TACLOBAN CITY — Northern Samar 's 2nd District Rep. Edwin Ongchuan welcomed the recent move by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to strengthen monitoring and verification of transmission and ancillary service charges to safeguard consumers. The ERC 's action comes as Ongchuan, who...
TACLOBAN CITY -- Department of Interior and Local Government Secretary Jonvic Remulla led the distribution of 50 emergency 911 motorcycles on Tuesday (August 11) at the Regional Headquarters of the Police Regional Office 8 (PRO8) in Palo, Leyte. The scooters are intended for tourist police units...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Department of Education (DepEd) has strongly condemned an alleged threat to attack Leyte National High School (LNHS) in this city, prompting authorities to tighten security at Eastern Visayas’ largest secondary school. In a statement issued Tuesday, DepEd Tacloban Schools...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Department of Education (DepEd) is conducting a deeper investigation into new shooting threats against San Jose National High School here that circulated online, just three weeks after the deadly campus shooting. DepEd Tacloban Schools Division information officer Nilo Eder...
TACLOBAN CITY – Police Col. Marben Ordonia is the new chief of police here. Ordonia replaced Police Col. Noelito Getigan who had served two years. The Police Regional Office-8 said that Getigan’s relief is a regular movement in the Philippine National Police. Getigan was reassigned to the...
TACLOBAN CITY – The deadly shooting at a public school in this city has underscored the urgent need to fully implement a law that will increase the number of guidance counselors and strengthen mental health services in schools, an education official said Wednesday. Department of Education (DepEd)...
TECH4GOOD The tragic school shooting in Tacloban City last week has shaken the nation and left a scar on everyone’s conscience. Two minors, barely in their teens, carried out a violent act that left three young students dead and 20 others recovering from injuries. In the immediate aftermath,...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Police Regional Office-Eastern Visayas (PRO-8) vowed there will be no coverup in the investigation of a police officer whose service firearm was allegedly used by her nephew in a fatal campus shooting. PRO-8 spokesperson Police Lt. Col. Analiza Armeza confirmed Monday that the...
Actress Karla Estrada has issued a strong condemnation of the deadly shooting at San Jose National High School in Tacloban City where four students were killed and several others injured. She described the incident as a painful and urgent wake-up call on the safety of schools. Estrada personally...
A Mass was held on Tuesday morning at the campus of San Jose National High School in Tacloban City for the victims of the school shooting Monday. The Tacloban City information Office, in a Facebook post, said teachers, school personnel, and members of the community gathered in prayer and...
ILOILO CITY — Police have tightened security in schools here following the deadly shooting at the San Jose National High School in Tacloban City on Monday. The Iloilo City Police Office deployed lawmen in schools beginning Tuesday morning, June 23, to assist in security checks. “The safety and...
TACLOBAN CITY — While families of the slain and wounded students in the school shooting here cry for justice, the National Police Commission will conduct its own motu proprio investigation to determine the administrative liability of a female police officer linked to the fatal shooting...
