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PALO, Leyte --The Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) in Eastern Visayas is asking government agencies and local governments to promote the consumption of buko (young coconut) juice to raise the income of farmers affected by the steadily declining copra price. PCA Regional Manager Jeffrey delos Reyes said that if half of the region’s more than four million population will drink buko juice daily, the region’s coconut farmers will earn an additional PHP20 million every day. Young coconut is bought at PHP10 per piece in farms and marketed by vendors at PHP20 to PHP25 per piece. “Our call to government officials is to serve coconut water in all our activities instead of soda drinks to support our local coconut industry. Let us be ambassadors of the coconut sector,” delos Reyes told reporters. PCA pushed for the promotion of young coconut as copra farm gate price plunged to PHP11 per kilogram this week from PHP21 in the same period last year. The government has no control on the ...

As an initial step, a series of Information Caravan will be led by the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) Region 8 as told to media by  Regional Vice President (RVP) Dr. Leo Douglas Cardona, Jr.  on March 11 According to RVP Cardona, they are set to hold Information Education Campaign (IEC) in  rural health units and government hospitals in the region, starting off with Samar island’s health facilities  down to the Leyte provinces. “However, UHC  will not be limited to government hospitals only. This is precisely the main focus of PhilHealth-8, in particular, to innovate that private hospitals may soon support or cooperate, after all, it is a law,” Cardona said.  “When President Rodrigo Duterte signed the law, it was his main agendum to provide quality, accessible and affordable health care to all Filipino citizens, thus, invitation is  being made to private hospitals,” he added. UHC grants every citizen  eligibility wi...

The Philippine National Police (PNP) have launched a manhunt for two inmates who bolted from the lock-up cell of the municipal police station in Calbiga, Samar on Monday night. The police on Tuesday stated that the two brothers, charged with carnapping and robbery, escaped by cutting through the bars of their cell. The police asked the public to be vigilant since the two are considered “armed and dangerous”. “The fugitive grabbed a motorcycle parked outside the police station, which served as their getaway vehicle and took a hostage, who subsequently managed to escape from her captors while on their route of escape,” the PNP said in a statement. The two suspects are Roel Mabahin, 22, single, jobless, accused of carnapping; and Rodel Mabahin, 19, single, jobless and accused of robbery. Both are residents of Minata village in Calbiga town. PNP Eastern Visayas Regional Director, Brigadier General Dionardo Carlos ordered all police stations to be more...

 The PDP-Laban is lining up at least eight names as possible candidates when it moves to regain control of the House speakership for the 18th Congress, re-electionist Sen. Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III said yesterday. As president of PDP-Laban, Pimentel said the party has come up with a shortlist of possible contenders to the speakership to succeed Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who is on her last term as representative of the second district of Pampanga. “We have shortlisted eight PDP-Laban members who we will back up for the House speakership,” Pimentel told ANC. Those in the shortlist are Davao del Norte Rep. Pantaleon Alvarez, who was ousted as speaker last July; Leyte Rep. Lucy Torres-Gomez; Cavite Rep. Alex Advincula; Pampanga Rep. Aurelio Gonzales; South Cotabato Rep. Ferdinand Hernandez; Cavite Rep. Abraham Tolentino; Marinduque Rep. Lord Allan Velasco and San Juan Rep. Ronaldo Zamora. He said the PDP-Laban leadership would try to further shorten the list after the May 13 ele...

The total fish production in the region went up to 30,461 metric tons (MT) during the 4th quarter of 2018 from 29,306 MT in the same quarter of 2017. Eastern Visayas accounted for 2.5 percent of the country’s total fishery production during the 4th quarter of 2018. It ranked sixth among the regions with low fishery production in the country. Among provinces, Leyte produced the highest volume of fisheries at 9,585 MT, comprising 31.5 percent of the total fishery production in the region. Samar ranked second at 7,650 MT, accounting for 25.1 percent of the region’s total fishery production. Biliran, meanwhile, registered 1,227 MT, the lowest volume of production which shared 4 percent only. Volume of production in commercial fishing went up by 6.4 percent, from 2,672 MT in the 4th quarter of 2017 to 2,844 MT in the same quarter of 2018. All provinces registered increases in commercial fishing, except Southern Leyte, which recorded a decline of 51.6 percent. Leyte r...

#EarthquakePH #EarthquakeSurigaoDelNorte Earthquake Information No.1 Date and Time: 08 Mar 2019 - 11:06 PM Magnitude = 6.4 Depth = 016 kilometers Location = 10.39N, 126.09E - 041 km N 03° E of Burgos (Surigao Del Norte) http://earthquake.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph/2019_Earthquake_Information/March/2019_0308_1506_B1.html

"We hope to release it next week. We are vetting it right now. We are making sure of the list," Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) spokesperson, Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya, said in a phone interview Wednesday. While several senators have opposed the disclosure of the names on the list, Malaya said the public has the right to be informed regarding this matter. "To us, since the election is coming and we want to eradicate drugs, the people should be aware of the protectors, the coddlers of drug syndicates. We have a different opinion with the senators," he added. Malaya said through this move, senators will know who are on the list because they do not have access to intelligence information from the Philippine National Police, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), and the Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. "We want the people to be informed so they can decide what they want...