WESTERN VISAYAS PORK SUPPLY FOR NCR. Quarantine personnel of the Department of Agriculture inspect this van carrying live hogs at the Iloilo Commercial Port Complex in Lapuz, Iloilo City. A total of 42,850 swine heads have been transported to Luzon as of Feb. 25 this year. JV DE GUZMAN/DA

P625-M worth of WV swine shipped to Luzon

ILOILO City – A total of 42,850 swine heads valued at around P625.3 million have been transported to the National Capital Region (NCR) as...

Tapaz village chief shot to death

ILOILO City – A barangay captain was shot to death by unidentified riding-in-tandem assailants in Barangay Malitbog Centro, Calinog, Iloilo around 8:45 a.m. yesterday. The...

Karapatan on 3ID: What zero human rights violation?

ILOILO City – “Patently false” was how the militant human rights group Panay Alliance Karapatan described the claim of the Philippine Army’s 3rd Infantry...

92 Concepcion households on surgical lockdown

ILOILO – Ninety-two households in Gawad Kalinga (GK) Immaculate Concepcion and GK Chicago Village in Barangay Loong, Concepcion, Iloilo were placed on a five-day...
“We are trying to tap graduates such as Ilonggo nurses and physicians who are currently working abroad to give testimonials with regards to the effect of vaccinations,” says Dr. Mary Jane Roches Juanico. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

To boost public trust on vaccines DOH-6 to tap Ilonggo overseas health workers

ILOILO City – The Department of Health Western Visayas Center for Health Development (DOH-WV-CHD) is seeking to generate testimonials from overseas Ilonggo healthcare workers...

Iloilo cops net 67 fugitives, 46 loose guns in a week

ILOILO City – The Iloilo Police Provincial Office (IPPO) arrested 67 wanted persons in a week of operations. From Feb. 22 to 27, out of the...
FIGHT VS ASF. Eighty percent of Western Visayas’ P20-billion hog industry is made up of small-scale backyard hog raisers like this man in Barangay San Nicolas, La Paz, Iloilo City. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

REGION 6 BACKYARD HOG RAISERS WORRY; WV still ASF-free but stakeholders not taking chances

ILOILO City – Hog raisers in Western Visayas are taking the fight against African swine fever (ASF) to their backyards. Not relying solely on government...
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3ID: No more insurgency in Panay by 2022

ILOILO City – The insurgency in Panay Island would have been quelled already when President Rodrigo Duterte ends his six-year term on June 2022,...
The 55-year-old Noel Legada died of gunshot wounds in Barangay Mambog, Oton, Iloilo yesterday. OTON MUNICIPAL POLICE STATION

Jealous man shoots ‘tanod,’ live-in partner inside quarantine facility

ILOILO City – In a fit of jealousy, a man shot his live-in partner and a village watchman at a quarantine facility in Barangay...
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Vaccine info drive in Iloilo brgys eyed

ILOILO – To encourage more Ilonggos to have themselves vaccinated against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Gov. Arthur Defensor Jr. said he would escalate the...