TACLOBAN CITY – Mayor Annaliza Gonzales-Kwan on Thursday, April 27, demanded the removal of a Chinese vessel carrying 55,000 metric tons of nickel ore that ran aground in Barangay Sulangan, Guiuan, Eastern Samar. Kwan lamented that the vessel's removal has not yet started nine days after the...
TACLOBAN CITY – Forty-nine members of underground mass organizations (UGMO) withdrew support to the New People’s Army during the Holy Week in Northern Samar and Eastern Samar. Brig. Gen. Rommel Francisco Marbil, Police Regional Office-8 chief, lauded their surrender which he said was the result...
TACLOBAN CITY – Over 1,000 graduating students from elementary and high school are expected to get a free graduation pictorial from amateur and professional photographers from the Borongan Digital Photography Forum in Eastern Samar this school year. A GRADUATING student from Cabay, an interior...
CALBAYOG CITY – Sen. Imee Marcos led the distribution of aid totaling P3 million to 1,000 women composed of solo parents, persons with disabilities, and senior citizens in Samar under the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situation (AICS)...
TACLOBAN CITY – A Swedish man shot and wounded his wife before killing himself in front of the police in Sitio Maliko-Liko, Barangay Dampigan, Santa Rita, Samar, on Wednesday, March 30. Police identified the victim as Lenny Kindrud, 41. Investigation said that Lenny and her husband, Connie...
TACLOBAN CITY – The family of Darlene Luzelle Uy, a 22-year-old student from Samar State University who went missing on Wednesday, March 22, has offered a P250,000 reward to whoever can provide information about her whereabouts. DARLENE Uy Uy, a student-teacher at Catbalogan I Central...
A 22-year-old student from Samar State University (SSU) has been missing since March 23. Darlene Luzelle R. Uy, who practices as a student teacher at Catbalogan I Central Elementary School in Catbalogan City as part of an academic requirement, was last seen by her co-practice teachers around 3 p.m....
TACLOBAN CITY – Seven New People’s Army rebels have surrendered to the 87th Infantry "Hinirang" Battalion in San Jose de Buan, Samar this week. Five were members of the Yakal Platoon, Sub-Regional Committee (SRC) Browser, Eastern Visayas Regional Party Committee (EVRPC) and two were militiamen....
TACLOBAN CITY – A soldier and a New People’s Army rebel were killed in an encounter in Barangay Geparayan de Turag, Silvino Lobos, Northern Samar, on Monday, March 20. Col. Efren Morados, 803rd Infantry Brigade commander, said troops were responding to a tip from a concerned civilian regarding...
If an electric cooperative in the countryside is charging 30 percent higher than the rate of the Manila Electric Company (Meralco), chances are there's something wrong. That's why House Minority Leader and 4Ps Party-list Rep. Marcelino Libanan penned and filed House Resolution (HR) No. 846, which...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Department of Agriculture in Region 8 (Eastern Visayas) distributed cash assistance to over 2,100 farmers in Northern Samar from March 15 to 16. Beneficiaries from the municipalities of San Roque, Bobon, Silvino Lobos, Mapanas, and Victoria were given P5,000 each. The money was...
TACLOBAN CITY – Borongan City in Eastern Samar has declared an outbreak of hand, foot, and mouth disease after 123 cases were logged since January. John Kelly Cainday, Borongan City Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (CESU) epidemiology officer, expressed alarm over the rapid increase in HFMD...
