AirPhilExpress Starts Cebu - Catarman - Cebu Route

AirPhilExpress will start its Cebu - Catarman and vice versa route on October 21, 2010. AirPhilExpress will fly the Cebu-Catarman-Cebu route every Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. AirPhilExpress is the budget airline of Philippine Airlines of the Lucio Tan Group. Currenty, AirPhilExpress also flies to Catarman to and from Manila four times a week, every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. Other airlines plying the Manila-Catarman-Manila route are Cebu Pacific Air: every Tuesday, Thurday, Saturday and Sunday; and Zest Air: every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.

Imbestigador in Catarman

The investigative GMA TV show,"Imbestigador," hosted by veteran broadcaster Mike Enriquez featured the illegal drug trade involving cocaine being sold by fishermen from Mondragon, Northern Samar. The entrapment operation resulted in the apprehension of a certain "Ponio" infront of a bank in Catarman, Northern Samar. The cocaine was said to have come from the same foreign vessel reported earlier to have dumped a large haul of cocaine, when it was about to be apprehended by authorities, off the coast of Eastern Samar. The cocaine were then believed to have been found by fishermen all over Eastern Samar and Northern Samar, but failed to turn over the said drugs to the authorities. Watch the Imbestigador episode below, as soon as it gets available.