PTO head Gilbert Marin

COVID slows Iloilo tourist arrivals

ILOILO – Tourist arrivals in this province significantly plummeted in 2020 due to community quarantine measures imposed to curb the spread of coronavirus disease...
Police Major Liza Nofuente, chief of the Women and Children Protection Desk of the Iloilo Police Provincial Office, receives a medal from Iloilo City’s Rep. Julienne Baronda during the kick-off ceremony of the 2021 National Women’s Month celebration on March 1 in Camp Delgado. PRO-6

Nat’l Women’s Month: PRO-6 fetes four policewomen

ILOILO City – The Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6) awarded four policewomen for their “service and exemplary performance” during the kick-off ceremony of the...
Barangay Captain Joewinny Giganto (left) of Barangay Calang, Dueñas, Iloilo was arrested yesterday, March 2. A grenade and a .45-caliber pistol loaded with seven live ammunitions were recovered from his possession. PRO-6

Dueñas village chief nabbed in house raid

ILOILO – Operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) and the Dueñas, Iloilo police station raided the house of the village chief...
People transact at a bank’s automated teller machine terminal on Solis Street, Iloilo City. Beginning April 7, inter-bank ATM fees could go as high as P18. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

ATM FEE HIKE BY APRIL; BSP-Iloilo says be ready; Ilonggos worry

ILOILO City – Are you an automated teller machine (ATM) user? Beginning April 7, inter-bank ATM fees could be quite a weight in the...
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What are the common causes of fire in WV?

ILOILO City – In Western Visayas, the most common causes of fire are illegal electrical connections and negligence, according to the Bureau of Fire...
The government and the World Health Organization launched an emergency vaccination program in September that aimed to inoculate over 800,000 children amid measles outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. AFP/GETTY

DOH extends MR-OPV immunization until March 7

ILOILO City – The Department of Health (DOH) is extending the measles-rubella oral polio vaccine supplemental immunization activity (MR-OPV-SIA) until March 7 in areas...
Photo courtesy of Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News

Don’t feed food wastes to hogs, backyard raisers told

ILOILO City – To avoid African swine fever (ASF), the Department of Agriculture (DA) Region 6 discourages the swill feeding of hogs, especially those...
Residents and firemen put out fire that gutted two ancestral houses in Barangay Poblacion Ilaya, Passi City, Iloilo on Monday. CIO LGU PASSI

Midday fire guts 2 Passi ancestral houses

ILOILO – Two ancestral houses in the component city of Passi were gutted by a massive fire around 11:59 a.m. yesterday, the first day...

LGUs’ requirement for LSIs status quo

ILOILO City – The existing requirements of local government units (LGUs) for the arrival of locally stranded individuals (LSIs) would still be enforced while...
A health worker (R) puts a swab into a tube after collecting a sample for COVID-19 coronavirus testing in Gombak on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur on April 22, 2020. (Photo by Mohd RASFAN / AFP)

SWAB TESTS STILL MUST; Defensor to issue guidelines for travelers from outside WV

ILOILO – Despite a recent national directive, the provincial government would still require travelers from areas outside Western Visayas to undergo reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction...