On the night of Wednesday, November 5, 2008, it was reported that there was a low pressure that was being formed in Surigao. However, at 6:15 in the morning the next day (Thursday) Southern Leyte started to feel the strong winds with the heavy rains.
I checked the internet and even waited for the flash report from the local TV Station but there was no report about a typhoon.
At 8:30 AM, I roamed around the city of Maasin and found out that classes from Elementary to College were not suspended. Then …

Maasin City, Southern Leyte – Urbandub, a homegrown band from Cebu, wowed the young audience during the recent concert here held at the city gymnasium.
Akin to the previous concerts of bisrock bands, local counterparts have always served as opening number guests, entertaining the audience prior to the final performance of the star concert band like the Urbandub.
The 3 four-member bands dished out 4 songs each in their new style of singing, accompanied by the prevailing voluminous sounds of guitars and the full beating of drums.
Urbandub?s concert was scheduled to start …

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 …