JUANITA Veloso, 77, a former municipal administrator and  sister of San Isidro Mayor Remedio Veloso, was gunned down last December along the national highway in Barangay Libongao, Kananga, Leyte.

Thank the police for swift action in Kananga

IT IS good to know that the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is currently undertaking the construction of an access road connecting the towns of Mahaplag and Hilongos in Leyte province.

Improving accessibility of Leyte residents

Precious lives continue to be lost to heavy rains and flooding, in Eastern Visayas and elsewhere in the Philippines.

Rains, floods & San Joaquin bridge

THERE was another incident in the Ayungin Shoal area of the West Philippine Sea that became a cause for serious concern among the public and our officials.


Senator Tolentino and pestering the sea calm 

IN Brussels, Belgium, House Speaker Martin Romualdez joined his cousin President Bongbong Marcos for the ASEAN-European Union summit last week, the rich and famous Leyteño urged the Chief Executive to certify as urgent the passage of the controversial Maharlika Investment Fund Bill.

Speaker Martin wants to brag in Davos

THE fact that Eastern Visayas has been hit lately by torrential rains, floods and landslides are known to many.   

Heroism in waterlogged Samar

Speaker Martin Romualdez has congratulated Barangay Ginebra resident import Justin Donta Brownlee following the granting of the latter’s Filipino citizenship.
“You are now a Filipino. We hope that you will be a good citizen and an excellent example for our people, especially the youth,” Romualdez said in a statement Friday, Jan. 13.

Speaker Martin, Sen. Tolentino and Brownlee

DURING the past rainy season, the cities and municipalities in the islands of Samar and Leyte generally suffered from huge floods, devastating whole communities and causing landslides that killed a number of people.

Dredging Samar & Leyte rivers

Congressman Richard Gomez, representing the 4th district of Leyte, reacted quite vehemently when the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) last week urged local officials to raise awareness and encourage their constituents to register their SIM cards starting December 27.

Richard Gomez on SIM listing

Laguna de Bai, the lake as Calamba’s Dr. Jose Rizal called it in Noli Me Tangere, has transformed much since the days of Laguna Gov. Juan Cailles of Sta. Cruz.  From Cailles to the current governor, Ramil Hernandez, the province has had a long list of governors and administrators.  But of course, my generation started with governors Felicisimo San Luis and Dominador Chipeco.

No wild lotus flowers in the lake anymore

IT SAYS HERE: Diego Cagahastian from Opinyon

It Says Here, Diego Cagahastian's column 

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