TACLOBAN CITY – Three policemen were killed and four others were wounded in an encounter with a gang in Barangay Mahayag, Santa Margarita, Samar on Tuesday, January 30. POLICEMEN wounded in a gunfight with a criminal gang in Samar are treated in a local hospital. (Photo via Marie Marticio)...
TACLOBAN CITY – The provincial government of Samar and the Philippine Business for Education will launch JobsNext 2.0 this year. JobsNext is a program that aims to provide appropriate skills to enable the workforce to take on jobs of the future. Gov. Sharee Ann Tan emphasized the need to...
TACLOBAN CITY – A police officer was injured in a car crash in Calbayog City, Samar on Thursday, January 25. A POLICE officer was injured in a road accident in Calbayog City on January 25. (Contributed photo by Danny Balading) The victim was identified as Police Lt. Jimmy Tubigan, 45,...
TACLOBAN CITY – The province of Northern Samar aims to become the wind energy capital of the Philippines with the implementation of a P108-billion wind energy project by an offshore company. GOV. Edwin Ongchuan (second from left) listens to a presentation on a P108-billion wind energy...
TACLOBAN CITY – Police recovered a New People's Army (NPA) arms cache in Sitio Casapa, Barangay Denigpian, Dolores, Eastern Samar, on Sunday, January 21. MAP of Dolores, Eastern Samar. A former communist rebel, Bunso, informed police of the location of this weapons stash. Lt. Col. Joy...
TACLOBAN CITY – The city government of Borongan, the capital of Eastern Samar, is eyeing to increase Philippine Airlines (PAL) flights at Borongan Airport in anticipation of a surge in passenger demand from July to October. B ORONGAN City is eyeing an increase in the number of PAL flights at the...
TACLOBAN CITY – A job-order or contractual employee was killed in a buy-bust operation on Monday, January 15, in Barangay 3, Poblacion, Calbiga, Samar. The suspect was identified as Jovito Hernandez Sr., alias “Oming,” a high-value target and a job-order employee of the municipal government...
TACLOBAN CITY – The 63rd Infantry (Innovator) Battalion discovered a New People’s Army arms cache composed of four AK47 assault rifles, five upper receivers of M16 rifles with bolt assembly, five long magazines of AK47, and two disc-type magazines of AK47 rifle in the hinterlands of Sitio...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Ombudsman suspended Mayor Jose Arturo Suan of Allen, Northern Samar for six months without pay after he was found guilty of grave abuse of authority and oppression. Suan officially received the suspension order from the Department of the Interior and Local Government...
TACLOBAN CITY – A soldier from the 78th Infantry (Warrior) Battalion was conferred with the Wounded Personnel Medal (WPM) on Sunday, January 7. A SOLDIER from the 78th Infantry Battalion was awarded for gallantry in action in an encounter in Borongan City, Eastern Samar. He was wounded-in-action...
TACLOBAN CITY – A New People's Army (NPA) leader was killed in an encounter with the 78th Infantry Battalion in Barangay San Gabriel, Borongan City, Eastern Samar on Saturday, January 6. The 8th Infantry Division identified the fatality as Martin Colima, alias “Maki,” “Seloy,”...
TACLOBAN CITY – The provincial government and the Department of Transportation (DOTr) have entered into a Memorandum of Agreement to expand the ports in the municipalities of Allen, Mapanas, and San Jose in Northern Samar. THE provincial government of Northern Samar led by Gov. Edwin...
