TACLOBAN CITY -- The Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Northern Samar has approved the grant of gratuity pay to job order and contractual employees of the provincial government. About 2,416 employees will receive gratuity pay of up to P5,000 per job order or contractual employee who has been in the...
Heavy rains and flooding greeted residents of Northern Samar province on Christmas Day on Sunday, Dec. 25, due to a shear line affecting Eastern Visayas (Region 8). Josh Echano, head of Northern Samar Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO), said four fishermen went...
ONGCHUAN (FB) TACLOBAN CITY – Northern Samar Gov. Edwin Ongchuan has condemned the New People’s Army (NPA) landmine attack in Barangay Quirino, Las Navas town on Sunday, Dec. 18, in which six soldiers from the 20th Infantry Battalion securing a government project were injured. "This inhumane...
TACLOBAN CITY – Six soldiers of the Army 20th Infantry "We Lead" Battalion (IB) were wounded in a landmine attack by the New People’s Army in Barangay Quirino, Las Navas, Northern Samar on Sunday, Dec. 18. Communist guerillas detonated anti-personnel mines (APMs) against the Mobile Community...
(PHIVOLCS) The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) has recorded a 5.9-magnitude earthquake offshore of Northern Samar on Friday afternoon, Dec. 9. Phivolcs said the quake struck 105 kilometers (km) northeast of Mapanas, Northern Samar at around 2:33 a.m. Its instruments...
TACLOBAN CITY - At least six members of the New People’s Army were killed and several firearms were seized in an encounter with the 803rd Army Brigade in Las Navas, Northern Samar on Wednesday, Nov. 23. A 10-year old civilian and two soldiers were wounded in the exchange of fires. Photo via...
TACLOBAN CITY – Two New People's Army (NPA) rebels were killed and three others were apprehended in an encounter in San Isidro, Northern Samar on Friday, Nov. 18. Troops under the Army 803rd Brigade were conducting a focused military operation in the vicinity of Kilometer 9, Barangay Happy Valley...
TACLOBAN CITY - The national government has approved high-impact infrastructure projects that will be implemented in the coming years in Northern Samar province. This includes the construction of Laoang Bridges 2 and 3, which Northern Samar Governor Edwin Ongchuan has been pushing since he became...
TACLOBAN CITY (PNA) – The local government of Lope de Vega, Northern Samar and the Philippine Army have extended assistance to 10 former members of the New People’s Army (NPA) to encourage more rebels to surrender. TEN former New People’s Army rebels received assistance after surrendering to...
TACLOBAN CITY (PNA) – A member of the New People’s Army (NPA) surrendered to the police in Northern Samar as government forces heightened their fight against communist terrorists in the province. The surrenderer, alias “Inday,” 41, male, of Pambujan, Northern Samar, surrendered to the 2nd...
An anti-personnel mine allegedly planted by New People’s Army (NPA) rebels exploded in Catubig, Northern Samar on Tuesday, July 19, killing a soldier and injuring five others who were on a community support program (CSP) that was supposed to bring development to a remote barangay. (File photo)...
TACLOBAN CITY – Three members of the New People's Army (NPA), including an amazon, involved in the landmine explosion that injured seven soldiers in San Jorge, Northern Samar were killed in an encounter in Mapanas, Northern Samar last July 8. AN election campaign poster of former Vice President...
