Tag: Guiuan

Highest 49.2⁰C heat index recorded in Guiuan, E. Samar; 15 more areas heat index over 41⁰C danger level – PAGASA

(Eagle News) – The country’s weather bureau recorded the highest heat index on Thursday at 49.2 degrees Celsius in Guiuan, Eastern Samar, and recorded 15 more areas where the heat index exceeded the “danger” level of 41 degrees Celsius yesterday, April 18. PAGASA describes the heat index as the “human discomfort index that gives the ‘apparent’ temperature or what human perceive or feel as the temperature affecting their body.” “High air temperatures and high relative […]

Turnover of Japan-Funded Farm inputs to farmers and fishers of Typhoon Yolanda Affected Areas

GUIUAN, EASTERN SAMAR – In simple rites held on September 24, 2015, Embassy of Japan’s First Secretary Kenji Terada, JICA’s Senior Representative Yuko Tanaka together with Guiuan SB of Committee on Agriculture Cornelio Sison, Philippine Council for Agriculture and Fisheries Executive Director Ariel T. Cayanan, and around 500 beneficiaries, led the turnover ceremony for the “AKBay – Agrikultura: Kaagapay ng Bayang Pinoy (Agriculture: A Partner in Philippine Progress) Program Phase II” for Typhoon Yolanda-Affected Areas under […]

Aquino inspects rehabilitation sites in Guiuan, Eastern Samar

  President Aquino on Friday inspected various rehabilitation sites in Guiuan, Eastern a year after “Typhoon Yolanda” struck and devastated Eastern Visayas, The President arrived at 10:25 a.m. at the Guiuan Airport, where he was received by Armed Forces Central Command chief Major General Nicanor Vivar, Police Regional Office 8 Regional Director Chief Superintendent Henry Losañes, and Guiuan Mayor Christopher Gonzales.President Aquino immediately proceeded to the town’s public market, where he was met by Guiuan Vice Mayor […]