Free RT-PCR test for students
ILOILO City – Noting that some colleges and universities are resuming face-to-face classes, the city government plans to offer free reverse transcription polymerase chain...
‘AGATON’ DAMAGE CLIMBS TO P142M; Western Visayas storm death toll rises to 11
ILOILO – The agriculture sector in Western Visayas has taken a severe beating from tropical depression “Agaton” with losses climbing to P142,813,262.06 – a...
Du30 to storm survivors: ‘We’ll sustain your food’
ILOILO – President Rodrigo Duterte distributed P3.6-million worth of emergency relief assistance on Saturday to the people of Pontevedra and Panit-an towns in Capiz...
Iloilo province records 12 leptospirosis cases
ILOILO – Leptospirosis is a bacterial disease. One becomes infected through direct contact with the urine of infected animals or with a urine-contaminated environment.
This...
Lent ‘generally peaceful’
ILOILO City – The Holy Week in Western Visayas was “generally peaceful”, according to the Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6).
There was a sharp decrease...
Couple busted for ‘shabu’
ILOILO City – Police arrested two drug suspects in a buy-bust operation at Providence Subdivision in Barangay Balabag, Pavia, Iloilo.
Krishna Mabunay, 40, and live-in...
Iloilo seeks lower emissions from public transport
ILOILO City – This highly urbanized city has been chosen as pilot site by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Department of Transportation...
Iloilo hospital soon to become solar-energized
ILOILO – The Iloilo Provincial Hospital (IPH) in Barangay Rumbang, Pototan town is the first hospital in the country to avail itself of the...
WV AGRI LOSSES SWELL TO P111.1M; 3,971 farmers reel from destructive floods
ILOILO – The initial estimate of losses in Western Visayas’ agriculture due to massive flooding reached P111.1 million, according to the Department of Agriculture...
Four more Iloilo areas under state of calamity
ILOILO – Four more local government units (LGUs) here declared a state of calamity on Wednesday due to massive flooding – Passi City, Ajuy,...