A retired worker of a box factory for soft drinks in Butuan City, now an SSS pensioner who was living alone in his small house in sitio Sumayod,brgy.Amparo,Macrohon was bludgeoned by a young attacker inside his residence one evening at past 7:00p.m.(Sunday) recently.

An innovative change in the holding of a weekly Sangguniang Panlalawigan sessions is now in the process of implementation as agreed upon by SP members during their recent session held at the SP?s Session Hall at the Provincial Capitol here.

A tricycle driver who detached TV antennae at the rooftop of his parents-in-laws in Brgy. Combado here in this city was electrocuted recently (one Sunday afternoon at 4:00p.m.) when he raised the TV antennae and accidentally touched it on (Southern Leyte Electric Cooperative, Inc.) SOLECO?s 7,620 volts mainline transmission.

Meriam Gaviloa, Prov?l Consultant of Solid Waste Management has revealed during the SP?s recent session at the provincial capitol, this city, that the dumpsite located in brgy.Zone V, Sogod is now a mountain of garbage.

The National Health Insurance Program (NHIP) or in short PhilHealth with its current theme: ?Kalusugan ng lahat,PhilHealth ang katapat? has aimed to provide a universal coverage of at least 85% of the entire 90M Filipinos by the year 2010.

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) has released the November 2008 Nurse Licensure Examination (NLE) result. Among the 88,649 nurses who took the exam, 19 examinees were product of the College of Maasin. Among those who took the exam nationwide, 39,455 examinees passed which is 44.51%. And those coming from College of Maasin, only 4 of them failed.
For the complete list of passers, please visit “November 2008 Nursing Board Exam Result“.

The approval of the 2009 Annual Performance Budget was moved by City Councilor Ma. Essie Espina-Garvez, Chairwoman Committee on Finance and Appropriation, and were seconded by Councilors Margarita Bantug and Nestor Sy, who likewise approved it unanimously.

The Gawad Kalinga has turned over 70 housing units recently to beneficiaries of Brgy. Pinut-an, San Ricardo here in this province who were victims of the traumatic tragedy at about 9:00PM on December 19, 2003 in Panaon lsland?s massive landslides.

Likewise, mendicancy in the city is now minimized and prohibition of minors for playing video games during class hours were imposed. There?s also a massive information drive against swindling and neighborhood involvement in crime prevention, suppression and reporting.

The Sangguniang Panlalawigan during its recent session held at the Provincial Capitol here has approved on its third reading of Resolution No.911-s.2008, the total annual budget of PhP446,596,822.00 for the province of Southern Leyte for the current year.