Sustainable tourism on ‘paradise islet’
By Vicente S. Labro
One destination that is slowly gaining popularity among local and foreign tourists is Kalanggaman Island in Palompon town, Leyte.
One destination that is slowly gaining popularity among local and foreign tourists is Kalanggaman Island in Palompon town, Leyte.
A 5.2 magnitude earthquake struck off Leyte at 3:37 p.m. Saturday about five hours after a 5.6-strong tremor hit the area, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said.
Summer is about to end, but the lingering image tourists bring home from this corner of Luzon is that of carabaos being treated as celebrities.
Maasin Bishop Precioso Cantillas of the Diocese of Maasin, president of St. Joseph College (SJC), is facing criticisms in an online petition posted on Change.org over several issues including the alleged illegal collection of tuition and other fee increases.
More than a dozen Department of Public Works and Highways employees and at least 20 local contractors are being investigated by the DPWH for their involvement in the allegedly anomalous Burauen-Albueva road project in Leyte for which the government spent about half a billion pesos between 2004 and 2010.
A local ally of the United Nationalist Alliance in Baybay, Leyte has decided to support only four senatorial bets from the group during the campaign.
The Supreme Court decision unseating Lucy Torres-Gomez as legislator does not affect her candidacy, according to the Commission on Elections (Comelec).
Ousted Leyte Representative Lucy Torres-Gomez is not worried and will continue to work as legislator from the fourth district of the province despite the Supreme Court ruling removing her from the congressional seat.
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.
The retrieval of bodies of victims of a landslide inside the geothermal complex of the Energy Development Corp. (EDC) in Kananga, Leyte, ended yesterday with the recovery of two more bodies, which brought to 14 the death toll in the accident.
Rescuers have recovered four more bodies at the landslide area inside the geothermal complex of the Energy Development Corp. in Kananga town, Leyte.
The Leyte provincial government will investigate the cause of the landslide at a geothermal plant complex that killed seven workers, according to the province’s governor.
Searchers on Sunday night recovered a sixth body from the landslide-hit area inside the Energy Development Corp. (EDC) complex in Kananga town in Leyte.
