Ad space available VOL. 17 NO. 51 ORMOC CITY P 15.00 at the newsstands JANUARY 16-22, 2016 Website address: www.evmailnews.net For feedback/inquiries: e-mail [email protected] Fisheries chief warns vs. ‘DVD’ fishes and shellfish BY LALAine M. JimeneA Record rainfall ORMOC CITY – The Fisher- causes floodings ies Division Chief of the City Agriculture Office (CAO) here in various parts has warned consumers against buying any kind of shellfish of E. Visayas and frozen fishes that reportedly come from Taiwan and called BY Tonette MArticio ‘DVD fish’ because they are delivered in boxes and not the TACLOBAN CITY – A total of usual Styrofoam. 4,153 families or 18,460 indi- Eriberto Alkuino, fisheries viduals, were affected due to the division chief, in an interview heavy downpour and flooding in with EV Mail cautioned residents this city on Monday, January 16, from buying shellfish, any kind including several towns in Leyte for that matter, until the red tide like Kananga, Alang-alang and alert is lifted. Abuyog. Several towns in South- Alkuino said the red tide alert ern Leyte were also affected and is widespread that it is impossible Quinapondan, Maydolong and to know where the shellfishes Lawa-an in Samar province, out come from, even as the alert was of which 580 families or 2,497 already lifted for Calubian in the individuals have been displaced. Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic The Department of Public Resouces bulletin. Almost all Sa- Works and Highways have re- mar seas, if not all, are now under ported an estimated P75-million a shellfish ban, which is a major MS ISABEL 2017. Joice Comendador (center) was crowned Miss Isabel 2017, besting 16 other candidates during worth of roads and bridges dam- source of shell products. coronation night on January 14 at the Galicano N. Ruiz Center in Isabel, Leyte. Others in the photo are (from left) aged, several impassable roads Unfortunately, he said, some Claire P. Ojagan (4th runner-up), Camille T. Jumao-as (2nd runner-up), Madel Grace P. Señoran (1st runner-up) as of Wednesday, (January 19) hardheaded vendors including and Noelle Jean M. Centino (3rd runner-up). By Alsmith such as Rizal Ave. Ext. in Tacloban those in restaurants and the food City, Jaro-Dagami-Burauen Road, park are still selling shells. Agas-agas-Kahupian in Sogod, He also warned against ‘Street-based’ social workers catch HIV-positive Southern Leyte, La Paz- Javier-Bi- “DVD” fishes as there were de- to; one lane passable in Brgy. Villa, liveries sighted this week. prostitute, 12-year olds ‘sex-perimenting’ Baybay City as well as Abuyog- He said these fishes are Silago Road and Dinaghan-Padre known as “DVD” to the market ORMOC CITY – Recently, be- Burgos, Southern Leyte due to vendors. These are frozen, he cause of Yolanda, when one mudslides and landslides. said, and a toxic chemical used in hears of “DSWD” or its city With the road closure in Ka- preserving them. counterpart, what immediately hupian village in Sogod town, From what he knows, the comes to mind is “relief”. just few kilometers away from fishes are usually dropped in an Unfortunately in Ormoc, Agas-Agas Bridge, Mindanao- undisclosed receiver at Kananga the City Social Welfare and De- bound buses and trucks had to town, and this is where the fish velopment Office (CSWDO) is pass through the longer route of also synonymous to the botched SEE DVD P. 9 Emergency Shelter Assistance SEE FLOODS P. 9 (ESA) and the GI sheets that were used to fence a gamefowl farm in Dolores. Little is known about its Noemilita “Mona” Congson advises two minors that they caught loitering “street based services division” around to concentrate on their studies. which is doing work away from benefits. “clients” fight back. the limelight, but nonetheless A portion are “street educa- The street based division is very important in molding Or- tors” who teach out-of-school currently headed by social worker STERLING moc’s future. youth, while the majority of Gloria Malazarte, said Noemilita A rickety office them are in-charge of “saturation “Mona” Congson, a team leader INSURANCE CO., INC The “street based division” drives” or going around the city of those into “saturation drives”. of the CSWDO is located at the during the day or night, depend- From students to HIV-posi- RICE NO LIMIT!!! “We go further to rundown city-owned building in ing on the information they get, tive prostitutes ... and more Filipino favorites serve you better” front of Ormoc Villa Hotel. When catching vagrants, mendicants, The job of catching humans is it rains, their office leaks like young and old prostitutes and not easy, said Noemilita Congson MILAGRINA For your non-life insurance crazy. The