A motorcycle driver coming from Brgy. Canturing who drove fast in going to the proper city to buy hamburger bumped a Gawad Kalinga service car as it crossed San Vicente street in Brgy. Abgao a t about 10:30 p.m.Monday recently.

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 commentary of Ricardo Ma. Nolasco, PhD ?Pilipino, Filipino, Tagalog? published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer (Nov.15, 2008) implied that the evolution that a chosen national language like Tagalog has undergone is only in name but not in its element or substance. From Pilipino, the name use in school as a subject, and Filipino as citizenship, then Filipino as both a subject and citizenship. And lastly Tagalog as the dominating base being chosen as the national language.

If Manny Pacquiao is sensitive enough to perceive the reason why some politicians and businessmen want him to run as Congressman, is that they are only riding on his popularity status. They seem not to look into consideration how the low-graded boxer would fare in his uncharted and unknown course.

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.