The latest news and headlines from The Calbayog Journal.
CALBAYOG CITY- Recent developments indicate the possibility of Calbayog City becoming the entire island’s central hub. Reports have it that two more national government agencies are moving their major branch offices to the city next year.
CALBAYOG CITY- Expectations are high that henceforth the Eastern Visayas Regional Athletic Association(EVRAA) Meet would be handled in a skillful way following the grant of certification of competence to select tournament managers from the three Samar provinces.
ORMOC CITY – Rival farmer groups ended their 16-year feud by amicably signing a “compromise agreement,” ending a conflict marked by lengthy legal litigation, bloodshed and animosity leading to a successful implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) in the area.
CALBAYOG CITY – 55-year-old Pedro Singamuhon, a cook, and his wife Estrellita, 51, were hit with bullets allegedly fired by unknown assailant from outside of their store located just within their house in Purok 5, Barangay San Policarpo around 6:45PM, December 12, 2015.
Attorney Asis G. Perez, Director of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, Department of Agriculture, in Quezon City confirmed in Shellfish Bulletin No. 16, Series of 2013 on July 9, 2013 that the “Coastal Waters of Calbayog City” are now “positive for red tide toxin.”
CALBAYOG CITY- The city government of Calbayog has taken steps to prevent the carabao population in the city from further decline by making its carabao dispersal program more effective.
TACLOBAN CITY- Over a month after the Calbayog Journal reported it and over four months after they were made, the 500 pumpboats donated by a Mindanao-based logging firm to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources(DENR) for distribution to fishermen in typhoon-affected communities in Samar and Leyte, remain undisposed up to now.
ORMOC CITY- The cause of the fire which greatly damaged the MV Wonderful Star of Roble Shipping Lines in Ormoc City early morning of Saturday August 15,2015, remains undetermined up to this time.
CALBAYOG CITY - A murder suspect was killed while four others were taken into police custody during the simultaneous search by police of various houses in different parts of the city in early morning of November 22,2015.
