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 /...
TACLOBAN CITY - Three policemen were nabbed in an entrapment operation for alleged extortion on a former female detainee in Palo, Leyte, on Friday, March 10. The suspects were identified as Senior Master Sgt. Alex Asis, 55; Cpl. Jerwin Dacillo, 36; and Staff Sgt. Raffy Reposar, 34, all residents of...
Palo, Leyte Archbishop John Du urged voters in the May elections to choose candidates with a heart for the common good as an expression of patriotism or love for the country. Archbishop John Du (Radio Veritas image) In his homily for the novena mass offered by the Parish Pastoral Council for...
TACLOBAN CITY - Following the alleged disappearance and kidnapping attempt circulating on social media, the Leyte Police Provincial Office (LPPO) warned against peddlers of disinformation and misinformation. "Spreading false information, unverified reports, and other forms of disinformation that...
TACLOBAN CITY - Police Regional Office 8 (PRO8) Regional Director Brig. Gen. Bernard M. Banac has ordered a 60-day suspension for a policeman who allegedly maintained an "e-sabong" operation in Kananga, Leyte. 69074 Personnel from the Kananga Municipal Police Station and Leyte Police Provincial...
