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Iloilo Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office head Cornelio Salinas says disaster preparedness must extend to the barangay level. “This will enable faster evacuation, earlier prepositioning of relief supplies and emergency equipment, and quicker deployment of responders,” he explains. Left photo shows tents at the municipal evacuation center of San Dionisio, Iloilo where residents from 18 flood-prone areas sought shelter during the November 2025 onslaught of Typhoon “Tino”. PHOTO COURTESY OF ORLAN OLVIDO / DYRI RMN ILOILO
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DISASTER CHALLENGE NOW SHIFTS TO BRGYS; All 43 Iloilo LGUs have...

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Photo courtesy of Valentin Müller/Unsplash
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OCD-6: Super Typhoon Inday to enhance monsoon rains; Public urged to...

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Construction workers perform their tasks for a road project in Imus, Cavite. They are protected by hard hats and long-sleeved garments but must limit sun exposure between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. when ultraviolet rays are strongest. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has ordered the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Boards to initiate a timely review of the minimum wage rates. PNA
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RTWPB to determine if ‘supervening event’ justifies new wage order before...

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Personnel of the Iloilo Provincial Bantay Dagat Task Force, together with the Iloilo Provincial Mobile Force Company and the PNP Regional Intelligence Unit, intercept one of five fishing boats from Negros Occidental allegedly engaged in illegal trawl fishing off Sitio Baligiuan, Barangay Malangabang, Concepcion, Iloilo on July 5. The operation resulted in the arrest of five boat captains and the seizure of the fishing vessels and their paraphernalia for proper legal disposition. BALITA HALIN SA KAPITOLYO
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5 NegOcc fishing boats seized in Iloilo anti-illegal fishing operation

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The Bacolod City Government has intensified monitoring for African Swine Fever (ASF) following reports of increasing hog deaths in several local government units in southern Negros Occidental. Authorities said no hog deaths have been recorded in Bacolod City, while surveillance and biosecurity measures remain in place to protect the local swine industry. INQUIRER.NET PHOTO
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15 WV towns remain under ASF restrictions

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Residents of Barangay Talokgangan in Banate, Iloilo, rush to higher ground as church bells ring during a simulated tsunami alert on October 23, 2025. The drill, part of a regionwide preparedness exercise, demonstrated how traditional warning systems can still save lives in modern disaster response. PHOTO FROM PDRRMO-ILOILO
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Iloilo bolsters disaster readiness as many brgys lack rescue equipment

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NATIONAL HONOR. Ajuy, Iloilo’a Mayor Loida Espinosa (6th from right), together with officials of the Department of Agriculture-Western Visayas, Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, and members of the Ajuy Municipal Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Management Council, pose with the council’s P450,000 cash prize and trophy after being named the Outstanding Municipal Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Management Council during the 51st Gawad Saka Awards at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay City on June 29. The recognition highlights Ajuy’s excellence in participatory fisheries governance and sustainable coastal resource management. BFAR-6
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Ajuy fisherfolk council named PH’s best, wins P450,000 national award

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Photo shows people buying fruits and vegetables at a public market in Pavia, Iloilo. AJ PALCULLO/PN
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BSP urges Ilonggos to save, budget for financial security amid economic...

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“Atubangon ya ang kaso nga ipasaka sa iya. Batunon ya ina,” says Iloilo’s Gov. Arthur “Toto” Defensor Jr., referring to a capitol driver arrested in a recent police drug buy-bust operation.
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Defensor to Congress: Pass nationwide smoke-free, vape-free law now, local ordinances...

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In another sobering observation about the country’s education system, the Second Congressional Commission on Education (Edcom 2) says efforts to decentralize and find more responsive ways to help students learn are frustrated by what it called “memocracy” among the teachers themselves. File photo taken in January 2023 shows a public school class in Quezon City. RIG C. MONTEGRANDE, PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER
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Iloilo opens 76 teacher posts to help fill public school needs

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