“Glenda” displaces more than 5,000 families in Eastern Visayas-DSWD
TACLOBAN CITY- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) reported that more than 5,000 families were affected when typhoon “Glenda” hit Eastern Visayas last week.
Vina Aquino, regional information officer of the DSWD-8, said...
Despite lack of govt’ support 90 percent of businesses in Tacloban resumed operations,...
TACLOBAN CITY— Businessmen who were affected by supertyphoon Yolanda’s fury are now slowly getting back on their feet. Out of their hard work and perseverance and not because they are being given the needed...
UN appeal for Yolanda rehab Foreign donors raise 60% of needed funds
TACLOBAN CITY - Eight months after supertyphoon Yolanda hit the Visayas, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) reported that only $465.79 million or 60% of the $788 million...
Samar Provincial Hospital ranks second in the implementation of no balance billing policy
TACLOBAN CITY- The Samar Provincial Hospital has been declared by the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (Philhealth) as the second hospital in the region in so far as complying it no balance billing (NBB) policy. This...
Sudden closure of DZR Airport displeases passengers
TACLOBAN CITY- The “abrupt” closure of the Daniel Z. Romualdez (DZR) Airport, this city on July 9 had resulted for several passengers to be stranded, seething in anger and frustration.
“We were not informed that...
Japan invests weather station in Guiuan
TACLOBAN CITY - The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is putting up P298.44 million to make the Guiuan Meteorological Radar System in Eastern Samar operational by September 2015 after it was heavily damaged by...