TACLOBAN CITY – Sixty schools in Eastern Visayas have reported damage due to the massive flooding from the shear line last week. A LEARNER from Tawagan Elementary School in Arteche, Eastern Samar rides a boat in their flood-stricken school on November 22. (Contributed photo by Fred Esto Senonio)...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR)-8 announced that there is no shellfish ban in Eastern Visayas based on the latest red tide advisory on Monday, November 13. However, based on local red tide advisories, seawater samples collected from the coastal waters of...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Police Regional Office-8 has deployed over 4,500 police officers to maintain peace and order in cemeteries and other places of convergence in Eastern Visayas for “Undas” or All Saints' Day. Police Brig. Gen. Reynaldo Pawid, PRO-8 director, has been going around the region...
TACLOBAN CITY (PNA) – At least 63 persons in Eastern Visayas were arrested from Sunday until early Monday for allegedly violating the liquor ban as the Philippine National Police heightened security measures to ensure the safe conduct of the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections (BSKE)....
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (left), former president Rodrigo Duterte (Speaker’s office, Malacañang photo) Speaker Martin Romuladez's fellow congressmen from Eastern Visayas have come up with a unified statement of support for the House leader following the...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Regional Public Information Office of the Police Regional Office-8 has been withholding names of suspects and victims in police reports, which raised concerns for the media in Eastern Visayas, for over a month now. PRO-8 seal Police Major Marjorie Manuta, RPIO chief, said...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)-8 earned over P45 million in the five-day Bahandi Eastern Visayas Trade Fair at SM Megamall in Mandaluyong City recently. Sales were 29 percent higher than the P35-million target. The trade fair brought producer-exhibitors from all six...
TACLOBAN CITY – Tourism Secretary Maria Christina Frasco launched the Bisita, Be My Guest (BBMG) program in Eastern Visayas on Friday, October 13, here. FRASCO (DOT-8 FB) "We've seen that there is a massive potential for further development here that is why we brought the BBMG program in the...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Police Regional Office-8 (Eastern Visayas) said they are ready for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections in October during the launching of simultaneous checkpoints in the region on Monday, August 28. POLICE Brig. Gen. Vincent Calonaga, PRO-8 director, and Comelec-8...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR)-8 announced that there is no shellfish ban in Eastern Visayas as of Thursday, August 17. However, seawater samples collected from Matarinao Bay in the municipalities of General Macarthur, Hernani, Quinapondan, and Salcedo in...
CALBAYOG CITY – The Hadang Festival of this city dominated the Tandaya Festival of Festivals 2023 on Sunday, August 6. Hadang Festival won P500,000 cash prize after besting 11 festival contingents from the different municipalities in the province during their performance at the Northwest...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Department of Health in Eastern Visayas reported a 46 percent decrease in dengue cases from January to July 22 compared to the same period last year. The DOH-8 recorded 1,907 cases with 10 deaths during the period from 3,516 patients last year. Of the total reported cases,...
