Campaign signs and placards are always a visual treat during election season in the Philippines because of their creativity and at times, downright naughtiness. (Lakas-CMD Media) (Lakas-CMD Media) (Lakas-CMD Media) There are no shortages of such signs in the UniTeam's ongoing Visayas leg of its...
TACLOBAN CITY - Six high-value individuals were arrested as police authorities dismantled a drug den at Sitio Thru-cut, Brgy Sto. Rosario, Matag-ob, Leyte on Friday. (Photo via Tonette Marticio) PMaj J-rale Paalisbo, Leyte Provincial Drug Enforcement Unit Chief, identified the suspects as Anastacio...
‘Significat’ by Jo Balbarona on view at Galerie Joaquin BGC HIGH ABOVE, acrylic and goldleaf on canvas, 12 x 12 Cranes, or herons as they are also referred to, play an important role in eastern mythology. In some cultures, the crane has a legendary status, venerated as the prince of all...
Presidential aspirant Vice President Leni Robredo capped a three-day sortie in Eastern Visayas on Wednesday, March 30, with a people’s rally at the Sunken Garden, Capitol Grounds in Maasin City, Southern Leyte. Supporters of Vice President Leni Robredo troop to the Sunken Garden at the Capitol...
With only 41 days left before the May 9 polls, Vice President Leni Robredo took her presidential campaign to the Marcos bailiwick of Leyte province, where she lost massively in the 2016 vice presidential race against former Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Vice President Leni Robredo takes presidential...
TACLOBAN CITY - Following the continuous spike in the cost of fuels, Ormoc City Mayor and Leyte 4th District Congressional candidate Richard Gomez announced that they will not hold caravans and motorcades at the start of the campaign period. Gomez said the Ormoc Development Team (ODT), together...
(Phivolcs) A 5.3-magnitude earthquake jolted Leyte province at around 12.39 a.m., Monday, March 21, said the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs). Phivolcs traced the epicenter of the earthquake at 10 kilometers (km) southwest of Burauen, Leyte. It was shallow at a depth of...
President Duterte has defended anew the continuous operations of online sabong or cockfighting, adding that the government is getting billions of pesos in revenues from it. President Rodrigo Roa Duterte delivers his speech during the inauguration of the new Leyte Provincial Capitol and distribution...
TACLOBAN CITY - President Rodrigo Duterte led the inauguration of the 6.4-kilometer bypass road here and the new Provincial Government Complex building in Guindaponan, Palo, Leyte on Thursday. (Photo courtesy of Marie Tonette Marticio / MANILA BULLETIN) The bypass road was completed under the...
President Duterte called on the communist rebels anew to return to the fold of the law while he is still in office, stressing the need to end the country's decades-long communist insurgency. President Rodrigo Duterte (Malacañang photo) Duterte made this appeal as he led the inauguration of the...
A governor from a province that went "yellow" in 2016 is promising a huge win for the Bongbong Marcos-Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio tandem in the upcoming May 2022 polls. Samar province (Wikipedia) According to Samar Governor Reynolds Michael Tan, the province will deliver a 100,000-vote margin of...
TACLOBAN CITY - The president of the Association of Barangay Chair (ABC) of Matalom, Leyte, and his cohort yielded an estimated 100 grams of suspected shabu worth P680,000 during a buy-bust operation Tuesday at the Baywalk area, in Brgy. Kalanggaman, Bato, Leyte. (Photo courtesy of Bato MPS /...
