Wearing facemasks, residents stroll in the downtown of Iloilo City. While the NCR Plus will shift to modified enhance community quarantine, Western Visayas will remain under modified general community quarantine for the month of April.PN FILE PHOTO

BALANCE IN BATTLE; Despite rise in COVID cases, WV won’t shift to higher quarantine...

ILOILO City – There is no need for Western Visayas to shift to a higher quarantine classification at this time despite rising cases of...

Iloilo limits holding funeral wakes

ILOILO – Funeral wakes in this province should only run for five days at the most from the arrival of the casket/urn to prevent...
New recruits of the Police Regional Office 6 train on internal security operations at the mobile group training center in Sara, Iloilo. PRO-6

PRO-6 beefs up internal cleansing; 5 cops positive for drug use

ILOILO City – Five police officers in Western Visayas turned positive for the use of illegal drugs in tests conducted by the Police Regional Office...
Personnel of the Regional Incident Management Team and Department of Health in Region 6 facilitate the transport of 7,200 Sinovac vaccines against coronavirus disease 2019 that recently arrived at the Iloilo Airport in Cabatuan, Iloilo. These vaccines will be given to more healthcare workers. Almost 5,000 of Western Visayas’ healthcare workers already received their second dose of the vaccine. PHOTOS BY RVOC

About 5K WV health workers get second dose of CoronaVac

ILOILO City – Almost 5,000 healthcare workers in Western Visayas already received their second dose of the China-masde CoronaVac vaccine against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). As...
With his shorts and brief down, a gay man lies dead in an unfinished house in Barangay Calajunan, Mandurriao, Iloilo City yesterday. Police suspect that he was molested before getting killed. IME SORNITO/PN

Gay man found dead; drinking buddies tagged suspects

ILOILO City – A 36-year-old gay man was found dead in an unfinished house at Block 105, Lot 13, Anaros Village, Barangay Calajunan, Mandurriao...
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Maasin bans entry of tourists for one month

ILOILO – In a bid to curb coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) transmission, the municipal government of Maasin imposed a month-long ban on the entry...

‘Gunrunner’ nabbed

ILOILO City – A suspected gunrunner was arrested in an entrapment operation in Barangay Sto. Niño Sur, Arevalo district. The 48-year-old Ronilla Gellor was caught selling a...

NO INBOUND TRIPS YET; WV extends ban on travelers from NCR Plus, other areas

ILOILO City – The National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 granted anew the request of Western Visayas local officials for a seven-day moratorium on...
Photo courtesy of ARNOLD ALMACEN/CMO

Iloilo City mulls GCQ status

ILOILO City – Should cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continue to spike, the city government may ask the Inter-Agency Task Force for the...

Persons namedropping Iloilo exec arrested

ILOILO – Police arrested three persons falsely claiming to be staff members of Sangguniang Panlalawigan member Carol Espinosa-Diaz of the 5th District. They were Warde...