BANK LOAN NOT NEEDED Tacloban City LGU can afford now to buy Leyte Park Hotel
by Miriam G. Desacada Tacloban City Mayor Alfred Romualdez on Monday announced that the city government will no longer proceed with its P500 million loan with the bank because, on…
E. Samar’s town gets fresh promises for roads, bridges
By EVMWB Borongan City–The fifth-class municipality of Maslog in Eastern Samar finally received a renewed hope of development with soon-to-be constructed paved roads, even bridges, that would connect it to…
CATARMAN ENCOUNTER Bodies of slain terrorists ID’d; BAYAN-EV exec among them
by Miriam G. Desacada Catarman N.Samar–The bodies of the four members of the communist terrorists group (CTG) of the New People’s Army who were killed in a gunfight with government…
JUDGE RESOLVES CASE IN A DAY Mother, 40, gets 42 years in prison for peddling daughters to online sex
by Miriam G. Desacada Basey Samar–In one of the fastest litigation of an online sex case in court—resolved on the next day after it was filed—a 40-year-old mother of Sta.…
2 leaders of CPP-NPA terrorists in Region 8 nabbed in Bulacan
by Miriam G. Desacada TACLOBAN City— Two high-ranking officials of the terrorists groups—Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA), based in Eastern Visayas (Region 8)—were captured in joint military-police…
Ex-4Ps beneficiary pays it forward as worker of same DSWD program
by Miriam G.Desacada At a tender age of 10, Jenecile Parambita lost her father from cardiac arrest. She knew that life is hard and the death of her father only…
Guv sets Ibábao Festival to mark 58th founding year of N. Samar
By Miriam G. Desacada Catarman N.Samar—-Governor Edwin Ongchuan, in a pioneering move, spearheaded the launching of the Ibabao Festival to celebrate the 58th Founding Anniversary of Northern Samar as a…
N. Samar LGU builds two more school buildings in Catubig brgy
by Miriam G. Desacada Tacloban City–The Northern Samar provincial government recently constructed two school buildings for elementary pupils of Barangay Osang in the landlocked town of Catubig, one of the…
TACLOBAN IN WATER CRISIS Mayor Romualdez orders stop of illegal connection
by Miriam G. Desacada TACLOBAN CITY- The local Chief Executive of Tacloban, Mayor Aldred Romualdez yesterday declared that the city is in a water crisis, citing the increasing number of…
Motor boat bridges Samar youths to school
Elmer Recuerdo LAS NAVAS, Northern Samar – Before the sun breaks on Mondays, college students of San Isidro village of this town converge at the barangay hall to get their…