Speaker Martin Romualdez seals the One Eastern Samar team-up of House Minority Leader Marcelino “Nonoy” Libanan and Gov. Ben Evardone in the 2025 mid-term elections. (Rep. Libanan's office) House Minority Leader 4Ps...
BORONGAN CITY – A province-wide simultaneous coastal cleanup was conducted in Eastern Samar on Tuesday, May 9, as part of the Month of the Ocean celebration. Eastern Samar Gov. Ben Evardone said Project Kalikasan Linisan Estehanon Aksyon Na (KLEAN) was launched pursuant to Presidential...
BORONGAN CITY—Vice-presidential bet Senator Kiko Pangilinan on Wednesday, March 30, explained his absence from the Eastern Samar Grand People’s Rally in this city last night, saying it was because he wanted to ensure local officials will come out “in full force” for Vice President Leni...
BORONGAN CITY—Vice President Leni Robredo has seen her Samar province campaign sortie rich with endorsements. After 21 Northern Samar local executives endorsed her presidential bid, 20 Eastern Samar mayors, led by Gov. Ben Evardone, an ally of President Duterte, signed a covenant here to pledge...
Former senator and incumbent Sorsogon Governor Francis “Chiz” Escudero is the second top pick among the senatorial candidates for the upcoming May 2022 elections, according to a survey commissioned by Eastern Samar Governor Ben Evardone within the province. The survey showed 51.79 percent of...
The endorsement of the presidential bid of Vice President Leni Robredo by PDP-Laban Vice President for the Visayas Eastern Samar Governor Ben Evardone is the latter's personal choice and may not be the same as the party's stand, Malacañang said. File photo of President Rodrigo Duterte and Vice...
TACLOBAN CITY -- Northern Samar Governor Edwin Ongchuan and Eastern Samar Governor Ben Evardone expressed their support for Vice President Leni Robredo’s presidential bid. In his statement posted on his Facebook account on Tuesday, Ongchuan said: “In consultation with our local leaders, and...
NORTH COTABATO—Vice President Leni Robredo is not closing her doors on possible endorsements coming from political opponents or rivals, such as President Duterte and others, as long as the relationship “is not transactional.” Vice President Leni Robredo and President Rodrigo Duterte...
Presidential candidate Vice President Leni Robredo on Monday, March 14, thanked Eastern Samar Gov. Ben Evardone, an ally of President Duterte and the vice president of the ruling party PDP-Laban in Visayas, for endorsing her presidential bid. Vice President Leni Robredo (VPLR Media Bureau) The...
A total 40 out of the 81 governors in the country on Tuesday, Oct. 5 declared their support for the vice presidential bid of Sen. Christopher “Bong” Go. In a resolution, the incumbent governors vowed to “campaign tirelessly for his election” in the 2022 vice presidential race. Sen....
MAYOR Evardone TACLOBAN CITY – Mayor Roland Boie Evardone of Arteche, Eastern Samar confirmed Friday, June 18, that he has been infected with COVID-19. He is the seventh local chief executive in Eastern Visayas to have contracted the disease. The Arteche mayor, whose uncle is Eastern Samar...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) recognized Tuesday, June 1, the PDP-Laban party's quest for the retention and future increase of funds for the Barangay Development Program (BDP), the government's flagship project to end communist insurgency. DILG Undersecretary Jonathan...
