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Conducts aerial inspection, visits hospital where the injured were taken (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte expressed his extreme sadness with the big number of deaths and persons still missing due to the landslides brought about by storm Agaton. The death toll has risen to 175 as of Tuesday, April 19, but the missing still stood at 110. President Duterte went to Leyte and Capiz to distribute aid to the residents affected by “Agaton” […]
LEYTE, Philippines (AFP) — At least 24 people have been killed in landslides and flooding across central and southern Philippines, authorities said Monday, after tropical storm Megi dumped heavy rain and disrupted travel ahead of the April holidays. More than 13,000 people fled to emergency shelters as the storm pounded the region Sunday, the national disaster agency said, flooding houses, inundating fields, cutting off roads and knocking out power. The central province of Leyte […]
Calls for a meeting with budget officials as most funds already spent for COVID response (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte made a commitment to release around P2 billion to typhoon-devastated areas in Visayas and Mindanao region as he visited some of the areas hit by the super typhoon over the weekend. “I can release more or less 2 billion. So this amount will be divided among all the areas that were hit by […]
Ni Rose Marie Metran Eagle News Service correspondent LEYTE, Philippines (Eagle News) — Wala nang active COVID-19 cases sa bayan ng Barugo, Leyte ayon sa inilabas na COVID-19 situation update ng local government unit ng Barugo, Leyte Sabado, Feb. 6, 2021. Ayon sa lokal na pamahalaan, wala na silang naitala pang bagong mga kaso. Ang kabuuang COVID-19 cases naman nito ay 212 kung saan 211 ang gumaling na at isa (1) naman ang nasawi. […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Agriculture (DA) said that it will be giving agricultural aid to 112 Leyteaños who were among the first batch of beneficiaries returning to their homeland under the Balik Probinsya, Balik Pag-asa program (BP2) of the government. Agriculture Secretary William Dar said that the DA will provide farm inputs and implements to those who availed of the government’s Balik Probinsya program, if they wish to try agriculture and fishery […]
In this weather photo taken by Eagle News Service correspondent Cesar Sotto in Ormoc, Leyte, partly cloudy skies can be seen with fairly good weather as of 6:18 a.m, Wednesday, May 13, as Tropical Storm “Ambo” approaches Eastern Visayas region. At 3 a.m. today, Wednesday, May 13, the center of Tropical Storm “AMBO” {VONGFONG} was estimated based on all available data at 385 km East of Guiuan, Eastern Samar or 410 km East of […]
(Eagle News)–A 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck Leyte on Monday, March 2. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, which struck at 5:19 a.m., had its epicenter 8 kilometers southeast of Leyte. It had a depth of focus of 9 kilometers. The following intensities and instrumental intensities were felt and recorded: Reported Intensities: Intensity V – Leyte, Kananga, Capoocan, and Pastrana, Leyte; Tacloban City and Ormoc City; Intensity IV – Palo, Dulag, Babatngon, Alang-alang […]
(Eagle News)–A 3.4-magnitude earthquake struck Leyte on Saturday, Oct. 12. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, of tectonic origin, hit five kilometers southwest of Capoocan at 8:55 a.m. Depth of focus was one kilometer. The following intensities were reported: Intensity III- Capoocan & Carigara, Leyte Intensity II- Kananga, Jaro & Leyte, Leyte No damage to property nor aftershocks were recorded.
(Eagle News)–Communist Party of the Philippines founding chair Jose Maria Sison has described as “patently false” the multiple murder charges filed against him over a mass grave found in Inopacan, Leyte. In a statement posted on his Facebook account after he was ordered arrested by a Manila court, Sison said he was under maximum security detention in 1985, and “as a prisoner, I had no position in the CPP or (New People’s Army) at that […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte led the inauguration on Friday evening (July 5) of a rice processing center in Leyte which, he said, is one of the government-private initiatives to “sustain our rice supply and ensure food security for our nation.” The two-hectare complex is the most technologically advanced rice processing center in Southeast Asia and the largest in the Visayas and Mindanao regions, Malacanang said. The P1.7-billion Chen Yi Agventures (CYA) Rice […]
(Eagle News) – A magnitude 5.5 quake rocked Surigao del Norte Friday afternoon, April 26, which was preceded and followed by several tremors of lower magnitude. The tremors have been felt in the province for the past several days, according to the data from the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs), but the strongest quake so far was recorded at 1:26 p.m. on Friday, April 26, with a magnitude of 5.5. Several aftershocks […]
(Eagle News)–A 2.5-magnitude earthquake hit Leyte on Sunday, March 17. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake struck 8 kilometers southeast of Leyte at 10 a.m. The quake, of tectonic origin, had a depth of focus of 7 kilometers. No damage nor aftershocks were expected.
