The latest news and headlines from The Calbayog Journal.
Tacloban City - Eastern Visayas PNP Regional Director Elmer C. Beltejar honored, in the afternoon of July 15, 2016, 3 members of Regional Anti-Illegal Drug Special Operations Group who were wounded during an anti-drug operation shootout in Sogod Southern Leyte that killed a former policeman allegedly engaged in illegal drug business.
CALBAYOG CITY – A police tracker team successfully sacked the third most wanted person listed in the city’s police record during a Lambat Sibat Operation in Purok 7 of Barangay Hamorawon on July 04, 2016.
CALBAYOG CITY - Serving a warrant that orders the arrest of one of the two accused in Criminal Case No. 7705 for Attempted Murder turned to an encounter causing the instant death of a branded drug pusher, at about 10:55 in the night of July 06, 2016, in Barangay Peña, a coastal village 40 kilometers north of downtown Calbayog.
CALBAYOG CITY - One hundred thirty-two (132) out of 157 barangays (villages) of the city were represented by Punong Barangays (village chieftains) and/or representatives during a meeting on July 07,2016 at the city’s convention center in answer to the invitation of City Mayor Ronald P. Aquino regarding the national government’s campaign against illegal drugs and its implementation in the city.
MAASIN CITY, LEYTE - A regular employee of DPWH-Southern Leyte fell in the hands of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and the Maasin City Police during a buy-bust operation in the afternoon of July 6, 2016, along the Maharlika Highway of Brgy Combado, Maasin City, Southern Leyte.
CALBAYOG CITY – The victim of a shooting incident that transpired at around 10:45 AM of July 08, 2016 along Gomez St., Barangy Aguit-itan is number 2 in the drug watch list of the city police.
CALBAYOG CITY – Newly elected officials (NEOS) of the city and the first district of Samar was sworn in to office in a ceremony at the Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral right after a concelebrated mass led by Msgr. Francisco Cinco, Jr. in the morning of June 28, 2016 with the CKC Youth Symphony Orchestra singing songs praises during the mass.
STA. MARGARITA, SAMAR – Twelve equally statuesque and vibrant ladies will compete for the 4th Mutya san Magsohong crown after having been qualified in a screening by a panel composed of five judges on June 11, 2016 at the Clarencio Calagos Memorial School of Fisheries in Sta. Margarita, Samar.
TACLOBAN CITY - Applications for the conversion of agricultural lands to housing and resettlement sites for the survivors of super Typhoon Yolanda will be accepted by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Regional Office 8 only until June 30, 2016.