workers prefer to hold their pimps, and even young or Mona. They are wise and wily, needs, visit us at: office at the ground floor, where people who are loitering when and most importantly, have to be RESTAURANT they have two plastic chairs and they are supposed to be in school. treated humanely. now with a better and Door 486 Their hours vary. They work on Each case is different, and Lilia Avenue, Cogon one wobbly, wooden chair that is fresher ambiance. on the brink of collapse. shifts, but most of the time, they there is no set solution for them. Ormoc City, Leyte The workers, 30 of them, work overtime with no extra pay. At the time of this reporter’s Located at Telefax: (053) 561-0750 are mostly “job orders”, receiv- Workers also describe their work 134 Real St., ing only P 260.00 a day with no as dangerous, as some of their SEE SOCIAL P. 9 Ormoc City 2 NEWS January 16-22, 2017 DA bans import of chicken, eggs and ducks from 4 countries Office of Building Official now operational THE PHILIPPINES is ban- be implemented even for ORMOC CITY – Antici- ning the importation of all products coming from the pating the increase in con- poultry products, includ- three exempted countries. struction of commercial ing dressed and deboned All other countries buildings, dormitories and chicken, eggs, and ducks which are not listed here as even residential houses effective immediately fol- exempt from the ban will this year, Mayor Richard lowing the outbreak of also be temporarily banned Gomez has recently com- Avian Influenza or Bird Flu from exporting chicken, posed the newly-created in Europe and Asia. eggs and ducks and other Office of the Building Of- In a press release dated poultry products to the ficial (OBO). January 10, Agriculture Philippines pending a re- Since the City Govern- Secretary Emmanuel Piñol view of their health status. ment is still recruiting more said he has directed Dr. “As Secretary of Agri- engineers to join the LGU, Enrico Garzon, Assistant culture, I have to take dras- the mayor designated seven Secretary for Livestock and tic measures to protect the engineers from the City acting director of the Bu- country’s poultry and duck Engineering Office (CEO) reau of Animal Industry industry and also the health to man the office. (BAI), to implement the ban of the Filipinos. I expect to Designated as building immediately to protect the receive complaints and re- official is Engr. Sonia An- Mayor Richard Gomez signs the Executive Order designating the city engineers as OBO officials. country’s poultry and duck quests for reconsideration tonio. The others are Engr. Engr. Sonia Antonio, designated building official, is on the mayor’s left. industry. from the countries affected Yvonne Fe M. Delos Santos, Affected immediately by the ban but I am appeal- who will be processing temporary office at the city mile because they are not the past. by the ban on importa- ing to our trading partners chief; Engr. Germeline M. planning was timely be- totally abandoning their He also cautioned them tion of chicken and poultry to understand our position, Panta, in-charge for line and cause it was very near the previous work at the CEO. against people bringing his products are imports from Piñol said. grade plumbing; Engr. Jo- zoning office. The mayor said they are name, trying to bend build- South Korea, Germany, According to Health- seph Benedict C. Obejas, for Mayor Gomez told the already headhunting for the ing laws. “I will never do France and Netherlands. Line, a health website; “Bird architectural; Engr. Brenda seven he wanted the OBO right people to occupy the that,” he said. “If we have “During the weekend, flu, also called avian influ- Arradaza, structural; Engr. composed immediately be- vacated positions. to make our own building I have signed directives enza, is a viral infection that Dexter B. Jumao-as, electri- cause of the expected influx He also asked them to code, then we will do it,” specifically identifying the can also infect humans and cal and Engr. German Dix- of building construction. be strict and always think added Mayor Gomez. following countries with other animals. Most forms ton G. Cañezo. Three malls and one of the pros and cons in ap- The Gomez adminis- total ban to export chicken of the virus are restricted Mayor Gomez said the 8-story commercial build- proving building permits. tration is on a headhunt- and poultry products and to birds.” temporary office of the ing in the city are set to open The mayor said he is very ing spree to hire the right ducks to the Philippines,” “H5N1 is the most com- OBO would be at the City in 2017 and he is expecting a strict about provisions for people to occupy various Piñol said.