TACLOBAN CITY (PNA) – Days after graduating with honors from senior high school (SHS), a 66-year-old grandmother from Catarman, Northern Samar said it is not too late to follow her lifelong dream of earning a college degree. NANAY Josie Balasta (left) with her daughter Rustia in her graduation....
TACLOBAN CITY (PNA) – The government is strengthening its fight against the New People’s Army (NPA) in six conflict-stricken barangays in Palapag, Northern Samar with the deployment of 232 policemen who are part of the Retooled Community Support Program (RCSP) team. The 232 policemen replaced...
At least seven soldiers were injured, two of them were in critical condition, when communist rebels allegedly triggered anti-personnel mines along the roadside in Mapanas, Northern Samar on Tuesday morning, July 5, in what was described as a "cheap warfare." The Philippine Army’s 8th Infantry...
TACLOBAN CITY – Northern Samar Gov. Edwin Ongchuan has welcomed the law creating University of Eastern Philippines campuses in Allen, Victoria, and Lavezares. Authored by Northern Samar Rep. Paul Daza, Republic Act (RA) No. 11860 – An Act Establishing the UEP-Allen, UEP-Victoria, and...
Still misunderstood since it wreaked havoc in the 1980s, this epidemic keeps spreading through shame, secrecy, and silence Northern Samar is stepping up its drive against human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) to rid the province of the illness. The local...
TACLOBAN CITY -- The Provincial Government of Northern Samar (PGNS) is adopting a 4-day workweek policy, in combination with a one-day work-from-home alternative work arrangement. Governor Edwin Ongchuan issued a memorandum on April 1 authorizing a 4-day physical reporting of PGNS employees and one...
Presidential candidate Vice President Leni Robredo got a big boost to her campaign after receiving endorsements from 21 out of 24 incumbent mayors in Northern Samar. Northern Samar mayors raise Vice President Leni Robredo’s hands and endorse her presidential bid during the Team Leni-Kiko grand...
TACLOBAN CITY – The province of Northern Samar decorated the façade of its administrative building with pink lights in a sheer show of support as the world celebrates the International Women’s Month this year. (Photo by the Provincial Samar Information Office / MANILA BULLETIN) The provincial...
Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Delfin Lorenzana has denounced the New People’s Army (NPA) for allegedly ambushing soldiers in Catubig, Northern Samar which resulted in the death of two civilian minors and the wounding of another individual. Policemen and soldiers are deployed at...
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo M. Año condemned on Saturday, Feb. 12, the New People’s Army (NPA) for the encounter in Northern Samar that led to the death of two children. Año said the communist rebels opened fire at the troop of the Philippine...
The frontal system or the convergence of warm and cold winds from the northeast and southeast is expected to bring cloudy skies and rain showers in the Bicol region and northern Samar in the next 24 hours, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA)...
The government's pandemic task force has escalated four provinces in Luzon and Visayas to the relatively restrictive Alert Level 4, while 15 others will be placed under Alert level 3 from Jan. 21 to 31, 2022. Maligcong Rice Terraces, Bontoc, Mountain Province (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) In a...
