PAGASA issues gale warning to Samar, Southern Leyte areas

Jessa Mae O. Sotto 09/13/2018

  As Typhoon Ompong entered Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) on Wednesday (September 12), the state weather bureau has issued a gale warning prohibiting small vessels to travel in affected areas in the Visayas. Ompong, with a…

Girl from Leyte needs help

PR 09/07/2018

A THREE-year-old girl from San Francisco, Isabel, Leyte, who lost her right eye to retinoblastoma is in need of financial assistance for her CT scan. Klean needs to undergo a diagnostic test every six months to look…

Commemoration of life and Vocation of Dr. Potenciano V. Larrazabal, Jr.

PR 06/29/2018

Perhaps it is fitting that a farm boy from Ormoc ultimately lived his professional life with the same work ethic that was exemplified for him under the open sky over 7 decades ago. Dr. Potenciano V. Larrazabal,…

Vintage bomb explosion hurts 6 in Leyte

Inquirer.net 06/10/2018

TACLOBAN CITY — Six people, two of them were children, were hurt when a vintage bomb exploded at about 7:45 a.m. on Sunday in Sitio Betaog in Barangay Crossing in San Isidro, Leyte province. Shortly before the…

5 Albuera, Leyte villages tagged poll hotspots

Inquirer.net 04/25/2018

TACLOBAN CITY – Five villages in the hometown of self-confessed drug lord Kerwin Espinosa in Albuera town, Leyte province, have been identified as possible hotspots for the May 14 barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections. One of…

Mom from Leyte shares kakanin business in Cebu

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 04/01/2018

When her husband died in 2001, Dulce Retulla Gamotan thought of utilizing her skill in making native rice delicacies to provide for her three sons. Dulce’s husband, Vergilio Sr., died at 43 years old after 16 years…

Tacloban City, Leyte towns observe Earth Hour

Inquirer.net 03/25/2018

TACLOBAN CITY — Earth Hour was observed in this city Saturday night as homes, businesses and government offices turned off power to join the global awareness campaign about climate change. Christopher Garcia, institutional services division head of the Leyte…

Cebu under storm signal no. 1

Morexette B. Erram 12/16/2017

As Tropical Storm Urduja threatens the Samar province, the state weather bureau has placed the entire Cebu under Storm Signal No. 1 The severe weather bulletin issued by the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa)…

La Niña could affect power supply from solar plants

Futch Anthony Inso 11/28/2017

THE weak La Niña that is expected to affect the country next month until the first quarter of 2018, might also affect the power supply of the Visayas area. According to Lou Arciaga, information officer of the…

Sogod’s most wanted arrested in Leyte

Benjie Talisic 11/14/2017

Police arrested on Monday a man accused of killing a barangay councilman from Sogod town, northern Cebu, while in hiding in his hometown in Bato town in Leyte province. Sam Pandapatan went into hiding after he allegedly…

Suspect in Sogod councilman’s slay nabbed in Leyte

Benjie B. Talisic 11/14/2017

POLICE arrested a suspect in the death of Sogod Barangay Councilman Roberto Abalos in Bato, Leyte at 11 am last Monday. The suspect is identified as Sam Pandapatan, a resident of Barangay Iniguihan, Bato, Leyte. He is…

Two women missing in Mactan found dead in Leyte

Norman V. Mendoza 10/21/2017

Two women who carried away by huge waves while collecting seashells along the shore of Sitio Saac, Barangay Buaya, Lapu-Lapu City on Sunday afternoon, October 15, were found lifeless at the coast of Albuera town in Leyte…

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