The Eastern Samar Community Blog

“Diri maikakalirong an kadako han danyos nga nahimo han kolonisasyon ha mga kultura nga inalakbatan hini.” – Voltaire Q. Oyzon

If you want to see some of the most dedicated people on the planet, look for the Barangay Health Workers (BHWs) of Eastern Samar. In a feature written by Alice Nicart, a depressing picture is drawn of volunteer BHWs who receive a measly honorarium of 50 pesos every month. Such an amount is expected to [...]

In Thailand they call it “tuk-tuk.” Some Cebuanos refer to it, with the side cart or without, as “habal-habal.” The rest would call it, tricycle. The tricycles I grew up with had loud engines, unlike the dry-cough-like sound of those found in neighboring regions. My uncle who works for Norkis once told my mother that [...]

by Karl Gaspar, CSsR Much has been written about the Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) and as the number approaches 10 million (and counting), more write-ups will appear everywhere. What I want to write about comes from a reflexive view of a Pinoy-in-pilgrimage who has encountered hundreds of them at every stage of my sojourn in [...]

Article 2, Section 6 of the 1987 Philippine Constitution states that “the separation between Church and State shall be inviolable”. According to Answers.com inviolable means (1) Secure from violation or profanation, or (2) Impregnable to assault or trespass; invincible.

Here are some pictures of a tarsier contributed by one of our readers, Ronald Doxi. According to Ronald, this and other two tarsiers were caught in Sabang, Borongan City last year. The two were freed while this one died after being caught using a slingshot. Ronald Doxi and the tarsier found in Sabang, Borongan City [...]

The present issue being discussed at the www.iborongan.com website is about teacher-student relationship. One entry alleges that teachers use abusive language when they are angry with their students. Other entries discuss that teachers do this because students’ truancy.

Tonight, I get 963, 000 hits in .08 seconds. I click on the first link: www.easternsamar.gov.ph, and the window tells me that the page “cannot be displayed.” The second link leads me to Wikipedia. The write up on Eastern Samar says that the province produces copra, and imports timber, among others.