If an electric cooperative in the countryside is charging 30 percent higher than the rate of the Manila Electric Company (Meralco), chances are there's something wrong. That's why House Minority Leader and 4Ps Party-list Rep. Marcelino Libanan penned and filed House Resolution (HR) No. 846, which...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Department of Agriculture in Region 8 (Eastern Visayas) distributed cash assistance to over 2,100 farmers in Northern Samar from March 15 to 16. Beneficiaries from the municipalities of San Roque, Bobon, Silvino Lobos, Mapanas, and Victoria were given P5,000 each. The money was...
TACLOBAN CITY – Borongan City in Eastern Samar has declared an outbreak of hand, foot, and mouth disease after 123 cases were logged since January. John Kelly Cainday, Borongan City Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (CESU) epidemiology officer, expressed alarm over the rapid increase in HFMD...
TACLOBAN CITY - A man who has been recently released from prison has been declared missing after he allegedly jumped from a Roll-on Roll-Off (RoRo) vessel while en route to Allen, Northern Samar. The man was identified as Niño ‘Nono’ Chavez, 33, a resident of Catbalogan City in Samar. Reports...
THE Korea International Cooperation Agency on Monday, Feb. 20, launched a program to adolescent pregnancies in Southern Leyte and Samar in Tacloban City. (Marie Tonette Marticio) TACLOBAN CITY – The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and national government and United Nations (UN)...
A bettor from Lavezares, Northern Samar won the P63-million jackpot prize for Super Lotto 6/49 in the evening draw of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) on Sunday, Feb. 19. Courtesy of Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office The lucky digits were 47-46-35-25-15-04. PCSO also advised...
CATBALOGAN CITY – A company of elite Scout Rangers who saw in action in the Battle for Marawi in 2017 was deployed in Eastern Visayas to combat the New People’s Army. These additional troops from the 4th Scout Ranger "Masigasig" Battalion (4SRBn) were deployed to the 8th Infantry...
An alleged New People’s Army (NPA) rebel died in an encounter with the military in Borongan, Eastern Samar on Saturday, Feb. 18. Courtesy of 8th Infantry Division Capt. Jefferson Mariano, chief of the 8th Infantry Division (8ID) public affairs office, said elements of the 78thInfantry Battalion...
TACLOBAN CITY – Nineteen New People’s Army rebels from Samar Island surrendered to the Police Regional Office 8 (Eastern Visayas) recently. One of them was alias ‘’James,’’ from Basey, Samar, who joined the communist movement to exact revenge after suffering abuse from the military....
TACLOBAN CITY – Sixteen policemen and non-uniformed personnel exchanged "I dos" in a mass wedding dubbed “Kasalan sa Kampo” in Camp Francisco Asidillo, Borongan City, Eastern Samar on Valentine’s Day. The mass wedding was an initiative of Eastern Samar police director Col. Matthew Aseo....
TACLOBAN CITY – Officials of the province of Northern Samar inaugurated on Wednesday, Feb. 8, the newly completed San Roque Bridge 2 in Barangay Laoangan, San Roque, Northern Samar. THE newly-built San Roque Bridge 2 in San Roque, Northern Samar. (Northern Samar Provincial Information...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)-Region 8 (Eastern Visayas) is set to implement road projects worth a total of P350 million in Eastern Samar this year. Among these is the two-contract project in Barangay Magsaysay-Barangay Magongbong-Barangay Gap-ang in the...
