30 housing units under Purok Resilience Program to rise in Batad
ILOILO – The Iloilo provincial government, through the Provincial Engineer’s Office (PEO) and the Provincial Planning and Development Office (PPDO), began its pre-construction works...
ECONOMIC DIVIDE; 414,000 families in WV live below poverty threshold
ILOILO City – Approximately 414,000 families, or 20.5% of all families in Western Visayas, live below the poverty threshold, according to the Philippine Statistics...
Day 1 of Iloilo’s transport route plan’s dry run goes smoothly
ILOILO – The Provincial Planning and Development Office (PPDO) reported a smooth execution of the first day of a province-wide simulation exercise, or “dry...
WV maintains balanced egg supply – DA
BY IME SORNITO and MA. THERESA LADIAO
ILOILO City – Western Visayas’ egg supply is well-balanced with consumption needs, according to the Department of Agriculture...
ERC summons NGCP over delayed transmission projects
BY GEROME DALIPE IV
ILOILO City – What’s stopping the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) from implementing its proposed 37 power transmission projects...
Public can’t trust DPWH-6 to fix ‘sinking’ Ungka flyover – Nava
BY GEROME DALIPE
ILOILO City – The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Region 6 has started repairing the defective P680-million Ungka flyover in...
Vendor found dead in Mandurriao; pal suspect
BY MA THERESA LADIAO
ILOILO City – Police are still searching for a potential motive behind the death of 37-year-old Gino Dubria, an ambulant bread...
Villaflor out, Wanky in as PRO-6 director
ILOILO City – Police Brigadier General Sidney Villaflor was relieved from his post as director of the Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6) effective yesterday.
Villaflor,...
Nava Jr. considers self as ‘fiscalizer, fighter’ in city council
BY GEROME DALIPE IV
ILOILO City – Councilor Sumakwel Nava Jr. on Wednesday, Feb. 14, vowed to “speak for the truth” and “defend the oppressed”...
50 couples say ‘I do’ in Pototan mass wedding
ILOILO – Fifty couples took part in a mass civil wedding in Pototan town on Valentine's Day.
Held at the town’s coliseum, the mass wedding...