The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in Eastern Visayas and the Department of Energy (DOE) have ordered an indefinite stop to work on the site of a landslide in Energy Development Corp.’s (EDC) geothermal complex in Kananga, Leyte.
Four governors, four congressmen, two mayors and two other candidates who currently hold no positions in Eastern Visayas are asking the Commission on Elections for permission to let them have bodyguards.
The regional police in Eastern Visayas will be conducting unscheduled visits to the various jails in the region for a prisoner headcount to make sure politicians don’t use any of them to harass voters in the coming elections.
MANILA, Philippines — Eastern Visayas will continue to experience moderate to heavy rains and was alerted against flashfloods and landslides due to a diffused tail-end of a cold front, the state weather bureau said Friday. “Eastern Visayas will experience cloudy skies with moderate to heavy rainshowers and thunderstorms which may trigger flashfloods and landslides,” [...]
The death toll from Tropical Storm “Quinta” that hit central Philippines on Christmas Day climbed to 17 on Friday as authorities began surveying the damage to thousands of hectares of farmlands.
The Police Regional Office in Eastern Visayas (PRO-8) has called on owners of around 10,000 registered firearms to renew their licenses.
The Philippine National Police’s regional office in Eastern Visayas is calling on the owners of more than 10,000 registered firearms to renew their licenses.
Communist rebels in Eastern Visayas declared top officials of Northern Samar as “enemies of the people” in a statement that the province’s officials said was just propaganda.
TACLOBAN CITY—At least P15 million worth of palay were destroyed when Tropical Storm “Ofel” hit Eastern Visayas on October 24, according to the Department of Agriculture (DA). Reports from the DA office in Eastern Visayas showed that Ofel destroyed 6,640 metric tons of palay grown by farmers in Leyte, Samar and Biliran. Leyte suffered the [...]
About one out of every four youths in Eastern Visayas engage in premarital sex and a government agency in charge of population issues believes this was due to lack of awareness.
Two new cities in Eastern Visayas are striving hard to be worthy of becoming a metropolis. Baybay City in west Leyte province is expected to become the next economic center of Eastern Visayas. Several businessmen and investors have shown interest in Baybay especially with its new 9-hectare reclamation project which will become the city’s new commercial center.
Two bills making two provinces in Eastern Visayas “mining-free zones” were approved by the House of Representatives’ committee on natural resources last week.
The Department of Education (DepEd) in Eastern Visayas will hire over 200 new kindergarten teachers in preparation for the implementation of the K to 12 program starting this school year.
