Roxas City resident yields P4-M of ‘shabu’

ILOILO City – A drug suspect with P4-million worth of suspected shabu was arrested on March 15 by the combined forces of the Roxas...
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PGC-UPV now capable of detecting COVID variants

ILOILO City – The Philippine Genome Center (PGC) satellite facility at the University of the Philippines (UP) Visayas - Miag-ao, Iloilo campus is now capable...

Cops bust drug suspect; P800K ‘shabu’ seized

ILOILO City – The Regional Drug Enforcement Unit (RDEU) of the Police Regional Office 6 arrested a drug suspect in a buy-bust operation on...
There will be public consultations with employers and workers on the petition for an increase in the daily minimum wage, says Director Sixto Rodriguez Jr. of the Department of Labor and Employment in Western Visayas. PN PHOTO

Amid fuel price hikes, WILL THERE BE A WAGE INCREASE?

ILOILO – The daily minimum wage in Western Visayas will be reviewed, according to the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) as fuel prices...
While waiting for passengers at the jeepney terminal in Barangay Ungka, Jaro, Iloilo City, two drivers ponder their fate. Fuel prices are increasing and straining their meager daily income. PN PHOTO

LTFRB starts releasing fuel subsidy to jeepney drivers

ILOILO City – The release of the Pantawid Pasada fuel subsidy of the national government for public utility jeepneys has started. According to the Land...
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468 fugitives arrested in a month

ILOILO City – A total of 468 wanted persons across Western Visayas were arrested in February, data from the Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6)...
Fire victims salvage whatever materials they could still recycle from what remains of their houses that fire gutted in Barangay Old Airport, Mandurriao, Iloilo City on March 11, 2022. According to the City Social Welfare and Development Office, 45 houses were totally razed while 18 were partially damaged. PN PHOTO

City gov’t to relocate Mandurriao fire victims

ILOILO City – The city government is preparing a relocation site for families displaced by the fire that hit a neighborhood in Barangay Old...
Iloilo City’s daily coronavirus disease infections are decreasing, its healthcare utilization rate is low and its average daily attack rate is down, too, says Mayor Jerry Treñas.

ALERT LEVEL 0? Enough with restrictions – Treñas

ILOILO City – What will be this city’s pandemic alert level beginning tomorrow after today’s Alert Level 1 ends? Mayor Jerry Treñas is appealing for...
Vehicles in Iloilo City are waiting for their turn to refuel at a gas station on Monday night, hours before another round of fuel price increase will take effect. PN PHOTO

PUV drivers may just call it quits

ILOILO – Public utility vehicle (PUV) drivers have never felt so hopeless. Today, the prices of fuel would increase for the 11th time this year...

Don’t deal with ‘fixers’, DFA-Iloilo tells public

ILOILO City – The Department of Foreign Affairs’ (DFA) consular office here urged the public not to transact with “fixers” or “appointment setters” for...