As per request, we have added a Google News page about Samar.
Posted in News, Updates | Tagged samar
With all the storms we have been having, I thought it would be appropriate to add a weather page. You can click on the link above, or click here.
Posted in News, Updates | Tagged weather
If you were planning on flying Zest Air between Calbayog and Manila today, you were out of luck. There was a last minute cancellation, due to maintenance issues. Apparently, the plane did not pass a pre-flight inspection, or was otherwise not ready in time for boarding in Manila. About 11 AM the representatives in Calbayog [...]
Posted in Calbayog, Flights, News, Travel | Tagged Asian Spirit, Calbayog, cancellation, Caticlan, Flights, Manila, refunds, Zest Air
Looks like the southern portion of Samar Province is having a pig problem. In the past 2 months, 84 of Sta. Rita’s 8,900 pigs have died of Salmonella infection. Leo Cañeda, executive regional director of the Department of Agriculture, held a meeting in Tacloban on Friday, with some of Samar’s mayors and government agriculturists and [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Health, News | Tagged Daram, Department of Agriculture, outbreak, pig, salmonella, Sta. Rita, Tacloban
A new airline is comming to Calbayog. Cebu Pacific Airlines has already opened it’s ticketing office in Calbayog, and is scheduled to start service, between Calbayog’s Sabang Airport, and Manila, on Feburary 18, 2009. According to Cebu Pacific’s local representative, Analyn S. Amoguez, the flights will be Monday, Wednessday, and Friday mornings.
Currently Zest Airways (formerly [...]
Posted in Flights, News, Travel | Tagged airlines, Calbayog, Cebu Pacific, Manila, President Arroyo, Sabang Airport, samar
According to a “Press Statement of the City Government of Catbalogan on cityhood issue,” published on the Samar News.com website, the issue of Catbalogan’s cityhood is not yet settled. Here is a quote from that statement:
As things stand now, Catbalogan remains and still is a city. No more less than the Chief Justice of the [...]
Posted in Calbayog, Catbalogan, News, Politics | Tagged Catbalogan, Hon. Reynato S. Puno, IRA allocation, Motion for Reconsideration, Supreme Court
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