TACLOBAN CITY - A 68-year-old woman was accidentally shot during a robbery attempt in a pawnshop in Barangay 14 here on Friday, May 24. Reports disclosed that four armed men entered at gunpoint while the employees were busy attending to customers. One of the suspects attempted to open the...
TACLOBAN CITY – The University of the Philippines-Tacloban is constructing a new campus on a 114-hectare property in Barangay Santa Elena here. The groundbreaking ceremony was held on Thursday, May 23, and construction will commence by the fourth quarter of this year. UP officials hold the...
"Nothing was done" in the previous administrations in terms of efforts to rehabilitate areas hit by super typhoon Yolanda 11 years ago, President Marcos said. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Noel B. Pabalate) In an interview in Tacloban City on Monday, May 20, Marcos said the heavily-hit...
TACLOBAN CITY – President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. is scheduled to lead the awarding of Certificate of Land Ownership Award to Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries in Eastern Visayas on Monday, May 20, at the Tacloban City Convention Center. MARCOS Reyan Arinto, Philippine Information Agency-8...
TACLOBAN CITY – A brick of suspected high-grade marijuana worth P200,000 was seized in a courier's office in this city on Saturday, April 6. A BRICK of suspected high-grade marijuana was seized in Tacloban City on April 6. The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)-8 and the Philippine...
TACLOBAN CITY – Two suspected drug pushers were killed in a buy-bust operation on the bypass road in Barangay Salvacion here on Sunday, March 17. ONE of two suspected drug pushers killed in a buy-bust operation in Tacloban City on March 17. (Photo via Marie Marticio) Police said one of the...
TACLOBAN CITY – A 33-year-old carwash boy died in a freak accident in a carwash in this city on Wednesday, March 13. The victim, Berto, was guiding the 38-year-old female driver of a sedan to move up the ramp. While the vehicle was moving up, instead of stepping on the brakes, the driver...
TACLOBAN CITY – Suspected shabu valued at P1.8 million was seized from a welder in a buy-bust operation here on Valentine's Day. SUSPECTED shabu worth P1.8-million was seized in a drug bust in Tacloban City. (Photo via Marie Marticio) Police Col. Michael Palermo, city police chief,...
United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur Irene Khan lamented the plight of two jailed human rights defenders in Tacloban City after visiting them. UN Special Rapporteur Irene Khan during her visit to Tacloban City Jail (Photo from Khan's X post) As UN’s special rapporteur on freedom of...
TACLOBAN CITY – Two suspected drug pushers were killed in a buy-bust operation on Monday night, December 4, in Barangay 84, Manlurip, San Jose, this city. Police identified the suspects as high-value individuals Edilberto Emaas Nalda, 53, ranked No. 1 in the regional priority target list,...
TACLOBAN CITY – A high school teacher was allegedly robbed and killed by three men in this city on November 23. Police identified the victim as Bernabe Basiano. Basiano died after he was stabbed in the neck by the suspects identified as Yasser Ivan Yu, 18; Mark Justine Conde, 23, and Darwin...
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