TACLOBAN CITY – Despite the decrease in teenage pregnancy among Filipino women aged 15 to 19-years-old from 6.9 percent in 2017 to 4.9 percent in 2022 based on the National Health and Demographic Survey (NDHS), the Commission on Population and Development (PopCom) in Eastern Visayas (Region...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)-Region 8 (Eastern Visayas) is set to implement road projects worth a total of P350 million in Eastern Samar this year. Among these is the two-contract project in Barangay Magsaysay-Barangay Magongbong-Barangay Gap-ang in the...
PALO, Leyte – Justice remains elusive for families of the 44 members of the Philippine National Police (PNP)-Special Action Force (SAF) killed in the botched manhunt for international terrorist Marwan in Mamasapano, Maguindanao on Jan. 25, 2015. Kristine Clemencio, wife of the late PO1 Mark Lory...
TINGOG party-list Rep. Jude Acidre (center) leads the launching of ‘Project Tambal’ at the Eastern Visayas Medical Center in Tacloban City on Wednesday, Jan. 11. (EVMC FB) TACLOBAN CITY – The Tingog party-list group on Wednesday, Jan. 11, launched ‘’Project Tambal’’ or Take-Home...
TACLOBAN CITY – The municipalities of Gandara and Basey in Samar have declared a state of calamity due to the damage caused by heavy rain and flood spawned by the shear line and low-pressure area (LPA) affecting Eastern Visayas. The Sangguniang Bayan of Basey, during its special session on...
TACLOBAN CITY – Hundreds of families fled their homes and work and classes remain suspended in some areas in Eastern Visayas due to incessant rain and flood on Wednesday, Jan. 11. Eastern Samar Gov. Ben Evardone appealed to the Department of Agriculture to provide rice-certified seeds to...
TACLOBAN CITY -- Due to the low-pressure area (LPA) affecting Visayas and Mindanao, heavy rain and flooding were experienced here and other areas in Eastern Visayas on Monday, Jan. 9. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council issued a red rainfall warning in Leyte and Biliran,...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Department of Health logged a total of eight firecracker-related injuries in Eastern Visayas at the end of their monitoring for the holiday season on Friday, Jan. 6. No fatality was recorded but the number of cases was 60 percent higher compared to 2021 with only five....
TACLOBAN CITY -- Work in government, except those engaged in health and emergency services, and classes were suspended here and in some municipalities in Eastern Visayas due to flooding and heavy downpour caused by a low-pressure area on Wednesday, Jan. 4. Work and classes were suspended in Palo,...
TACLOBAN CITY -- At least four firecracker-related injuries have been logged in Eastern Visayas since Dec. 21. The first case was reported on Dec. 29 when a 42-year-old woman from Tanauan, Leyte sustained injuries due to a rocket (kwitis). In Zumarraga, Samar, a 10-year-old boy was injured on Dec....
TACLOBAN CITY – The Police Regional Office 8 said the Christmas celebration in Eastern Visayas this year was generally peaceful. Brig. Gen. Rommel Francisco Marbil, PRO 8 director, said no major untoward incident was recorded during the nine-dawn “Simbang Gabi” (dawn Mass) and Christmas Eve...
BORONGAN CITY – As Surf in the City 2022, the biggest sporting event in Eastern Visayas opens, the Philippine National Surfing Team trained more than 60 aspiring young athletes in the Groms Grassroot Program for young surfers here from Nov. 24 to 25. “Grom” is short for the slang term...
