P1-million Lapuz slipway mulled
ILOILO City – A slipway – also known as boat ramp or boat launcher – will be built at the Philippine Coast Guard base...
‘PECO FAILED ILOILO’
ILOILO City – Panay Electric Company (PECO) which has monopolized power distribution in this city for 95 years has failed the Ilonggos, according to...
‘Gov. Defensor’ dupes four city restaurants; Be wary of impostors, capitol warns businesses
ILOILO City – A male phone caller pretending to be Gov. Arthur Defensor Sr. duped four restaurants in this city. He had them prepare...
Bacolod inaugurates mural of history
BACOLOD City – The city government has inaugurated the historical mural “Bacolod @ 80” to mark the 80th charter of the city.
The mural, composed...
Bacolod mayor double winner at 2018 Asia Leaders Awards
BACOLOD City – Mayor Evelio Leonardia received two top recognitions from the Asia Leaders Awards (ALA) 2018 during the awarding ceremony held at the...
‘NOT MINE!’: 8 ‘shabu’ sachets seized from construction worker
ILOILO City – Eight plastic packs of suspected shabu were seized from a construction worker during an antidrug operation Thursday in Barangay Trapiche, Oton,...
RISE TO POWER: Senate OKs MORE Power franchise in 2nd reading
MANILA – MORE Electric and Power Corporation (MORE Power) moves a step closer to replacing Panay Electric Company (PECO) as the new power distribution...
More than 100 families flee to safer grounds in Negros, Capiz due to ‘Samuel’
ILOILO City – Some local government units in Negros Occidental and Capiz provinces ordered a preemptive evacuation of their residents on Tuesday night in...
Escalante villagers want NPA backers out, says Army
BACOLOD City – Residents of Sitio Puting Bato, Barangay Washington, Escalante City, Negros Occidental supported the military’s anti-insurgency campaign, according to the Philippine Army.
Around...
Cops, soldiers secure mega dam contractors, workers
ILOILO – More police and military personnel have been deployed to the hinterlands of Calinog town where the P11.2-billion Jalaur River Multipurpose Project (JRMP)...