Tag: Baybay City

30 bahay natupok ng apoy sa Sto. Nino, Baybay City, Leyte

BAYBAY CITY, Leyte (Eagle News) – Naiwang sinaing ang itinuturong dahilan ng pagkakatupok ng mahigit na tatlumpung kabahayan sa Sto. Nino, Baybay City, Leyte. Nangyari ang nasabing insidente noong Biyernes, Mayo 19 bandang 10:00 ng umaga. Nagsimula ang sunog sa bahay ni G. Eduardo Quillasa. Ayon sa mga kapitbahay, nagsaing umano ang pamilya Quillasa gamit ang panggatong na kahoy at iniwan ito na walang nagbabantay. Ito ang itinuturong dahilan ng pagkatupok ng mahigit sa 30 na […]

“Premeditated,” senators says of CIDG action vs Espinosa; lapses, violations noted

  (Eagle News) — “Premeditated.” That was how Senator Panfilo Lacson described the operation of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CODG) region 8 where Albuera, Leyte Mayor Rolando Espinosa was killed in an alleged shootout after he allegedly resisted the police search Lacson, head of the Senate Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs, and the other senators who questioned the CIDG officials during the senate hearing on Thursday said there seemed to have […]

President Aquino inaugurates Baybay Diversion Road in Leyte

(BAYBAY CITY, Leyte) President Benigno S. Aquino III on Monday led the inauguration of the five-kilometer two-lane Baybay Diversion Road that will ease traffic congestion and will cut by half an hour the travel time to and from nearby cities. The P374.63-million project, which began in February 2013, had a soft opening last January. Slope protection works are expected to be completed in August. “Simpleng-simple lang po ang pangarap ko bilang inyong Pangulo — ang […]