BORONGAN CITY – A province-wide simultaneous coastal cleanup was conducted in Eastern Samar on Tuesday, May 9, as part of the Month of the Ocean celebration. Eastern Samar Gov. Ben Evardone said Project Kalikasan Linisan Estehanon Aksyon Na (KLEAN) was launched pursuant to Presidential...
TACLOBAN CITY – Airissh Ramos of Eastern Samar topped the 2023 Miss Universe Philippines (MUPh) pageant national costume competition at the Leyte Normal University here on Thursday, May 4. Her costume was designed by John Hubert Capito and her Kataw handmade earrings were made by Jana...
TACLOBAN CITY – Following the demand of the local government of Guiuan in Eastern Samar for the immediate removal of the Chinese vessel carrying 55,000 metric tons of nickel ore that ran aground in Barangay Sulangan, Guiuan on Tuesday, April 18, representatives from SMIT Salvage Pte Ltd. said...
TACLOBAN CITY – Mayor Annaliza Gonzales-Kwan on Thursday, April 27, demanded the removal of a Chinese vessel carrying 55,000 metric tons of nickel ore that ran aground in Barangay Sulangan, Guiuan, Eastern Samar. Kwan lamented that the vessel's removal has not yet started nine days after the...
TACLOBAN CITY – Over 1,000 graduating students from elementary and high school are expected to get a free graduation pictorial from amateur and professional photographers from the Borongan Digital Photography Forum in Eastern Samar this school year. A GRADUATING student from Cabay, an interior...
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 – 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...
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 – 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 – 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...
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) could still not determine the exact identities of the seven Chinese individuals who were rescued off Suluan Island in Guiuan, Eastern Samar last Friday, Jan. 27. (Photo courtesy of PCG) It turns out that the Chinese individuals may not be simple fishermen as earlier...
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) is now verifying the identities of the seven Chinese fishermen who were rescued onboard a distressed fishing vessel off Suluan Island in Guiuan, Eastern Samar on Friday, Jan. 27. (Photo courtesy of PCG) “The Philippine Coast Guard Station Eastern Leyte provided...
