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As of 4 a.m., typhoon Jolina has already made 2 landfalls in Samar (Eagle News) – Tropical storm “Jolina” (international name Conson) is now a typhoon with maximum sustained winds of 120 kilometers per hour and gusts of up to 180 km/h, with PAGASA declaring parts of Masbate under signal number 3. PAGASA said that typhoon “Jolina” has already “emerged over the Samar Sea and is now crossing the island municipalities of Samar province.” […]
Heavy rains forecast starting Sunday, April 18 (Eagle News) — Catanduanes in Luzon, and Samar, Eastern Samar and Northern Samar in Visayas were placed under Tropical Cyclone Wind Signal No. 2 on Saturday at 5 p.m., as typhoon “Bising” (international name Surigae) slighly accelerated while moving west northwestward over the Philippine Sea. At 4 p.m. Saturday, April 17, the eye of typhoon Bising was at 460 kilometers east of Guian, Eastern Samar, moving west […]
(Eagle News) — Cloudy skies can be seen in Motiong, Samar in the Eastern Visayas region in the Philippines at around 7 a.m. Wednesday, May 13, 2020. At 4 a.m. today, the center of Tropical Storm “AMBO” was estimated based on all available data at 410 kilometers East of Borongan City, Eastern Samar (11.7 °N, 129.2 °E ) The country’s weather bureau, PAGASA, said scattered light to moderate with at times heavy rainshowers during thunderstorms […]
(Eagle News) — The enhanced community quarantine in Samar is extended to April 30. This was after Samar Governor Reynolds Michael Tan signed Executive Order No. 22, a copy of which was uploaded on Facebook on Monday, April 13. According to Tan, the extension was a recommendation of the Provincial Inter-agency Task Force on COVID-19 “in order to help control the further transmission of (the coronavirus disease 2019) in the province.” Tan said he has […]
(Eagle News) — Two quakes hit the country in the early hours of Saturday, August 3 — a magnitude 5.6 quake in Davao Occidental and a magnitude 5 quake in Northern Samar, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS). The quake in Davao Occidental occurred at 12:10 a.m., some 48 kilometers northeast of Jose Abad Santos. It was of tectonic origin and was quite deep at 143 kilometers. Because of this, […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte said both the Filipino people and the American people should be credited for the return of the historic Balangiga Bells, as he acknowledged the “long and tedious process” as well as “several efforts” made by his predecessors for the return of the bells 117 years since they were taken as war trophies by American soldiers. During the turn-over ceremony of the bells on Saturday, December 15, at the Balangiga […]
(Eagle News)—-In these pictures released by the US Embassy in Manila, the two Balangiga bells housed in Wyoming are being readied for transport to the Philippines. The preparations took place after a ceremony at the F.E. Warren Air Force Base led by US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. It was President Rodrigo Duterte who called out the Americans for taking the bells from Samar, artifacts he said were part of national patrimony. Another Balangiga bell sits […]
(Eagle News) — The ambush of soldiers providing relief to victims of a typhoon in Northern Samar, the armed attack on a police station in Lapinig, and the massacre of nine farmers in Sagay in October are only some of the incidents that prompted President Rodrigo Duterte to order the deployment of additional troops to selected parts of the country. This is according to Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo, who issued a statement on Friday, Nov. […]
(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 […]
By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde on Thursday, June 28, said investigators were looking into the possibility the Samar “misencounter” between the military and the police was an ambush by members of the Philippine Army. According to Albayalde, the angle was being investigated as the military appeared to be in an advantage when the incident took place. “Ang gusto nating makita dito kung alam ba nila na pulis na […]
(Eagle News) — Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde and Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff General Carlito Galvez visited on Wednesday, June 27, the wake of the policemen killed in the misencounter between policemen and soldiers in Samar on Monday, June 25. The families of P01 Wyndell Noromor, PO1 Edwin Ebrado, PO1 Phil Rey Mendigo, PO1 Julius Suarez, PO1 Rowell Reyes, and PO1 Julie Escalo, who were killed in the incident in Barangay […]
