TACLOBAN CITY – The provincial government of Samar has brought its medical services closer to the people through its Ospital sa Barangay (OSB) program. THE provincial government of Samar launched its Ospital sa Barangay program to bring medical services closer to the people. Gov....
TACLOBAN CITY – To ensure the recovery and rehabilitation of flood-hit families, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-8 (Eastern Visayas) continues to distribute emergency cash transfers in Northern Samar. DSWD-8 distributes cash aid to people affected by flood in Northern...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Police Regional Office-8 has identified the three policemen who were killed and four others who were wounded in an encounter with suspected members of a criminal gang on Tuesday morning, January 30, in Barangay Mahayag, Santa Margarita, Samar. P OLICE secure the highway...
TACLOBAN CITY – Three policemen were killed and four others were wounded in an encounter with a gang in Barangay Mahayag, Santa Margarita, Samar on Tuesday, January 30. POLICEMEN wounded in a gunfight with a criminal gang in Samar are treated in a local hospital. (Photo via Marie Marticio)...
TACLOBAN CITY – The provincial government of Samar and the Philippine Business for Education will launch JobsNext 2.0 this year. JobsNext is a program that aims to provide appropriate skills to enable the workforce to take on jobs of the future. Gov. Sharee Ann Tan emphasized the need to...
TACLOBAN CITY – A police officer was injured in a car crash in Calbayog City, Samar on Thursday, January 25. A POLICE officer was injured in a road accident in Calbayog City on January 25. (Contributed photo by Danny Balading) The victim was identified as Police Lt. Jimmy Tubigan, 45,...
TACLOBAN CITY – The province of Northern Samar aims to become the wind energy capital of the Philippines with the implementation of a P108-billion wind energy project by an offshore company. GOV. Edwin Ongchuan (second from left) listens to a presentation on a P108-billion wind energy...
TACLOBAN CITY – Police recovered a New People's Army (NPA) arms cache in Sitio Casapa, Barangay Denigpian, Dolores, Eastern Samar, on Sunday, January 21. MAP of Dolores, Eastern Samar. A former communist rebel, Bunso, informed police of the location of this weapons stash. Lt. Col. Joy...
TACLOBAN CITY – The city government of Borongan, the capital of Eastern Samar, is eyeing to increase Philippine Airlines (PAL) flights at Borongan Airport in anticipation of a surge in passenger demand from July to October. B ORONGAN City is eyeing an increase in the number of PAL flights at the...
TACLOBAN CITY – A job-order or contractual employee was killed in a buy-bust operation on Monday, January 15, in Barangay 3, Poblacion, Calbiga, Samar. The suspect was identified as Jovito Hernandez Sr., alias “Oming,” a high-value target and a job-order employee of the municipal government...
TACLOBAN CITY – The 63rd Infantry (Innovator) Battalion discovered a New People’s Army arms cache composed of four AK47 assault rifles, five upper receivers of M16 rifles with bolt assembly, five long magazines of AK47, and two disc-type magazines of AK47 rifle in the hinterlands of Sitio...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Ombudsman suspended Mayor Jose Arturo Suan of Allen, Northern Samar for six months without pay after he was found guilty of grave abuse of authority and oppression. Suan officially received the suspension order from the Department of the Interior and Local Government...
