted curious plazagoers, promenaders and passers-by but caused fear among the crowd of onlookers.

Vice-President Jejomar Binay has urged Governor Damian Mercado to ask the Sangguniang Panlalawigan to enact a resolution for housing project intended for Southern Leyte to make it official.