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Undistributed ‘Yolanda’ relief goods found in Kananga gym

on January 25, 2020

TACLOBAN CITY – Millions worth of relief goods that were supposed to be distributed to Supertyphoon Yolanda victims and school supplies were recently discovered inside the Municipal Gymnasium of Kananga, Leyte.

Atty. Adelito Solibaga, the municipal administrator, said they were saddened when they found canned goods, medicines, GI sheets, plywood, tiles, doors, cement, and other relief goods left undistributed.

Solibaga said that a truckload of canned goods were also left to rot in 2014 because some were damaged while being transported, yet there was no proper inventory. read more

PPP Center gives Ormoc water project a ‘thumbs up’

on January 18, 2020

ORMOC CITY – “Ormoc City wins BIG today,” said Ormoc City Mayor Richard I. Gomez in his social media post last January 9, after the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Center thru its Project Development and Monitoring Facility (PDMF) Committee approved the “Ormoc City Water Supply System” Project.

It can be remembered that on September 3, 2019, Mayor Gomez signed the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA), for and on behalf of the Local Government Unit of Ormoc (LGU-Ormoc), with the PPP Center led by Undersecretary and Executive Director Ferdinand A. Pecson. read more

DOH-8: ‘Firecracker injuries down by 14% in Eastern Visayas’

on January 11, 2020

TACLOBAN CITY – Firecracker-related injuries during the holiday season have decreased by 14 percent in Eastern Visayas with the Department of Health Regional Office 8 (DOH-8) reporting only 6 cases as of Thursday, January 2, compared to the same period last year with 43 cases. They have also recorded a significant downtrend of cases in the last 4 years.

The incidents were reported in Dulag, Leyte, Rosario, Northern Samar, Oras, Balangkayan, and Borongan all in Eastern Samar, and Daram, Samar.

All of the victims sustained minor injuries, including four males and 2 females, whose age ranges from 10-29. read more