2 farmers buried alive in Northern Samar
ORMOC CITY - Two farmers lost their lives after being buried by collapsing soil while excavating a deep well in Barangay Hinatad, an upland village in Catarman, Northern Samar on Wednesday(May 15).
The local police...
PCUP initiates capability-building training among homeowners in Ridgeview
TACLOBAN CITY - The Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor (PCUP) has spearheaded a two-day capability-building training for a homeowners association in Barangay Cabalawan, this city.
The first day, conducted last Thursday (April 25) focused...
PDEA seized high-grade marijuana from a courier service in Tacloban City
TACLOBAN CITY- The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in a joint operation of the Tacloban city police’s drug enforcement unit seized an estimated one brick of high-grade marijuana estimated to weigh one kilogram inside...
Five women arrested while playing ‘tong-its’ in Biliran
ORMOC CITY- Five housewives are presently languishing at the detention cell at the police station in Cabucgayan, Biliran after they were caught engaging in illegal gambling at the house owned by a certain alias...
Vote-buying likened to incurable illness, ‘cancer’ of democracy
TACLOBAN CITY-Vote-selling and vote-buying can be considered as a modern cancer of democracy being compared to an illness that does not heal and hinders the constitutional right of suffrage of every citizen.
This was emphasized...
DOLE Samar beefs up campaign vs. child labor; grants P1.2-M livelihood aid to...
CATBALOGAN CITY—The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is beefing up its campaign against child labor, granting more than P1.2 million in livelihood support to 40 families in this city.
Romeo R. Mabini Jr., program-based...