The Sangguniang Panlalawigan has refiled during its recent weekly session held at the provincial capitol here a province-wide smoke-free ordinance that is going to be implemented in all 18 municipalities thru its Chief Executives for health reasons. The City of Maasin has already its own anti-smoking ordinance which was approved several months ago and is now being implemented.

Tuberculosis (TB), the 6th leading death in the Philippines, 9th worldwide and 2nd in the Pacific region, has affected 2B peoples according to a worldwide surveys conducted by the health experts.

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 …