Iloilo City mulls 15-day MECQ extension
ILOILO City – Despite the city being under modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) since June 1, coronavirus infections here are spreading fast instead of...
3,381 WV brgys free from drugs
ILOILO City – A total of 3,381 villages across Western Visayas are now free from illegal drugs, based on the assessment of the multi-agency...
BFP-6 told to explain ‘gathering’
ILOILO City – Mayor Jerry Treñas issued a show-cause order to the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) Region 6 relative to a “gathering” it...
IATF endorses Iloilo province as priority area for nat’l vax program
ILOILO – The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) has endorsed this province as among the priority areas for...
Over 4K vacancies await jobseekers in Independence Day job fair
ILOILO – More than 4,000 job opportunities are waiting those who intend to participate in the Kalayaan Job Fair of the Department of Labor...
CITY MAY ASK NAT’L GOV’T FOR BOOST; Treñas considers strictest ECQ
ILOILO City – Can this city still manage its rising cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)? Or should it seek the help of the...
JUNE IS NATIONAL NO SMOKING MONTH; No Smoking Month – Battle vs smoking: ‘It’s...
ILOILO City – “Happy and healthy.” This was how Mayor Jerry Treñas described his lifestyle 11 years after quitting smoking.
Treñas, 64, had been smoking...
Iloilo to mark ‘simple’ Independence Day
ILOILO – Due to pandemic restrictions, tomorrow’s Independence Day celebration – the country’s 123rd – would be simple like last year’s.
There will be a...
‘Foreign COVID variant’ in Iloilo?
ILOILO – Noting the rapid transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in this province, Gov. Arthur Defensor Jr. isn’t brushing off the possibility that...
All-time high: WV has 828 COVID cases in just one day; active cases now...
ILOILO City – At 828, Western Visayas on Thursday hit an all-time high in the number of coronavirus cases recorded in a day, bringing...