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Treñas aides deny coercing city hall employee

ILOILO City – Mayor Jerry Treñas’ executive assistants and department heads denied coercing, oppressing or threatening a regular city government employee who was reassigned to the dumpsite...

WV GIRDS FOR POLIO RETURN: DOH Region 6 to boost routine immunization

ILOILO City – Though Western Visayas is not classified a “high risk” area for the reemergence of the highly infectious viral disease poliomyelitis, the Department of...

Should Region 6 be placed under martial law?

ILOILO – Should Western Visayas provinces be placed under martial law to contain the possible spread of killings in Negros Island? There is no need to rush...
NEVER FORGET, NEVER AGAIN. An effigy of President Rodrigo Duterte is displayed at Iloilo City’s Sunburst Park as activists mark the 47th anniversary of the declaration of martial law. It was on Sept. 21, 1972 when then President Ferdinand Marcos placed the country under military rule to supposedly quell communist rebellion. But yesterday’s (Sept. 20) mass action ahead of the anniversary today was not only about Marcos’ martial law. The protesters also pressed for the resumption of the peace talks between the national government and communists, and a halt to extrajudicial killings and corruption. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

Iloilo activists mark martial law anniv with ‘National Day of Action’

ILOILO City – Activists here joined yesterday’s National Day of Action to mark the 47th anniversary of the declaration of martial law. They marched from the...

MANHUNT BEGINS: 82 WV freed convicts fail to beat 15-day ultimatum

ILOILO City – Of the 144 convicts from Western Visayas that the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) freed in line with the Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA) Law,...
STILL SAFE. A vendor at the Iloilo Terminal Market inspects the meat and pork he is selling. They are safe, he insists. The deadly African swine fever virus has reached the country. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

Iloilo bans hogs, pork products from ASF areas

ILOILO – This province remains free from the African swine fever (ASF), a contagious hemorrhagic swine disease with no known cure. As a preventive measure, however, Gov. Arthur...

Iloilo air quality remains good — EMB

ILOILO City – Based on the latest air quality monitoring of the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) Region 6, the air quality in the city and province...
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BIR seizes fake cigarettes

ILOILO City – A total of 7,150 boxes of fake cigarettes were confiscated from a house in Barangay Tabuc Suba, La Paz district yesterday. The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR)...

Girl, 16, claims gang rape, tags 2 classmates, 3 others

ILOILO City – A Grade 10 girl claimed two boy classmates and three others raped her on Sept. 16 in Barangay Poblacion, Dueñas, Iloilo. Her two classmates...
ROAD TO PERDITION. A police officer checks this road in Barangay Rizal, Lapuz, Iloilo City where a drug suspect was ambushed by two motorcycle-riding gunmen yesterday afternoon, Sept. 18, 2019. The 42-year-old Roy Goco died while being rushed to the West Visayas State University Medical Center. Goco was arrested in a buy-bust operation of the police in November 2016 then charged with violating the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002. IAN PAUL CORDERO

Gunmen ambush drug suspect

ILOILO City – Two weeks after he was released from prison for a drug case, a resident of La Paz district was ambushed while cycling in...