BORONGAN CITY – House Minority Floor Leader and 4Ps party-list Rep. Marcelino Libanan and Eastern Samar Rep. Christopher Sheen Gonzales have asked the National Bureau of Investigation to investigate alleged ghost projects in the province. These projects were the P3-billion San Rafael rock-netting...
TACLOBAN CITY – The 8th Infantry Division neutralized 14 New People 's Army rebels and seized 15 firearms in Northern Samar. Major Gen. Adonis Ariel Orio, commander of the 8th ID, said these operational achievements form part of their continuing campaign to end the Eastern Visayas Regional...
TACLOBAN CITY — Two suspected New People’s Army rebels were killed in a clash with soldiers on Wednesday, Aug. 27, in Barangay San Jose, Mapanas, Northern Samar. One of the slain communist fighters was identified as Motaw Ortazo, alias “Ibaro.” Troops engaged about 10 Cobra members of the...
TACLOBAN CITY — Samar Gov. Sharee Ann Tan’s office defended her viral video taken during the Hermano Night of the Catbalogan City Fiesta. The governor slammed the alleged misleading reports of her dancing “Kuratsa,” a cultural tradition long practiced in Samar and Leyte. “The footage was...
TACLOBAN CITY -- A police officer from the Lavezares, Northern Samar Municipal Police Station was relieved Monday for illegally discharging his firearm during a fiesta, Police Brig. Gen. Jason Capoy, director of the Police Regional Office-8, said. The police officer, a master sergeant,...
TACLOBAN CITY — Northern Samar emerged as the top province in Eastern Visayas for labor and employment in 2024, preliminary data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA)-Region 8 said. The province had a 98.1 percent employment rate and the lowest unemployment rate at 1.9 percent. It also...
TACLOBAN CITY – A Patient Transport Vehicle (PTV) or ambulance of Catarman, Northern Samar crashed in Barangay Getigo, Lope de Vega, Northern Samar on Tuesday, Aug. 19, hours after it was turned over by President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. in Ormoc City, Leyte. Reports disclosed that the 41-year-old...
TACLOBAN CITY -- Authorities confirmed that the stash of suspected illegal drug found floating in the sea of Hernani, Eastern Samar on Thursday was cocaine. Laboratory analysis on Friday said that 3.6 kilos of cocaine in six black bricks labeled Coca Racing valued at P19 million was recovered by a...
TACLOBAN CITY – A fisherman recovered 5.4 kilograms of suspected floating cocaine in the sea of Hernani, Eastern Samar, on Thursday, Aug. 14. The 52-year-old fisherman discovered the contraband while fishing before noon. He turned over the item to the Hernani Municipal Police Station. Six blocks...
TACLOBAN CITY – The provincial government has partnered with national government agencies to enhance the blue economy of Northern Samar province. Their first initiative, launched in Barangay Sangputan, San Vicente Island, is the Salt and Sardines Production Facility operated by the Sangputan...
TACLOBAN CITY – A barangay chairman in Motiong, Samar was arrested after hiding for nine years for the murder of two soldiers in 2016. The suspect was identified as Antonio Gabane, 64, chairman of Barangay Saraw. Gabane was apprehended on warrants for two counts of murder and two counts of...
TACLOBAN CITY – A fire gutted the house of Llorente, Eastern Samar Mayor Christine Cardona in Llorente on Thursday morning, Aug. 7. Initial investigation disclosed that Cardona was traveling when the fire broke out. The caretaker said the fire originated at around 11 a.m. from one of the...
