The latest news and headlines from The Calbayog Journal.
STA. MARGARITA, SAMAR – Twelve equally statuesque and vibrant ladies will compete for the 4th Mutya san Magsohong crown after having been qualified in a screening by a panel composed of five judges on June 11, 2016 at the Clarencio Calagos Memorial School of Fisheries in Sta. Margarita, Samar.
TACLOBAN CITY - Applications for the conversion of agricultural lands to housing and resettlement sites for the survivors of super Typhoon Yolanda will be accepted by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Regional Office 8 only until June 30, 2016.
GANDARA, SAMAR - The diversion road in the Municipality of Gandara is named under administrative classification of a national road by the Department of Public Works and Highways five years after its completion.
CALBAYOG CITY – A two-day seminar workshop on writing, proofreading and lay-outing in the preservation of historical data was conducted in Cebu City by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts - National Committee on Library and Information Services (NCCA-NCLIS) in cooperation with the National Library of the Philippines – National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NLP-NHCP) in partnership with Cebu City Library on May 26-27, 2016.
CALBAYOG CITY – The anti-illegal drugs team of the city’s police force sacked three suspects in two separate but successive drug bust operations at midday of April 11, 2016.
INOPACAN, LEYTE – Twenty-two farmers from two highland barangays of this town are now certified organic vegetable producers after completing the five months training on High Value Vegetable Production Using Technology on Natural Farming System last month.
CALBAYOG CITY- Fourteen new school buildings are slated to be constructed in Calbayog City this year.
CALBAYOG CITY- Preparations are afoot to help 18 barangays in Calbayog City in formulating effective poverty reduction action plans once the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) implements the Bottom-up Budgeting in the grassroots level.
