DSWD: No eviction without relocation
ILOILO City – No one in the informal sector in Boracay Island would be evicted from their current abodes without having a place where...
More gov’t troops in Boracay than Spratlys?
BY RUBY SILUBRICO and PRINCE GOLEZ
BORACAY – Sen. Francis Pangilinan questioned the deployment of over 600 government troops to popular island resort Boracay in...
Quarry operators fined for violations
ILOILO – Quarry operators violating the provincial ordinance prohibiting the overloading of their cargo trucks are being fined.
The Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office...
Courtyard hotel to open in Iloilo City
ILOILO City – Courtyard by Marriott Iloilo is scheduled to open its doors in Iloilo City, Philippines in May. Featuring an innovative lobby space...
WV girls spikers PRISAA champs
MANILA – Western Visayas’ secondary girls volleyball team captured the PRISAA 2018 National Games championship after a 25-11, 25-13, 25-7 sweep over Region 4-A...
WETLANDS DISAPPEARING
BY PRINCE GOLEZ and RUBY SILUBRICO
MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte placed Boracay Island under a state of calamity.
Only four out of nine wetlands in...
La Salle Bacolod alum tops Bar Exam
BY PRINCE GOLEZ and ADRIAN STEWART CO
MANILA – The news of him topping the 2017 Bar Exam came as a shock, according to University...
Restrictions on Boracay media coverage lifted
BORACAY – Restrictions on the media’s coverage of this island resort’s rehabilitation have been lifted.
Journalists are free go to anywhere in Boracay to gather...
Bridge collapses; NegOcc rep falls
MANILA – Rep. Alfredo “Albee” Benitez (Negros Occidental, 3rd District) was among those who fell in murky waters when a wooden footbridge collapsed in...
DENR finds 24 ‘illegal’ drainage connections in Boracay
BORACAY – There are 24 illegal drainage connections recently found in this famed island resort, according to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources...