The province-wide barangay electrification project covering a total of 500 barangays shall be completed before the end of 2009, if the targeted timetables have no hitches to encounter.

Municipalities where Philippine Faultlines were detected to have traversed underground its respective areas become automatically landslide-prone and earthquake-prone.

Our source added that intensive educational drive and awareness to the local leaders, the academe, People Organizations, NGOs, the private and the religious sectors must be conducted so that the people in the entire province be made aware of the areas? condition and would help in the realization of the remedial measures being undertaken.

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 …