Another active NPA member surrenders to Army troops in Southern Leyte
CAMP JORGE DOWNES, ORMOC CITY- Another active communist NPA Terrorist (CNT) member surrendered to the 14th Infantry (Avenger) Battalion, 8th Infantry (Stormtroopers) Division, Philippine Army under the operational control of 802nd Infantry (Peerless) Brigade...
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...
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...
JTF8-ELCAC endorses ‘unity road’ project to Regional Development Council
TACLOBAN CITY – The Joint Task Force 8 – End Local Communist Armed Conflict (JTF8-ELCAC) has approved a resolution endorsing the proposed “unity road” project to the Regional Development Council (RDC) 8, aiming to...
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...