Due to high demand

TACLOBAN CITY – The city government of Borongan will be entering another memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the Philippine Airlines (PAL) for the country’s national carrier to continue its operation at the city’s airport.

This was disclosed by Mayor Jose Ivan Dayan Agda who said that the current agreement is set to expire in December.

The said agreement, signed on November 30, 2022, paved the way for PAL to open a flight in Borongan City.

PAL’s inaugural flight at Borongan City Airport started on December 19, 2022.
Agda said that during the renewal of the agreement, they will try to appeal for PAL to increase an additional flight from the current twice-a-week flight, or every Monday or Friday.

Agda noted of the favorable passenger traffic in September when PAL had two additional flights for the city fiesta.

On the suggestions to make the present Manila-Cebu-Borongan a direct Manila-Borongan flight, Mayor Agda said that he prefers the present set-up because there is a demand for Cebu-Borongan airline passengers.
(ROEL T. AMAZONA)

ORMOC CITY-Charges were filed by the police of Villaba, Leyte against a man who was found to be in possession of firearm and ammunition.

Charged was Emeterio Inopiquez,41, jobless and a resident of Barangay Capiñahan of the said town at about 6:30 am on October 7 in Sitio Paril of Brgy. Hibulangan, also in the same town, Police Major Edwin Tolibas, town police chief.

The police said they had received an information that the suspect was creating trouble prompting them to proceed to the area, about nine kms away from the town center.
Upon arrival, they saw the suspect who was under the influence of liquor and found something jutting out from his waistline.

They then asked Inopiquez to pull up his shirt which was bulging in his waist. Once the suspect pulled up his shirt the police found a short firearm tucked in his waist. The police immediately asked the suspect if he had a permit to carry the firearm and when he responded that he had none, he was immediately arrested by the responding cop.
Seized from his possession was one unit of Caliber .45 with one magazine with five live ammunition.

The suspect and the seized evidence were brought to Villaba municipal police station for documentation and proper disposition where charges of violation of RA 10591, the Comprehensive Law against Illegal Possession of Firearms and Ammunition and Comelec law filed against the suspect at the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office. (ROBERT DEJON)

ORMOC CITY-Bystanders were shocked when they discovered that children were playing with a fragmentation grenade in San Jose district in Tacloban City at about 3:50 pm on October 6.

The police said that a resident of Barangay 87, San Jose district went to their office to report the incident, prompting them to go to the area where they discovered a corroded fragmentation grenade.

Members of the Explosive and Ordnance Division (EOD) of Tacloban City Police Office immediately responded to the area and identified the item as a one-hand fragmentation grenade MK2, complete, corroded, but serviceable.

The EOD immediately assisted the local police in the recovery of the item which is now in their custody.
(ROBERT DEJON)