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 – Cash, shabu, and guns were seized from four men in a checkpoint in Barangay Cristina, Calubian, Leyte on Friday, May 17. HILLTOP view of Calubian, Leyte. (Wikipedia) The suspects were aged 20, 27, 32, and 42, and residents of Villaba in the third district of Leyte. The 2nd...
TACLOBAN CITY – The municipality of Matag-ob in Leyte was declared under a Stable Internal Peace and Security status on Friday, May 17. Mayor Bernandino Tacoy was elated over the achievement. THE town of Matag-ob in Leyte province achieved a SIPS status on Friday, May 17. Tacoy said the...
TACLOBAN CITY – Palompon, Leyte Mayor Ramon Oñate expressed optimism that investors will increase in their municipality following the declaration of Stable Internal Peace and Security on Friday, May 17. "There is no prosperity if there is no peace," the mayor said during the signing of a...
CEBU CITY – Leyte Rep. Richard Gomez vowed to continue fighting illegal activities in his district and is unfazed over the alleged threats on his life. "I have this message to whoever wants me dead: I would not be cowed by any threat, political or otherwise. I would continue to discharge my...
Corrections Chief Inspector Josemari D. Alambro is the new acting superintendent of the Leyte Regional Prison (LRP) in Abuyog, Leyte. Alambro replaced C/Supt. Alfredo A Devaras Jr. The Bureau of Corrections (BuCor), in its statement issued on Saturday, May 11, did not state if Devaras...
TACLOBAN CITY – Over 30 marijuana plants were discovered in a buy-bust operation on Tuesday, May 7, in Barangay Baras, Palo, Leyte. A BUY-BUST operation led to the discovery of 30 marijuana plants growing in a drug pusher's backyard. Authorities nabbed Amadeo Daga, 58, a high-value...
MAYORGA, Leyte – A suspected drug pusher was arrested in a buy-bust operation here on Tuesday, May 7. CONTRABAND seized from a suspected drug pusher in Mayorga, Leyte. Police identified the suspect as Romeo Gigor, 40, construction worker, and a resident of Julita, Leyte. Gigor, who was...
TACLOBAN CITY – The municipality of Bontoc in Southern Leyte has been declared under a state of Stable Internal Peace and Security Condition. The Municipal Task Force-ELCAC declared the entire municipality under SIPSC on Monday, May 6, through Municipal Peace and Order Council Resolution No....
TACLOBAN CITY – The local government of Palompon, Leyte, through the Palompon Dialysis Center, offers free dialysis not only to its residents but also to people in the fourth district of Leyte. THE PALOMPON Dialysis Center. Mayor Ramon Oñate said that the initiative is part of his...
SOGOD, Southern Leyte – Southern Leyte Rep. Christopherson Yap said his office has implemented livelihood programs in all 277 barangays in the second district of the province to address unemployment and poverty. BENEFICIARIES of the SOPWA livelihood project in Southern Leyte. (Photo via Marie...
TACLOBAN CITY – A magnitude-six earthquake rocked Leyte on Friday night, May 3. DULAG in Leyte was the epicenter of the earthquake. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the earthquake was tectonic in origin. It had a depth of eight kilometers and its epicenter was in...
