Baybay priest opens charity basketball tourney for Typhoon Agaton victims

Glendale G. Rosal 11/30/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A priest in Baybay City, Leyte is organizing a fund-raising basketball event to uplift the downhearted victims of Tropical Storm Agaton. Father Arthur Duarte, the chaplain of the Franciscan College of the Immaculate…

Angel nagpaka-Darna uli, bumisita sa Leyte para tumulong sa mga nasalanta ng bagyong Agaton

Ervin Santiago 04/19/2022

TUWANG-TUWA at lubos ang pasasalamat ng ilang mga residente sa Baybay City, Leyte nang personal na bumisita sa kanila ang TV host-actress na si Angel Locsin. Nagtungo roon ang Kapamilya star ngayong araw para maghatid ng tulong…

Agaton kills 25, leaves 8 missing in Visayas, Mindanao

Joey Gabieta 04/12/2022

From a tropical storm, Agaton (international name: Megi) has weakened into a tropical depression, but not before heavy rains pounded parts of the Visayas and Mindanao, leaving at least 25 people dead and eight missing. On Monday,…

Suson wins two titles in Baybay City

John Carlo Villaruel 04/12/2017

CEBUANO Marc Nicole Suson completed a twinkill in the Cebuana Lhuillier Age Group Tennis Championships in Baybay City, Leyte yesterday. Less than a week from his remarkable three-title romp in Ubay, Bohol, the 16-year-old Suson continued his…

‘DEFENSELESS’

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Inquirer.net 12/06/2016

NBI investigation says Espinosa Sr. was murdered; raiding team charged with multiple murder This is a premeditated killing, superiority of force and defenseless. Helpless ’yong victims dito (The victims here are helpless).” This was the statement of…

‘SOP’

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Inquirer 11/23/2016

Kerwin Espinosa exposes how it has become a standard operating procedure (SOP) for him to spend millions of pesos in  drug money to buy the protection of police officers, their middle men and government officials. The culture…

Kin fear Kerwin might be killed, too

Joey Gabieta, Robert Dejon 11/18/2016

NOW that the alleged biggest drug lord in Eastern Visayas is back in the country, the family of Kerwin Espinosa fears that he will follow the fate of his father, slain Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr. of Albuera…

Kerwin’s men accuse cop chief of fabricating affidavits

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Inquirer 11/16/2016

Albuera, Leyte — Three alleged trusted men of suspected drug lord Kerwin Espinosa retracted their statements that identified the local and police officials who protected the illegal operations of their boss. Galo Bobares, Max Miro and Brian…

Cop in Espinosa raid who called Soco refuses to turn over phone

Inquirer.net 11/11/2016

The cop, who called the scene of the crime operatives (Soco) even before Albuera, Leyte, Mayor Rolando Espinosa was killed, has refused to surrender his cellular phone to his superiors. Supt. Santi Noel Matira, a member of…

‘PREMEDITATED’

Inquirer.net, Robert Dejon 11/10/2016

The likelihood that the killing of Albuera, Leyte, Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr. was a case of a rubout grew stronger yesterday, even as names of prominent personalities tagged as drug protectors of the Espinosas also emerged, including…

Mayor Espinosa, a vital witness, is dead

Atty. Ruphil F. Bañoc 11/10/2016

Surrender or die.” No less than President Rodrigo Duterte gave the late Albuera, Leyte, Mayor Rolando Espinosa, Sr. such choices with the grace period of 24 hours from his announcement. Duterte did not say “Surrender and die.”…

‘2 cops talked to mayor inside his cell before he was killed’

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Robert Dejon 11/09/2016

Palo, Leyte — Minutes before Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr. of Albuera town, Leyte was killed, two members of the raiding team went inside his cell and talked to him. Inmates in the adjacent cell were transferred to…

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