What better way to celebrate a charter day of a city but with the best musical ensemble-- the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra-- feeding the citizens' auditory sense with heavenly music on October 16.

Ormoc to celebrate charter day in style

Electric consumers of Eastern Samar are riled up, if not livid, at the "outrageous" charges of power companies in the region considering the "unsatisfactory" electrical services with recurring brownouts. 

Consumers vs high power rate

Several residents from different barangays in Tacloban were rushed to different health facilities after experiencing diarrhea and vomiting due to suspected cholera outbreak that affects both children and adults and can kill the patient within hours if untreated. 

Cholera hits Tacloban

The decreasing peso value, currently at P58.71 per dollar, is encouraging more residents of Eastern Visayas to work overseas to get through the increasing prices of basic necessities in the country. 

More EV residents go abroad 

The relentless campaign against insurgency by the Armed Forces of the Philippines are now showing promising results and is raising expectations of people in Eastern Visayas that insurgency finally ending in the region.

Insurgency seen ending in EV

After the alarming COVID cases in the past two years, the Department of Health (DOH) in Eastern Visayas again reports spiking cases of human immunodeficiency virus /acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in the region.

EV HIV cases up 150%

San Juanico Bridge, the oldest and most iconic bridge in the country built under the president’s father, Ferdinand Marcos Sr. as birthday gift to his mom, the former First Lady Imelda R. Marcos, was lit with matching sound for 21 minutes last Wednesday by Marcos Jr. that delighted all who were near the site.

Bridge Sparks Hope

Pandemic has left a deep scar in Eastern Visayas at 29 percent poverty rate among its residents or those whose incomes are below the amount needed to buy their basic necessities.

2021 EV poverty rate is 29% 

In a place that recently commemorated the strongest typhoon, Yolanda, (Haiyan) that ever hit Philippine nine years ago soil killing tens of thousands and rendering thousands more homeless, any flood mitigating or restraining measure is most welcome. 

Why Not Bamboo? To Prevent Another Yolanda-Magnitude Experience

At the visit last November 8 of President Marcos to Tacloban City — which bore the brunt of super typhoon Yolanda in 2013 — the President said "we must remember those uncounted dead that up to now we do not know how many that number is. We must commemorate so that we will remember those who we're told not to remember."

REMEMBERING  'YOLANDA'

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