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Ni Merly Orozco Eagle News Correspondent TANDAG CITY, Surigao del Sur (Eagle News) – Isang sunog ang naganap sa Purok Mercury, Brgy. Telaje, Tandag City, Surigao del Sur nitong Lunes, Agosto 13 bandang 6:45 ng gabi. Itinuturong dahilan ng pinagmulan ng nasabing sunog ay ang pumutok na saksakan ng electrical appliances. Mabilis na kumalat ang apoy lalo’t ang karamihan sa mga bahay ay gawa lamang sa light materials. Agad namang rumesponde ang personnel ng Tandag […]
(Eagle News) — Aftermath of heavy rains and strong winds in San Isidro, Rodriguez, Rizal. (Photos courtesy of Eagle News Correspondent Gladys S. Mingorio)
(Eagle News) — Narekober ng mga otoridad ang ilang matataas na kalibre ng baril at iba pa matapos makasagupa ng militar ang mga miyembro ng Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) sa Maguindanao kahapon, ika-12 ng Agosto. Ayon kay Brigadier General Cirilito Sobejana, pinuno ng 6th Infantry Division at Commander Ng Joint Task Force Central, naka-engkwentro ng mga tauhan ng 2nd Mechanized Infrantry Battalion ang sampung miyembro ng BIFF sa Barangay Malangog sa bayan ng Datu Unsay. […]
(Eagle News) — Inatasan na ng Malakanyang ang Department of Environment and Natural Resources na busisiin ang quarrying sa mga kabundukan sa Rizal. Ayon kay Special Assistant to the President Christopher Bong Go, naipaabot na niya ang kautusan ng pangulo kay Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu. Ginawa ni Go ang pahayag matapos ang pagbisita kagabi sa mga apektadong residente ng habagat sa Taytay, Rizal; Marikina; at Quezon City. Ayon kay Go, isang residente sa Marikina ang […]
(Eagle News)– A Nueva Ecija court has junked the charges filed against Satur Ocampo and three other left-leaning former lawmakers. The Palayan Regional Trial Court also nullified the arrest warrants issued against former Bayan Muna Reps. Ocampo and Teddy Casiño; National Anti-Poverty Commission lead convenor Liza Maza; and former Anakpawis Rep. and former Agrarian Reform Secretary Rafael Mariano for lack of probable cause. The arrest warrants issued in July stem from the murder case filed against the […]
(Eagle News) — These pictures taken by Eagle News correspondent Razel Ryan Legaspi show flooded roads caused by the monsoon rains in Masantol, Pampanga. (Photos courtesy of Eagle News Correspondent Razel Ryan Legaspi)
(Eagle News)–Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde sacked all the policemen from the Lapinig Town Police Station in Northern Samar after their station was reportedly raided by at least a hundred members of the New People’s Army on Friday, Aug. 10. The sacked officials included Lapinig’s chief of police Inspector Noli Montebon; Senior Supt. Romeo Campomanes, Northern Samar provincial director; and Chief Insp. Juan Byron Leogo, commander of the 2nd Northern Samar Provincial Mobile Force Company. After a deliberation […]
(Eagle News)—-Members of the New People’s Army attempted to lay siege to a municipal hall in Northern Samar on Friday, Aug. 10, the police said. But according to the Philippine National Police, the police put up a stiff resistance and pushed back the group who tried the attack on the Lapinig municipal hall at 2:00 a.m. PNP Regional 8 director, Chief Supt. Mariel Magaway said there were no immediate reports of casualties. “An All Points Bulletin has […]
(Eagle News)—-Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Friday, Aug. 10, said the man who detonated an improvised exposive device in Lamitan, Basilan that killed several people may be a Moroccan national who was reported to have ties with the Abu Sayyaf. Lorenzana, without naming names, said “mukhang qualifications point that he is the guy, kasi hindi marunong magsalita ng dialect dun.” Twitter user TerrorMonitor said that Moroccan national Abu Kathir al-Maghribi was the “suicide bomber” who […]
(Eagle News) — Kinilala ni Senadora Cynthia Villar ang mahalagang papel ng mga kabataan para mapababa ang antas ng kahirapan at mapabuti ang buhay ng mahihirap na pamilya. Binigyan ng parangal ng Senadora ang sampung Outstanding Youth Organizations dahil sa kanilang tinaguriang innovative solutions sa ilalim ng Poverty Reduction challenge. Ang sampu ay pinili mula sa isandaang at limampung organisasyon kung saan kabilang ang mga kabataang may edad 18 hanggang 29. Ilan sa mga grupong […]
CALBAYOG CITY, Samar (Eagle News) – Patay ang assistant city engineer ng Calbayog City matapos itong pagbabarilin ng hindi pa nakikilang mga suspek nitong Martes, Agosto 7. Kinilala ang biktima na si Rafaelito Serrano alyas “Joker.” Ayon sa inisyal na imbestigasyon, si Serrano ay nagmamaneho ng kaniyang motor nang barilin ito sa ulo ng mga suspek bandang 8:20 ng umaga sa Navarro St., Brgy. East Awang. Naisugod pa sa ospital ang biktima pero dineklara na itong […]
PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Palawan (Eagle News) – Pinaghahandaan ngayon ng pamunuan ng Puerto Princesa City Jail ang isasagawang “Himig ng Kabilang Panig,” kung saan ipakikilala ang mga piyanistang inmate na produkto ng kanilang music at piano lesson. Sa ilang buwan ng pagsasailalim sa puspusang pagsasanay at dedikasyon upang matuto, mula sa pagbasa ng nota hanggang sa pagkapa ng tiklado sa piano, handa nang magpakitang-gilas ang ipinagmamalaki ngayon ng Puerto Princesa City Jail na mga […]
