Eastern Samar to oppose move to abolish NTF-ELCAC
BORONGAN CITY- The Joint Provincial Peace and Order Council (PPOC), Provincial Anti-Drug Abuse Council (PADAC), and Provincial Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (PTF-ELCAC) unanimously approved on Wednesday, February 7, the motion...
Jail visitor ended up being locked up due to drug possession
ORMOC CITY-A jobless man who visited his friend at the city jail in Tacloban City is set to join his friend after he was arrested in possession of suspected shabu upon inspection at about...
Coast guard personnel saves a 2 yr. old child from drowning in...
ORMOC CITY - In a dramatic rescue, a two-year-old child was saved from drowning thanks to the swift actions of Coast Guard Samar personnel stationed on an augmentation force duty at a local beach.
The...
Herd immunity depends on supply of vaccines, says DOH-8
MAASIN CITY (PIA) -- The much anticipated “power” of the community to resist the COVID-19 disease, a situation now widely known as herd immunity, depends largely to the availability of vaccines.
The statement sounded familiar,...
Over P1.4 million worth of marijuana seized from a man in a buy-bust operation
TACLOBAN CITY- A top drug personality was apprehended by joint police operatives in a buy-bust operation which also led to the discovery of a marijuana plantation in Purok Banog, Barangay Baras, Palo, Leyte, on...
DPWH in the region report of over P325 million of roads and bridges destroyed...
TACLOBAN CITY-The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) reported that P325.32 million of various infrastructures in the region were damaged due to Typhoon ‘Paeng’ that pummeled Eastern Visayas last week.
The DPWH said roads...