TACLOBAN CITY – A member of the New People’s Army was killed and two others were captured during an encounter on Saturday in Barangay Concepcion, Paranas, Samar. Troops from the 46th Infantry (Peacemakers) Battalion were ambushed by remnants of the Special Operations Group (SOG), Yakal Platoon,...
TACLOBAN CITY – The deputy chief of police of Santa Margarita town, Samar province was found dead in his quarters on Wednesday, Sept. 11. The body of Police Lt. Vitaliano Galban was discovered in a pool of blood when he was called for dinner by his colleague. His service firearm was on his chest...
TACLOBAN CITY — Soldiers from the 63rd Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army raided a temporary New People 's Army camp in Barangay Magtino, Llorente, Eastern Samar, Monday. Recovered were two M16 rifles, one caliber .45 pistol, two long and five short magazines of M16 A1, one magazine...
BORONGAN CITY – House Minority Floor Leader and 4Ps party-list Rep. Marcelino Libanan and Eastern Samar Rep. Christopher Sheen Gonzales have asked the National Bureau of Investigation to investigate alleged ghost projects in the province. These projects were the P3-billion San Rafael rock-netting...
TACLOBAN CITY – The 8th Infantry Division neutralized 14 New People 's Army rebels and seized 15 firearms in Northern Samar. Major Gen. Adonis Ariel Orio, commander of the 8th ID, said these operational achievements form part of their continuing campaign to end the Eastern Visayas Regional...
TACLOBAN CITY — Two suspected New People’s Army rebels were killed in a clash with soldiers on Wednesday, Aug. 27, in Barangay San Jose, Mapanas, Northern Samar. One of the slain communist fighters was identified as Motaw Ortazo, alias “Ibaro.” Troops engaged about 10 Cobra members of the...
TACLOBAN CITY — Samar Gov. Sharee Ann Tan’s office defended her viral video taken during the Hermano Night of the Catbalogan City Fiesta. The governor slammed the alleged misleading reports of her dancing “Kuratsa,” a cultural tradition long practiced in Samar and Leyte. “The footage was...
TACLOBAN CITY -- A police officer from the Lavezares, Northern Samar Municipal Police Station was relieved Monday for illegally discharging his firearm during a fiesta, Police Brig. Gen. Jason Capoy, director of the Police Regional Office-8, said. The police officer, a master sergeant,...
TACLOBAN CITY — Northern Samar emerged as the top province in Eastern Visayas for labor and employment in 2024, preliminary data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA)-Region 8 said. The province had a 98.1 percent employment rate and the lowest unemployment rate at 1.9 percent. It also...
TACLOBAN CITY – A Patient Transport Vehicle (PTV) or ambulance of Catarman, Northern Samar crashed in Barangay Getigo, Lope de Vega, Northern Samar on Tuesday, Aug. 19, hours after it was turned over by President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. in Ormoc City, Leyte. Reports disclosed that the 41-year-old...
TACLOBAN CITY -- Authorities confirmed that the stash of suspected illegal drug found floating in the sea of Hernani, Eastern Samar on Thursday was cocaine. Laboratory analysis on Friday said that 3.6 kilos of cocaine in six black bricks labeled Coca Racing valued at P19 million was recovered by a...
TACLOBAN CITY – A fisherman recovered 5.4 kilograms of suspected floating cocaine in the sea of Hernani, Eastern Samar, on Thursday, Aug. 14. The 52-year-old fisherman discovered the contraband while fishing before noon. He turned over the item to the Hernani Municipal Police Station. Six blocks...
