Rant An Intertropical Convergence Zone that visited our region recently brought three consecutive days of heavy rains. Although the local weather station and disaster preparedness office reported no casualties or no landslides whatsoever, the rains that reached up to 62.7 mm in measurement, which P…

News Regions - Negros Oriental, Philippines DUMAGUETE CITY – Employment glut in the province is not as significant as that of the region. This was revealed by DOLE provincial chief labor and employment officer Atty. Jose Ogang in a recent interview. Ogang said that the start of operations of…

News DUMAGUETE CITY, Philippines — The Sangguniang Kabataan-Negros Oriental provincial federation has complained over the appropriateness of spending so much on supposed fellowships held by local federations in out-of-town expensive resorts. SK provincial federation president Scott Wayne Hus…

Health DUMAGUETE CITY, Philippines - The Department of Health is now aggressively pushing government doctors to prescribe herb-based medicines to their patients. This was recently revealed by Jocelyn Abellana, head of the special concerns program of DOH-7 and regional coordinator for the Philippin…

Sorry that my posting (and reading and responding to others' entries) has been slower than usual as of late. Many of my recent entries have required a lot more leg work. Here's the latest:Two Saturdays ago, as Tawn and I were driving along Ramkhamhaeng Road on an errand to the northeastern outskir…