TACLOBAN CITY – Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)-8 Regional Director Edgar Tabacon has temporarily suspended the construction of a seawall on Lalawigan Beach in Borongan City, Eastern Samar. The order was in response to the city government’s request to halt the project in the...
TACLOBAN CITY – The plan to develop an ocean power project on Capul Island at the San Bernardino Strait in Northern Samar gained momentum with foreign experts on tidal energy arriving next week to conduct an assessment on the progress of the project that seeks to energize the whole-island...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) will step up its cooperation with other countries in the campaign against illegal drugs following the discovery of at least 20 bricks of cocaine that were fished out off the waters of Arteche town in Eastern Samar last week. PNP spokesperson Col. Jean...
TACLOBAN CITY – A two-year-old girl is fighting for her life in a hospital here after she was mauled by at least four dogs in a farm in Barangay Timbangan, Calbiga, Samar. MAP of Samar with the town of Calbiga highlighted. The victim was found bathing in blood, her ears removed, and part of...
ARTECHE, Eastern Samar – A fisherman found suspected cocaine valued at P106 million on the sea of Barangay Tangbo here on Friday, March 8. COCAINE bricks worth P106 million were discovered on the sea of Eastern Samar on Friday, March 8. (Photo via Marie Marticio) Mayor Roland Boie Evardone...
ARTECHE, Eastern Samar – Twenty bricks of suspected cocaine were found floating on the sea in Barangay Tangbo here on Friday afternoon, March 8. TWENTY bricks of cocaine were found by a fisherman on the sea of Arteche, Eastern Samar on Friday afternoon, March 8. (Photo via Marie Marticio)...
TACLOBAN CITY – A “Libre Sakay” (free ride) app was launched on Monday, March 4, in Borongan City, Eastern Samar in line with the city government's smart city initiative. The app was launched alongside the unveiling of the Smart Technologies Innovation Center at the Eastern Samar State...
TACLOBAN CITY – A 31-year-old woman was killed, chopped into pieces, burned, and dumped into the sea on Friday, March 1, in Tarangnan, Samar. A WOMAN was allegedly raped and killed and her body burned in Tarangnan, Samar on Friday, March 1. (Contributed photo by Rene Castino) Police...
(Third from left) 4Ps Party-list Rep. Marcelino Libanan (Libanan's office) House Minority Leader 4Ps Party-list Rep. Marcelino “Nonoy” Libanan is hopeful that the revival of the 1MW Amanjuray Hydropower Plant in Eastern Samar will help ease the...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Philippine Coast Guard District Eastern Visayas Sub-Station Allen intercepted at least 700 reams of undocumented cigarettes at the Santa Clara Port in Jubasan, Allen, Northern Samar on Tuesday, February 20. SEVEN-HUNDRED reams of undocumented cigarettes were seized by the...
TACLOBAN CITY – A 72-year-old woman died in a fire that razed four houses in Barangay 2, Catbalogan City, Samar on Tuesday, February 20. The victim was identified as Jovita Norombaba Lapara. Lapara went back to get her money and other important belongings from the second floor of her house....
TACLOBAN CITY – Seventy-one passengers of a distressed Roll-on, Roll-off vessel, MV Reina Hosanna, were rescued in the sea of Capul Island, Northern Samar, on Sunday, February 11. THE Philippine Coast Guard rescued 71 passengers of a distressed Roll-on, Roll-off vessel in Northern Samar on...
