When the seas are rough, it takes almost four hours to get to the island of Homonhon from the port of Guiuan. The island, composed of eight barangays is not only popular for expert sea-farers and dried fish; it is also where the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, with his Spanish crew first landed on March [...]
Classes were suspended today in two elementary schools in Eastern Samar after 14 students tested for the H1N1 virus, popularly known as swine flu. This is according to the report by Cyrain Cabuenas of the Inquirer Visayas bureau. Eleven of the students study at the Eugenio Daza Pilot Elementary School in Borongan, while the other [...]
Soon, the tourist spots in Eastern Samar will be more accessible to those seeiking to go there, thanks to a collaboration between a map-making company and two government offices. The Business World reports that the United Tourist Promotions, the publisher of EZ Maps, will soon feature a map with the major tourist destinations in Samar [...]
Representatives of the Eastern Samar’s Provincial Mining Regulatory Board (PMRB) will visit Homonhon Island in Guiuan this week to verify reports of illegal mining operations there. In the past, a mining company called Heritage Resources and Mining Corp. (HRMC) conducted mining operations in the chromite-rich island for 25 years. Its contract, however, expired March this [...]
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in Eastern visayas caught a man posing himself as a doctor Wednesday. The suspect was identified as 35-year-old Randy Gebana, a native of Oriental Mindoro. Operatives of the NBI learned that he had been illegally operating a medical clinic at the village of Lugay in Guiuan, Eastern Samar since [...]