Armed Forces Visayas Command News Today

CEBU CITY – Postponement of the upcoming Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections in Negros Oriental is being strongly considered, the Visayas Command announced on Friday, June 2.

ILOILO CITY – Col. Michael Samson has been named as the new commander of the Army 301st Infantry Brigade (IBde) based in Panay Island. SAMSON (301st IBde photo) Lt. Gen. Benedict Arevalo, chief of the 3rd Infantry Division and the Armed Forces Visayas Command (Viscom), who presided over the tu

CEBU CITY – The new commander of the Armed Forces of the Philippines-Visayas Command (Viscom) vowed an intensified anti-insurgency campaign especially in Eastern Visayas. MAJOR Gen. Benedict Arevalo answers questions from reporters after the turnover ceremony that installed him as commander of

CEBU CITY — Some personnel of the Philippine Air Force (PAF) are facing indirect contempt charges after they allegedly interfered in the demolition of houses in a controversial 4.6-hectare property in Barangay Apas here. FORMER Caloocan City Rep. Edgar Erice, spokesperson of Mazy’s Capital Inc.,

AT least 25 people were killed in landslides that struck six villages in the municipality of Baybay, Leyte, which was among the areas hardest hit by Tropical Storm Agaton in the Visayas. Col. Noel Vestuir, commander of the Army’s 802nd Infantry Brigade, said 28 people remained missing from the landslides…

AN Army battalion from Davao has been redeployed in the Visayas region to boost the campaign against New People’s Army rebels in the central part of the country as the military races to end the communist-led insurgency before President Duterte leaves office this year. The 3rd Infantry Battalion (3rd IB),…

SOME residents in provinces in Mindanao devastated by Typhoon Odette have fallen ill to diarrhea and two have already died of the disease, the government said on Sunday as it continued to assist the millions of people affected by the typhoon, including in the Visayas. “We received [reports of] two…