CEBU CITY – All passengers of the ship that caught fire and sank off Bohol Sunday, June 26, have been accounted for, the Philippine Coast Guard-Central Visayas (PCG 7) said Monday, June 27. MV Mama Mary Chloe (PCG photo) Lt. Junior Grade Krysta Bergantin, spokesperson of PCG 7, said M/V Mama Mary...
SMOKE is seen from the passenger vessel MV Mama Mary that caught fire while playing the Leyte-Bohol route. (Photo from Shane Mebelle Gavas Besin FB) TACLOBAN CITY – A passenger fastcraft plying the Leyte-Bohol route caught fire Sunday, June 26, and several passengers have been rescued....
Majority Floor Leader and Leyte 1st district Rep. Martin Romualdez took his oath as reelected solon even as Vice President-elect Sara Duterte stood witness to it on Wednesday morning, June 15. Photo from LAKAS-CMD Media. Sworn in alongside Leyte Rep. Romualdez were Tingog Party-list Rep. Yedda...
TACLOBAN CITY – A driver and his assistant cheated death after their wing van loaded with 700 Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) tanks crashed and caught fire in Barangay San Vicente, Bontoc, Southern Leyte, last Saturday, June 11. Reports reaching the Police Regional Office (PRO)-8 headquarters...
House Majority Leader Martin Romualdez, who pundits believe will play an integral part in the upcoming 19th Congress, has officially secured a fresh term as Leyte 1st district representative. Majority Leader Martin Romualdez (Photo from Lakas-CMD Media) Romualdez, the Lakas-Christian Muslim...
TABANGO, LEYTE - A known supporter of Mayor Bernard Jonathan Remandaban of this town was killed, a volunteer of another mayoral candidate was wounded, while 16 supporters were apprehended by authorities in a pursuit operation early Sunday morning, May 8, a day before the national elections. Capt....
Presidential aspirant Senator Emmanuel 'Manny' Pacquiao has led the ground breaking ceremony of his self-funded Pacman Villages in Leyte, a bailiwick of a rival where he barnstormed for his campaign rally. If he wins in the upcoming elections, Pacquiao said, he would build more housing projects to...
The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) has begun the preparations for the establishment of a temporary housing program for the victims of Typhoon “Agaton.” National Disaater Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) Chairman and Department of National Defense...
TACLOBAN CITY - An employee of the Local Government Unit of Silago, Southern Leyte, and her back rider died on the spot when the motorcycle they were riding was bumped off by an SUV in a Sunday morning, April 24, mishap in Brgy. Balagawan. Lt. Col. Bella Rentuaya, information officer of the Police...
Vice presidential candidate and Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte made sure to give quality time Friday, April 22 to 11-year-old CJ Jasme when she visited victims of typhoon "Agaton" in Baybay City, Leyte. (HNP Media) Jasme grabbed headlines after he rode out Agaton's wrath inside a refrigerator, where...
The police arrested a man listed as the No. 9 most wanted person for rape in Muntinlupa, in Sta. Fe, Leyte on April 20. Southern Police District director Brig. Gen. Jimili Macaraeg identified the suspect as Jayson Daloso Fabillo, 32, construction worker, and a resident of Barangay Poblacion,...
Search, rescue and retrieval (SRR) operations were officially concluded in at least three landslide-hit areas in Leyte province despite the fact that majority of the 110 missing persons due to Typhoon “Agaton” were recorded in Eastern Visayas (Region 8), the National Disaster Risk Reduction and...
