Southern Leyte Representative Roger Mercado has reportedly replaced former DPWH Secretary Mark Villar, who is running for senator in the 2022 national elections.

S. Leyte solon is new DPWH head

WITH major cities in the region gearing up vaccination rollouts to their constituents, the prospects of normalcy among the Warays is no longer far-fetched. The soonest could be sometime early next year, if not this jolly season of December.   

EV’s normalcy soon 

FIRST off, what makes actress Maja Salvador a Taclobanon?

Taclobanon Maja Salvador’s starrer vies for major awards at the 2021 Tokyo Film Festival

IT is another hybrid and toned-down commemoration of the Leyte Gulf Landings on Wednesday, October 20 Covid-19 pandemic remains yet a public health threat in the province.
 


Simple 77the Leyte Gulf Landings Anniversary Hybrid and muted event

Aside from negotiating with his trading and brokerage business, Manny Torres, dad of “Pusong Bato” original singer Aimee Torres, is seriously contemplating a restructured music career for his daughter in the Visayas.

Dad of “Pusong Bato” original singer Aimee Torres surveys Ormoc City to reprise music of daughter

THE long wait is over for newbie Jane de Leon.

Jane de Leon’s Darna sets to fly all over the Philippines…and the world

It’s the same old political families 

THE weeklong filing of Certificates of Candidacy (COC) last week ended with the COMELEC listing the same prominent political families vying for various local leadership posts – some making a political comeback and others sliding down and or switching elective posts. 

It’s the same banana!                         

IT is promising indeed to know that major cities in the region have now sped up on their vaccination rollout. Officials of the regional health agency even claimed of an imminent return of normalcy among the Warays, if possible by December. If the claim doesn’t border to near impossibility, maybe in the region, it will be one jolly Christmas holiday. 

The return to normalcy 

THE same old political families in the region have dominated again in the last week’s filing of Certificates of Candidacies. Despite the insignificant entrance of few nameless newbies, who too, have sealed their intents to join the local political fray by filing their COCs last week, stealing the limelight still were the big political names as they dominate in the COMELEC official list of candidates for 2022 elections.

A political malaise

After a tedious and grueling stay in Metro Manila because of restrictive and limited movements brought about by the raging Covid-19 pandemic, actress Cristina Gonzales-Romualdez went back to one of her roots, Region 8.

Around Region 8 with Kring Kring Gonzales

EV’s normalcy soon Region’s major cities gearing up vaccination rollouts

OY8 Dad of “Pusong Bato” original singer Aimee Torres surveys Ormoc City to reprise music of daughter

Taclobanon Maja Salvador’s starrer vies for major awards at the 2021 Tokyo Film Festiva

OY8 Jane de Leon’s Darna sets to fly all over the Philippines…and the world

OY8 Around Region 8 with Kring Kring Gonzales

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