Leyte-Samar
DAILY EXPRESS POSITIVE l FAIR l FREE
VOL. XXX NO. 93
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2018
P15.00 IN TACLOBAN
Hugpong ng Pagbabago chairperson and Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte (left) administers the oath of alliance with Lakas-CMD Party led by its president and first district of Leyte candidate Martin Romualdez (2nd left),senatorial candidate Dr. Willy Ong (3rd left), Lakas-CMD Secretary General Rep. Prospero Pichay (3rd right),Tingog Party List 1st nominee and Leyte Rep. Yedda Marie K. Romualdez (2nd right) and Tingog party-list chairman Mark Gimenez (right), held at Tacloban City Astrodome.( VER NOVENO)
Survivors still waiting for promised housing units
EV commemorates 5 ‘Yolanda’ anniversary
JOEY A. GABIETA/ROEL T. AMAZONA TACLOBAN CITY- As the region commemorated the fifth year anniversary of the massive devastation brought by super typhoon ‘Yolanda’ on Thursday (Nov.8), survivors continue to rant their woes. Five years after the onslaught of Yolanda, thousands of survivors are yet to be relocated to the promised housing projects by the government. Records from the regional office of the National Housing Authority(NHA), as of October this year, out of the 56,140 housing units supposed to be constructed for Yolanda survivors who totally lost their houses, only 24,200 have been so far been built.
And out of this number 18,085 of these housing units have actually been awarded or occupied by the family-beneficiaries. Here in Tacloban City, considered the ground zero of Yolanda, 11,466 families have been relocated to the 15 resettlement sites. The city government has earlier identified 14,433 families who need to be given homes. Dorcas Secreto, NHA’s regional management estate
specialist, said that they are still on target of completing these housing units by year. She also dismissed claims that the houses were of poor quality saying that the designs and specifications of these houses were submitted by the assigned contractors to the Department of Public Works and Highways for approval and scrutiny. She described as just
see EV/page 7 ...
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‘Yolanda’ survivors remember their loved ones who perished during the massive disaster
TACLOBAN CITY- It was beyond one’s imagination and strength to bury 11
members of your loved ones in a single burial ground. But this was exactly what happened to the family of Dr. Clara Rose Brit whose mother, two siblings, cousins, nieces and nephews were killed during the onslaught of su-
see `Yolanda’ / page 8 ...
Herminigilda Nilo has been paying her respects to her former employer, Dolores Caballero, who died due to Yolanda and among those buried in a mass grave in Palo, Leyte.