From Selling Vegetables to Growing Them
• Inside Tacloban City Jail, PDLs learn farming through a garden program, gaining skills in planting and selling vegetables for future livelihoods after release.
• Inside Tacloban City Jail, PDLs learn farming through a garden program, gaining skills in planting and selling vegetables for future livelihoods after release.
• Tacloban fishermen, led by Romelo Anade, seek a Writ of Kalikasan to halt the P4.48B causeway, citing muddy waters, declining catches, and unprovided EIA documents.
• Americares trains Tabango health workers locally in disaster response, including heat-related issues. The two-year project urges regular drills and local ordinances for sustained preparedness.
• Catbalogan City is in pursuit of a suspect who shot a construction worker in the head over a personal dispute.
• Dagami police arrested alias “Tarak,” 41, in a buy-bust and seized suspected shabu.
• Eastern Visayas plans random drug tests for drivers via LTFRB, LTO, PDEA, and LGUs. Fuel aid increased to P12, and cooperatives are encouraged to take out loans.
• Eastern Visayas schools face fake shooting and bomb alerts, often from students seeking class suspension. DepEd enforces strict penalties, including possible exclusion or rehab center placement.
• The DSWD’s Regional Rehabilitation Center for Youth in Leyte rehabilitates children in conflict with the law through routine therapy and assessments, aiming to reform and return them home instead of jail.
• EDC plans to expand Leyte’s geothermal capacity from 120 MW to 300 MW by 2030–2031, modernizing plants and adding battery storage, while maintaining reforestation efforts.
• Police increased patrols in Barangay Mercedes after three minors fired shots during a chase, with no injuries reported, and urged the public to wait for verified information while handling the case with care due to the minors involved.