Maasin City, Southern Leyte – A driver of a private service multicab together with 2 others among the 4 riders were seriously injured when the multicab accidentally hit a tree on October 12, 2008 upon reaching a curve road in Brgy. Molopolo, Macrohon, which is more or less 15 kilometers away from the city of Maasin.
The victims were identified as Richard K. Espenido, 24 years old, resident of Brgy. Sto. Rosario, Padre Burgos, the driver; Edna Aure-Espenido, 40 years old, also resident of? Sto.Rosario, Padre Burgos, the driver?s wife; and …

Maasin City, Southern Leyte – Congressman Roger G. Mercado has purchased a total of 363 two-wheeled big garbage bins estimated to worth about P1.9M for the city and the province. This is in conjunction with the implementation of the Solid Waste Management Disposal under the clean and green program which is one of the solon?s priority projects.
This was disclosed on February 15, 2008 by Herbert Mercado of the city?s General Services Office (CGSO) where all the big garbage bins were under their custody and in-charged of its distribution to various …

Maasin City, Southern Leyte – “The Alay Lakad funds will be used to finance the out-of-school youth scholarship program of the City.”
This was the statement uttered by Maasin Mayor Maloney Samaco in his speech at the public stage adjacent to the City Hall after the recent Alay Lakad participated mostly by students from the Systems Technology Institute (STI), Maasin City College and some government employees and officials.
Samaco said that those who are qualified for the out-of-school youth scholarship program are the high school graduates and the PEPT passers who are …

Maasin City, Southern Leyte – A police officer who left his parents? residence in Barangay Ibarra, this city to allegedly fetch his children at St. Joseph College was crashed when he accidentally sideswept a bicycle driven by unidentified person causing his motorcycle to swerve and lost control, according to the police.
The victim was identified as SPO1 Jesus Jayvee S. Tan, 38 years old, resident of Brgy. Laboon. He was rushed to the provincial hospital for treatment by the responding police team.
His wife, an elementary school teacher, who deeply grieved by …