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A new 154.8-meter bridge on the Minuhang Cabarasan Road is now providing residents ease of travel to other parts of Barangay Minuhang, in Barugo town, Leyte. Citing a report from Region 8 Director Nerie Bueno, DPWH Secretary Mark Villar said the DPWH Leyte 2nd District Engineering Office (DEO) has recently completed the new permanent P142.3-million […]
To aid the coconut industry of Leyte and encourage a more productive sector, the Department of Agriculture (DA) has started to distribute coconut planting materials and financial assistance to coconut farmers of the province. Twenty local farmers, who are part of the Participatory Coconut Planting Project, received checks worth P3,000 each from the Philippine Coconut […]
Government has opened the country’s 37th Malasakit Center at the Ormoc District Hospital in Leyte to extend medical assistance to the underprivileged. Senator Bong Go led the launching of the facility, more than a year after the first Malasakit Center was launched at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu City in February 2018. […]
Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles asked local government units to organize or activate their local inter-agency committees (LIACs) to help complete the post-“Yolanda” housing projects. Nograles said more than five years after Super Typhoon “Yolanda” struck central Philippines, some housing units for affected families remain uncompleted while some finished projects are still unoccupied. “We have to […]
The administration of President Rodrigo Duterte may have obtained “historically positive numbers” in the last Social Weather Stations (SWS) government performance poll, but the government will not be complacent and “will continue to find ways to improve its plans and programs in order to better serve our people.” This was the assurance given by Cabinet […]
The Senate passed on third and final reading a bill declaring November 8 as a special non-working holiday in the province of Leyte, in honor of the “extra-ordinary courage of the unsung heroes of Typhoon Yolanda.” House Bill No. 6591 was sponsored by Senator Sonny Angara, chair of the Senate Committee on Local Government, with […]